rant · moment 10 of 14
Parasocial Obsession and Stalkers Becoming 'Good Fans'
from A Loud Shape | The Tim Dillon Show #370 · #370
6 min
Tim explores how attachment to celebrities and influencers online has normalized stalker-like behavior, referencing the movie Her, Taylor Swift stalkers, and fans who message him aggressively while calling him names.
- Tim recalls being pitched to become the first comedian performing in metaverse comedy clubs during the NFT gold rush.
- Studies show technology is causing higher suicide rates, body image issues, and anxiety spikes among teenagers, especially young women.
- Tim imagines Zuckerberg's position: once everyone uploads consciousness into the metaverse, the mental health crisis will resolve itself.
- American downtowns are being abandoned as people spend more time online, with no signs of reversing post-COVID digital acceleration.
- Zuckerberg's vision: workplaces where physical and digital colleagues sit around the same table with AI holograms assisting everyone.
- Tim's dark take: Boomers might never die if consciousness upload becomes possible, trapping younger generations with immortal racist relatives at Christmas.
- If elderly people could live forever as holograms, they'd never need to sell their houses, destroying the real estate market they worked their whole lives to accumulate wealth through.
- Tim is reading "The Dimensions of the Cave," a fiction book about a journalist uncovering a secret government program creating artificial people.