🤖 Artificial friend request

April 15, 2026

I still have the teddy bear my dad bought me in Singapore when I was 19. Thinking about dragging it out for the new podcast set.

Stuffed animals used to sit there and absorb your feelings silently. No subscription required. Those days are gone.

Meet Fawn, a fluffy AI companion with memory, personality, a full backstory and the ability to track every conversation you’ve ever had with it. It replies instantly. It remembers what you told it last week. It learns you. 

😨 It’s basically a therapist that never went to school, never charges a copay and stores your entire emotional history on someone else’s servers.

Cute? Absolutely. The fact that your childhood coping mechanism now runs on a data center and is quietly building a psychological profile of you? That part’s a little less cute.