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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • froztbyte@awful.systemsOP
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    3 months ago

    Yesterday I saw a link to some podcast/post float by, of an interview with some genml company ā€œdiscussing people falling in love with, having relations with, and even wanting to marryā€, where the ceo is ā€œokay with itā€. didnā€™t click because ugh, but will see if I can find it

    and ofc all these weird fucking things will pop the moment their vc runs out or openai raises prices or whatever. bet you they donā€™t have any therapy contingency for helping people with their ai partners suddenly getting vc-raptured

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      3 months ago

      I remember 15 years ago when I read about a Japanese man marrying a character from a dating sim game (source, archive link).

      The internet clowned on him, but he was very serious, and it was the first time when I realized that these ā€œanime waifuā€ people probably arenā€™t all just taking the piss.

      Thereā€™s a whole socio-economic angle there, of course, which I donā€™t think I wanna get into here, but to me this whole ā€œAI girlfriendā€ market really seems like a low-effort take on ā€œdating sim as a serviceā€ with as much game removed as possible but the exploitative nature turned up to fucking eleven.

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        The weird thing, is. From my perspective. Nearly every, weird, cringy, niche internet addiction Iā€™ve ever seen or partaken in myself, has produced both two things: people who live through it and their perspective widens, and people who donā€™t.

        Like, I look back at my days of spending 2 days at a time binge playing World of Warcraft with a deep sense of cringe but also a smirk because I survived and I self regulated, and honestly. Made a couple of lifetime friends. Like whatever response we have to anime waifus, I hope we still recognize the humanity in being a thing that wants to be entertained or satisfied.