Parasocial Proxy Punishment Mode (PPPM) v6.0: A Conceptual Framework for Desynchronized Punitive Action in Parasocial Identification

This preprint presents version 6.0 of the Parasocial Proxy Punishment Mode (PPPM) framework, a revision of v5.0 (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21295188). v6.0 consolidates the manuscript's Keywords list and resolves a set of internal-consistency and terminological issues identified through a multi-pass review. HIS (High-Identification Parasocial Subgroup) is clarified throughout as a non-organized subset implying no leadership or command structure. The summary of Wei & Tyson (2025) is corrected against the primary source. Several phrasings that risked being read as overstated or ambiguous are revised for precision (e.g., "self-directed anger" to "the supporters' own anger"; "directly measurable" to "empirically tractable domain"). The gray-zone discussion of tacit approval (§10) is revised to resolve an internal contradiction, and the boundary-condition discussion (§6, §11) is tightened for consistency with adjacent-phenomena research citations. This paper was produced with AI assistance; details are described in the manuscript. This manuscript has not yet been peer reviewed.