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We are turning to chatbots to be our therapists and best friends, with some even admitting that they trust and feel more viscerally with a robot than their IRL therapists and best friends.

IRL, Frank Iero from My Chemical Romance approached him at Riot Fest to tell him he loved his videos.

If you've always dreamed of entering a pro wrestling ring but don't fancy the gruelling training regimes, performance schedules or being body-slammed IRL, there's always video games.

Now in 2025, it’s evolved into a herculean entity that hosts IRL gatherings such as the Unova tour stop in L.A., which was broken into “seasons” across the Rose Bowl and surrounding areas.

“Those lines between virtual and IRL are way more blurred, and these are real experiences and real relationships that they’re forming,” said Dr. Christine Yu Moutier, chief medical officer for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, using the acronym for “in real life.”