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Hey, this is Annie.

And Samantha.

And welcome to Steph on Never Told You, a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome to another monday-many, or Samantha's already laughing at me, because I'm demonstrating what I'm talking about right now.

Which is crying about media.

If you need a hint, we just did our last of us to reaction to episode two.

So here I am.

I have talked about this before, but I thought I would look into it.

I just see, you know, what, what is going on here?

Is it good? Is it bad? All of those things.

So, one of the main reasons that people cry at media is often because you have a relationship with a fictional

character. This is a parosocial relationship or a one-directional relationship because, you know,

they're fictional. They don't know anything about you.

But the thing is people who have looked into this say, actually the brain can't really differentiate between that all the time.

You might still feel it as if it was a real relationship.

And in some cases, it can be, you know, I've talked before about I've gone through these

traumatic things.

And here was this piece of media that helped me get through it.

So you can really form a connection.

I also think, like, for me personally, I think a lot of people, too, you might assign someone, a fictional character, like, oh, that reminds me of this person that I know in real life or something like that.

So you can form a connection in that way.

We are going to get into it later.

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