>>24020
>>24022
>why this kind of online love can be so intense and seemingly better than anything real when you don't even meet the person in real life. and like you have said, all of this would crumble, once you would interact with bonbi for a few minutes

What you and many others have experienced in all this is "hyper reality", and the disillusionment is reality breaking through again. Hyper reality is what this >>23978
is referring to with Jean Baudrillard's "The Gulf War Did Not Take Place". It may also be what the old "bonbibonkers is not real" poster was getting at, whether or not he heard of hyper reality as Baudrillard describes it. This was also touched on in that blackpill copypasta that was first posted after the twitch debut with Seth in late 2019, the last line being "Maybe Bonbi was the real cosplay".

Here is a good video about Baudrillard and the hyper real:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2U9WMftV40c [Embed]

"Baudrillard builds on the work of Guy Debord, the situationist author of 'The Society of the Spectacle'. Baudrillard traces the symptoms and tendencies of the trajectory of the postmodern; a set of concepts appropriate for a new world of technologies of images and communication developing in the late 20th Century."