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Everybody else will act normal and all prior evidence of their existence will also persist like normal.

Edit: For clarification, the people are actually missing but everybody is essentially hypnotized to not notice. Even if specifically asked about the missing people they will pretend like everything is fine. So everybody goes on about their day normaly.

I guess for most people it would be pretty much immediately if their significant other isn't there in the morning and for some fringe isolated cases it might take forever.

I guess best case for me would be around 4 hours on a work day during lunch break seeing a big crowd of people when it would finally click.

Worst case would be probably 5 days when I'm mostly working from home office.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Immediately, I don't have any same-sex spaces or activities. I guess if I was in the bathroom at work it might take a couple of minutes.

I would miss sex so much, but car insurance would go down and a lot of the crime. Eventually everyone would notice though if all the males were snapped out of existence because there just would be half as many people.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

No SO, but I'm trying. Since "people", I'll see my dog, that part is normal. I'll be quite worried and anxious if the psychologist I'm talking to would suddenly become out of contact, especially when it's usual weekday and time.

I'll definitely become agitated and will run around looking for my mom.

I'll be scared for every girl I've cared about who won't be online since a certain moment.

But due to self-gaslighting, I'll likely wait for a few days before assuming that things are very wrong.

[โ€“] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Where TF did my family go?

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Where TF did my entire family go??

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Yeah this seems to be a question for mainly people living alone... I'd notice within the hour.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

I would notice pretty quick when I'm not being catcalled on my way to work

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

What happens to intersex people?

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

They go in a quantum state, existing and not-existing at the same time until someone perceives them, at which point they go into one of the two quantum superpositions: being or not being.

Or nothing would happen, idfk.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Intersex people don't vanish. If you yourself are intersex, nobody vanishes for you. Trans People vanish based on their passability for the opposite sex, if they're androgynous they don't vanish. If you yourself are trans then the opposite of your prefered gender vanishes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

They turn into the failed Ripley clones from Alien Resurrection.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Immediately, but mostly because theres only women in the office i work on.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Immediately. My only close friends at this point in my life are women

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Ditto. I'd have so few friends, not to mention my wife and daughter (no males in the house other than me) so things would be pretty confusingly lonely, pretty quick!

At least OP was pretty clear that all people of the opposite sex were to have disappeared so I can still have my dog.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Instantly? Where the fuck is my husband. If only I can't see him but my twin can I guess me, my now invisible to me husband, and I go to the hospital to ask "yo something is very weird in her brain"

Edit - oh they'd think it's normal they're gone.

I guess argue with my twin for hours about my husband still should exist and not have disappeared.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Monday, it would be too much of a coincidence to see a lot of my coworkers missing at the same time, and seeing people talk to nobody beside them would make me think I'm going crazy.

On the weekend I'm not forced to interact with anyone so I could feasibly go without noticing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Ah Shit I'm. Non-binary and opposite sex doesn't exist, so I'm opposite of non-binary? Binary? That's still not accurate, wait isn't saying opposite sexism just non binary erasure, so like, I don't fucking know??!? But like sex and gender are social constructs so like, maybe some people will. Just poof but idk. Who would it be, if someone changes sex or there gender do they just poof? Like this whole question is fucking weird???!?

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

But like sex and gender are social constructs

Honest response here, no hate intended: I thought gender was a social construct but sex is biological?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

~~Dude~~ Person, you are delusional, there are only two genders, binary and non-binary! And sex is also binary, either you have it or you don't, duh!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I'm. Non-binary of the binary non-binary and binary, so I'm non binary squared

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Could be worse, I'm intersex. I'd be totally alone, except for, like, maybe other intersex people?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Check one of my other answers to the comments.

[โ€“] Kanzar 3 points 2 days ago

Depends. Does the hypnotism make them think a patient has arrived? Will parents bring in children who don't exist?

If it does, then super quickly. If it doesn't, then a while.

Only the boss isn't the same gender as the rest of the team and today is their RDO.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Would notice immediately when I go to work, too much of a strange coincidence for most of my office to be missing.

Plus I guess you're saying they still exist? So it would be sort of like being in an office full of ghosts still going about their day, I'd keep seeing invisible people answering calls, printing stuff to the printer, etc.

PS - This is all assuming I make it to work, just walking to work in the morning would be a disaster if I keep bumping directly into invisible people in my building, out on the sidewalk, etc... so most likely would notice something is wrong long before I make it into work. And all the self driving cars, LOL.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

No I mean everybody is essentially hypnotized to not notice them missing except you. Even if you were to ask somebody "How's your wife/husband?" They would answer you "She's/He's fine."

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Well, we're planning to watch the super bowl in an hour and half. It would be pretty noticeable if all men were gone.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Not for at least 3 days when I do my shopping inbetween my NEET life