Anonymous #3 5d

I’ve seen people throw the word parasocial around but never give any examples but that’s only me I know I’m not the only person to think this

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Anonymous #3 5d

I do agree that there are a lot of men who in retaliation will hate drivers for their female fans especially towards Lando Norris. I don’t know if that’s exactly what you’re saying. And I’m sure there are a lot of female fans who have justified reasons for liking Lando and I honestly don’t care why a driver is your favorite. My main problem is when I see fans say a driver deserves the championship which I have seen mostly with female Lando fans but obviously not all female Lando fans and others

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Anonymous OP 5d

well when i made the comment i was thinking of charles leclerc and his engagement and the jokes that transpired after it. don’t know what lando norris, or how believing your favorite driver deserves a championship has to do with that and parasocialism. but if you wanna talk about that, logically that argument could be made for any driver on the grid and gender of the person making said argument has literally nothing to do with it so really it’s a non-issue

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Anonymous OP 5d

also it would totally make sense that that’s what you’ve mostly seen considering that there’s realistically only 3 contenders for the championship this year, lando norris being one of them, but people have been saying drivers like charles leclerc and george russell are deserving of a championship for a while with plenty of their own reasons

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Anonymous #3 5d

Sorry I see what you mean now by “not having a chance” for whatever reason I thought you were referring to a driver not having a chance at winning or something. I also brought it up because it was something I had an issue with which I didn’t bring up in my original post because I do believe that believing someone deserves a championship before they actually win it is parasocial but that’s besides the points.

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Anonymous OP 5d

And certainly it can be made for any driver and any fan of any gender I’ve just seen it most with Lando fans most of whom I saw were girls but there were men too don’t get me wrong and there are plenty of female Lando fans who don’t behave this way. Either way I am sorry for misunderstanding what you meant

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Anonymous OP 5d

no problem, i could’ve been clearer in my original comment! personally, i don’t at all believe it’s parasocial to think a driver deserves a championship. it could be just another way of supporting a certain driver, or a reasonable argument could be made as to why someone would think that.

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Anonymous OP 5d

i could say that nikki lauda deserved the 1976 world championship as opposed to james hunt. how’s that parasocial? it’s just an opinion. to me, it sounds like you’re implying lando fans only believe he deserves the championship because they have a parasocial attachment to him.

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Anonymous OP 5d

and forgive me if that's not what you were implying at all but it just sounds like what you were trying to get at. mostly because this post is talking about being parasocial, you bring up lando and his fans because i presume you think they are parasocial, you see lando fans saying he deserves the championship, and so you say that it's parasocial to say a driver deserves a championship. even if it was parasocial, it's nowhere close to harmful as death threats or the harassment wags receive.

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Anonymous #3 5d

I think it’s parasocial because the season hasn’t ended and the only reason they think he deserves the championship is because they like him. I don’t personally think my favorite driver necessarily deserves to win unless they score the more points at the end of the season. I know I’m not explaining it great but I’ve mainly also seen it for Lando fans where they say he deserves it for being on the team longer which is bs and because they’d be sad if he didn’t win which I understand wanting him to

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Anonymous OP 5d

What I’m trying to say is it’s one thing to say you want a driver to win and another that that driver deserves to win it over another. In my opinion the only driver who deserves to win is the one with the most points and if your only reason to say otherwise is because you like the driver that’s a little biased maybe not parasocial to be exact though I still think it is a little

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Anonymous OP 5d

so i was right. i think it’s a huge disservice to conclude his fans only believe he deserves the championship because they like him when he’s literally had 3 dnfs this season, one that was mechanical that many thought would be the end of his title fight, me included, only for him to bounce back from a 34 point deficit and become the championship leader again by 1 point. let’s not act like people haven’t also been saying oscar deserves the championship because he’s been leading most of the season

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Anonymous #3 5d

But I don’t agree with people who says Oscar deserves it. I don’t agree with people who say max deserves it. I’m just using Lando as my example because I’ve seen it most with him I’m not trying to hate on him. If he has the most points by the end of the season he deserves the championship. But so do Max and Oscar if they have the most points by the end of the season. I should add on I think it’s parasocial because these fans attach their feelings to the driver winning the championship

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Anonymous OP 5d

i agree with you that whoever wins the championship deserves it or else they wouldn’t have won it in the first place. i just don’t agree that saying a driver deserves a championship is parasocial. i think you are incorrectly assuming that fans of drivers only say such things solely based on feelings towards the drivers rather than facts, which is a huge discredit. in the end, points do determine the championship.

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Anonymous OP 5d

and i could say max deserves the championship because he turned a 100+ point deficit into only a 36 point one the later half of the season. i could say that oscar deserves the championship because he’s kept the point lead the longest. i could say lando deserves it because he’s consistently scored enough points to be leading the championship despite having 3 dnfs that could have easily seen the end of his fight. none of these reasons have to do with my feelings towards them at all.

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Anonymous #3 5d

I understand where you’re coming from and I’ll admit parasocial wasn’t the right word to use overall. I still don’t personally like saying a driver deserves the championship before they win it because they simply haven’t won it. I was using the word parasocial however because my experience with people who say a driver deserves the championship I often saw their reasoning be something along the lines “it will break Lando if he doesn’t win” where they are basically acting as if they know him

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Anonymous OP 5d

(Once again it’s not only Lando fans I have kust seen it the most from them) at the end of the day all three drivers have put in solid fights and I believe they all deserve a chance at the championship. They all deserve their seats. They deserve all their wins this season. I just don’t like saying they deserve the championship because they haven’t won it yet but that’s just me

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