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However, these relationships often came with a caveat—societal perceptions labeled groupies in derogatory terms, reducing their identities to mere sexual conquests of rock stars. The idea that one could be a loving, caring individual and a groupie at the same time was lost. Groupies frequently faced stigmatization and victim-blaming, often dismissed as "sluts" rather than viewed as empowered women with their own agency.