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Not really in this case. If you found out a cook at a restaurant you’d eaten at and liked was ill, I wouldn’t expect you to really care much besides that you can’t eat their cooking anymore. You just enjoy what they produce, any other feeling you might have is purely parasocial. There’s nothing wrong if you feel super sad when a favorite author or creator in general dies, we all get parasocial more or less sometimes, but it certainly wouldn’t be something I would care about if you didn’t care.
it’s less about a personal relationship and more about the level of consideration that is still owed a complete stranger. I don’t think much either way about the guy but I find public speculation about someones death a bit tasteless
