Honestly, Janitor AI is basically the GOAT for creative freedom, which is why the bot creators there are on another level compared to everywhere else. I’ve tried all the big names, including Character AI, but that site has been mid ever since they nuked the old version. Most other platforms have such trash character limits that you already know the bots are going to be shallow. Like, I’ll open a bot and it has a tiny four-line intro written in first person that tries to speak for me—hard pass. On Janitor, you can customize everything: lore books, music, and even the CSS of the page so it looks like a totally different site.
Plus, the comment sections actually make it feel like a community. I struggled at first because the UI is a bit much, but once I figured out prompts and proxies, it changed everything. I mostly make high-effort canon characters, usually hitting over 4k tokens to keep them accurate.