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ShipStation Ad, Then Zuckerberg's Metaverse Dreams
from A Loud Shape | The Tim Dillon Show #370 · #370
5 min
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After a ShipStation ad about automating e-commerce shipping, Tim segues into Mark Zuckerberg doubling down on the metaverse, tying it to digitized conflict fantasies and the concept of parasocial relationships with celebrities and comedians.
- Tim speculates that future wars might be fought in the metaverse instead of the physical world.
- He argues that digitizing conflict would be preferable to the carnage happening in places like Gaza.
- The movie Her predicted parasocial relationships, but they're not some distant future—they're already normalized.
- People genuinely believe they'd date celebrities or influencers if given the chance, convinced they'd be perfect together.
- Everyone has become a stalker; enjoying content online now means tracking someone's every move and location.
- Behavior that used to define schizophrenia—obsessive tracking of celebrities—is now celebrated as fandom.
- Interrupting a comedian during a show used to be disruptive, but now it's reframed as being a "good fan" because parasocial attachment has normalized it.
- The attachment people have to internet personalities they've never met is unhealthy and appears irreversible.
- Tim calls out people who message celebrities weekly and occasionally get responses, treating it as normal rather than delusional.
- Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse push is essentially just a more immersive social media experience built on already-pathological parasocial dynamics.
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