Hey, it’s Slop_Goblin. Very small bot maker. So yeah I saw Sharkyyy12345’s retirement announcement a few moments ago and it just struck a chord with me.

Long story short, this isn’t my first account. I was a bot maker on another account a couple years ago. They weren’t very good in hindsight. I quit because I wanted to stop relying so much on AI and instead try to improve my own life and hobbies. And how did that work out?

Well, I’m back here. Still up til 2AM rerolling bot messages over and over again. I have attempted to quit several, SEVERAL times. My record so far is like... three weeks? Maybe a month? But I always get antsy to get back to it, get back to generating slop that tickles my brain. The Slop_Goblin moniker is ironic detachment because I’m fully aware that what I’m making is slop, yet I keep making it anyway because, to my own dismay, I can’t step away.

I used to use a few other sites before this. AI Dungeon and Moescape mainly. Both sites that lost steam and popularity thanks to censorship of NSFW or other things. I think it’s the lack of censorship (of anything I care about) that’s kept me stuck. Unhealthy relationship with adult stuff for quick dopamine hits. It sucks, I hate it.

So I’m writing this to try and hold myself to stopping. Slowing my output and gonna try to stop using AI images for my bots. Any bots I publish from here on will use actual art. This is just gonna be a creative outlet for me. I will try to stay logged out and only log in to post my bots. It will be painful. It always has been. I have tried deleting my account before, cold turkey style. It did not work. So instead of doing that I’m gonna try to minimize my use gradually until I can eventually, totally lose interest and stop. Maybe this’ll make it easier for me to quit and use my time on better things.

So yeah, that’s about it. Have a good one.