// Glossary
Projection
6 topics
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What Happens When You Deeply Empathize with Another's Creation?
Unconsciously overlaying one's inner emotions, experiences, and desires onto fictional characters or events. The act of projecting one's shadow onto the work.
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What Do Viewers Feel When a VTuber Cries?
Overlaying one's own unresolved emotions or trauma onto the VTuber's tears. This can sometimes lead to the viewer's own healing or catharsis.
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Has a Favorite Vocaloid Song Ever Articulated My Emotions?
The psychological process of overlaying one’s internal state onto an external object (song, lyrics) to assign meaning.
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When You Find a Character Who Voices Your Emotions
Overlaying one's emotions or experiences onto a character. Triggers the feeling of being voiced, but can blur the boundary with reality if excessive.
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The Resistance to Letting Go of Stones
Overlaying one's own emotions and values onto an object. Projecting meanings like 'persevering' or 'beautiful' onto stones and treating them as extensions of the self.
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Where Is the Body When Empathizing with an Avatar?
The psychological mechanism of overlaying one's own emotions, desires, and bodily sensations onto another (here, the avatar). In VTubers, the viewer's inner world is externalized through the avatar.