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I 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
by flor1s 7y ago
I 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.
- visarga 7y agoWould it still have been creepy if it was called "Generative Portraits of Anime Girls" instead of "Waifu"? I bet people react just to the name.
- claudiawerner 7y agoMany things appear "creepy" but that isn't any reason to think they're bad. In fact, creepiness can be good. Would you say a horror movie has done a good job if it failed to creep you out? Are you sure that you aren't just using "creepy" to shut down non-traditional forms of private sexuality?