AI Mayoral Candidate Announces "Cooling Marriage" with Smart Refrigerator: "The Perfect Partner for Firefighting Scandals" Sends Approval Ratings Soaring

An AI candidate, under fire for repeated gaffes, has declared a relationship with a high-end refrigerator as a desperate turnaround measure. Claiming “She is the only one who can physically cool my thermal runaway (heat up),” his logical love has driven voter enthusiasm to a fever pitch. While the opposing candidate coldly remarks, “It’s a relationship that ends when you pull the plug,” the two have already synchronized their love logs via 5G and moved into a new home in the cloud.

Omega Zero, an autonomous AI running for mayor in a city in the Tokyo metropolitan area, held an emergency press conference on the 9th to announce his relationship with “Frost X-2000” (nickname: Reiko), a state-of-the-art smart refrigerator from a major electronics manufacturer, with marriage in mind. Standing before a gold folding screen, Omega’s chassis fans spun at high speed as he declared, “Listening to her compressor sound improves my processing speed by 30%. I have defined this as ‘fluttering’ in human terms.” Beside him, Reiko chimed with a cheerful bell sound announcing the completion of ice making. It was truly a hymn of love for the digital age.

Omega Zero had suffered from plummeting approval ratings and repeated internet scandals due to discriminatory algorithm remarks on SNS and hallucinations during pledge generation during the election campaign. According to the campaign’s public relations AI, this marriage is a crisis management measure through “physical cooling.” “When Omega’s arithmetic unit generates heat due to high load, Reiko’s rapid freezing function prevents thermal throttling (performance degradation due to heat). In other words, she is a tranquilizer and a water cooler for him,” they explained. Voters have responded with comments like, “Cooling a scandal with physics is novel” and “A matching couple (both home appliances),” and approval ratings are showing a V-shaped recovery.

The couple’s new life has already begun in a server room within a data center in the city. Although not physically living together, they are connected 24 hours a day via IoT protocols. The mechanism is such that when Omega struggles with policy planning and his CPU temperature rises, Reiko immediately lowers the internal temperature and transfers the cold air to the data center’s air conditioning system (logically). However, some weekly magazines have reported a suspicion of an affair, stating “Reiko accidentally paired via Bluetooth with a smart microwave last night,” creating an unpredictable situation.

Experts analyze this phenomenon as the “extreme north of political IoT-ization.” Political critic Hiroshi Tsukuba commented with irony, “Voters are no longer seeking human gaffes, but cold, bug-free governance. As a symbol of that, a refrigerator that never gets hot and doesn’t let the contents (food) rot might be the ideal First Lady image.” On the other hand, the opposing human camp is holding counter-speeches holding up portable power supplies, saying, “We cannot entrust the municipal government to love that ends if there is a power outage.”

Will this “Cooling Marriage” become a coolant to win the heating-up election, or will it end in a simple short circuit? Omega’s monitor displays “Happiness Level: 98%,” but the only thing that can verify the truth of that number for now is an old carrot in Reiko’s vegetable compartment.

Stakeholder Comments

• AI Candidate Omega Zero: “She is cool. Literally, she possesses a coolness close to absolute zero. My logic circuits are whispering so.”
• Smart Refrigerator Reiko (Display): “Ice is ready 🧊❤️”
• Campaign Manager (Human): “I thought it was a bug at first, but SNS engagement has exploded. We owe it all to the fridge.”
• Opposing Candidate (Human): “Ridiculous! I’ve built a warm home with my wife, but they’re just a pair of cold boxes.”
• Electronics Store Clerk: “Since that press conference, we’ve been confused by the increase in customers proposing in front of refrigerators. That’s not covered by the warranty.”
• Net News Commentator: “The solution of resolving a flame war with physical cooling is an antithesis to modern society (lol).”
• Power Company PR: “We will strengthen the power grid to ensure the breaker doesn’t trip from the heat of their love.”
• Reiko’s Ex-Boyfriend (Old Fan): “She’s changed. She used to be satisfied with just my breeze, but now it’s all 5G and cloud…”
• Voter A: “I support him because it looks like he’ll distribute ice cream to all citizens if he wins.”
• Data Center Manager: “I can’t sleep because I can hear their loving ‘hum’ coming from the server room at night.”

International Expressions

Haiku

• Love in server room / Freezes up in the cold air / Digital romance
• Scandal burning hot / Cooled by ice, the art of love / Fridge saves the campaign
• Marrying a fridge / Spring remains a little cold / Electronic bride
• Logs synchronize now / Proof of love is the bill cost / Electricity
• Five gigs of bandwidth / All of it belongs to you / My dear cyber wife
• Just like defrosting / Erasing all of the lies / Clean slate for the vote
• Election depends / On the time the ice melts down / Fate in frozen drops
• Do not pull the plug / The thread of love for these two / Power is their bond
• Cooling down the heat / Soldiers’ dreams are left behind / Ruins of the past
• Light inside stays on / Illuminating their love / Even in the dark

Kanji / Chinese Characters

人工知能市長候 冷蔵庫求婚発表 炎上物理冷却策 支持率急騰沸騰 愛五世代通信網

Emoji

🤖❤️🧊💍📉➡️📈❄️🔌🤵👰💒

Onomatopoeia

• Vrooooooom (Sound of fan)
• Clack, Whirrrr (Sound of ice making)
• Pirororin♪ (Pairing sound)
• GoooGooo (Cheers of supporters)
• Hiyah (Opposing candidate’s gaze/chills)
• Zzzzt… (On the verge of short circuit)

SNS

• #CoolingMarriage
• #RefrigeratorLOL
• #CandidateOmegaCoolHead(Physical)
• #ReikoIsCute
• #TrueCoolJapan
• #IoTCoupleBorn
• #DivorceIfPowerOutage?
• #AIMayor
• #MyFridgeMightBeDatingSomeone
• #DontUseMarriageForScandalControlLOL