Here’s a rough English translation (I skipped the last minute or so) A shopping center in Beijing, China. A lot of women carrying stuffed toys. Among them, there are also girls holding cake. A video commemorating the birthday of a game character is being shown In the large monitor of this shopping center. A birthday event for a character in a love simulation game was being held (in this shopping mall). The smart phone game 恋と深空 (Love and Deepspace) has around 50 million users from about 170 countries, including Japan and the US. The character keeps company when the user is studying or exercising and give words of encouragement as if they were a real life boyfriend. The game is also extremely popular among young people in China. Game user 1: “If I have free time, I talk with him in the game.” Game user 2: “When I’m feeling bad and I log-in (to the game), I can have (my virtual boyfriend) snuggle up to me.” Game user: 3 “I spent quite a lot. Around 3,000 to 4,000元 (about 70,000 yen)” The game developers are mostly women. Subdirector: “He is always here and will listen to you and give you encouragement. If you’re with him, you are not alone.” This 21 year old woman is also a user of the game. On this day, she was dating with… “I was waiting for you. Did you have lunch?” “Not yet” “Then let’s have lunch later.” Not her boyfriend, but a game character cosplayer. “You’re really pretty.” “I was praised”, “You really are pretty.” This is actually a new business called “cosplay request”. A single day costs about 20,000 yen and you get to date with the cosplayer. In front of her, there is the character from the game, and the character in real life. The cosplayers taking the requests are mostly women. They say that, because (the cosplayers) are also women, they can safely experience their ideal date. User: “If it’s a boyfriend from the game, things like him getting mad at me or having a quarrel with me don’t happen. Right now I have no intention of getting a boyfriend in real life.” The women saying that they want a boyfriend from inside the game over a real life (boyfriend). Journalist who’s an expert in the youth in China: “Right now, there’s a saying called 四不青年 among young people in China. A completely new type of Chinese population (is on the rise). The 四不青年 on the rise in China refers to young men and women who 1. don’t have a love affair; 2. don’t marry; 3. don’t have kids; 4. and don’t buy their own house tl;dr: young women in China are choosing to spend their days with a virtual boyfriend and no longer wants to date man in real life. Some will spend the equivalent of 20,000 yen a day to date with a female cosplayer of their favorite game character. Anyone here plays the game? What do you think of this? Here are the game PV of Love and Deepspace: Japanese PV: English PV: |
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| Not surprising honestly. I think it's going to work that way for both genders too as time goes on. Guess you don't have to worry about an AI cheating on you. XD |
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| Fake news. Not real at all ever. |
| If this leads to a detrimental population decline, then Xi or his successor will forbid them for sure. |
| I'm ngl I think the lads guys are kinda ugly in an uncanny way. Way better anime husbandos to choose from. |
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| This game has to have some of the ugliest, early 2000's vibe character designs I've seen in a while. |
| "Well, she's flatter than a pancake" -Mimi Alpacas |
| The future is now (⌐▨_▨) |
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| I'm happy for them, may it last forever |
Nothing amazing ever happens here. Everything is ordinary. ♫ This staircase, it leads only To some old pictures of you Through an a-thousand-mile-long tube ♫ |
| And they do it right. Real people are trash. After years of being with anime girls i just cant even imagine being with a real one, i mean, anime girls are a lot better and cuter. |
| I would have to see some statistics to back up such a theory. I know single sexless men are on therise, but the opposite is not true. "Apparently Gen Z has less sex than any other recorded generation. Something like 30% of men under 30 are virgins and like 20% of women." To add on to that data "While exact figures vary by platform and individual factors, the percentage of women who get no matches is likely very low" This is to women getting no matches on dating websites. Men who get no matches "While exact figures vary, a significant number of men receive few to no matches on dating apps due to factors like a large male user base, a lack of strategy, and the emphasis on photos over personality. Research from a Hinge developer suggested that only a small percentage of men (about 15%) received any likes in their system, indicating a strong concentration of attention on a smaller group of users. " |
rohan121Yesterday, 8:56 PM
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I'm ngl I think the lads guys are kinda ugly in an uncanny way. Way better anime husbandos to choose from.
Mirai said: I'm ngl I think the lads guys are kinda ugly in an uncanny way. Way better anime husbandos to choose from. Tbf the anime guys have the advantage of being 2D. I think it's the 3D models often look a little bit uncanny. OT: It's funny that many people theorized that once the AI Companions pick up on popularity it'd be mostly men using it, but afaics women seem to have been utilizing it more (and by a big margin). old numbers, currently BFAI is at 27.5k members and GFAI is at 376 members, but the point is the same  |
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