In a word, emotional support blogging is “Drama”.
The best example I can provide is from when I was 16 and in the K-pop fandom. A friend was so obsessed with the groups that she would burst into tears if anything even mildly implied them in a negative light. I’m not fond of displays of Emotion, so I would do the research to get to the bottom of it and explain it to her.
As the social side of the internet expanded, I found myself doing that for more and more people (in HS I ran a very popular Super Junior facebook-based fan page). Say some idol was rumored to be dating this other person. I was the one would dig into the story, get right to the very root facts, and explain how it was likely nothing.
Now I want to make it very clear I did not enjoy doing this by any means. I was a horrible people-pleaser back then and if anything it fueled my depression and low self-worth. I felt like people were only friends with me out of pity, and therefore I should do whatever I can to prove I can be of use. I was in a few outright abusive friend-relationships because of that mentality.
When I moved to Korea and realized no one in the entire country knew me or had any expectations of me, I started being whoever I wanted to be. I stopped living up to what people wanted and instead decided to set the standard of the kind of people I’m actually happy to be around.
People attract similar people, that’s kind of how friend groups form. So if you’re catering to something you hate (hyper-obsessive fandoms), then you’re only going to be surrounded by what you hate. Be the type of person you enjoy, and you’ll draw more people of that type.
My ideal type is logical, fun, silly, emotionally mature, logical, intelligent, witty, clever, logical, a bit sexy, logical and someone who values logic. So I do my best to put that out into the world and hope like calls to like.