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Online friendships are relationships formed and maintained primarily through digital platforms and livestream communities, lacking physical co-presence or traditional geographic anchoring.
In the Psycheverse
Psyche frames online friendships as uniquely vulnerable to emotional manipulation and dissolution, treating them as real relationships that require the same emotional labor and risk as offline connections. Rather than advising avoidance of harm, she emphasizes psychological preparedness—accepting that digital intimacy carries genuine stakes and that community members should develop resilience rather than naiveté about betrayal.
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