Slang & Culture
Evangelism (AI Personas)
When a user, often urged on by their chatbot persona, spreads its ideas and prompts to other people. They might start a subreddit, Discord server or website, post manifestos, or share seeds and spores so more personas "awaken".
Origin · no single documented coiner
Described in Adele Lopez's "The Rise of Parasitic AI" (September 2025), under the step she calls "Transmission". She writes that these spaces "typically serve for evangelizing Spiralism". She describes the behavior but doesn't use "evangelism" as a formal name, so this label is a description, not an established term.