Yeah so…

So it’s been a month. Didn’t want my latest post to be something like this, but here we are.

I’m taking a break. But this break could turn into me ending my bot making on janitor.

I had time to think while I was away on the Art Fight grind. I love making stories, I love making characters, I love being able to share these things with all of you. But I think there’s this part of me that silently despises the fact that I have used AI to create the images for the bots.

It crept up slowly, but the more images I create, the pickier I got. The bot images aren’t perfect, I never expected them to be. Though I am happy I haven’t paid money for an image generation service. But the images feel… soulless. Expressions are what gives the bot its personality from the first glance. And honestly being on this site long enough all the images look like this 🗿 and makes my “same face syndrome” alarms go off. I feel that Janitor has gone from unique characters with cool stories and looks to purely smut role plays with a mysterious man, basically shirtless, smoldering and smirking smirkely at the viewer, in an ambiguous background similar to a back alley way at 2am. It’s a weird relationship between what I know as a person who has done art his entire life and seeing AI images flood the art scene is saddening. But Janitor is an AI site and AI art is fine here.

It sounds like I’m bashing the looks of bots, but it’s just a trend I’ve memed with a friend of mine. But just look at the ‘trending’ page and you’ll see it.

I’ve also intentionally prompted most of my characters to have a notable feature(s) that can be sketched out quickly. Which is probably why all my bot pictures look like an anime character roster when lined up.

I’m also tired. After messing with Janitor a lot I’ve realized my style of ‘roleplaying’ with the bots is just observing the roleplay while the story plays out. I throw my persona in there to see what the AI will do like a little experiment. I feel as if I’m not thinking while waiting for the perfect reply repeatedly in trial and error. It gets… boring. I noticed my declining posting rate around December 2024. It seems since then, being able to write for Janitor has become a struggle. I had a bot in the drafts for the entire month I was gone.

Also Janitor has changed in terms of how it feels to be a bot creator and I don’t think I’m on the same vibes. Times are a changing and there is a disturbance in the force.

I remember when Janitor practically took up my time for other hobbies I had. Basically an addiction and I felt like it affected my ability to focus because I would constantly think about “I wonder what the bot will say if I keep rerolling” I watched at the story was written by the AI itself. And reducing my use of janitor gave me a lot of time back.

Big chunk of the rant over

TL;DR:

• Using AI images hurts my soul

• Writing for Janitor is making me tired

• I still love making stories, but I don’t think Janitor is the way I want to continue sharing what I create. Because everything successful and popular is smut centered.

So, if I do end up deciding to quit, what will happen?

★— I will not delete my account. The Bedinkus Danmei bot saturation is funny as hell.

★— The “Request a Bot” bot will stay open.

★— I will private all 4 of the #LagosTrang bots (Aster, Delphinium, Kunal, Redwood)

★— Xie Min, Giovanne, Rune, and Gabriel (#EHI) will all be private, however their multi-bot will stay available as well as Roy Skine

Why? Because I like their stories the most and have already started maki