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.

  • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
    4·
    13 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.

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
    4·
    12 days 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.

    • LouNeko@lemmy.worldOP
      5·
      13 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.

    • onlooker@lemmy.ml
      4·
      13 days 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.

    • spongebue@lemmy.world
      1·
      13 days 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.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    3·
    13 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.

  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
    2·
    12 days 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.

  • Kanzar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    13 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.