Simping for anime characters is pretty much how the whole anime fandom in the US started.
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Sadly there are some people who seem to genuinely believe this.
But it is not true.
Thoughts are not actions. There are no thought crimes.
Honestly, grain of salt taken, but, if it were me, I know I’d regret it.
We use a lot of those too (partially because we and our partner system are android heavy internally).
Metaphors like this just make it so much easier to talk about these things.