The Hard Work of Being a Fan Account

Welcome to another edition of Cyberbits—a bi-weekly column on all things internet culture, from TikTok trends to random corners of Reddit to secret online subcultures. I send out Cyberbits in between working on longer essays like these:

• The Blurred Lines of Parasocial Relationships
• Caught in the Study Web, 
• Cashing in on Clubhouse
• Creeping as a Service (CraaS)
• LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe

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