Julie Tan is an actress in Singapore.

She has appeared in movies such as Girl in the Pinnafore, and TV hits such as The Dream Makers, along with household names such as Zoe Tay and Li Nanxing.

Well, one Twitter user, Jeremy Sim, was rather taken with the talented actress.

So he did the only logical thing. Ask her to go meet his parents.

Now, if you think this was a goofy one time joke, you obviously don't know Sim.

Here are some of his other tweets.

The response

The messages got so bad that Tan felt the need to respond on her Twitter.

I appreciate that you're supporting me. But please don't cross the line. pic.twitter.com/otJwFbSeAA

— Julie Tan 陈欣淇 (@Julietan_cxq) January 15, 2017

After trying, and ultimately failing to get Sim to stop, she finally decided to block him.

But how did it come to this?

Why would a person feel that someone who he had never interacted with in real life, owed him anything, let alone a relationship and a meeting with his parents?

His tweets to her throughout the years however, tell a more vivid story.

The start

His first few tweets, back in 2015, were innocuous enough, serving as mere replies to Tan's own tweets.

He might have missed a Taylor Swift reference here and there, but it was for the most part, cordial messages sent by a fan.

Escalation

While that cordiality remained, the content of his tweets started to veer into more personal matters.

He started talking about loyalty to each other, and meeting his parents, a theme that is evident throughout his tweets to Tan.

Even questioning the friends she kept.

Next, he became visibly frustrated by Tan not engaging with him enough.

And, this tweet, more than anything else, shows the tipping point of Sim's one sided conversations.

After that tweet, everything would be capitalised.

Illusion of familiarity

A weird thing about social media is that it gives an illusion of familiarity.

You can tag a stranger, check his or her feed (if it's public), might even get a reply if you message enough.

However, just because you read about someone online, does not mean you are in that person's life.

And that illusion of familiarity will only be just that, an illusion.

Top image from Twitter

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