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Elizabeth Minkel
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Writing about digital communities, books, and fandom. Co-host/editor of Fansplaining & co-curator of The Rec Center ✨

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(my friend has been digging and we now suspect this and other posts like it about the app are AI-generated. As a longtime em-dash abuser myself...I still do eye that (and the construction of the entire caption, which has marketing energy) suspiciously)
November 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
heh you say this but I think the results will be MUCH more generic/more in line with pro romance. I learned about this when a friend sent me this screenshot and then we both investigated and learned it was about a specific app. If you were taking the collective Draco from AO3....he'd be gay lol.
November 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
real question tho—what are the guardrails on this! If I actually experimented with it for more than 90 seconds, where does it get shut down content-wise?
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This feels functionally different from CharacterAI because it's generating a narrative, though it might serve overlapping purposes/audiences. Perhaps CharacterAI is actually superior (lol) because requires the user to employ their own brain for three seconds.
November 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Nichole Perkins (tnwhiskeywoman) appears to have quote posts disabled but pretty sure you mean the one at the top of her feed?
November 22, 2025 at 8:47 PM
excited to check out this and everything else in the issue!
November 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM