JanitorAI Lores and Timelines

Will be updating this page with events and happenings on January 2026. Feel free to edit and add some details by registering an account. We wanna document most of the stuff as best and as accurately as we can)

January 2026

1. January 16, 2026 - An ExMod exposed moderation problems behind the site, seeMikale’s Post on Moderation
2. January 16, 2026 - Shep did an AMA (see: shep_and_ama_for_january_16_2026)
3. January 17, 2026 - Exmod creates a discord server dedicated to Exmods stories. See The Talking Zone Discord for links and other info.
4. January 18, 2026 - ExMod airs statements on international mod team and other moderation issues. See here Ex-mod statement
5. January 18, 2026 - News Room was launched. [https://janitorai.com/news](https://janitorai.com/news)
6. January 19, 2026 - Official Discord Temporarily Shuts Down see here: Official JanitorAI Discord Temporarily Closes
7. January 19, 2026 - Creators left. Others maybe undocumented. See here Creator PetiteBiche is Leaving and some contemplates leaving L-y-r-a probably leaving soon???
8. January 19, 2026 - Creator Statuses thus far. See (Creator Statuses Post January 2026 Fallout
9. January 20, 2026 - No mods in site. Redddit and sub seems unaffected. See here January 2026
10. January 20, 2026 - Exposing mods behaviors and attitudes towards other users. See Former mods on former mods
11. January 20, 2026 - Previously Shadowbanned Accounts are Now Banned
12. January 20, 2026 - customer support got shut down.
13. January 22, 2026 - The creator of the ex mod discord server believed shep's pinky promise and decided to delete all mod stories and mod evidence that were posted, without the consent of any ex mods. However the original mod post is as good as confirmed. See the Evidence from The Talking Zone
14. January 24, 2026 - Official Discord server started back up but still has 30 second cooldown and only two channels unlocked indicating that there's still a critical lack of moderators.

Many allegations towards shep and the moderation environment were made by the ex mods, these include but are not limited to:

1. Shep acting childish and reversing mod decisions.
2. Overall bad tools given to moderation teams
3. Mods couldn't reverse bans and as such tickets were ignored.
4. Mods were overworked with high work hours.
5. Shep's decision to only allow shadowbans likely led to the mods being unable to effectively ban known minors off of the site.
6. Bots in general cannot be deleted, only force privated, so you can see the issue.
7. Volunteers were to be paid in nitro but shep never followed up on the reward.
8. A paid mod on this website reported not receiving her paycheck on the dates they were supposed to be given, and had to remind the Dev's constantly.
9. They were fired shortly after as there was no budget anymore.
10. The devs lied about them quitting.
11. The mods were told about major changes only at the time the users were told about it.
12. The mods (not the subreddit) had almost no protection against death threats from the userbase and were not allowed to ban such content.
13. The mods were effectively told to ensure it.
14. The size of the creator directly affected how they were treated, for creators over 666 followers, they couldn't be banned by the mods and had to be banned by the Devs.
15. Verified creators had to be dmed by mods before their bots could get removed which effectively erased any anonymity the mods had.

You may feel free to add more to the list.

{Disclaimer this list only quotes the allegations made by the ex mods and makes none of its own we are NOT responsible for the validity of these claims, we mearly inform you about these claims and it is up to you to decide whether they're true or not}

On January 22, 2026, a post on The Talking Zone Discord outlined updates and a document containing Proposed Moderation Changes for January 2026. See the archived announcement at Announcements from The Talking Zone Discord - January 2026. Changes discussed includes making the news room as the official announcement hub and shep stepping away from discord among others. Do check out the full announcement.

Archives and documentations related. Archiving as necessary.

After the deletion of the channels from the Talking Zone Discord, we saved what docs we could. See the Evidence from The Talking Zone

see also

• summary by u/Prudent_Elevator4685 in Summary thus Far
• summary by LithyLightcore in Summary by LightyLightcore
• other updates in January here January 2026

Note: will be adding takes from other users as a I encounter them (feel free to add your own too).

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