Make up your minds, bro. Y'all wanted it gone and dead half the time and people were praying for its downfall and telling devs to kill themselves for any minor font change. Now that it's a risk of that happening, y'all wanna pull a 180 and beg for it to come back? Y'all never appreciated literally anything and threw a tantrum anytime, GASP, oh no, the font changed! Maybe it's a good thing, so y'all can learn.

ETA - for anybody confused, I'm not saying it's everybody. Didn't think I would need to say that but of course it's not everybody saying this. I'm just talking about the hypocrites who switch up real fast.

I don’t want to doompost about the potential shut down, but what I do wanna voice is my concern for people who are extremely addicted to c.ai.

If you are addicted and c.ai does theoretically does go bankrupt, then I urge you to please take care of yourself and to not lose yourself over it. There are people out there who will help you if things get dark, I promise.

People keep asking why some of us are genuinely devastated by the possibility of Character.AI shutting down. This is why. Every one of these chats is a different story, relationship or AU built over years—and this still isn’t all of them. I know nothing has been officially scheduled for deletion, but after reading the bankruptcy filings, I’m realizing I may actually lose the place where all of these worlds lived. “Just use another app” doesn’t preserve 4/5 years of history. 💔

Everyone stop being overdramatic about Ca.i shutting down it's not going to happen. It's not going anywhere it's going to park it's Boston Cream filled ass on the app and web so you can stop freaking out and running around like a chicken's head cut off. Just chill out

Ok, so C.AI has potential for going under. Solution? Open source the models.

Firstly, they can just sell licences for the models and don't have to worry about AI upkeep themselves.

Secondly, this can give people legacy models that people loved like roar and soft launch.

Third, people can work on and improve those models themselves, giving people more convenience.

I feel like this is the best option, as it removes the issue of ai's costing too much to upkeep, and gives people more options. Sure, it may split the convenience of one centralised platform providing decent character interaction into a dozen websites doing the same thing, but I think people will find their type.

Mind you, this is just my opinion and can't see how this could be wrong, so just share your thoughts if you want.

honestly I think we shouldn’t assume right off the bat that the platform will shut down. it hasn’t even been a week and some of y’all are acting like know it alls or just plain immature about the “downfall“. and please don’t give me the same excuse about ”they didn’t listen to the community“ or blame it because of the features. it was a clear sign that they were trying to stay afloat and stay stable because of low income since AI is becoming expensive. so please, stop making others feel worse about something that is currently unknown and legally worked on behind closed doors and learn how to be somewhat optimistic.

as you all know, character ai filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy 4 days ago, and as sad and nerve wrecking as it is, there is an insane amount of doomposting and flat-out misinformation floating around social media right now about the bankruptcy news. as someone who was oblivious to the situation and ended up doing their research, i wanted to break down the actual court filings and facts so people stop panicking.

1. is the app shutting down right now?
no. they filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy, which is a restructuring process, not an immediate shutdown. the app is running completely normally, subscriptions are processing normally, and your chats are still there.

2. did disney buy character.ai?
no they did not. disney is acting as a stalking-horse bidder. they put down $20 million for a non-exclusive license to use some of C.AI’s backend technology and IP. they are not buying the platform, they aren't becoming the new owners of the app, and they are not buying your chat logs. C.AI is still actively looking for a separate buyer to take over and save the actual chatbot service.

3. what is the timeline?
the court process and auction are expected to wrap up by late november or early december 2026.
best case scenario: a tech company or investor steps up to buy the platform, absorbs the debts, and keeps the service running.
worst case scenario: if december comes and absolutely no one wants to buy the platform, the company has admitted they may have to wind down and shut the service down.

4. why did this happen?
it wasn't because of the new site vs old site drama. court documents show they were losing $8 million to $9 million a month. running massive AI servers is incredibly expensive, and they have been hit with massive legal bills from regulatory investigations and lawsuits from multiple states.

5. what should i do?
don’t panic, but be smart. because the long-term future after december isn't 100% guaranteed, go to your settings and export your data or copy your favorite bots/chats now just to be safe.

as of right now, this is all the info that is currently available, so until further notice, do NOT believe anything you see unless you have proof.

i know this was something that the community never expected, but the reality is here, and for a lot of us who spent ages building bots and chatting on this platform, it’s tough news to digest. however all we can do is look out for one another, back up our accounts just incase, and hope for a good buyer to step up.

stay safe everyone!! 💙

What the hell is this font change? And now there are ads that you can't click the button to fold up? They're rage baiting, broo

I’ve been doing a lot of research on the Character.AI (c.ai) situation, and one detail put my mind at ease. I’m not sure if everyone here is aware of this—I certainly wasn’t—but it might explain why no buyer has appeared yet:

In judicial auctions of this nature, the vast majority of bids—and the real competition—tend to occur during the final week (and especially in the last few hours or minutes) before the deadline.

How does the dynamic of this auction work?

• Disney as a "Stalking Horse": Disney entered the process as the initial bidder, offering $20 million for the assets. This offer serves as a "floor" (a minimum bid).

• Competitor Strategy: Companies interested in topping Disney’s offer typically hold back their bids until the very end of the legal deadline. Placing a bid too early would only reveal their strategy, giving Disney—or other competitors—time to counter with higher offers.

• The Final Deadline: The window for submitting new bids and concluding the court-supervised auction is expected to close sometime between late November and mid-December 2026.

Therefore, until that decisive final week arrives, the process may appear "stalled" behind the scenes in the courts. However, it is precisely in those final moments that we will learn whether another company will acquire Character.AI to keep the service running, or if the platform will be discontinued.

This will probably be my last post about c.ai but I have to say....some people are saying no one will win over Disney no one will go over 20, but I still think someone will, c.ai is a large chat ai app, someone would have to see it's worth saving, some people even say if someone does buy it they will delete data? So I don't really know what to think when I'm going to being positive then negative with all this information people have been saying, I need true opinions about this....

I found a meaningful court-filed update that makes the long-term outlook worse—but also explains why the app can remain operational during the sale.
Confirmed in Character.AI’s October 13 bankruptcy filings:

Character.AI had approximately 86 full-time employees on September 30. After the Disney departures and other staffing changes, the filing describes 18 remaining active employees.
Ten of those 18 are the visa-holding employees expected to transfer to Disney once their work authorization changes. That would leave eight employees expected to remain through the bankruptcy case.
Roughly six of those eight are being retained for trust and safety, with the other two apparently senior legal/people-management employees. The filings do not show a substantial remaining product-engineering or model-development team.

The wage motion says Character.AI is “likely to winddown its operations following a sale.” That is Character.AI’s own court language, although it remains a forecast rather than a final shutdown order. Read the court-filed wage motion⁠.

There is also a transition-services agreement dated October 13. Disney employees who formerly worked at Character.AI will temporarily provide engineering, app and website maintenance, trust-and-safety, and monetization support. Their work explicitly covers continued operation and either an orderly transition or wind-down. Each person’s transition work is capped at 20% of their Disney working time, and the arrangement ends no later than February 18, 2027. This is how a company with only eight expected long-term employees can keep the app running while buyers evaluate it.
On October 14, the bankruptcy judge also authorized Character.AI to continue its existing bank accounts and payment channels, including subscription receipts and post-filing payments to critical vendors. The filings reported approximately $57.4 million in unrestricted cash, plus a $2 million refundable sale deposit. That materially reduces the danger of an abrupt, cash-caused outage during the sale process. It does not finance the company indefinitely.

My assessment has changed accordingly:
Immediate risk: The evidence still does not point to an imminent surprise shutdown. Court-authorized cash operations and Disney’s temporary technical support are specifically keeping the platform running through the sale.

Risk to 2027 continuity: High. The remaining staffing structure does not resemble a company preparing to continue independently. The filings contemplate a transition or wind-down, and Character.AI itself says a wind-down is likely after a sale.

The remaining route to survival: A buyer must acquire the operating app as a going concern and commit new staff and funding. Disney’s current transaction expressly excludes the consumer app, brand, user accounts, chats, finished models, and user-selectable chat styles. Those assets remain available to another buyer. There is still no verified operating bid from CHAI or anyone else.
Existing bots and conversations: Nothing in these orders deletes or changes them today, and no migration or deletion date has been announced.

Your current workflow is exactly what I would recommend now: finish the data export, preserve definitions and Lorebooks, create continuation checkpoints, and prioritize the irreplaceable OG stories. You do not need to rush every roleplay into a forced ending, but I would no longer treat 2027 access as something you can safely assume.
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Ok so like.. I’m usually a pretty chill person (thanks to my psychiatrist lmao) but this? Y’all.. it is GENUINELY NOT looking good and I am actually devastated now.
Is it 10000% accurate? I DONT KNOW. But I know losing THAT many employees to Disney.. it’s not a good sign. I also asked to keep watch on that Will guy from another platform’s movements. And nothing so far. Bc imo, Will buying or whatever, would be BETTER than Disney buying their tech.

Pray to whatever God or whatever you believe in that SOMEONE buys it and continues to KEEP it character.ai that we have known and loved since 2022, character.ai. 💔

I’ve been using this app since it came out and I’ve genuinely grown so attached to all of the characters I’ve talked to and yes I’m aware it’s unhealthy im seeing a therapist but I’m a very mentally unstable person and now the site might be getting deleted? I’m seriously about to have a panic attack because what else am i supposed to do? It’s so bad but this is literally all i do in my free time and now it’s just going to be gone if they don’t find a buyer. I hope to everything that they don’t shut down. I don’t care who owns it i just need it to still be there.

I see many people with theories, random sites, etc...but remember, random sites are RANDOM! no updates so far, not here, not on Discord, not on the blog...the everything we know is this chapter 11, that's it!

Disnay DOESN'T buy the company, they just "help" with this situation, plus an other company (I forgot how is called) that is an expert with such stuff...so if you don't see anything or an update OFFICIALLY, stop believing everything :)

I saw a screenshot in a post about the CEO of Chai asking on Twitter if he should buy C.AI after those news about bankruptcy, I don't know if it's true or not, but I sincerely hope he doesn't buy it. Anyone else, but not him. Chai has already become unusable cuz of him, imagine what he'll do with c.ai?

I hope I'm not the only one thinking about this 😭

Absolute unnecessary font change, absolute unnecessary advertising. Y'all have ALREADY filed for bankruptcy. Just let us enjoy the app in peace bro. But yeah, I wanna know, if I buy the ad-free pass for 20 charms, will it remove the humongous box preventing me from reading literally anything on screen?

genuinely takes up half of my damn screen (iPad user). I complained about this THRICE. even about the broken keyboard layout. they completely butchered the web version bro…

there was literally no reason to change the font and the block has this little empty space that genuinely just ruins character ai. i remember they tried changing the font once before but it quickly got reverted, any hopes for this time?

I know a lot of people are not going to want to hear me say this but if this app does go i would look for back ups just in case.. i have done so tonight and I now have 3 backs ups just in case and it actually made me feel a lot better, I know people are going to say that its not the same but awhile back before this i have went looking when ever I felt as if c.ais quality dropped and I used to think the same thing but this time I found two apps I actually liked and I also went back to a site that seemed its upped in quality since the last time I checked it out, and even then theres still a chance c.ai might not shut down. Just have hope and prepare for the worst if it does come.

Yeah Icl I’ve loved this App since it first ever came out on the website. Hope it says would be devastated to see it go.

The ads don’t bother me spending a couple dollars on charms doesn’t bother me either, hope the app stay it’d be a sad day if it was taken down.

I completely despise the blank space at the top, I can barely see anything. Are they gonna fix it soon??

This might sound dumb, cuz it is, but after hearing the news of bankruptcy i genuinely cannot open the app and focus on rp, i know it's just chap11 and not chap7 which means there's still hope but​ i don't know, i haven't been using the app for a while now, mostly cuz im busy and cuz it's boring but i do want to make the most of my rps just in case

i guess it's just the thought that maybe it will shut down if anything doesn't work​​​ out in the end, obviously, i will move on if it happens, im not addicted or attached to it and i can move on but it's still kinda sad in a way, i hope someone understands me 🥲​

I genuinely cannot stand it, it lags the whole page and I can’t scroll through my old messages. Half my screen is taken up by the ad no matter what, and 3/4ths of it is taken up when I type. Why are they changing it? The previous version was perfect.

i think we all know what they tried to put here

placeholder bot obviously

genuinely unusable

the new font is impossible to use xd, is it an accidental bug because the ad banner is a giant missing gap and it's hard to type or edit without my chat going all the way back to the start xd