Edit: Previous post here I am not the OP of that writeup but it's also something important to see.

Context: Last year another Reddit User made a post about CharacterAis Subreddit here and how it's many members have decided to do a revolution to protest in way of "Anime Waifus" this led to many people getting banned, post deletions and many members quitting to find new alternatives, currently the same people who defended the Devs in this area are now, too starting their own Revolution.

History Often Repeats Itself

Back then, the quality of the subreddit was pretty mixed, with people making short memes and sharing mildly suspect posts from their chats, fastforward to 2023-2024 and not much has changed from the other Users post, business DID return to normal as the Devs introduced useless features such as "Calling" and "TTS".

TTS and Calling are hand in hand, but the call feature just lets you speak to the AI and it transmits what it said, for awhile people have complained about the UI and accidentally clicking on it (To which the Devs fixed it). The TTS uses training data off of people's voices (Like VA and the like) to give them voices, which seems really weird since Hazbin Hotel's VA's had said no to having their voices be used (Another drama for another reddit.)

But beyond that, there was the occasional protest or so, and once again something I discussed here before, the "I'm leaving [blank]" posts.

But currently CAI Devs had decided to remove something that the Users did not want.

Tarnishing A Legacy, That Inspired Millions

The new site has it's issues, CAI has been working on a "faster" more "better" version of the site, and had given people access to the old one, just by placing beta before the URL, this was something people enjoyed as apparently from many sources the Old Site ran better and had "better quality" compared to many of the issues present with the old site, to me, it's nostalgic.

The Legacy Chat was around until a banner appeared saying the site is shutting down. This led to many getting very upset, and many going as far as to have people sign petitions which, by the way they did when there was a filter implemented. People thought that yelling and screaming out and calling for the Mods to reverse the decisions would fix things...

Well, as you can see, many have unfortunately forgot what happened last year.

Speculations and Parting Words

As CharacterAI has been talked about before, there's often times a word of advice when messing with AI, people cannot substitute robots for actual, living beings, many of the subreddits complaints are relating to "Forming deep connections" with these characters, and also trying to find some semblance of security. It will not work as it will only further damage future generations.

You can use AI only in moderation and for tools, but that's not a healthy coping mechanism as I went down that rabbit hole.

Some Redditors (In and off the platform) had speculated that Google Lent CAI Devs money as investors to give them all bad ideas (As apparently Google wants to make sites similar to CAI. JAI and the like, which was very coincidental.), many of the people calling for the Site to do something are people from 4Chan (Who still stuck around CAI despite majority of them moving offsite or hosting them.) and still think they can change.

But as I can say to you all. Relying on AI for anything is what causes AI Revolutions.

Honorable Mentions of Drama

Redditor makes a post trying to make a statement on how the devs shouldn't ruin their own community

User makes a "threat" of leaving the site if the devs don't say it is a joke

Another "Viva Va Revolution" which would go as well as the 2023 Boycotts

Redditor makes a Grim Reaper Knocking On Doors Meme of CAI