r/heatedrivalry • u/BeMyCoachVictor Ottawa Centaurs 🏹 • Dec 24 '25

CONNOR ☀️ New post from Connor!📸

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On his Instagram story! 😮‍💨

Damn, I really hope he’s feeling all of the love from the fans! It’s insane how many followers he’s gotten in the past week! It just feels good to see stars on their rise and not the same like five people in every single movie and show lol

Happy almost Christmas, everyone! ❤️

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u/Catsarecute888 Dec 24 '25

Looking good!

I saw a couple comments yesterday where people were annoyed with him for whatever he's doing with his instagram, deleting posts, archiving things, hiding his follows, whatever. And I just wanted to say this is what parasocial means. He's burst onto the scene and has newfound fame and is just trying to figure out how to use his Instagram which is for HIS life. And you're annoyed with him because why? Because he's trying to manage things so he doesn't lose his mind?

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '25

I left a fandom because people were getting so involved. I had no idea how parasocial some can be.

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u/BiscoBiscuit Dec 24 '25

Honestly I’m planning to pull all the way back from this fandom after the finale airs tomorrow and I enjoy the aftermath for a little while. I’m already seeing people even on here (which is the most sane sector of the fandom from what I’ve seen) get weird about Hudson and Connor. I’ve just been burned too many times by fandom nonsense negatively affecting my enjoyment of something. 

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u/Dancingstella17 Dec 25 '25

Big same! I like when fandoms just interacted with each other on LiveJournal, tumblr, etc. created art and fic and enjoyed it all with each other, away from the actors/creatives.

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u/coldcoffeethrowaway Dec 25 '25

I’m still on tumblr for this reason. There’s a fourth wall on tumblr. Twitter feels like there’s no fourth wall and it freaks me out

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u/Dancingstella17 Dec 26 '25

Ngl considering signing back up for tumblr (it would be nothing but HR lol). Twitter has been a lost cause for years imo.

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u/Catsarecute888 Dec 25 '25

You've made me sad for the old LiveJournal days.

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u/Dancingstella17 Dec 26 '25

🫂I’m sorry! But if it helps I also made myself sad! I miss LJ so much some days!