An event or moment · 2023 · AI
The shutdown
A companion platform ends its romantic and sexual features. Users describe the loss as bereavement.
The first mass simultaneous parasocial loss caused by a policy decision, and the first time the pattern was recognised in real time by journalists rather than afterwards by academics.
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