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The act of loving the VTuber Amelia Watson unconditionally while fully knowing that a realistic romantic relationship with her is unattainable.

A Gosling is in a parasocial relationship. No matter how much they love her, she'll always be just a girl on a screen.
Symptoms are: Feeling of emptiness, loneliness, fear, emotional stress and pain.

The term Gosling is based on the fact that the actor Ryan Gosling played characters that had parasocial relationships, such as Lars, from Lars and the Real Girl and K from Blade Runner 2049.

There's a second term called Goslingposting, where Goslings post gifs from Blade Runner 2049 to depict the feelings they're currently having.

The term can also be applied to other VTubers.
Gosling A: I Love Amelia...
Gosling B: I know man.
Gosling by Detective Ame January 4, 2021

Gaslighting

A form of intimidation or psychological abuse, sometimes called Ambient Abuse where false information is presented to the victim, making them doubt their own memory, perception and quite often, their sanity. The classic example of gaslighting is to switch something around on someone that you know they're sure to notice, but then deny knowing anything about it, and to explain that they "must be imagining things" when they challenge these changes.

A more psychological definition of gaslighting is "an increasing frequency of systematically withholding factual information from, and/or providing false information to, the victim - having the gradual effect of making them anxious, confused, and less able to trust their own memory and perception.
Your spouse begins telling you things that never really happened. For instance, he says that last week he told you he was going to go to the bar with his buddies this Monday night, but you never remember him telling you that.

Or maybe your boss gets angry because you didn't prepare the report he asked you to. When you remind him that he usually prepares that particular report, he snaps that he told you to take care of it a few days ago because he was too busy. However, you know he never asked you to do so.

Both of these could be considered gaslighting.

Gaslight 

When you lie or manipulate someone, and make them feel crazy for reacting how they react & make them believe their gut isn’t true. You make them feel like their over reacting once you get them angry, or You get them mad and then make them feel crazy for being mad. Basically When you Manipulate events and situations to make the victim feel crazy, and switch the blame.
I was mad at him and he gaslighted me and turned the situation around on me and made me feel like my feelings weren’t true And me being mad was wrong !
Gaslight by LilLit1233 August 29, 2020

Ryan Gosling 

a) A person who thinks they're literally Ryan Gosling, Especially from the movies Drive and BR2049.
b) A person with Ryan Gosling Syndrome, a disorder that affects ability to feel, communicate and behave normally.
Therapist: This 'Ryan Gosling'.. is he in the room with us right now?
Ryan Gosling: He is literally me.
Ryan Gosling by RG 2049 February 20, 2022

Ryan Gosling Syndrome

Ryan Gosling Syndrome is a disease that 14 year old boys contract after watching the hit movies Barbie, Drive, and Blade Runner 2049. It causes them to believe that they are “literally Ryan gosling” and whenever they see Ryan Gosling they have to point out that it’s them or they will spontaneously combust.
Boy 1: Did you hear Ben and Raf contracted Ryan Gosling Syndrome?

Boy 2: Yeah, I believe they saw the movie Barbie and now they both think they are Ryan Gosling.

Gaslighting

When you lie to someone and you make them feel insane because they don’t know what to believe anymore. It’s a type of psychological abuse.
Matt Watson is always gaslighting Ryan Magee. Ryan says “ Stop gas lighting me Matt sponge bob is not gay”
Gaslighting by Super mega fan June 24, 2019
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