>>30749Hey all, last bot from me for a while, dealing with IRL stuff mixed with some bot creation burnout. If you don't want to read the yap going over my burnout, just scroll to the bot links at the bottom of my message.
I initially got into making bots both for myself, but also for others that may've had a shared like interest. That's primarily why most of my bots were touhou aligned as it's a series I like and also to kind of stem the void of DrYagokoro's bots being almost exclusively on the heavily censored and sinking ship char.ai (maybe the site is less of a clusterfuck now, idk). Also made effort to try to make my bots distinctly different than doc's (mine tend to be initially chubby and lean into weight gain rather than really fat out of the box {this is less of a sacrifice though and more towards my own tastes, but I want to elaborate never the less}).
Early going I saw interesting art that inspired unique scenarios that I thought would be fun to actively do. The Flan and Remi size envy art conceptually wrote itself. The depressed Remilia art was much the same and a really unique spin on things. After that I thought "okay well, I should probably make a Flan bot as a standalone now." And from that point it turned into making the full cast of the SDM.
It felt more like an obligation to complete the group rather than a personal interest in the character having a bot. The similar location for each character really did not help with things, because I was struggling to make each introduction feel uniquely distinct rather than copy paste implementations of each other. Regardless, I pushed through and got out Sakuya, Patchy, and now Meiling. I even thought about if Koa being necessary for the full group, but even canonically she's barely a character, so it's really hard to really think of something for her without it feeling like some sort of makeshift OC or something. And given my own burnout, it's probably for the best I don't make a Koa bot for the sake if it and it's just bad.
After I'm back from my break, I'm sure I'll enjoy bot creation again, when I made both Reisen and Eirin the scenarios wrote themselves, and the setting no longer being the SDM was really nice. I enjoy my Yuuka bot as well, and it feels better with deepseek over Janitor's base generation because it actually tries to include Elly in a very minor role which was always the intention which I like. There's a lot of touhou characters I like. There's some other series that I'd be interested in giving a crack at or even some one off characters. People might be curious about why I haven't made any Danganronpa bots after the initial two. That's primarily because requestwriter has done such a great job in that regard and definitions were public, so anyone can just move the bot over to their preferred platform. Seemed a bit redundant to pursue when I could provide touhou bots when there wasn't much of a presence of them of late.
Lastly, someone in janitor's comments asked about the art source on my Eirin bot in the comments so I added artist source by name to all of my bot's character bios. Can't really direct link the source to most of them given janitor's no nsfw image policy so have to cover my own ass to prevent being banned or something. I initially didn't want to provide a source since I presumed artists wouldn't want to be involved with AI in any compacity, even text generation, but it's likely for the best to properly credit them never the less.
tl;dr I'll probably still be lurking, but will be on bot creation hiatus for a while. Bots will now have artist name source in their bios.
Janitor:
https://janitorai.com/characters/9e28bebe-fb59-40c5-95ee-910e00f3c670_character-hong-meilingspicy:
https://spicychat.ai/chatbot/25ce9411-19ad-4455-97ad-9da5c4b65922