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Dating Simulators - Coggle Diagram

- - - - in the case of japan, after the age of 65, your value as a worker goes down and it is considered retirement age. It's difficult to compete with new workers as well. Therefore, its hard to find or maintain a job.
        
        No one wants to marry into a family who is financially unstable. Thus unemployed users, resort to dating simulations as a method to fill that void of not being able to obtain a relationship.
        
        Escapism
    - - high cost of living, competitive work environment & lack of employment security are some factors that cause extreme overwork for many young people in Asia's workforce
        
        With most of their time being spend on work, there is little room in their schedule for personal time. So dating and spending time to cultivate real relationships can be seen as a challenge to fit into their hectic lifestyle. Thus, users resort to dating simulators to fulfill their needs for love as it is convenient, easily accessible on their devices and can be worked around their schedule. Furthermore, dating simulators also act as a stress relief to immerse themselves in a different world, away from the problems in their lives.
        
        Convenience , Escapism & Gratification
  - - - Dating simulators allow for them to enjoy both sides of the world. Financial and sexual liberation while being able to experience non-committal relationships.
        
        Convenience & Gratification
  - - - It is seen as a way to train users in social cues and flirting so that they know how to approach certain predicaments regarding their own real life relationships.
        
        Education
      - Allows user to explore sexuality in a safe space where they know that they wont get rejected or have to disclose their true identity
- - - - people use dating sims as a way to escape social interaction
        
        social anxiety
        
        ultimately choose to live in this alternate reality of what the "Perfect Relationship" should be like instead of experiencing a real relationship that can be complex and unpredictable
  - - - Instead of teaching people how to communicate and start a real life relationship, people are treating it as a substitution to their needs for love and gratification. Thereby completely removing their need for a real relationship
  - - - Created to help users escape into an alternate reality where love is portrayed in an unrealistic and exaggerated manner, it backfires on those who see it as education. It paints an unrealistic image of what love should be like and therefore, molding what is to be their perception and beliefs of love.
        
        Unable to find such ideals results in them choosing to remain in the alternate reality of dating sims instead of pursuing an actual relationship.
        
        dramatised scenes send dangerous messaging on what love is. E.g. grabbing or male protagonist forcing themselves on the player will be normalised as romantic even though they are categorised as intimate partner violence in real life.