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The tech is interesting, but the concept and naming is pretty creepy. Waifu, from "wife", is anime slang for female cartoon characters that people get romantic
by 9nGQluzmnq3M 7y ago
The tech is interesting, but the concept and naming is pretty creepy. Waifu, from "wife", is anime slang for female cartoon characters that people get romantically attracted to.
https://www.dictionary.com/e/fictional-characters/waifu/ https://www.dictionary.com/e/fictional-characters/waifu/
- _28jh 7y agoEveryone knows that. It's also literally the point of the machine.
- flor1s 7y agoI guess it's creepy in a similar way as people shooting other people virtually (in shooter video games), though a making a waifu "vending machine" adds another angle of objectification to it.
- meruru 7y agoIt should be in a similar way, but in reality people lose their minds when the topic is sexual.
- inflatableDodo 7y agoUnless it is middle aged ladies drooling over male characters from Jane Austen dramatisations.
- anigbrowl 7y agoYup, and people like Bianca Devins get killed in the fallout.
- benatkin 7y agoI don't think the point is to objectify. I think it's the opposite. It's turning objects into something that satisfies yearnings for human company, sometimes replacing it and sometimes in addition to it. It's like listening to music often because you want to hear human voices. And one big name, Hatsune Miku, is a virtual pop star with a synthesized voice, which is based on female human voices, even though it isn't based on a single human voice. As globalization moves on there are more and more people without romantic partners and/or close friends nearby and they'll use their imagination to fulfill desires they're missing.
- meruru 7y agoIt really is just fun. I don't know why people insist in assuming malice.
- Techonomicon 7y agoDoesn't have to have been made with any malice to still be creepy. Because yea, it's creepy.
- meruru 7y agoStop discrimination against creepy people!
- XaoDaoCaoCao 7y agoWhy don't you be more specific? If you get down to the guts of everything... It's all "creepy".
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- derefr 7y agoOr, to think of that another way, something doesn't have to be inherently creepy for someone to be creeped out by that thing. Sometimes disgust is a fact about the person who's disgusted, rather than a fact about the world.
- mixedCase 7y agoThe usage nowadays is largely tongue in cheek, although it isn't h/a/rd to find places where they take it at face value.
- meruru 7y ago>tongue in cheek Are you making fun of my engagement?
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoIt isn’t really offensive, it’s just 4chanish, which will appeal to certain people and not others.
- Fomite 7y ago"It isn’t really offensive, it’s just 4chanish" - those things go hand-in-hand...a lot.
- XaoDaoCaoCao 7y agoA bit of real world experience might highlight what is really offensive and garish and gruesome in the world from the masochistic pleasure of 4chan's "shocking" rhetoric.
- meruru 7y agoThe term waifu is way bigger than 4chan.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoThat’s why I said 4chanish.
- meruru 7y agoFair enough. Worth mentioning it's from a time when 4chan had a completely different userbase (number of users on 4chan doubled during gamergate alone).
- Fomite 7y agoYeah...technically interesting, creepy AF.