Annie regularly shouted 10 to 30 times per show. I don't think they're real at all. People watch because people love to live in fantasies. People only love something they can't have. The fact that soaps are on five days out of the week also contributes to their affinity.
Soaps provide a never-ending story that continuously leaves viewers hanging on and wanting more.
However, other UCLA students have different opinions on the dedication of so much time to these overwhelming sagas. Soap operas never end. In English, it keeps hanging for years and years. Daytime soaps are seen everywhere, in different languages and parts of the world. Whether fans realize or not how distant the soap opera portrayal of life is from reality, the devotion people have for daytime drama will never die.