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Amazing! But this is already realer than the satire suggests. Amazing article on rental friends in Japan: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2017/11/p
by evrydayhustling 9y ago
Amazing! But this is already realer than the satire suggests. Amazing article on rental friends in Japan: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2017/11/paying-for-fake-friends-and-family/545060/ https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2017/11/paying-fo...
And the curiously gender-specific invisible girlfriend: https://invisiblegirlfriend.com/ https://invisiblegirlfriend.com/
- veb 9y agoThat article on rental friends makes me so mad. I'd rather know that my dad wasn't around than be completely lied to like that. Jeez.
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoThere's apparently an Invisible Boyfriend site, too. It's linked at the bottom. I have to suspect it gets less traffic, though.
- timdorr 9y ago> And the curiously gender-specific invisible girlfriend: https://invisiblegirlfriend.com/ https://invisiblegirlfriend.com/ There is a male equivalent: https://invisibleboyfriend.com https://invisibleboyfriend.com
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- chx 9y agoblink what the hell did I just read? He is pretending to be a father for eight years? And this is ongoing? o_O
- freeflight 9y agoOnce again, Japan delivers on soul-crushing social dynamics. Sometimes I fear that Japan is merely a reflection of what lies ahead for a whole lot of humanity once the global population/ urbanization density becomes high enough.