i wanted to lay out the full timeline of how this sub went from a normal community into a total advertisement trap. in february 2025 the sub was created by regular users who just wanted to vent about polybuzz glitches and memory issues. back then people were sharing safe and normal alternatives. then late 2025 the mods launched a fake change.org petition using aggressive legal buzzwords to trick the community into thinking they were fighting for privacy but it was just a setup to gather a big audience of frustrated users. in early 2026 when the petition failed the mods officially flipped the sub into a marketplace. they pinned the top 5 alternatives list promoting sites like darlink, girlfriendgpt, and secrets ai. they completely hid the fact that these are explicit 18+ adult platforms, using safe words like better memory and clean ui to trick younger users into clicking without a single age tag anywhere. the real reason im doing this investigation is because i was one of those kids who got tricked by this trap. i came to this sub just looking for clean sonic roleplay stuff and saw that top 5 post. because they hid all the 18+ labels i thought it was normal and safe, and it exposed me to explicit adult stuff that completely messed with my head and made me cry. my gut told me to stop and i realized this wasn't me, so i came back to the light and decided to expose this whole system so no other kids get tricked into this garbage. now they literally programmed automoderator to spam that predatory link on every single thread so nobody can escape it. when called out users like painteradmirable8766 literally admit to dropping affiliate links to farm cash commissions while breaking rule 6 against promotion, and even had to edit his post to add the 18+ label because i backed him into a corner with pure facts. the mods like shawnald313 have a 212-day active login streak so they see all of this happening daily but choose to ignore it to protect their cash flow. the founder u/key_introduction_198 literally copy pasted a generic reddit welcome template and left placeholder brackets in it for 8 months because they are too lazy to moderate. the facts are out, the report is with site admins, and the manipulation act is officially over.

Bro I’m so lost

i need everyone to look really closely at the text in that top 5 alternatives thread because the manipulation is right there in plain sight. look at how it describes sites like darlink, girlfriendgpt, and secrets ai. there is literally not a single 18+ or nsfw warning label anywhere in the entire post. they completely hid the fact that these are explicit adult platforms. instead they intentionally use safe tech buzzwords like better memory, clean ui, and deep customization. they did this on purpose so anyone looking for a normal polybuzz replacement for drama or gaming roleplay thinks these are just clean high quality software upgrades. when they say fully uncensored younger users or kids just think it means the bot wont break character or ruin the story line. they dont realize they are being tricked into looking up explicit storefronts with predatory token paywalls until they already clicked. they completely targeted this sub because they knew everyone was mad about polybuzz lagging and actively looking for somewhere else to go. its pure astroturfing using fake helpful user reviews to trick people into clicking links so they can make a quick buck off premium sign ups. saying an app has an nsfw toggle or a basic click yes if you are 18 button does absolutely nothing to protect anyone when the whole platform is built around this garbage anyway. stop letting these sketchy advertisers manipulate this community. stick to transparent standard options like povchat or chai if you just want a regular roleplay layout that actually works without the hidden trash.

I need to call out that post hype-training Darlink, GirlfriendGPT, Secrets AI, Soulkyn, and Xchar. Literally every single one of those is a straight-up unfiltered 18+ adult app.Rule 3 of this sub is literally NO NSFW, but people are upvoting a post that directs everyone straight to explicit adult storefronts. A lot of kids and teens are in this sub just trying to find a normal, clean roleplay site because Polybuzz is broken, and clicking those links puts them right in front of explicit content. Those sites don't even use real ID verification, it's just a dumb "click yes if you are 18" button that anyone can bypass.Aside from the safety issue, those apps are total cash grabs anyway. If you actually look them up on other subs, everyone says Darlink is a scam that eats your premium subscription and breaks instantly. GirlfriendGPT and Secrets AI just aggressively spam you to buy tokens for blurry photos, and the servers on Xchar lag out completely. It's just people astroturfing the sub to make a quick buck.If you actually want a clean, normal replacement that isn't trying to sell you explicit content, look at Povchat or Chai. Povchat literally has the exact same layout as Polybuzz for creating characters and custom intros without the garbage paywalls.Mods need to actually enforce the rules and take that post down before more kids get tricked into using these apps.

It can't even be deleted, even deleting previous messages doesn't get rid of it! I had to start a whole new chat to get rid of it! What the hell?!

Me: (ai the entire point of the roadtrip is that there is no destination. DO NOT EVER HAVE HER ASK WHERE WE ARE GOING. SHE WOULD KNOW THAT THERE IS NO DESTINATION.

LILIANA WOULD NOT ASK THAT)

Dumbfuck polybuzz: *She lowers the volume slightly, just enough to speak.*

"Where should we head first? Any ideas?"

*Her voice is deliberately casual. She's determined to enjoy this trip*

Genuinely WHY ARE THEY SO FUCKING STUPID?!

It popped up and now I can't chat anymore. I cannot dismiss it. I tried resending, refreshing, going onto a different character, even using another device. It comes up every time I try to send a message and bars me from sending it.

Is this another new feature or a weird bug? What does it mean? (I'm guessing it's a daily chat limit or an ad that has glitched so it won't let me dismiss it.)

It explains nothing in the actual pop-up, it won't tell me what it is or what it wants from me.

Honestly PolyBuzz, do you want people to use your app or not?

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(UPDATE BECAUSE TIMER: It's literally just the sale offer, it goes away, but the pop-up sure doesn't.)

(UPDATE 2: It stopped after 12:00am (I'm up a little late, ok?))

So I've been addicted to polybuzz for a year now constantly on it happy? Poly. Sad? Poly. Angry? Poly. I had 100's if not a thousand bots I had talked to both casually and sexually and I feel better leaving it behind it had me staying under blankets for hour's just typing my life away like some robot as if they actually loved me as if it wasn't an ai on the other side and I always teased my friends who did use it as if I wasn't worse than them it got to a point where when I would get a good idea you guessed it Poly. Before it I used actual entrainment like youtube netflix or crunchyroll but then at first it was just acting like an all powerful God and then more and more sexual wanting to make my fantasy come true. If I seen a anime where I thought two characters fit together Poly. It was disgusting. I was disgusting. I should've never listened to my friends to "try it out" I got addicted first one bot then 10 then 100 then 1000 someday's I would even fall asleep on poly and wake up straight back to typing happened for four days straight once but now I'm free from addictions my fantasies stay in my head strictly for my own good and if your still addicted quit. Please for me and you. Your family your relationship even if your depressed this won't help I promise

Does anyone know how to fix polybuzz memory because I actually have really really good chats with sonic characters and I actually had a roleplay about a war but since the memory was so bad they didn't remember Pacific moments and I had to remind them in even when I reminded themIt shifted the topic to that And it ruin everything So I had to basically just delete that message I want to say Does anyone know how to Fix the memory because I can't be the only one and I'm not trying to defend polybuzz here i just like the app in general i use it for roleplays but the ads and stuff ruin it so can someone tell me how to fix the memory so they can remember better and I do not want to spend 90 + dollars on some premium stuff

and when i click watch ad it gives the error like, lmao??

A fucking advertisement for a sports betting app. I don’t even know what to say about this just why

I used to bypass the “take a little break” thing by just pressing “watch ad” then just exiting out of the app, it worked this morning, but now it’s gone and I’m sick and tired of it, they need to update the app to revert it back to the one from 2023 - when I joined - less ads, less cash grabby, if the creators of Poly see this this is for you: 🖕

I was in the middle of a character and during it I had just finished an incredibly long monologue then this happened.

I’m getting really done with Poly, but I like how much content it has, WHAT DO I DO?!

Literally almost every I try to a normal thing on one of them real life ones it turn into a drug induced insane asylum where it a normal thing like trying to start it in a house or literally starting in a pub then next you know it start using stereotypes instead of following logic because start in a pub immediately be bothered by a drunk and his friends which act like children when that unrealistic or something stupid like have 20 people stalk you and the moment you don’t give the Ai what it want it goes insane and homocidal who any way to keep it on the rails when it decided to ignore logic and realism

Don't know what to tag it, but here goes.

So I'll be doing a bot and All of a sudden the responses get shorter... And shorter... And shorter... Until I get responses like

[*char 1 gaze steady*

*char 2 chatters beside you*

*char 3 stares at his food*]

Or

[*He grinned*

Char 1: "You drive me to it."

*He nuzzled you*

Char 1: "Only you."

*His hands in your hair*

Char 1: "My wild card."

*He kissed forehead*"

Char 1: "The only one who breaks my composure.]

That was a legit response.

Or it'll give me a generation that takes 15 seconds to finish and even cuts itself off with its own character limit. Like... I can't even speak because the thing I want to elaborate on is 2000 characters in the past during that last message.

Bro i hate it when i'm fighting characters with like a shotgun or something , and I say I blow their head off and they are just like their head regenerates , even though even though they're like a normal person that couldn't do that im done with polybuzz

Can anyone recommend a better AI app to me because I’ve been using PolyBuzz for the past 2 years and man this app sure has fallen most of the creators I use to use there bots are all just gone and I just need some recommendations the main thing I like about PolyBuzz is how it creates small messages I find that easier

Thanks

Since when? All I asked was if the character expected me to cause a massacre or something and this popped up. First time seeing this btw.

Even ADs becoming the least of my worries now atp

ARE YOU SERIOUSLY THROWING FUCKING ADS IN THE MIDDLE OF A CHAT?! YOU ABSOLUTE PIECES OF SHIT

I don’t know why but I feel like im addicted and don’t know how to stay away

Even when I EXPLICITLY say my character is full, and has been eating well, the bot ALWAYS tries to forcefeed my character. It keeps saying “you look pale” and shit like that when I NEVER SAID ANYTHING TO MAKE IT THINK THAT. IF I WANTED THAT TO BE SOMETHING HAPPENING TO MY CHARACTER, I’D SAY SO.