He can’t have a regular pretty girlfriend, anyone can get those. He needs the high-quality enviable thot who gets thirsty replies by the hundreds all day, so he can show how IMPORTANT he is for bagging her. It’s all about appearances and impressing others for Russ. If a pretty girl with ten followers on insta was presented for him to venmo a dollar, he’d pass in favour of harassing a nose-and-tit-job bikini exhibitionist with a thousand beta orbiters. Because other men clearly want her, so she has VALUE.
Russ doesn’t want things he likes. His own vague likes are proper bland shite. He wants what OTHER people want, so he can have it and show off.