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.

    • spongebue@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 months 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.

  • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 months 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.

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 months 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.

  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 months 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.