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The "Sex with Robots in 2025" meme is sparking a lot of intrigue, and it may have made you go: "What on God's green Earth!"
After doing a bit of digging, it seems as though the meme first took root in 2016, when The Sun published a tweet linking an article with the following headline:
"REVEALED: Women will be having more sex with ROBOTS than men by 2025."
The article cites the claims of a futurologist, though it was the headline that somehow went more viral than the piece itself, paving the way for social media frenzy. It's officially 2025, and naturally, the meme has seen a resurgence in popularity.
The "Sex with Robots in 2025" meme broken down: meaning, origin, and more
The original article has since been taken down from The Sun's official website, though you can find it on archive.is. The piece mostly revolves around futurologist Dr. Ian Pearson, whose remarks were, at the time, "a bit broader than the headline suggested."
In it, he notes that robots would become a staple of every home in the coming decade and that some individuals would "enthusiastically embrace relationship-free robot sex as soon as they can afford one — as early as 2025."
“A lot of people will still have reservations about sex with robots at first but gradually as they get used to them, as the AI (artificial intelligence) and mechanical behaviour and their feel improves, and they start to become friends with strong emotional bonds, that squeamishness will gradually evaporate,” he said in his report.
However, what we know as robots today are more of the “by men for men” category, as Dr. Kate Devlin recently pointed out.
Nonetheless, the simple tweet opened the floodgates to a myriad of memes, the first of which can be traced back to July 2018, when a Twitter user @416Bando put out the following:
"The Bible says Adam and Eve not Florence and the Machine."
The post was a massive hit, as reported by Know Your Meme, and within no time, it nabbed a staggering 400K likes. Other such memes revolve around the original tweet uploaded by The Sun.
One famous reference to the above tweet came from Twitter user @Bowblax, who jokingly tweeted in 2021:
"4 more years until I lose my virginity."
Scroll down for some hilarious "Sex with Robots in 2025" memes we've come across online:
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Well, it is safe to say that robots still have some work to do before they are preferred over men. Let's check back in 2035, shall we?
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