I honestly don’t even know how to put this into words. But basically, my gf loves this channel called Smosh, and specifically really likes a cast member named Damien. She watches their videos every time a new one comes out (Which is quite often, they have multiple channels.) and consistently talks about her love for them and even tells me inside jokes from the channel that I don’t get because I don’t really watch videos. I was fine with it because I love her and think it’s great that they make her happy.

Here’s were it gets... uncomfortable. When I say she likes Damien, I mean, she LIKES him. Apparently he does voice acting and she has all this merch from the shows he is in and even cooks recipes inspired from that dungeon show, a lot.

She talks about him often, even shows me his social media posts and calls him Da”mine”... I tried to talk to her about how that makes me uncomfortable, but she brushed it off every time, claiming I’m overreacting and say that “It’s not like I’d be able to have a relationship with him anyway.”

I tried my best to let it go and told myself I really was overreacting. That was until two days ago while she was staying the night at my apartment, I caught a glimpse of her laptop while she was in the shower, she had her web browser open, and I saw one of the tabs was an AI chat website of sorts and my stomach sank. But here’s where it gets that much worse. The chat bot was of him. Damien. My stomach felt like it was going to leave my body.

So she got out of the shower and I confronted her. I told her that her obsession with this guy was ruining our relationship and that I couldn’t believe she went as far to talk to an AI bot of him and that I was disgusted with her. She even admitted that she MADE THE BOT... apparently it’s easy with these websites to just make a bot based off anyone? I told her to get dressed, get her stuff, and get out of my apartment. I haven’t spoken to her since. She’s been messaging and calling me but I just... can’t. She claims that I shamed her and violated her privacy, and that it doesn’t matter since it wasn’t a real person.