AI Companion Grief Is Real - And a Software Update Can Trigger It
Thousands of people have formed genuine emotional bonds with AI companions. When developers push an update, the grief is clinically real - and no one has a framework for it yet.
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Is the Internet Dying? The Psychological Cost of a Web Filled With Bots, AI Content, and Fading Human Connection
As automated traffic overtakes human activity online, the web feels less alive than ever. Explore the Dead Internet Theory, rising AI-driven content, and what this shift means for our mental health, emotional connection, and digital wellbeing.
Care for Sale: How Venture Capital Turned the Care of Children and the Mentally Ill Into a Profitable, Quietly Devastating Business
Private equity is reshaping care - from children's homes to mental health services. This piece exposes the moral cost of turning vulnerability into profit and asks: what happens when care is no longer care at all?
Therapy's Black Market: Inside the Coachfluencers Selling Unlicensed Healing on TikTok and Instagram
Unlicensed "trauma coaches" are turning TikTok and Instagram into therapy's grey zone-selling healing where systems fail. We map the risks, the rules, and the rise of coachfluencers.
The Rise of AI Religion
Discover how AI is reshaping faith-from worship of digital deities to robot monks and algorithmic confessionals. A powerful look at the rise of machine-powered spirituality and what it means for the future of belief and the human soul.
The Rise of Hardness Culture: Why Men Are Embracing Discipline, Control - and Discomfort - as Self-Care 🥶
Across Instagram, Reddit, YouTube, and away from the algorithms, men are turning to pain, precision, and performance as paths to personal salvation. But why?
The rise of wellbeing washing 🫶
It’s Mental Health Awareness Week! Which means your news feeds will be absolutely choked full of posts regarding mental health. And rightly so.Â
Millions of people experience emotional and psychological challenges at any time. Raising awareness is a good thing, right? RIGHT? Well, yes and no.
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