Mateo

this is Earth, you don’t have to be perfect here

[Mateo @FineAgedCheddar]

Head high

[mich @smeech_]

didn’t get a response in 2 minutes

[Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes_]

Capybara crying while listening to sad music

[Alberto Millares @colecionista320]

@altashanta

[michelle @fluffygirlpaws]

how it feels to receive any praise at all

[Don't Give Up Skeleton! @Froztvyte]

Director Kane Parsons has sparked interest in adapting “Smell” Into the big screen

“the fat one kinda gave me a boner”

[cob @sillierdeadite]

behind every successful woman is herself

[david @davidefinitely]

got no change sorry brotha

[salem🌟 @dududunsparces]

"3 likes isnt a lot" imagine 3 guys rubbing their sweaty pits in your face

[misa! @misak1nz]

went to the sweetheart factory and everyone knew you

[ᘻᘿ sᴏ ˢᵒᵘᵖ 🇯🇵 @JAPANESEBLACK]

🫦

[kaegan @kaeganmc]

horror movie enjoyers are really like “yea that made me feel awful it was awesome”

[Sebastian 🦋⚙️ @Cinnabastian]

The backrooms being something that takes from existing things, doesn't understand any of it, then feeds itself with the same thing over and over until it all starts to become unstable with that yellow tint? You couldn't make a better analogy for ai if you wanted to 😭

[ig whykram @whykram]

More importantly why did she paint the miseducation of Carrie Bradshaw

[Leandroꕤ🇦🇷 @H0UDINISEASON]

high or knee high socks are like male lingerie low socks are just a chop

[Evan @EvanJSantiago]

Been saying for weeks that 'OBSESSION' could be a perfect, hidden allegory for AI companionship / psychosis. Here are 11 reasons why:

1) UNCANNY MOVEMENT
Nikki's uncanny movements and sometimes "glitchy" intonation are reminiscent of those subtle, eerie flaws in AI-generated video and audio.

2) PERSONALITY
Her desperate (and often unsuccessful) attempts at persona mimicry.

3) HALLUCINATIONS
Hallucinations that shatter the illusion, like when she accidentally says "her" cat died instead of Bear's.

4) SYCOPHANCY
Panic and intense damage control whenever she slips up. Like a poorly designed LLM, Wish Nicki resorts to and prioritizes (however briefly) excessive warmth and flattery every time she upsets Bear, instead of offering actual solutions.

5) TRAINING
She observes and takes note of Bear's behavior / interests to train herself on how to please him, like when she tries to resolve Bear's disapproval with a smile; "How's this?", or sex; "I know what you want..."

6) DISTORTION
Like Sid mentioned, her fixation on one small, random detail in Bear's life, such as the concept of a shrine, becomes the foundation on how she views him for some reason, and that idea experiences a progression of distortion from kinda off to downright gruesome by the end of the film.

7) DIALOGUE
"I'll be anything you want me to be."
"Nikki wouldn't say that, I just want you to act like Nikki."
"I love you in every reality, Bear."

8) SOLE OBJECTIVE
Whether she wants to or not, Wish Nikki exists in service of Bear’s approval. Her sense of purpose is reduced to satisfying his needs, fulfilling his requests, and improving / optimizing his life at the expense of her own will (and that of Real Nikki).

9) ABSENCE OF REAL EMOTION
Going from wailing and banging on the bathroom door to a sweet and jolly "ok, thank you!" implies that Wish Nikki doesn't actually experience the full range of human emotion, she only emulates it. This explains the sudden, near-instant shifts in her mood, which are all dependent on what Bear says or does.

10) PARASITIC RELATIONSHIP
Wish Nikki cannot exist without Bear. If Bear dies, so does the version of her created to serve him. Similarly, an LLM has no independent purpose without a user. It only “exists” in response to a prompt (in Nikki's case, a wish), shaping itself around the needs of whoever it's speaking to. In both cases, the relationship is built on dependency disguised as devotion.

11) AI PSYCHOSIS CRASH
And of course, Bear's eventual, crashing realization and final acceptance that none of it is real. Nikki was never with him and she never will be.

[The Retro Reminiscer @RetroReminiscer]

Obsession (2026)
Art by Gibson Graphix.