Virgil Texas, Grooming, and Parasocial Relationships

A toxic mixture, but one all-too-common in the age of the internet.

Pictured above is Virgil Texas, co-host of the Bad Faith podcast with Brie Joy Gray. Courtesy of Bad Faith on YouTube.

What distinguishes online celebrity from its older counterparts is easier access to the figures we hold oh so dear–social media allows for unfettered rapport with the entertainers whose voices were once only broadcast through magazine spreads, TV and radio…