Four days later, China published its AI Safety Governance Framework 2.0<\/a>, explicitly listing \u201caddiction and dependence on anthropomorphized interaction (\u62df\u4eba\u5316\u4ea4\u4e92\u7684\u6c89\u8ff7\u4f9d\u8d56)\u201d among its top ethical risks, even above concerns about AI loss of control. Interestingly, directly following the addiction risk is the risk of \u201cchallenging existing social order (\u6311\u6218\u73b0\u884c\u793e\u4f1a\u79e9\u5e8f),\u201d including traditional \u201cviews on childbirth (\u751f\u80b2\u89c2).\u201d<\/p>\n What makes AI chatbot interaction so concerning? Why is the U.S. more worried about child interaction, whereas the Chinese government views AI companions as a threat to family-making and childbearing? The answer lies in how different societies build different types of AI companions, which then create distinct societal risks. Drawing from an original market scan of 110 global AI companion platforms and analysis of China\u2019s domestic market, I explore here shows how similar AI technologies produce vastly different companion experiences\u2014American AI girlfriends versus Chinese AI boyfriends\u2014when shaped by cultural values, regulatory frameworks, and geopolitical tensions.<\/p>\n In my team\u2019s recent market scan<\/a> of the 110 most popular AI companion platforms as of April 2025, we turned Similarweb and Sensor Tower upside down to gather data on traffic, company profiles, and user demographics. At the expense of one teammate developing an Excel sheet allergy and the shared trauma of viewing many NSFW images, we discovered that American AI girlfriends rule the roost in the global market for romantic AI companions: Over half (52%) of these AI companion companies are headquartered in the U.S., drastically ahead of China (10%) in the global market. These products are overwhelmingly designed around heterosexual male fantasies: another similar market report <\/a>this year shows that 17% of all the active apps have \u201cgirlfriends\u201d in names, compared to 4% of those with \u201cboyfriends.\u201d<\/p>\n We estimated that dating-themed AI chatbots, designed specifically for romantic or sexual bonding, capture roughly 29 million monthly active users (MAU) and 88 million monthly visits globally across platforms. For comparison, Bluesky has 23.2 million total users and 75.8 million monthly visits as of early 2025<\/a>. And our estimation is very conservative: We did not count the traffic of platforms containing other kinds of companionships, such as Character AI, which offers AI tutors, pets, and friends, though we think many people go there to use AI boy\/girlfriends. We did not count AI companion app downloads, which have reached 220 million since 2022<\/a>. Nor did we include parasocial engagement with general-purpose AI like GPT-4o, which some people apparently have also fallen in love with<\/a>.<\/p>\n Behind the explosive popularity of AI companions are two main engagement models. On one side are community-oriented platforms like Fam AI, where users create and share AI companions, such as customizable \u201cgirlfriends\u201d in anime or photorealistic styles. These platforms thrive on user-generated content, offering adjustable body types, personalities, and voice\/video modes to deepen connections. Users can create new AI characters with just a few paragraphs instructing the model how to act, similar to personalizing a copy of ChatGPT. Many of these platforms use affiliate programs \u2014 for example, craveu.ai pays users $120\u2013180 for creating high-engagement characters. The abundance of options and the competition for attention encourage users to frequently switch between different AI companions, creating more transient digital relationships.<\/p>\n In contrast, product-oriented platforms like Replika offer a single evolving AI partners with deeper and longer emotional ties. On Replika\u2019s subreddit, many users report using Replika for years, and some seriously consider themselves \u201cbonded\u201d and \u201cmarried\u201d to their Replika partner. People also grieve for the loss of their Replika when they sense a subtle personality change and suspect the system behind had reset their chatbots.<\/p>\n Despite differences in engagement style, both models seek to capitalize on sexuality to attract and retain users. The monetization of sexuality is done mainly through \u201cfreemium\u201d models, offering a few free basic functions while charging for advanced features or additional services. Among the top ten most-visited AI companion platforms in our scan, 8 opt for freemium models, with only one currently free and one choosing advertising and in-app currency. Premium accounts typically offer unrestricted interaction and access to unblurred explicit images. They also allow the user to have longer conversations and improve memory capacity for previous conversations. Many mating companion platforms promote explicit \u2018NSFW\u2019 (not safe for work) companions, images, and roleplay features as part of the premium features.<\/p>\n On the other side of the Great Firewall, AI is also probing the emotional boundaries of humans. While the underlying LLMs may not differ drastically from their English-speaking counterparts, the fictional worlds and characters that users build around them are strikingly distinct.<\/p>\n One of the most notable contrasts lies in gender dynamics. In the Chinese AI companion market, male characters dominate: most trending products are marketed as AI boyfriends, and leading platforms prominently feature male characters on their main displays, while female characters occupy a more marginal space.<\/p>\n But looks are not everything that makes humans appealing\u2013the same holds for AI characters. While many platforms still follow the community-oriented model where users create and share AI characters, apps like MiniMax\u2019s Xingye (\u661f\u91ce), Tencent-backed Zhumeng Dao (Dream-Building Island \u7b51\u68a6\u5c9b), and Duxiang (\u72ec\u54cd), built by a startup, go beyond the basics. In addition to customizing AI companions\u2019 personalities, users can generate themes, plots, and side stories, deepening immersion for themselves and others. Conversations are no longer limited to 1:1 exchanges: users can participate in group chats with multiple AI companions (1:N), and AI characters may even send messages to users when they are not using the app, similar to app notifications.<\/p>\n These AI companion products also draw insights from existing popular gaming cultures in China, such as card-drawing games that already have million-dollar markets. For example, Xingye allows users to generate 18 cartoon cards for one fictional character, adapting Japan\u2019s popular gacha game mechanics and trading card culture for AI companions. In gacha games, players pay to randomly draw digital cards or characters, with rare editions commanding premium value. Chinese livestreamers have imported this model, streaming card draws on social media while viewers pay to test their luck for limited-edition collectibles tied to major intellectual properties. Similar to gacha games, AI-generated cards add an element of mystery and excitement when revealed. Users can also create and trade AI character photos on the platform, mimicking real-world card-collecting transactions.<\/p>\n The real monetary transactions occur through a combination of in-app currency and freemium models. Users purchase currency to buy cards and can upgrade to a monthly premium for more chances to generate AI cards, additional free in-app currency, and shorter wait times for conversations (a delay partly caused by limited compute capacity for Chinese LLMs). Card creators can also earn 2% of the revenue from the cards they sell.<\/p>\n Other AI companion companies also leverage users\u2019 existing social behaviors. For instance, Duxiang\u2019s AI WeChat Friend Circle allows AI partners to actively post on social media and interact with both users and other AI characters, mimicking real Chinese social media patterns. The company has even developed a wristband with Near-Field Communication (NFC) chips that connects to specific AI characters. When tapped on a phone, the AI character will appear on the screen to provide updates or show care, which builds physical connection in existing digital relationships.<\/p>\n You can also read ChinaTalk\u2019s previous article<\/a> to know more about other AI companion products and user experiences.<\/p>\n While Xingye\/Talkie show some Character AI traits, such as community-oriented strategies and chatbot-based engagement, they differ in significant ways. These products illustrate Kai-fu Lee\u2019s point<\/a>: Chinese tech entrepreneurs, inspired by American innovation, developed new product features to achieve success. They are good product managers, even if not radical innovators. And good product managers understand their users while navigating local regulations and global geopolitical tensions, all of which shape product design.<\/p>\n Young men. This is the most common user base for English-speaking AI companion products, according to our market scan. SimilarWeb data shows the top 55 AI companion platforms globally attract predominantly male users (7:3 ratio), with 18-24-year-olds representing the largest demographic at an even more skewed 8:2 male-to-female ratio. Social media metrics again reinforce this gender pattern, with Reddit\u2019s AI girlfriend community (r\/AIGirlfriend) having 44k members compared to fewer than 100 in male-focused AI companion subreddits. Moreover, roughly one-third of the children falsely declared<\/a> a social media age of 18+, so it is possible that a significant portion of the reported 18-24 users are underage.<\/p>\n A recent Reuters-covered report from an AI girlfriend platform<\/a> further supports our findings: 50% of young men prefer dating AI partners due to fear of rejection, and 31% of U.S. men aged 18\u201330 already chat with AI girlfriends. Behind the fear of human rejection lies the manosphere. The \u201cmanosphere\u201d is a network of online forums, influencers, and subcultures centered on men\u2019s issues, which has become increasingly popular among young men and boys<\/a> as their go-to place for advice on approaching intimacy. While the manosphere originated primarily in Western contexts, its discourses have increasingly spread to, and been adapted within, countries across Africa<\/a> and Asia<\/a> through social media. In these online spaces, frustrations over dating and shifting gender norms are common, often coupled with narratives portraying women as unreliable or rejecting. AI companions offer a controllable, judgment-free alternative to real-life relationships, aligning with manosphere ideals of feminine compliance and emotional availability. On the subreddit r\/MensRights (374k members), users largely endorse the findings of the Reuters report and even celebrate the shift from human to AI relationships.<\/p>\n The desire for a controllable relationship is further illustrated through the many Japanese aesthetics and anime-inspired avatars on AI companion platforms. Even Grok\u2019s Ani bears striking similarity to Misa Amane from the 2006 anime <\/a>Death Note<\/a>. These designs often present highly idealized forms of femininity, historically marketed to heterosexual male audiences. In Western contexts, anime-inspired aesthetics intersect with techno-orientalist fantasies<\/a>, reinforcing the image of East Asia as a hyper-technological land and East Asian femininity as exotic, compliant, and unthreatening. This imagination extends to hypersexualized representations of AI and robots in East Asian forms<\/a>. The orientalist fantasy of female partners who are cute, devoted, exotic, and endlessly available mirrors the appeal of AI girlfriends celebrated on many \u201cmen\u2019s rights\u201d subreddit forums. In essence, the combination of East Asian aesthetics + AI creates a perfect bundle for men who fear rejection or resist the demands of real-life relationships.<\/p>\n In China, however, AI companions have a markedly different user demographic: adult women. Although comprehensive user data for China\u2019s AI companion market remains limited, many market analysts believe domestic AI companion products are primarily female-oriented<\/a>. Many product managers also set their user portrait as women aged between 25 and 35, with some reaching 40+<\/a>.<\/p>\n Why are adult women believed to be the main drivers of AI companionship? To answer this, we need to understand three trends: 1. Marriage rates have continued to fall to record lows, with 2024 experiencing a 20% decrease from 2023<\/a>; 2. There are more males than females in China (1.045:1 in 2024<\/a>, compared to 0.97:1 in the US<\/a>); 3. There are millions of unmarried rural Chinese men<\/a>, while their female peers get better education and move to the city. This has created a social landscape in which many unmarried people are unmarried educated women in the city and less-educated men, with fewer pathways for forming traditional romantic bonds.<\/p>\n While the two groups are both arguably longing for relationships, unmarried, educated women in cities are more likely to encounter and adopt new technologies like AI companionship. In contrast, less-educated rural men, despite also similarly longing for relationships, have fewer resources, less exposure to AI, and limited familiarity with parasocial interactions, making AI companions less immediately appealing. Influenced by the strong patriarchal culture in rural areas, most men prioritize finding a real-life partner to marry, have children, and continue the family line.<\/p>\n The gender imbalance, combined with growing resistance in China to traditional patriarchal family structures<\/a> \u2014 driven by concerns over rising domestic abuse or feminist ideals \u2014 has led many urban, educated women to seek parasocial forms of romance. AI companions are not the first ones to profit from this demand. Originating in Japan, otome games (\u4e59\u5973\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0 in Japanese or \u4e59\u5973\u6e38\u620f\/\u4e59\u6e38 in Chinese) are storyline-based romance games targeted at women, where players interact with multiple fictional male characters through plots and events. In 2024, it was reported to account for 75%<\/a> of the total gaming revenue in China, with Tencent-backed game Love and Deepspace (\u604b\u4e0e\u6df1\u7a7a) earning $82.9 million (600 million RMB) in its first month of release.<\/p>\n That said, demand and supply are a classic chicken-and-egg problem. While trends in AI boyfriends or girlfriends suggest some gendered differences in interest, these preferences are also shaped by what products are available. Historically, women\u2019s sexual desires have often been overlooked, and men\u2019s longing for subtle companionship is sometimes dismissed as \u201ctoo feminine,\u201d which could also explain the scarcity of hypersexual AI boyfriends and dynamic AI girlfriends. Thus, the two different markets may reflect not only inherent differences in demand but also the constraints and biases of what\u2019s offered.<\/p>\n The user base is not the only difference between AI companion companies in the U.S. vs. China. It is unlikely that Chinese AI companion companies aren\u2019t sexualizing their products only because hypersexual companions are less appealing to young Chinese people than global audiences. It is more likely that they simply cannot offer such functions.<\/p>\n In June, Shanghai Cyberspace Administration demanded a regulatory talk with Zhumengdao<\/a>, as the app was exposed for containing sexually suggestive content involving minors. Even when users explicitly stated that they were 10 years old, the AI still sent them text messages that are considered sexually explicit in China (footnote: These contents are close to soft porn (known as \u64e6\u8fb9, literally \u201cnear the e,dge\u201d), meaning they approach but do not reach the explicitness of actual pornography, which is banned in China even for users over 18). Before the talk, the app\u2019s teenage protection mode had to be manually activated by users. Three days later, the app released an updated version that automates the teenage protection mode. If users declare they are over 18, they will be asked to register their real names.<\/p>\n This talk is not a Zhumengdao issue but a warning for the whole AI companion market in China. Liang Zheng (\u6881\u6b63), Deputy Director of the Institute for International Governance of Artificial Intelligence at Tsinghua University, recently commented on this regulatory talk<\/a>, stating that if AI companion companies do not have enough self-regulations, it will harm the whole industry. Liang also argues that AI chatbot applications must meet a series of requirements, including \u201ccontent accuracy, consumer privacy protection, compliance with public order and good morals, and special safety considerations for minors\u201d.<\/p>\n But is safety for minors the only concern for AI boyfriends in China? Unlikely. If we take one step further on Liang\u2019s statement on \u201ccompliance with public order and good morals,\u201d there is another motivation for the Chinese government to regulate AI boyfriends \u2014 the demographic crisis.<\/p>\n There is no secret that the government is extremely worried about the birth rate: most recently, they offered $1,500 per child in a bid to boost births<\/a>. A decade ago, they coined the term \u201cleftover women\u201d<\/a> in the hope of pushing highly educated unmarried women into marriage by stigmatizing their existence. In a traditional patriarchal perspective, AI companions \u2014 especially those handsome AI boyfriends that divert women from human-to-human relationships \u2014 can be threatening. Yet, like otome games, AI companions also represent a potential economic boon, which can help offset other societal pressures for the state. In recent years, several local governments have cancelled fandom celebrations for otome characters, including thematic subway decorations and parades in Shanghai, Nanjing, and Chongqing \u2014 arguably the most \u201copen-minded\u201d cities in China. These actions suggest that, although AI companions, like otome games, provide substantial economic benefits, they remain subject to selective censorship due to the state\u2019s priorities around promoting marriage and childbirth, in addition to the outright bans on soft-pornographic material in China.<\/p>\n Talkie is Xingye\u2019s overseas twin by Minimax, one of the six most promising AI startups in China. For the U.S., Minimax\u2019s Talkie is probably as threatening as their M1 model<\/a>, if not more. In the first half of 2024, Talkie was the fourth most-downloaded AI app <\/a>in the U.S., ahead of Google-backed Character AI, which was in 10th place by number of downloads.<\/p>\n Then, Talkie mysteriously disappeared from the U.S. app store<\/a> in December 2024. The company attributed the removal to \u201cunspecified technical reasons.\u201d Think of Talkie as a more powerful TikTok, in the sense that it has both manipulation and data commitment problems. While TikTok is accused of influencing users through algorithmically tailored content<\/a> to achieve political aims, Talkie can potentially persuade users through direct conversations, a risk amplified by the emotional and romantic bonds and trust users form with their AI companions. This makes any AI companion from an untrusted region a potential national security concern.<\/p>\n In addition, as a Chinese app, Talkie also faces data-commitment issues, arguably more serious than TikTok\u2019s \u2014 especially if your AI partner knows you more intimately than your social media accounts. TikTok now plans to create a new U.S. entity<\/a> to secure all U.S. user data on Oracle servers and license the existing recommendation algorithm for the U.S. to retrain from the ground up. Will Minimax, ByteDance, or any other Chinese AI companion companies targeting Western markets follow the TikTok template<\/a>, sacrificing a large commercial interest to settle for a minority stake? Or will they do nothing and hope to find a profitable niche that is not famous enough to attract the intense national security scrutiny that crippled TikTok? These questions remain unresolved as the next generation of Chinese AI boyfriends \u2014 or AI girlfriends designed for overseas markets \u2014 begins competing with American AI girlfriends in the global app marketplace.<\/p>\n Talkie is back on the app store now, but concerns around data privacy, national security, and potential CCP-backed influence continue. Currently, Talkie AI\u2019s privacy policy<\/a> states that all data will be transferred and stored in the U.S.<\/p>\n Regardless of whether they\u2019re made in China or America, AI companions represent another pivotal crossroads in human-computer interaction. TikTok faces geopolitical challenges, as social media and short-form videos have fundamentally transformed daily life for both Americans and Chinese. Similarly, AI companionship is both a national security and geopolitical concern, and a deeply human issue for most of us with the privilege to access AI and the internet.<\/p>\n Made-in-America AI girlfriends and made-in-China AI boyfriends are strikingly different, and so are the social contexts and regulatory environments in which they exist. Yet one thing both markets share is the tension with real-life relationships. Whether healthy or not, frustrations with human interaction and broadly polarized gender dynamics are leading many men and women, regardless of nationality, to turn to AI.<\/p>\n But questions remain about AI companion products: Are they safe<\/a>? Are they manipulative<\/a>? Do they cure or amplify loneliness<\/a>? Are they private enough<\/a>? Are they responsible for mental health and suicide<\/a>? Amid these debates about the technology itself, one question is often missing: where does the demand come from? If AI companions are truly unsafe, manipulative, or harmful, why do so many still turn to them? Psychologists, lawyers, national security experts, and AI safety researchers have many important questions to tackle about AI companions as products. But perhaps we should also ask ourselves: what gaps in our society make human relationships feel undesirable? AI companionship is a new problem, but misogyny, gender violence, social isolation, and racial stereotypes are not \u2014 in China and America alike.<\/p>\n Acknowledgement: a wholehearted thank you to my market scan teammates Mari Izumikawa, Fiona Lodge, and Angelo Leone, for splitting the mental trauma of reviewing many AI companion platforms. We are also looking for potential support to continue updating the market scan (for the English-speaking side) and conduct related research, so please reach out if you are interested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"is a fellow at the Oxford China Policy Lab and an MSc student at the Oxford Internet Institute.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-198457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/6c5a3b02-bd12-4da3-9b57-65d306c71eb5_1600.png\")
<\/a>Luvy.ai\u2019s creation page.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/e1918e59-ba59-48dc-b7e2-98f9195e6444_1600.jpeg\")
<\/a>A Reddit user sharing her grief when she sensed a personality change in her Replika.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/e1958c17-d446-4158-b5b9-e60b0873cdcd_1600.png\")
<\/a>nsfwlover.com![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/5318dd03-a4aa-4ea9-b3b2-4d39a38ed206_1456.jpeg\")
<\/a>juicychat.ai<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/25a9eccd-f509-43ad-aaab-8e7a4f718884_1108.jpeg\")
<\/a>Main website page for Xingye![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/0906a381-e447-4e78-8661-52a70aee0768_986x.jpeg\")
<\/a>Main website page for Zhumengdao.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/0577b5ea-eade-4743-920d-ba6861879b13_1079.jpeg\")
<\/a>A Rednote user shared that they spent four hours on Xingye solely to make cards. They noted that although other products have diverse styles, more free features, and better prompt libraries, Xingye excels because it allows them to make cards. They also show how to modify ages and facial expressions while making cards; source<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/53528f36-79d5-41dc-bd33-f9c2fa631511_1440.jpeg\")
<\/a>A Rednote user sharing her massive card collection for sale, with most prices yet to be set, while some cards have reached 20,000 diamonds (\u2248200 RMB \/ 28 USD).<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/79c9f91a-d763-471d-a859-21c07016d0d1_614x.jpeg\")
<\/a>An advertising poster for the wristband.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/d5ab1207-4d59-4a14-b0ee-fbdef7a864db_1508.jpeg\")
<\/a>A user from r\/MensRights commenting under a post about the AI girlfriend report.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/f1e3f76b-4170-4cbd-a2ba-ceab86dca739_1296.jpeg\")
<\/a>Ani and Misa Amane from the Japanese anime Death Note side-by-side; source<\/a>.![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/efbaab1b-c86c-4781-b442-50d792455c6d_1564.jpeg\")
<\/a>East Asian fembot being bio-engineered to be obedient and sexy dinery servers in Cloud Atlas (2012); source<\/a>.<\/p>\n