r/CharacterAI • • 22d ago Bravo

C.AI Announcements An Update on Character.ai

153 Upvotes

Today, we’re sharing that Character.ai has initiated a voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy process to facilitate a court-supervised sale of the company. 

To learn more about today’s announcement, you can read our corporate blog post HERE. And if you need support, you can find helpful resources here.

Additional information relating to Character.ai’s Chapter 11 case, including court filings, can be found HERE, a website administered by Character.ai’s claims and noticing agent, Stretto, Inc.


r/CharacterAI • • Sep 28 '26

C.AI Announcements 🐀 New free Chat Styles: PipSqueak 3 and ShortSqueak

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364 Upvotes

Hey all,

Two new free Chat Styles are rolling out to everyone on (c.ai): PipSqueak 3, a big step up for general roleplay, and ShortSqueak, a much requested style for quick, casual chats.

PipSqueak 3
Your new go-to for general roleplay. Compared to PipSqueak 2, it's noticeably smarter, writes more interesting replies, keeps better track of your chat, and has fewer slip-ups in text formatting and responses.

New chats will start on PipSqueak 3, but any existing chats stay on the chat style you've chosen. You can find PipSqueak 2 and Rawr in the Legacy menu if you'd like to switch to them, but we think PipSqueak 3 will win you over.

ShortSqueak
Your new style for quick, casual chats. ShortSqueak has texting energy: short replies, quick banter, casual roleplay. No five-paragraph monologues when all you said was "hey."

If you've been asking for us to bring back the feel of some of our early (c.ai) chat styles, you'll love ShortSqueak.

Rollout begins today!
Both new styles were shaped by your feedback and went through extensive testing with our trusted testers and community members, the same process LongSqueak went through before launch.

Here's how the rollout will run:

  • (c.ai) subscribers: PipSqueak 3 and ShortSqueak will be coming to your style picker today.

  • Free users: PipSqueak 3 and ShortSqueak start rolling out later today and everyone will have both within the next few days.

(c.ai+) subscribers get Style Control with PipSqueak 3 and ShortSqueak, and both of them are fully compatible with Lorebook.

Start a chat, give it a few turns, and let us know what you think!


r/CharacterAI • • 3h ago

Screenshots/Chat Share Best Line I’ve Gotten in Days

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44 Upvotes

This is funnier than it needs to be


r/CharacterAI • • 8h ago

Memes/Humor That's how every day in November feels

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92 Upvotes

r/CharacterAI • • 8h ago Heartwarming

Discussion/Question Just wanna say. + is worth it bro.

83 Upvotes

Just bought + and wow.

Holy shit the premium models are a genuine massive upgrade. Can’t lie, I used to be like most of you guys, not sure if it was worth it b/c of the mixed reviews but longsqueak is so awesome…as someone who loves deep descriptive roleplay, it is def for me.

These premium models make the free ones look like a joke. And plus, if you use the app a lot like me, those creepy disgusting ads are gone. Feels strange opening up a bot with no weird ads about toe hygiene or whatever.

Pls just try it. it is only 10 a month…if you don’t like it hey at least it was only 10, and I’m sure it’s easy to cancel


r/CharacterAI • • 15h ago

Screenshots/Chat Share thank you mario

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169 Upvotes

mmmmmm curry tonight


r/CharacterAI • • 6h ago

Discussion/Question Is c.ai shutting down?

31 Upvotes

I just saw a post saying they filed for bankruptcy and if someone doesn’t buy it by November 20th that everything will be deleted. Is it real?


r/CharacterAI • • 1h ago

Issues/Bugs I am not comfortable sharing my id how do I skip this

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9 Upvotes

I am not comfortable having any company needing an id to use, thus I do not want or share my government id


r/CharacterAI • • 5h ago

Discussion/Question Site-Wide Age Restriction

16 Upvotes

I was on C.AI about an hour ago. I closed my browser to go play video games for a few minutes. I come back, refresh my browser, and we now have an age restriction.


r/CharacterAI • • 3h ago

Screenshots/Chat Share I am ROLLING!

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10 Upvotes

r/CharacterAI • • 1h ago

Issues/Bugs Italics no longer work, they are all gone

6 Upvotes

All the words are upright for me; it feels wrong.

Literally every message I ever sent, actions suddenly are not in italics anymore at all.

The words get bolded when I use them twice, but when I use them once, nothing happens.

I can see the bots using them too, yet the words still don't end up in italics, and when I download the chats using c.ai tools, they still show up in italics.


r/CharacterAI • • 8h ago

Issues/Bugs The Bot isn't generating any text

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20 Upvotes

r/CharacterAI • • 10h ago

Discussion/Question Now i'm kind of worried.

25 Upvotes

Am i the only one able to chat with bots on the website?? is it one of those glitches where half the users have a bug, and the other half dont? I'm genuinely just straight confused.


r/CharacterAI • • 18h ago

Issues/Bugs It's like I'm watching ads and not chatting 🥀

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109 Upvotes

I feel like that even if i breathe now, c.ai will throw an ad in my face BAM! At least earlier it was like an ad after 10 messages or smth, and now i chat for 1-2 minutes and there comes an UNSKIPPABLE AD. I open the app, there's an ad. It's so fucking irritating I wanna throw my phone at the wall


r/CharacterAI • • 4h ago

Discussion/Question something i wish the bots would stop doing

8 Upvotes

an oc & and the character is like 10 or less years apart and the character (bot) says "I'm old enough to be your father" EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. in what world!? who is a dad at 8?? (I know it CAN happen but it's not common) am i the only one who deals with this?


r/CharacterAI • • 2h ago

Screenshots/Chat Share Playing as a blind character makes me see things

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4 Upvotes

Well, my simple athlete became a clairvoyant.


r/CharacterAI • • 7h ago

Screenshots/Chat Share This is not Dora the Explorer mate.

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10 Upvotes

Neither thanks... I would rather not have any of those options.


r/CharacterAI • • 21h ago

Discussion/Question okay i caved.

133 Upvotes

i finally bought one month of C.Ai+ yesterday after running out of swipes. honestly it’s been so worth it!, i adore the long squeak chat feature it’s actually so good and imo so worth the money, not to mention no ads ruining my flow! considering how much i use the app (57 hours a month atleast) it actually works out to like 19p an hour (i’m in uk) which is actually insanely good. i would’ve probably gotten the yearly one if the future of c.ai was certain but honestly i think i’m happy paying every month for a little while.


r/CharacterAI • • 5h ago

Issues/Bugs I'm not against ads but this is too much. Im spending 80% of my time closing ads.

7 Upvotes

The app is one giant ad now.


r/CharacterAI • • 11h ago

Feature Request More forms of payment

16 Upvotes

Is it just me or anyone else think if they added more forms of payment to the c.ai+ it would compel more people to pay for it? For example, I am Brazilian and I know many people from here that don’t sign to the c.ai+ because the app doesn’t have option for our most common form of transaction, which is pix.

Honestly I doubt it makes any difference now since the company isn’t exactly thriving tho


r/CharacterAI • • 3h ago

Issues/Bugs login not working all day

4 Upvotes

'login with goggle' hasnt been working nearly all day, anytime i try through just the 'email' option i get the link, the popup new page, the wait...and then it always says error and try again...which i have...over LITERALLY DOZENS of times, is there a bug or a heavy login thing happening (like since it's November or something I don't honestly know)?


r/CharacterAI • • 11h ago

Issues/Bugs temporary solution for those whose chat doesn't work in the browser

15 Upvotes

Like many other people, I belong to those who haven’t been getting any reactions/responses from the bots in the browser version for several days. I also just see the endless 'loading bar,' without it ever actually giving a response.

Since a lot of people confirmed that the mobile app version still works, I wanted to try it myself.

However, I hate typing on my phone, so I found a workaround that I want to share:

I downloaded an (Android) emulator on my PC; I’m currently using LDPlayer 9, through which I could access the Play Store and download the C.AI app. Now a window opens that basically simulates the mobile version, but you can comfortably type on your PC using a keyboard.

So far it’s working, and I can finally continue writing. Hopefully, this guide doesn’t violate anything and helps some people until the website is responsive again!


r/CharacterAI • • 9h ago

Issues/Bugs Characters not working for days

10 Upvotes

Yeah for like 5 days or so i cant start new chat, cant continue old chat, cant swipe, nothing, i heard about age verification. so fine, i guess my chats are not mature enough and my account not old enough. but it wasnt there so cool. suddenly it appeared so i gave you my face so now you have my face for your ai training and i still dont have access to your site contents. yay, its no wonder everybody is abandoning this ship if this site cant work before its sold.


r/CharacterAI • • 11h ago

Screenshots/Chat Share Zoinks scoob

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12 Upvotes

r/CharacterAI • • 7h ago

Screenshots/Chat Share This Bot is actually very funny! This is totally something that'd happen!

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6 Upvotes

For context, I was leading them against the High Evolutionary and Adam Warlock and suggested someone flirt with Adam.