What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch with Reality: DAU Optimization

Re:What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch with Realit... by isoprophlex on Monday November 24, 2025 @03:54PM (#46039193)

My dude/entity, before there were these LLM hookups, there existed the Snapewives. People wanna go crazy, they will, LLMs or not.

https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/5/1/219

This paper explores a small community of Snape fans who have gone beyond a narrative retelling of the character as constrained by the work of Joanne Katherine Rowling. The ‘Snapewives’ or ‘Snapists’ are women who channel Snape, are engaged in romantic relationships with him, and see him as a vital guide for their daily lives. In this context, Snape is viewed as more than a mere fictional creation.

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Re:What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch with Realit... by GuinansEyebrows on Monday November 24, 2025 @06:36PM (#46040707)

reminds me of otherkin and soulbonding communities. i used to have a webpage of links to some pretty dark anecdotal stories of the seedier side of that world. i wonder if i can track it down on my old webhost.

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Re:What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch with Realit... by tjpnz on Monday November 24, 2025 @10:33PM (#46042075)

TIL Soulbonding is not a CWCism.

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Re:What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch with Realit... by Der_Einzige on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @10:15AM (#46046514)

I met a Chris Chan cosplayer at a cosplay convention. Was crazy to laugh with the guy about how Chris Chan currently has a GF (flutter) and children on the way with her and is living better than a significant amount of his trolls.

What a life.

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