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Friday Fun Thread for June 5, 2026

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Facebook and Instagram routinely show me reels by porn stars, and my AI-dar is strong enough that I usually notice when it's showing me AI-generated girls who don't actually exist. (No doubt there's a potential toupée fallacy here.) I assume these models are advertising their OnlyFans pages or similar, and that if one were to follow the link it would contain softcore photos and videos for a fee. I wouldn't know, as I've never clicked on one of these links.

Jerking off to softcore videos of photorealistic AI-gen women seems extremely lame to me, lamer than watching live-action porn featuring real women (which is already pretty lame). On the other hand, is watching photorealistic AI-gen porn lamer than watching hentai, animated furry porn, or similar? Technically, both hentai and photorealistic AI-gen porn are types of animated pornography, but at least the latter looks enough like a real person that you might not notice it on a cursory inspection. A guy might consume a lot of photorealistic AI-gen porn and still be attracted to real women who actually exist, whereas I fear for the habitual hentai user, eventually no 3-dimensional flesh-and-blood woman will ever appeal to him.

On the other hand, habitual hentai users might put the unambiguous fantasy of 2-dimensional hentai in a completely separate mental category to IRL sex and be able to derive enjoyment from both (just because you like burgers, doesn't mean you don't also like salmon); whereas photorealistic AI-gen porn looks just like real life except with every conceivable imperfection mercilessly rooted out. Someone who habitually consumes the latter might eventually find that the imperfections all flesh-and-blood women have* (to a greater or lesser extent) are impossible to overlook.

Obviously consuming either kind of porn to excess will mess with your head. But which do you think is worse?

*Men too, obviously, but I can't imagine many straight women have much interest in watching photorealistic AI-gen softcore porn of male characters.

On the other hand, is watching photorealistic AI-gen porn lamer than watching hentai, animated furry porn, or similar?

Obviously the winning move is to watch AI-gen hentai.

All in all, another reason for deleting your social media. Backup your Facebook data if you’re worried about losing things and eradicate it from your life. I never experienced the detox some people claim to have had because I was never that drawn into it in the first place, but so much of it is a distraction and waste. Instagram is just the opposite of doomscrolling, and I see people outside of work who do nothing but consume one reel after, another despite having all these “great plans” in their lives that are permanently on hold and perpetually in the works because they can’t put down the cell phone to apply themselves where the work needs to be done.

As far as the content you’re describing, that’s ballooned over the years as a consequence of the real world drought a lot of young men have experienced as far as putting themselves out there and trying to make themselves an attractive prospect goes. Men don’t know how to make themselves attractive (often through no fault of their own, men aren’t shown any of this; yes; brush your teeth; wipe your ass; manage your finances; dress well; shave properly; don’t sound ghetto or hood when you speak; stand up straight; be respectful; vacuum the Cheeto crumbs off the bedroom floor; etc.) and women too often don’t know what men are good for them (give the nice guy a chance; stay in church; learn domestic skills; put on a smile; don’t drink or smoke; etc.).

There’s also a generational divide that I think shares a parallel with other examples. A few years ago, one of our managers at work decided to informally adopt a “peer” interview hiring approach, where new candidates who were under the microscope got to meet a random worker in the department to follow up and ask them questions related to their resume, while the manager observed in the office. As a fairly standout worker, I was one of the select people who did more than a couple of these. The youngest guy I did this for was a friend of a co-worker who was just coming onto the labor market. Kid comes in fully in his street clothes, answering questions with a nervous and unconfident tone (somewhat understandable but you want to speak with self-assuredness about your own abilities), and he also later failed a drug test from what I’d heard. I didn’t follow up with my co-worker about this kid, but it did leave me with an impression on my mind which was, “Who in the world is raising these kids?” It seems nobody ever really taught them what professionalism is, or how to be confident, or, I don’t know; not using drugs (it was weed, even though it’s legal in this state)? I think the same applies to how they approach relationships, but these kids are navigating an environment with a collapse in responsibility and no formal structure to any of it as far as standards and expectations go (and by that I’m not talking about selfish standards, I’m talking mature young adult standards that people used to have beaten into them).

Jerking off to softcore videos of photorealistic AI-gen women seems extremely lame to me, lamer than watching live-action porn featuring real women (which is already pretty lame). On the other hand, is watching photorealistic AI-gen porn lamer than watching hentai, animated furry porn, or similar?

There's precedent.

Gabe: Wait. What are you doing?
Tycho: Putting my Lancer up here, with Frostmourne. I assumed this was where we were putting our epic weapons.
Gabe: No, no, na-no no. This is where we put rad things. Not bullshit, like your pretend gun.
Tycho: Frostmourne is a pretend sword.
Gabe: No, it's a real sword, based on a pretend sword.
Gabe: That is a fake gun, based on a pretend gun. It's fake twice.
Tycho: You teach me so much, Gabriel. You teach us all.

whereas photorealistic AI-gen porn looks just like real life except with every conceivable imperfection mercilessly rooted out.

Honestly, this was already the case before AI-gen porn, for some categories of it. The high-end, "classy", "art" porn from central/eastern europe already has models-style girls with few imperfections to begin with, with top quality Hollywood level make up, flattering lighting, poses and angles and post-processing erasing whatever was there. So I think unrealistically perfect was already a thing before AI-gen.

Obviously consuming either kind of porn to excess will mess with your head. But which do you think is worse?

As a previously healthy consumer of porn (mostly reformed), sometimes you're in the mood for those perfectly shot videos, but also sometimes you're up for real amateur content, for fake amateur content, for 2000s early online productions, for 1990s italian hardcore flicks, for 70s classic films, for drawn content, for 3D CGI content, for softcore...

I think what is worse is being laser-focussed on a single thing and letting that shape your tastes. Checking many things out and being aroused by many of them is healthy.

Is watching cartoons lamer than watching kid movies?

Are you asking if it's lamer to watch cartoons or to watch live-action children's films?

Yes.

I guess it depends on the film.

That's my answer to your question about hentai vs porn.

So you think watching certain kinds of hentai is less lame than watching certain kinds of live-action porn?

Yeah?

Isn’t that a tautological truth given how awful most live-action porn is?

Is it?

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I can't imagine many straight women have much interest in watching photorealistic AI-gen softcore porn of male characters.

Wait until they start integrating this into AI boyfriends, though.

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