I'm not going to joke around here, make any puns or even use any songs. This one is not a "funny announcement." This is just the sad reality.

As you guys know, I try to stay quieter about everything that's been happening. The less we talk about it "here," the better. But it comes to a point where I just can't anymore.

Everything that's been going on behind the scenes with this site—the shitty moderation, the bad management, the targeted attacks on my friends and other creators, the constant push to censor and purposefully destroy our creations—this whole shit has been eating at me for a while. It's been slowly chipping away at my will to create bots and my desire to continue.

As if that wasn't bad enough, a great friend of mine, who I talk to on a daily basis, has been permanently nuked. All of his content was destroyed within seconds. More than 900 bots just gone because of a shitty-ass moderation decision.

Who am I talking about? DirtyLao420.

The reason? Saying he doesn't use a certain artist because that artist deals in weird work. What kind of weird? Can't talk about it, because it might also happen to me. Just know it's related to young characters... too young...

You've read that right. He was perma banned over a comment warning people about a certain artist's work. Even saying we'd rather stay away from certain works of art is now considered such an offense that you can get banned for it. It's truly sad what this is becoming—an 18+ site, mind you. All of this censoring we've been dealing with, the poor decisions, the lack of communication... it pushes both creators and users off this site for good, and I don't blame them.

As a creator, one of the hardest things we have to deal with isn't coming up with scenarios or making lorebooks—it's the censoring. Why? Because when we release a bot, we're literally praying it doesn't get taken down in the next few hours. And that's because the guidelines don't update. They change rules on a whim, don't give us any warning, and don't update their own guidelines. So we're just blindly creating bots, hoping they're following these new, imaginary guidelines that we don't even have access to.

It slowly drains your motivation to keep going, to stay here.

Darth, are you leaving?

From the bottom of my heart, i dont know. I've said this multiple times, and i think it might still be the same answer. "I'm too stubborn to give up on YOU guys. A captain goes down with his ship. And i'll probably be here until this ships goes down, or i get thrown overboard. Though if i had to choose, i'd rather be starboard instead of port."

Darth, why are you still here?

Contrary to what you may think, it's not because i love it here, or because i still have hope—that ship sailed a long time ago—the reason is closer to what some will call it Stockholm Syndrome.

Darth, do you have backups?

Yes. And i recommend you do the same. If you're a user or a creator, doesn't matter. Backup your characters and lorebooks.

I hereby grant you my official permission to download ANY of my bots definitions (If you can find them, i can't link anything here). I just ask you to please DM me if you plan on making any of them public somewhere else.

Darth, what about the Sauce—?

Stop right there. Don't finish saying whatever you're going to say. I know about the sauce, but listen, Every rose has it's thorns, and i've already had my problems with them. I don't fully trust them even though i'll probably be working harder to backup my stuff there during this weekend.

EDIT:

Previsely ONE hour after calling them out on their hypocrisy, this i what i get hit with. Coincidence? No, i dont think so...

Making this last part down here, even more important:

It's sad to know i need to finish by saying something like this, but alas, right now, this is very important it seems...

If you're reading this...

NO, I'm not feeling like deleting ANY of my bots.
NO, I'm not feeling like changing ANY of their thumbnails.
NO, I'm not feeling like changing ANY of the images in the description.
NO, I'm not feeling like I suddenly need an unannounced 30-day vacation.
NO, I'm not feeling like nuking my own account.

If anything happens, you know who did it.