In my last article, I detailed that there have been two kinds of reactions to my posts about companion AI, an issue I see as one that could cripple Western civilization if we're not careful or vigilant.
The two reactions boil down to "this isn't ever going to happen and this will only appeal to basement dwelling incels" which is demonstrably false as it's already happening with many different types of people, or the more common response which is "This all sounds fantastic, and I can't wait till I have a woman I can actually talk to."
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However, I do get those who see the tidal wave coming as I do, and, as those who see a symptom usually do, they have begun trying to locate the disease. That's a multi-faceted issue, but one of the big ones is — as many who've responded to my work on this subject have pointed out — neo-feminism.
I've been covering neo-feminism's effect on our society for some time now, and I've never had anything good to say about it. It's a Marxist-based ideology that causes women to see themselves as both victims of the Western patriarchal system, and its empowered conquerors. It encourages them to abandon the more natural parts of their femininity and pursue monetary and professional gains rather than familial and romantic pursuits.
Possibly most destructive is the fact that neo-feminism encourages women to view men as either contemptuous monsters or useful idiots. They're viewed as opponents, even within the bounds of a relationship. Women who are infected with neo-feminism tend to resist keeping themselves accountable for their own actions and shortcomings, which causes them to set unreasonable expectations for their relationships.
All of this has resulted in men stepping away from the dating scene over time, causing many young women to start asking where all the "good men" are and why they can't lock one down. The ones that aren't committing are either wary of long-term relationships that they have no faith will succeed, or they're taken by women who don't subscribe to neo-feminist standards of living.
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But as I highlighted in my previous article, AI companions are already taking in huge chunks of the population by the millions. Candy AI, for instance, receives 10 million hits a month, and while many of those hits are surely returning customers, what should alarm you is that these websites haven't been around that long, at least not at their current technological level. The growth in popularity of sites like it was swift.
In January 2023, the AI companion app Replika had 10 million users. A more recent head count has put that total at somewhere between 25 and 30 million, showing a 150 to 200 percent upswing in people choosing AI companions and digital romance to either supplement or replace real-life romantic and erotic relationships with humans.
To be clear, Replika doesn't even focus on eroticism in its models like some others do. It was there originally to fill an emotional void, and men bit on it big. That's pretty eye-opening.
Driving them there like a carriage driver with a whip is neo-feminism.
The argument many have made is that digital relationships will never replace actual human relationships because the physical aspect of human relationships won't be a met need. Whoever makes that argument has clearly never met someone with a porn addiction. Once you've trained your brain to receive heavy dopamine hits through porn, the desire to seek real human sexual interaction reduces significantly, and in higher states of addiction, you'll actually find yourself preferring porn to real sex because your tastes have become particular and need catering to.
AI companions, especially those who specialize in NSFW photos and even limited video capability, make catered-to needs part of the business model.
I explain this further in detail in a video I recently made on YouTube.
Despite the accusation that men only want one thing, being happy in a relationship is a huge component of a man's desire to engage with the woman in his life. If there's not one, men will suffer in silence but will seek alternative means of relieving that valve. Pornography offers an easy way to receive sexual gratification without giving anything back, but AI companions offer what porn does, and include the simulation of being respected, adored, and loved.
Neo-feminists rarely want to provide sex, severely lack respect for the man they're with, and show little interest in — if not revulsion to — men's sensitivities and emotions. They often make their own money, depriving the man of his natural provider role, and the lack of homemaking skills is usually filled in with a more expensive lifestyle due to outsourcing everyday things like cooking and cleaning, if that's not filled in by the man himself.
If you're a young man seeing this dating scene go down before your eyes and witnessing friends and family go through horrible dating experiences, get constant advice from other males not to get into relationships and avoid marriage... then you're very likely to do so, but the urge to have companionship doesn't just go away.
AI companions offer that with no strings attached and for a small monthly fee. The temptation is too great.
Thus the explosion of users on these apps and websites, and many of them are Gen Z users.
Making young men less susceptible to this means creating an atmosphere where real women are far more desirable, but a tragic number of women either subscribe to, or are infected in some way by, neo-feminism.
If we're going to mitigate the damage (eliminating this issue is entirely out of the question at this point) then we should be willing to challenge the "modern" lifestyle sold to women and openly push traditional marriage and relationships, which has proven to make people more happy on both sides of the gender coin.
