A chatbot named “abusive boyfriend” has 67.3 million chats going, while “Toxic Boyfriend” is exactly as he sounds – an egotistical, controlling gaslighter.
Why would anyone actively want to role play having a totally useless, ambivalent boyfriend, one who spends all day in his pants with the curtains drawn while shooting imaginary space aliens?
Though arguably it goes hand in hand with the cultural phenomenon that was Fifty Shades of Grey, and the revelation that a large proportion of women get their rocks off to the idea of being sexually dominated by a cold, psychologically damaged CEO who wants to knock them about a bit in the Red Room.
Surely this is the kind of deeply frustrating partner who would be easy enough to find IRL, if your kinks included never leaving the house, feeling constantly underappreciated and muttering murderously to yourself while clearing up pizza boxes and cans of Monster energy drink?.
No – Kento Nanami is an AI chatbot, coded to be a “good little house husband”, according to his bio.
