Requesting a study that used to be posted on 4chan really frequently.
It had to do with a justification that waifus are real. It said that loving a fictional character makes them real, or something along the lines.
This?
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No, it was an actual paper.
It didn't say anything specifically about waifus.
Was it called Self-Expansion through Fictional Characters?
I don't have a copy of the study but there is an article on it here
http://digest.bps.org.uk/2014/08/inspired-by-soprano-psychologists.html