Wow. We’ve Come a Long Way from the FanFic* Days.

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The other day we came across this banner ad for IMVU. The story should be easy enough to figure out: two hot avatars meet, and hey, one thing leads to another. “Live the lifestyle you’ve always dreamed of,” the piece concludes, followed by IMVU’s standard CTA: “Meet new people.”

We were pretty incredulous about this “lifestyle you’ve always dreamed of” crap, but then we thought, hey, being sexy and promiscuous in a virtual world is probably infinitely safer than doing it in the Ritz bathroom. Anyway, since then we’ve seen a couple of other IMVU ads that better illustrate what IMVU means when it says dreamed of.

Fall in love like the first time, engage in girl-on-girl recreation — or, hell, play Twilight without all the chaste overtones. That shit’s creepy though.

It probably bears mentioning, however, that when it comes time for all the meat-rubbing, you still won’t actually be your avatar. And you’ll still be all alone.

*If you’ve never read Fan Fiction, that must mean you had a life. Unfortunately, we didn’t. Let us educate you.

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