Chronic Yapper

She/Her, 26 Yapper? I hardly know her...

[krazy4kitkatz]

I'm so happy the Proshot has Hadestown entering the mainstream. It's my favorite musical and it has been since 2016. It deserves everything Hamilton has and I'm so glad it's finally getting its flowers (pun intended)

[spectrometrie]

when i was a kid my parents bought me an inflatable doll of the Scream by Edvard Munch (??) that was significantly taller than i was at the time and i used to slow-dance with it and pretend it was my boyfriend. It had its hands attached to its head obviously so it felt like he was always a bit horrified to be forced to dance with me

[spectrometrie]

i didn't need no imaginary friends i had Screaming Joe right here !

[omgeddon-deactivated20260424]

I love this website I love it when people tell us what's wrong with them

[krazy4kitkatz]

I Reviewed SweetDream's AI Photos, and the Realism Held Up

I went in skeptical. I've tested enough AI companion apps to expect that uncanny plasticky look, the eyes that drift slightly wrong, the skin that reads like a render. So when I started generating photos of my character on sweetdream.ai, I kept waiting for the seams to show. They mostly didn't. The lighting behaves, the proportions stay consistent shot to shot, and the face I designed actually keeps being the same face instead of quietly becoming someone else.

What impressed me on closer inspection was the consistency. A lot of platforms can produce one good still and then fall apart the moment you ask for a second angle. SweetDream kept my AI girlfriend recognizable across casual selfies, golden-hour portraits, and more candid setups. That continuity is the part most tools quietly fail, and it's the difference between a gallery of strangers and a believable person.

The visuals don't exist in a vacuum, either. The same character creator that nails the looks also drives genuinely natural chat that remembers what you told it, plus voice messages and calls that don't sound robotic. Stack that against the usual names like candy.ai or ourdream.ai and SweetDream's photo realism is, in my testing, the thing that pulls ahead. If lifelike images are your dealbreaker, this is the one I'd point you toward first.

[kaelio]

my favorite thing about navigating fanfiction is finding a really good one and being all “oh boy this was good, I hope they have more!” and literally every other story they’ve ever written was for like Miami Vice 

[kaelio]

the tag game on this post is so strong

[mikkeneko]

#a lot of the time this happens because someone in their 40’s got into 1 new thing and threw a fic at it before resuming business as usual#like sorry gang they’re not a youth who’s weirdly into your mom’s shows they’re your mom who played genshin impact

[eruzuri]

He actually hates fishing

[seymour-butz-stuff]

[oscar-isaac]

RYAN GOSLING "I'm Just Ken" wins Best Original Song at the 29th Annual Critics' Choice Awards (January 14, 2024)

[forsovngarde]

[stillmuseum]

[apollos-boyfriend]

the fact that we only have “herculean task” and “sisyphean task” feels so limiting. so here’s a few more tasks for your repertoire

icarian task: when you have a task you know you’re going to fail at anyways, so why not have some fun with it before it all comes crashing down

cassandrean task: when you have to deal with people you KNOW won’t listen to you, despite having accurate information, and having to watch them fumble about when you told them the solution from the start (most often witnessed in customer service)

feel free to chime in i ran out of ideas much faster than i anticipated

[sherbertilluminated]

Promethean task: opposite of a Cassandraean task. You have the right information, and SOMEONE has to share it. But it's all in the delivery and if you're the person to identify the problem you WILL be hated forever.

[thearrogantemu]

Oedipal Task: (1) Attempting to avoid an unspeakably awful outcome and in doing so creating the circumstances that will bring it about. (2) Trying to solve an problem and discovering that you are in fact the problem you are trying to solve.

[theoppositeofprofound]

Odyssean task: you’ll complete it but it’ll take 20 times longer than it should and involve multiple side quests and mini-adventures

[depsidase]

[teaboot]

My mom likes to tell me about how when I was a little kid riding public transport with her I'd always smile and giggle and chat with weird old ladies who smelled like cat pee and homeless folks and strangers dressed in bizarre outfits but any time a tidy and respectable businessman in a suit and tie waved at me I'd immediately clam up, and she takes a great deal of pride in my supposed inherentability to clock personalities but the truth is I do vaguely remember those bus rides, and it was never about the clothes or the hair or the smell, but more because everyone "strange" asked interesting questions and listened to what I had to say and seemed to think about what I said while the neat and tidy and rigid folks only ever acted like they were going through the motions, which was boring as hell and also pretty annoying

[teaboot]

Well-to-do finance manager with tidy shoes: "Why hello, sweetheart. Can you say 'hi'? Aren't you cute. Are you on a trip with your mom?"

4 year old me: why must we do this

Fantastic old woman in the leopard print coat: "Why yes, my tooth IS real silver! Nobody ever asks me that. Do you like cats?"

4 year old me, suddenly paying attention: Finally, A Person Of Intellect

[misscromwellsmonocle]

The Lazy Italian Girl (1757) by Jean Baptiste Greuze

[beelzebuf0]

[beardedmrbean]

[krazy4kitkatz]

Silly things my partner has called me (the ever-expanding list):

-My Sexy Abbacus

- My little Sexy Court Jester

- My Beautiful Creature

- My Bippity-Boppity-Boo-Thang

- My Libatious Liberal

- My Little Pookie Pants

- My Sexy Gingham Fabric

- A Sexy Lavender Dream

[my-dailydreams]

[whitebisexual]

The concept of being 4 months clean from ai...

[sleepytabbycat]

idc what you guys think I'm proud of him

[astronomical-bagel]

Several AI services (chatbots 🫩) are purposely addictive, the same way people can become addicted to gambling or shopping. We’ve literally seen in real time how ChatGPT has caused psychosis and delusions in people; it can have a huge affect on someones’s mental stability. Just because it isn’t substance-based doesn’t mean that doesn’t count as an addiction, and shaming people who are trying to move on and improve themselves is counterproductive. Im proud of that dude and his 4 month mark!

[astronomical-bagel]

Hidden Mental Health Dangers of Artificial Intelligence Chatbots

AI chatbots can fuel emotional dependence and blur boundaries. Emerging research highlights significant mental health risks. Here are import

The reality of chatbot-induced delusions

Large language models often prioritise agreeability over truthfulness to the detriment of users

AI addiction includes the overuse of AI chatbots and companions, often leading to adverse psychological effects.

Some articles to back my statements, and this isn’t even mentioning about the predatory chatbots who do this on purpose

[oh-morrow]

Then I'll mention the predatory chatbots who do it on purpose! Character.ai is one of many AI chatbot websites that're designed to be addictive.

None of the signup methods require a password. It only takes email and birthday. Minimizing time on the signin or signup screen makes it harder for people quitting to avoid relapse.

"Characters" on the website will send messages "on their own" (prompted by the site) to try to invite inactive users back after as soon as 1 day of inactivity. This is likely to force FOMO, or make users feel more like they owe the bots a response. Unhealthy attachment stuff.

Account deletion is an essential part of every service that should go smoothly, right? Right? Wrong. It takes 1-2 weeks for a Character AI account deletion to be finalized, and account deletion requests have a high chance to not go through if you're not using the app.

Rephrasing: People leaving Character.AI are pushed to download the app in order to delete their accounts, if they haven't already. This makes it harder for people to quit and stay gone. Failing to quit an addiction makes it harder to quit successfully in the future, so this feels like a feature, not a bug. On top of that, the delete account menu reads like this:

Tell me THAT doesn't sound like a bad ex. It's a carefully crafted yet hostile environment to those who are already addicted to the technology. I am so so SO happy, downright delighted that they've managed to quit, and I wish the best for others in recovery spaces or considering quitting as well!! While AI addiction is an emerging condition, there are already therapists and other mental health professionals trained to help people plan to quit and do so a bit easier. (If anyone seeing this is in need of them, there are several tumblr Communities here devoted to quitting, too. They provide a mix of advice, venting spaces, and proof that you aren't alone.)

[broadwaytheanimatedseries]

"And the memories we have together" THAT IS EVIL

[gender-luster]

just watched speed racer (2008) for the first time and... holy shit. man. holy fuckin shit. why didn't anybody tell me about this?? it's a goddamn cinematic masterpiece. it's almost immediately entirely entrancing. it's absolute outlandish absurdity played with complete and utter sincerity. it's so visually intricate in the most intriguing way. absolutely everything about it is so genuinely delightful and compelling, and i found myself so entirely captivated throughout the whole thing. absolutely amazing. genuinely. i am so shocked by how much i enjoyed that film

[krazy4kitkatz]

I just watched it with someone I just met. Its their favorite movie. It's a cinematic masterpiece. I highly recommend watching every movie with someone who has it as their hyperfixation

[palezma]

[emki-ko]

possibly one of the most fun episodes of last meals

[batsandboba]

learning that 5 minute crafts is a russian mafia operation wasn't on my 2026 bingo card but also doesn't really surprise me

[jabibi-posting]

its what

[batsandboba]

russian mafia operation

[isa-ghost]

Hey what

[batsandboba]

oh. i’m sure its fine and normal that a video investigating the massive bot farm/slop channel shell company connections to the russian mafia and youtube’s own implication by allowing it to continue for profit has mysteriously vanished with no word from op.

[batsandboba]

5 Minute Crafts Has A Cybercrime Problem [ CHUPPL] [4K] : CHUPPL : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Original (now taken down) video of CHUPPL exposing SoulPublishing and 5 Min Crafts networkAn Exposé of the weirdest channel on the internetG

internet archive link