Hexnouncement #1

Hello there!

This is an announcement regarding my future work on Jai, and the bots I will be making going forward.

Before anything else, I want to start with a massive thank you to all of you who have decided to follow my profile, take a look at my bots, and leave comments. I wouldn't be here if not for all of you, so thank you!

I've made some of my bots private. Mostly the older ones that I felt weren't up to standard or didn't fit with what I wanted to do as a creator. Think of it as me cleaning up my profile before Christmas. I plan to remake some of them in the future, and I might unprivate them again if someone really wants me to, just ping me in any Discord I am in or DM me. More will follows, but those will become private only when I remake them.

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Massive Rant Warning

The main reason I'm writing this post is that I'm losing motivation. Not because I've lost the love for botmaking, the medium, or anything like that, it's because I don't like the direction I took as a creator on this platform.

When I started making bots on Jai, what I wanted was to tell stories, to have a way to express my creativity and share my love for fantasy and storytelling with others. All I was hoping for was that someone might play my bot, have fun with it, and end up with a slightly better day.

That's no longer the case.

After a while I started looking at bots differently, through a lens of "what might do well" or "is this ragebaity enough," which completely fucked up my headspace and warped the kind of ideas I came up with. It made me forget what I loved about botmaking in the first place. I stopped making bots for myself and for others to enjoy, and I started making bots to watch the chat count go up. I posted bots I wouldn't even play myself.

The breaking point came when I was talking with some other creators on Discord and noticed how differently I was acting compared to how I used to, and in a bad way. I changed as a person since I started making bots on Jai, and it wasn't a positive change. This site corrupted me.

I want to note that Every single creator I have spoken with has been an amazing person, and I've learned a lot from them.

From now on I will make bots for myself. Stuff I make not because I want to see a number go up, but because I want to point at it and say I made this and I'm proud of it. I don't care whether a bot gets 100 chats or 100,000. I want to make stuff that I can call good without lying to myself.

I realize my bots were never the greatest technically, and my ideas aren't the most original. I strove to improve every single time I posted a bot, to get better at optimizing them, making them look nicer, and making them more technically sound, but lately I really feel like I've not only stagnated, but actually regressed in a way. Now I realize that making good bots, is not the same as having high chat count, and that instead of trying to make better bots, I have been trying to reach higher and higher numbers.

All of that leads me to believe I need to change my appraoch and make some drastic changes going forward. You might notice it, or you might not, either way, I am thinking of quitting Jai completely if I catch myself posting only to see a number go up again.

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I wish you an amazing morning, day, or evening, wherever you are in the world, and I hope you achieve whatever you're aiming for. I will see you in the next one.

This announcement will be removed later on.

Have a good one!