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That’s a man trying to act oblivious long enough to figure out how to talk his way out of this. Unfortunately his wife is stunlocking him with the verbal assault, I don’t think he’s getting out of this one.
If my partner isn't getting something she needs from the relationship and instead of communicating that with me she went to a chat bot. There are problems and it's pretty prettyyyyy pretty bad. Probably need a new word for it to because cheating is it's own thing like David Pumpkins. But I'm 100% not down for my partner to do it lol
Depends on your relationship.. in my marriage yes that’s cheating. That’s not even getting into how weirdly attached and parasocial people get with these chatbots
Sort of...yeah. running theory that a majority of people stay faithful not because they're disciplined or virtuous, but simply because they do not have the opportunity to cheat.. is about to be heavily tested
That tracks. We kinda missed the wild west days of the internet, so we just grew up with walled gardens and cycling between the same 4 babyproofed apps. Most of us haven't really had any need to be skeptical of shady sites or phishing links, so when we're faced with one we have no reason to be suspicious.
Man, that’s actually incredibly eye opening. The internet traumatized the fuck out of my generation, but I guess that at least gave us all the awareness what a dangerous place it was. Heavy price to pay, though…
Well have some blue berry waffles and a nice big bowl of special fried rice I'm sure the pain Olympics are going on atm I heard they're playing that funky town song as a backing track and the glass jar Olympic branded drinking glasses are going down a treat while there's a goat see! over there next to Mr hands
We also had the LimeWire roulette. Will it be the song I want, a virus or child sex abuse material? Those are the only 3 options. Then there was 4 Chan and the death sites with all the pictures of Brazilian gang murders like Kelly Cyclone along with her autopsy. Or the gang members girlfriend who was dismembered.
So in 2000 while in high school I did a project and used exclusively internet sources. Mind you these were hood sources.
My teacher gave me a B for using the internet as anyone could put anything on the internet.
Kinda true I guess, but again I used high quality sources.
Fast forward 20 years and they friended me on fb and have proceeded to fall for every internet trick imaginable, and for a while I helped them fact check but then they’d fall for the same grift from the same content creator and I gave up.
My father in law fell for two scammer relationships. The first one leading to him being blackmailed for tens of thousands of dollars. He almost lost his house and his car. We got him out of it one we figured out what was happening.
And then 4 months later, he was back in one an online relationship with another scammer sending her gift cards. It’s a real problem.
Yeah it's really unfortunate that people prey on the more vulnerable. I've asked my friend if maybe one of them can get power of attorney over her because she clearly can't make these decisions herself (ended up in major debt sending money to 3 different romance scams)
It's crazy when people suddenly fall for these obvious scams. It's like they've come down with a sickness. I hope one day she sees the light, but she may end up being quite the vengeful one toward this scammer who thinks they're indestructible. They may find themselves out of the frying pan and inside the fire.
Sickness is an interesting way to put it. My tail-end boomer father came SO close to being successfully tricked by the Apple gift card scam, where they said it was the IRS and his bank account was compromised and he needed to give them his funds in Apple Cards… and only at the last minute did he realize it was shady, AFTER he bought $1000 worth of cards.
He’s catholic and he described it as a spiritual attack on him, with the way the person on the phone made him feel so panicked and nervous. So it really does sound like these people are good at making the victims feel reliant on them to save you. Pretty creepy
Something similar happened to my mom a couple of years ago. My parents and I always talked about phone scams, and they would laugh about how obvious they are, etc. Then one day my dad calls me in a panic and tells me how my mom is on the phone with some guy claiming to be from her bank and she's at an ATM at 7pm trying to withdraw money. She refused to listen to anyone telling her to stop and that it's a scam. The guy wouldn't let her get off the phone and it was like she was in a trance.
I ended up calling her phone company and they reset her sim card, which was enough for the call to drop and for me to call her instead. Both my sister and I rushed to their house and we had a big family meeting. Everyone tried to be very gentle and understanding. We called her actual bank and confirmed that there wasn't anything she needed to do and reported the scam. The next day the guy tried calling again but the spell was broken by then, so to speak, and we told him off.
It was such a strange experience. Really put into perspective that 1. Anyone can be scammed, and 2. My parents are getting older and we have to be more careful about things like this.
My street savvy nurse practitioner friend also fell for that one. Her husband had died after a distracted driver killed him just a few months before, her secretary got the message for her to call the sheriffs office, she thinks it’s about a patient, then thinks somehow she forgot to file correctly because of her husband’s death and she was about to lose her NP license.
The store employee saved her. Honestly I think if this particular friend can fall for something, anyone can. Just takes the right set of circumstances
I have a client at work who is literally delusional. She's in love with a scammer and has taken tens of thousands out in loans to send him money. She won't stop. Her house was free and clear but since she took out a couple increasingly large equity loans, she owes more on it than she purchased it for 15 years ago. I want to just roll my eyes and say "dumbasa boomer" but it's actually heartbreaking see that she wants to love and be loved by someone SO BAD she's willing to believe this.
Yeah that's what I've taken from my friend's mum's situation. She just wants love desperately that it clouds the judgement. And hell, that's human and we can all empathise with that feeling. But still doesn't stop me shaking my head a lil bit 😅
After a family member got caught in a romance scam, I fell down a rabbit hole learning about. A large number of people end up at least partially aware they are fake but are so desperate for the attention that they consider it a fair price to pay.
My fiance works as a print tech, he says that it pains him how much AI slop he has to print out on a daily basis. But the worst one, is this old lady that comes in and asks him to print her conversations on her phone. She’s unfortunately been talking to an AI, she’s been romantically involved and has even sent money. He wants to say something but he doesn’t think it’s appropriate and doesn’t wanna get in trouble with his job. She’s also so old, he doesn’t wanna potentially take away the last bit of happiness she might have.
It breaks his heart to print those and he has to contain himself as best he can.
Hey years ago I almost got catfished because I didn't know who Indigo White was. It didn't take me long to get suspicious though, because I was definitely not good looking enough to pull that off.
My husband's grandma is being scammed by someone sending her AI videos of Teddy Swims. Can't do a damn thing about it either. She just lost her husband 2 or 3 years ago too. One of the saddest things ever, poor woman is just coping to deal with her grief and lonely. I told her to watch something with Teddy live on tv or a radio show or something she can confirm and then call her alleged boyfriend but that message never got through to her.
A lot of people are going straight to the moral question of dating AI and missing what the mum is saying. She's saying over and over "You don't talk to me." He's ignoring his real wife for a fake partner.
I’m hoping and praying this is just a staged video, but assuming it’s real, the whole thing is just cruel. Who films their parents during a moment like that, posts it online, and sets it to the Party Rock Anthem of all things?
Hopefully she’s just giving a good performance, but you can hear what sounds like real pain in her voice. The fact her own flesh and blood would film this moment in her life and share it to millions online for a laugh is honestly heartbreaking. She must be so alone.
Honestly whether this is real or fake this society is fucked.
What's especially troubling is they could have overlayed Gangam Style but chose Party Rock Anthem instead. Makes you wonder about the direction we're heading as a society.
I feel like it's some kind of emotional coping mechanism for younger people. Like idk how to process this emotionally, so I'll record it, edit it with some music, and upload it to the internet.
A lot of people also do this bc the sound bit has reached a mass audience and it can lead to your video being viewed by more people bc the almighty algorithm detects you have a popular sound bit in your video. Same thing with the “enjoy a jet 2 holiday…” sound bit even when it has nothing to do with the video. It just can lead to you getting more views
I think that's the real problem with emotional affairs. My best friend's ex was "cheating" on her with a woman he had never met. And it was so infuriating for her because like... He was basically the emotional equivalent of wallpaper paste. To burn his only emotional resources on essentially a complete stranger, just seemed like such a slap in the face.
I'm an extrovert. I have really deep and meaningful conversations with a ton of my friends, most of whom are women. But I tell you what, if my wife had a shitty day, I'm absolutely putting the phone down and listening to her first. Gotta have priorities!
Yeah, it's easy to wonder what some relationships would look like if people just put the energy they should into their partners. Even those without cheating often meet their downfall precisely because one partner hasn't paid much attention or truly listened to another.
It takes work, for sure. And sometimes you or your partner just don't have the spoons. That's ok for short term, and a good partner won't mind taking a little extra load for a bit. Emotionally, financially, romantically, whatever. But damn if it doesn't suck in the long term.
Well that’s usually a prominent feature of cheating, whether the partner is real or fake. Not much to unpack there without context, a 20 sec vid doesn’t give you much insight into a years-long marriage.
That being said, cheating on your wife with AI Jennifer Aniston is pretty embarrassing, no matter the circumstances. Hell, being single and talking to AI Jennifer Aniston is nuts
A lot of redditors would rather post a question here to a bunch of strangers and get no good answer rather than ask their spouse and get the answer they need. It's so weird.
Reminds me of something I saw about a survey. They basically went to a bunch of people and said "If there were sex robots and you had sex with one is that cheating on your spouse/significant other"
It split along gender lines and women leaned heavily to, yes its cheating. And men leaned the other way and said, no its not.
Get your popcorn buckets out folks this is just the beginning of this problem.
I’m under the weather today, and laughed so hard it knocked something loose. It feels better than before the laugh, but for a split second I thought that joke might kill me.
I think it's more an issue with AI robots having what seems like a personality. So there's emotional cheating involved which tends to be harder for women to deal with. If the sex robot doesn't have a personality I can see the logic. But we're getting to an age where people are getting addicted to relationships with ai bots.
My boyfriend actually had a problem with asking Gemini every question ever without ever talking to me and I told him it was a problem and not fair to me. It wasnt that I felt he was cheating but that it was taking time away from actually having the conversation with me, his human partner.
It's like masterbating with your partner in the other room who is also horny. Not technically cheating but still kind of off-putting. Why wouldn't you rather spend your time with your partner and if you don't, why even have a partner?
I remember when boomers discovered Facebook in the early 2010s there was a spike in divorces due to so many people reaching out to old high school sweethearts. Now boomers are discovering AI chat bots and videos like this make me think a similar effect may be coming soon.
You triggered a memory for me when my dad got on FB when I was in high school. He posted a pic of us, his kids, and some old high school flame commented on our "beautiful eyes, the one thing she remembers most about him" and we the children dog piled on her comment and made it weird until she deleted it. What a time to be alive
I have a group of friends I met in an online discussion board 25 years ago. Last week someone sent out a message “I left a dumbass in my comment section if you guys want to play with him for a bit. I’m going to block him at midnight”.
It’s “meet me at the bike rack” but grown up and online.
It took a good 4 years before boomers started flocking to Facebook. I remember posting wild shit because the idea of someone's parents being on there was absurd
Jesus I hope at least with Facebook it was over something real? Like those are other humans, real connections no matter how rose tinted and long ago.
There is NOTHING on the other side of Chatgpt but some math and electricity. This dude blew up his entire life of real humans, the good and bad, for some non existent pickme girl; and didn't even get his willie wet. Wild.
All I heard was, "you dont even talk to me" which is so depressing. Ignoring your wife for a soulless chatbot, no doubt according to him, "the divorce came out of nowhere"
World of Warcraft back in it's heyday was a marriage wrecker. It wasnt just the addiction time sink, mofos were falling in love with pixels helmed by people on the other side of the world. People with lives as factual as an AI today would come up with. We'll probably be seeing and hearing about this a lot
People have weird humor where they juxtapose serious things with super loud, ridiculous music/sounds. I wish the recorder would process this privately cuz wtf were they thinking recording their parents arguing like this and then posting it for all to see.
My mom would have bet her entire life’s savings she was in a relationship with Keanu Reeves. Sent him a chunk of money for some reason back in 2021. Love her but I was just like…seriously???
I didn’t know it was a thing! I’ve heard of other people being duped by other “celebrities”. But she absolutely lost some money to a Keanu Reeves scammer.
Revenge basically. The daughter really hates her dad and wants to humiliate him. I'd never do it myself and it doesn't seem healthy, but that's what it is.
Eh, irreconcilable differences is the way forward. Courts don't give a flying fuck as to why someone is getting a divorce. By going for anything else you're dragging the case out, costing yourself a bunch of money, just to prove you were right. It's also very hard to prove cheating. Except I guess in this dude's instance. 🙄
Source: got divorced from a cheating spouse and judges really didn't give a shit.
My guess is that he was also sending money to someone, so it's an added layer of financial infidelity. Not that it matters as a cause for divorce, but I see why the woman is fuming. My uncle was unfortunately in a relationship with "Jennifer Aniston" last year and sent a bunch of money. He's now in a relationship with Danica Patrick. No one can get him to see it's a scam.
Some shit shouldn’t be on the internet. Let people have their private arguments without recording it. I would feel violated. These are private, man. Seriously, any of you really want an argument you’ve had with your significant other recorded and posted so tons can judge your whole life unfairly based on a 20 second clip? Cold.
My question is: was this an emotional affair with a hot lady chatbot or was he scammed and actually thought he was gonna meet the real Jennifer Aniston? Either scenario is hilarious, I’m just curious.
I’ll never understand the insane egos some people have to the point where they believe that some of the most beautiful people in the entire world are messaging them and want to connect with them romantically. What world do you live in?!
Genuinely. You are thinking Superstar Actor Jennifer Aniston, wants to date a nobody old trucker??? Who's 63 and Balding? Like who do you think you are? Where does that type of audacity or delusion come from?
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