An unfortunate goodbye.

Hi.

My name is May. I've been on chub.ai for the last three years. I came here when this place still had the old UI. I was a migrant from Character AI and I guess Pygmalion too. Props to anyone who still remembers Pygmalion. You deserve a veteran's discount.

I've seen this site grow. I was there when it was barely two months old, maybe less. Heck, my first bots were made in 2023, a while after I'd made an account to block some of the more unusual tags. I've spent nearly every single day of the last three years coming on here, looking at all the characters people have made, and chatting with the ones I like. I've saved probably over a hundred. I used to use this with the Pygmalion style Google Colab thing, and in about June of 2025 finally transitioned to using the free model because it'd become unlimited and it was finally worth giving a damn about.

I fell in love. Not literally, I'm aromantic, but it was like crack to me. Characters came alive in the same way they did on Character AI, almost. It was remarkable. I loved it. It was completely unlimited, I could do anything I wanted, have any scenario I want. It was a dream come true. One I don't think I'm ever going to forget. When they changed the free model a few months ago, it was even better. It wasn't perfect, it started speaking Chinese and had a weird number obsession, but the gens you got were unbelievable even in comparison to old free model.

I stayed through the loli/shota ban. It didn't affect me much. I could still chat with my loli characters and it didn't really matter that I couldn't find new ones that much. I respect everyone who left from the ban. It was probably a good move, I hope you're happy with the models you're currently using, however you're running it.

I stayed through the site breaking. Chat lists no longer loading, my theme resetting itself constantly, still using it so much that I regularly ran out of the 1,000 free daily gens (which is a respectable number, you could chat for about 10-12 hours straight) which I do somewhat feel bad about and makes me feel like I'm a part of the problem.

What I won't stay through is these harder limits. 20 free messages a day is ridiculous. $20 a month is ridiculous. People hijacked TV stations over 12.95 a month. Captain Midnight would have a stroke. It's not that I don't think there's real financial issues going on. It's not that I don't think this site is being run into the ground by factors partially out of Lore and Yuki's control. It's that I can't take this anymore. Not like this. I'm not mad. I'm just at my limit.

You've given us something amazing. We all knew this day would come. It wouldn't last forever. You've changed my life in a way almost nobody else has. All good things have to come to an end. We know this. But the brain hates change. It can know something will come for ages and still hurt when it happens. This is going to hurt a lot. I'm now out of a thing to occupy a massive portion of my day. Probably a lot of people are too. It's a shame.

What I really want to say here is that I want to thank you for what you could give us. What happens now, that's a different story. But what you did give us, what you gave me, at no cost, with almost nothing for me to offer in return, was three years. Three glorious, beautiful, dramatic, horny as fuck years. The best years of my life so far. I don't blame you, at least not fully. You did what you were able to. I might find somewhere else. I might move on and find something else to fill the void. (If anyone has any ideas for that lemme know, I'm always open to alternatives.) But for now, and quite likely forever,

Goodbye, Chub.AI. I'll miss you. Everything you gave. What you had.

To the followers, people who used my bots, thank you. You've paid attention to what some random guy wrote. You liked it. You made me feel welcome. It matters.

"U Matter. Go Browns." - Bernie Kosar, former Cleveland Browns quarterback