Hello everyone! I'm sorry for the long wait, but I unfortunately have some bad news. I most likely will not be returning to regularly/frequently posting on this site. It's a bit more complicated than that, but that's the TL:DR.

I wanna start off by apologizing to all of you guys, girls, and everyone else. I really care about you all, and the only reason i didn't make some sort of announcement like this earlier is because i really did want to return to posting. I like making stuff, and this was a fun creative outlet i could reach a lot of people through. At first it was only being postponed by my executive dysfunction, but recently it's been something else as well.

Now I doubt many wanna hear the ramblings of a creator on here who hasn't posted in well over half a year, lol, but if you do, listen up. This site kinda sucks. I know this isn't like, news to anyone who's followed me for a while, everyone knows my disdain for the way this site's run, but it seems that still for every step it takes forwards, it takes two back.

Many of my bots over the last few months have gotten flagged for their thumbnails or content, which I understand, the rules are the rules and they change, but many of them have not only been censored, but straight up deleted or forced private without any prior warning. Including some quite large ones that have been up for months or years, and that i've worked quite hard on.

It's just not fun to create under these kinds of conditions, lol. It's not like anyone expects the website based around AI creations to have the utmost quality for creators, and I really should've expected it to stay like this, but it's still saddening, and very demotivating. That, along with ai image generation getting more inaccessible has made the whole process of botmaking a lot more stressful than a hobby has any right to be. If I was making casual bots or ones more lightly lewd or... "tasteful"... I probably wouldnt mind, but you know me, this is my outlet for weird shit. The kind that seems to be getting phased out on here.

So that, along with various other annoyances like my top bot being hidden in any of the tag searches it would fall under, and many of my acquaintances quitting or facing similar troubles, I just want to let down people's expectations for my return. This isn't to say I'll never make a bot again, I'm sure there'll be times when I have a good idea or really want to make something and decide to post it, I'm not deleting my account or anything, lol. Think of it more of a jerma kind of "retirement" than like... idk, leafyishere? He keeps crawling back though, so bad example.

Anyway, that's about all, If you wanna find me elsewhere, I have the same username on The Other Site, and I'm Trav3332 on Ao3 if you wanna see any writing I do when I beat my executive dysfunction and start doing that for real.

I still love you all, and am so appreciative for your support over the last couple of years. You're all the reason I started in the first place, and the reason I'm not deleting my account, lol. I've met lots of friends (and enemies) through this, so I at least have to give it some credit. I hope all of you have a great day! <3

Artist: @ComradeAshenov