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January 2026

Summary thus Far

by: u/Prudent_Elevator4685

Soo here's an explanation for what is happening on jai.

Here's a short explanation of the current situation. An ex mod recently made a post about them leaving and what the mods and stuff actually did, you can read the post here https://janitorai.com/characters/18ea0d4a-6f22-4850-9647-cefc6c447f16_character-loved-you-all-3

So basically allegations were made about how the mods were overworked, with trashy tools, shep was childish and kept reversing mod decisions, people with more followers couldn't get banned by just mods but had to get banned by Dev's, shadowbans made it so that minors couldn't be stopped from accessing the site, that bots can't be deleted and that there probably a lot of very illegal content that is just hosted privately and not public. Also about how shep only banned csam if it was “very bad, allegations about bad communications were made, about how shep told the mods about major changes at the same time as the users, the volunteer mods were to be paid in nitro (ik mind-blowing) but we're never ever paid in nitro cuz idk, a paid mod didn't receive payments and had to remind the Dev's to get payment then got fired cuz there wasn't any budget and the Dev's told everyone the mod resigned, they didn't. (For legal reasons I am just quoting what was said here)

Aside from these a discord server was created by the ex mod and got 2k members in 3 days and the discord server got shut down cuz most mods left in protest.

There's also the old bad stuff

Like cherryfiles, a creator who got mistreated by the Dev's,

The image censorship

The shadowbans

The crazy censorship

How an article about shep was effectively erased from janitor ai subreddit despite most mods saying it's allowed.

All things bad with janitor ai masterlist v2

See here: https://www.reddit.com/r/jaihub/comments/1qh7qy9/soo_heres_an_explanation_for_what_is_happening_on/

January 20, 2026

Site’s last mod was removed of their mod privileges leaving site unmoderated.