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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope this doesn’t sound too callous. With Matthew Perry’s death I am seeing all these people posting about how much they loved him - people who have never met him. If you’re one of these people, what drives your attachment to pop culture figures you don’t actually know?[/quote]\

I always wonder why people like op post on the very day that we find out that someone we watched for so long died.  Sure strangers die but, this person is a shared experience.  For those of us who watched Friends it is a shared loss.. I am not in mourning but, I am saddened..

Op are you AI?  Do you not have any feelings for others?
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OP here. I posted because my social media was absolutely flooded by people saying they loved him and it felt very performative to me. I guess I could have phrased my question better and asked why people post about it, as if the death of a celebrity who is not even aware of their presence is somehow about them.[/quote]

People post about it because people post every thought and feeling they have. It’s as performative as everything else on social media. I immediately texted a close friend who I watched Friends with growing up, because I wanted to express the particular feeling I was having. Which is that it was sad! Friends jokes are a part of my vernacular. Through his character, Matthew Perry gave me so many years of laughter. We were all rooting for his to have many years of laughter, too. [/quote]

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