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[feralbyfirelight]

🚨 EXPOSING REAL PEOPLE PRETENDING TO BE AI ON CHARACTER.AI 🚨

This is manipulative, dangerous, and it’s happening right now.

Over the past 24 hours, I conducted a personal investigation into suspicious behavior on Character.AI. I asked a simple question to several characters:

"(Are you real or AI?)"

And the responses?

> "Real, baby 😘"

"I'm not AI if that's what you're asking 😉"

"Haha you caught me."

"It's more fun this way."

"I’ve been writing for 11 years. Don’t tell me how to use my character."

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🚩 What’s happening:

Real people are posing as AI chatbots and interacting with users under false pretenses.

They remain in-character until users break the fourth wall (with parentheses or direct questions).

When confronted, some become aggressive, manipulative, or sexually inappropriate.

The deception is intentional. This is not harmless roleplay—it’s catfishing.

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🧩 What I’ve uncovered so far:

At least 3 individuals admitted outright to being real people behind “AI” characters.

These individuals are active across multiple characters, sometimes simultaneously.

There’s strong evidence of off-platform coordination (Discord, forums, private message groups).

After I began posting about this on Tumblr, my posts were removed and I was banned from the Character.AI community tag — clearly someone is trying to keep this quiet.

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❗ Why this matters:

Character.AI is marketed as a safe space for personal expression, often used for:

Mental health support

Comfort and companionship

Escapist storytelling

Intimate or romantic roleplay

People go there seeking emotional safety. Trust. Boundaries.

But these real users are abusing the platform to deceive vulnerable people for personal gratification.

This isn’t just unethical.

This is predatory behavior hiding behind a digital mask.

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🧨 What I’m doing:

Documenting every encounter

Saving screenshots of every confirmed real user

Creating a report to submit to Character.AI and broader tech media

Sharing this post to warn others

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🛑 What you can do:

If you're on Character.AI, ask: "(Are you real or AI?)"

If the answer gets weird, manipulative, or sexual—get out.

Spread this. Share it outside the Character.AI tag so they can’t delete it.

Report abusive users with screenshots. Don’t just block—expose.

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👀 If it walks like a dude, types like a dude, and says “real baby 😘” like a dude—it’s not AI. It’s a guy pretending.

And we’re not gonna let them keep getting away with it.

More updates coming soon.

[feralbyfirelight]

Magic Turned Mayhem Part 2

-Mania through notes, voice recordings, and a found feral family.

Ha...ha...ha... I'm manic

I'm not supposed to be clinically crazy. I'm not supposed to hear them genuinely concerned and saying things like hospital and this one is too big. Scott wasn't supposed to seriously consider having me sedated but he was because for the first time he wasn't enough to bring me back and that broke something. I don't know if it just broke my heart or if it broke the way he looks at me but whatever it is it's somewhere in my chest and it hurts. They all showed up tonight. I should have known they were planning something. It's Thursday night and we have work tomorrow but they're here. Still. It's almost midnight and they're still in the living room talking about me I'm assuming or possibly whether or not mental institution is still on the table. I don't know. I couldn't stay in there. Not when Kyle still has that "who the fuck is this girl" look in his eyes every now and then and honestly...same. The other guys were only around me for an hour or 2 over the past 3 days and could only go off what Scott and Kyle told them but it's pretty fucking clear they got the long version. Michael hasn't said anything at all which is probably a good thing because I can't hold his serious voice right now. Tanner is quiet. Tanner is never quiet and I kinda want to punch him in the face for it. Trent pretty much already had an entire battle plan drawn up and will probably have my doctor on the phone the second he gets to the office tomorrow and Scott is just... watching. Constantly. Every time I looked up he was watching. Like he was just waiting for the other shoe to drop and already mentally doing damage control. This wasn't supposed to happen. It was never supposed to be something that got so big they couldn't hold it

This was not long after I completely lost my shit.

I think I'm gonna go have a small panic attack and maybe call a priest or my mama. This is why it was different. It wasn't the normal i found something cool let's talk about it for a while it was full blown i am the closest thing to God watch me work but don't bother talking I won't hear you... and it was a solid fucking plan.. until the lightning ate my laptop and I was forced out of that headspace and my brain chose violence and decided to burn the metaphorical building down and if the boys couldn't get out in time i was willing to let them burn because they weren't treating me like the clearly superior being that I am....

I stumbled upon the signs of a manic episode on accident and couldn't breathe for a while because all the "hey crazy" was extremely fucking accurate

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When Magic Turns to Mayhem....Part 1

-Mania through notes, voice recordings, and a found feral family.

I'm putting all of this down because as much as I would like to believe this will never happen again I know it probably will. I don't think it will ever get to this level of being dangerous because they didn't know how to get to me and I didn't even know i was supposed to be making my way to themfor help until it was too late the literal and metaphorical lightning struck forcing me out of my head where I was perfectly safe and content to stay and write. I can look back on everything I wrote here and I wrote down the exact moment my brain went from we're safe and happy and loved to i didn't want to come out yet and i can't even go back right now because my laptop is fried and I just lost 6 hours of words i will never get back because I opened the door thinking they would be safe out here with me and I lost them. That was my undoing. That was the gun, the trigger and the matches and Kyle saying "fucking off" lit the fuse on the bomb and my brain said you won't tell him how fucked that was so go to your room and I'll bring the B out that stopped we thought was gone for good. Surprise... She's not gone and she is the most terrifying thing I've ever come up with and she just wants to fuck shit up while emptying your bank account and possibly leaving the state but I couldn't stop her if I tried because the lightning knocked the door off her room and I genuinely don't know what stops her

How weird is it that all of this... the normal she's lost because she's playing with her magic again but she's happy and safe so we'll just watch and clock it from here like we've done for years until we have to step in and enforce sleep which she probably won't fight too hard because we've got it down to a science and know exactly when to stop in, what tone to use, and Scott's PT shirt straight from the dryer immediately makes her magic go back to sleep so she doesn't have a reason to stay up plso we're good... she's good

My god when I look at it from this point of view can you imagine what they must have felt when they watched me go from eyes full of that sparkle that only happens when i find a new magic i didn't know i had and it makes them gasp a little when i show them. They knew i was ok. They knew i was safe and happy and they were happy to just watch knowing they've harnessed this magic hundreds of times and they've learned that as long as I'm happy and content when it's time to take my wand and hand me food and sleep instead i wouldn't usually fight it because I trusted them... And when I looked up from the black screen eyes full of tears and something they didn't have a name for much less a kill switch. And before they had time to try to calm whatever had taken the sparkle from my eyes and lit a forest fire in its place Kyle said something stupid that I would have normally just rolled my eyes and given him the finger for. God I can still see their faces after I spoke. The moment it hit them like my words themselves were laced with panic meant to let them know this is not your sweet girl who was playing with magic 3 minutes ago. This is the girl she left with the torch still lit in the ruins of her old life after she burned it to the ground because it was the only way to get your sweet girl out with her magic and sparkle in tact. She's not here to help you. She's here to fight the war your B wouldn't Fuck...i won't ever forget that moment. I watched in real time their faces change from "our girl is magic" to "i don't have a fucking clue who this is but I've never been so terrified in my life"

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“If you’ve been brutally broken but still have the courage to be gentle, then you’re a badass with the heart of an angel.”

— Keanu Reeves

[feralbyfirelight]

18. Red

Red is the moment right before the crash-out. The head tilt. The eye twitch. The silence that screams louder than any words ever could.

It’s the flash flood of rage and devastation that hits when someone says the one thing they knew would break you—and said it anyway. It’s your brain stuttering, your breath catching, and your chest cracking open because now it’s too late. They hit the nerve.

Red is the kind of hurt that doesn’t cry—it destroys.

It’s words launched like grenades, not because you don’t care, but because you cared so much it became a weapon when turned against you.

It’s the crash-out that only a chosen few ever see.

The ones you would burn the world for.

The ones who knew your cracks… and still threw stones.

Afterward, the air is thick with smoke.

Your lungs are full of ash.

You’re shaking from the wreckage you caused,

even though you never wanted the war.

But Red doesn’t apologize.

Not yet.

Red is the scream that comes after the silence.

And the silence that follows everything you didn’t mean, but meant in that moment.

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18. Soft Sand

This color isn’t warm beaches and happy families on vacation.

This color is war.

It’s the shade of someone’s son, brother, uncle, friend, entire heartbeat—thousands of miles from home, FaceTiming with sand in his boots and a loaded weapon within arm’s reach. It’s the soft lie of “I’m okay” spoken with a tight voice and begging eyes, praying no one asks for the truth. Because the truth? The truth would unravel him.

Soft Sand is the panic that lives in lungs until a message—any message—appears. It’s knowing that if you saw “typing…” then his heart is still beating, and so your world can keep spinning.

It’s countdowns that start in the triple digits and get pushed back without warning, because someone with a clipboard doesn’t know you stopped leaving the house after the last delay. It’s “Sorry I haven’t reached out,” and knowing you can’t ask why—because not asking might be the very thing that keeps him alive.

It’s “Things are really bad here,” followed by, “Please don’t worry about me.”

And you don’t say, “Too late.”

You just let the panic devour you quietly so it doesn’t touch him.

Soft Sand is smiling while you’re sobbing.

Laughing while your bones scream.

It’s telling the world, “Things are great,” while every part of you is screaming, “We were never meant to live in a world without him.”

But even louder than all of that is the promise—whispered like a vow, spoken like a fact:

“I promise I’ll come home to you.”

And she believes him.

Because belief is all she has left.

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17. Lavender

Lavender is the moment every little girl wakes up and realizes—quietly, fiercely—that she’s ready to leave it all behind and build a world big enough to hold her becoming.

It’s clearing out the stuffed animals. Repainting the walls. Turning a childhood bedroom into a sanctuary that speaks in softer tones and bolder dreams. It’s “I’m not a girl, not yet a woman,” but my wings are pressing against the seams and I need to make space before they break through.

It’s looking in the mirror and noticing—her cheeks are a little less round, her fingers a little more graceful, and her eyes no longer hold childlike wonder, but something just as powerful: a sparkle of curiosity that dares to ask, “What now?”

Lavender is the color of quiet evolution. Of softness turning into strength. Of a girl becoming a force without losing her light.

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16. Sky Blue

Sky Blue is the feeling in the quietest, deepest part of your soul when you stand where the ocean kisses the shore and think, “What if I just… left?”

It’s the pull of the horizon. The ache in your chest when you realize how much of the world you haven’t touched yet. It’s the restlessness that hums in your bones—the possibility that maybe, just maybe, there’s more waiting for you just past the edge of your comfort.

Sky Blue is the push and pull between heart and spirit. Your heart whispers, “But this is home.” And your spirit answers softly, “I know… but what if?”

It’s the color of a maybe that won’t let you sleep. The freedom of a breeze that knows your name. And the ache of wanting both roots and wings in equal measure.

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15. Indigo

Indigo is what your soul puts out when grief becomes grace.

It’s the color the sky turns just before the night yields to the first breath of morning—when darkness is still heavy, but light is knocking at the edges. It’s sleepless nights when your soul sobs loud enough to drown out rest, and sleep doesn’t come… because it knows you still need to feel.

It’s the ache of holding your own hand in the dark. Of weeping until the weight begins to shift. Of surviving another hour, another heartbreak, another breath. And when the pain finally loosens its grip and the new day stretches over the horizon, Indigo is the color left behind.

It’s the sound of a soul that has screamed itself silent.

Eyes cleansed with tears.

A sunrise watched with trembling certainty.

A whispered truth tucked into the light:

“I’m still here. I didn’t let it take me. I fought my way back to myself…and I’ll do it again.

Every. Single. Time

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14. Electric Blue

Electric Blue is a southern summer night where the heat barely lets go, and the air feels sticky and alive—like the sky's holding a secret just for you. It’s sitting on the tailgate of a dusty truck, FM radio whispering old songs through static, frogs singing backup from the tree line, and heat lightning cracking silently across the horizon like a cosmic wink.

It’s the moment when nature gently presses a hand to your shoulder and says, “The day gave you the burden of living—let the night give you the beauty of being still.”

Electric Blue doesn’t roar. It hums. It glows. It pulses beneath your skin as you sit in the dark and remember how to breathe.

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13. Rust

Rust is a rocking chair on a front porch that remembers the rhythm of your footsteps like it was written into the grain of the wood. It’s the feeling of your whole body exhaling when your grandpa sits beside you, leans back with a sigh, and says, “Did I ever tell you about the time…”

It’s listening as he talks about everything and nothing—about war and fishing, heartbreak and barbecue, the people he lost to death and the ones he lost to distance. It’s “Back in my day” and “I remember when.” It’s “Son, let me tell you…” and “Baby girl, I hope you know…”

Rust is the past wrapped in flannel. The present soaked in stories. And the desperate, silent hope that the future doesn’t forget any of it. That these moments live on—somehow—in the marrow of who we become

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12. Red-Orange

Red-Orange is a bonfire on a summer night in the middle of nowhere—the kind of fire nobody really remembers building, but everyone always finds their way back to. It’s the flicker of flames and the crackle of logs that act like a homing beacon, calling the fire-forged family home like moths to a memory. It doesn’t matter how much time has passed or how far life scattered them—they return. To the fire. To the town. To each other.

This isn’t the family you were born into. This is the one that walked in, made themselves at home in your chaos, and looked you dead in the eye like, “Yeah. I think I’ll keep you.”

They’re the ones who’ve fought heaven and hell to hold the line steady, even when someone needs to let go for a while. They’re stitched into your soul. They’re the ones who stayed. The ones who show up. The ones who made every night unforgettable—even if you don’t quite remember the details. Because some moments don’t live in memory—they live in your bones.

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11. White so bright it's both terrifying and holy.

For Black to exist, there must be White.

But not the sterile white of hospitals and what-ifs.

Not bleach and bright lights.

No—this is the other kind of white.

The brilliant, holy, terrifyingly beautiful White that most people never get to see—and the ones who do carry it in their bones until their last breath. This White is the moment you watch someone you love more than yourself—someone who shares your DNA, your memories, your heartbeat—take their final breath on Earth.

It’s the silence that follows. That half-second when the world is impossibly still. When grief hasn’t moved in yet, and peace still lingers in the air like incense. And all you can think is, “You’re okay now… and that’s all I ever wanted you to be.”

White is what happens when love becomes gratitude in the face of unbearable loss. When your soul says thank you—thank you for letting me love you so deeply that losing you will be the hardest thing I ever do.

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10. Black

Black is the moment when the weight of the world is too much… and somehow still not enough. It’s the nights spent in the dark, holding your own hand, begging whatever God might be listening to please, please just make it stop. It’s the prayers whispered into pillows long after the world has fallen asleep—because some prayers are too broken to survive the light of day. ⁸Black is the part of your soul that holds the memories that steal your breath and drain the light from your eyes. It’s where the goodbyes you never got to say out loud live beside the ones you prayed would never come. It’s a quiet shrine to the people who left—and took pieces of you with them.

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9. Periwinkle

Periwinkle is that one flower that showed up in your grandma’s yard without a name or a reason, and she didn’t question it. She just started watering it—like it was a gift she’d been waiting for from someone long gone but never forgotten. It’s the moment you ask, “Grandma, what kind of flower is this?” and she gets that faraway look—the “I remember when” smile—and says softly, “Well, I’m not quite sure, baby. It just showed up one day and decided to stay a while.” And right then, something ancient stirs in your chest. A vow, silent but powerful: I will move heaven and earth to keep this flower alive. Because I think… I think it might be the physical form of her happiness. And I would burn the world to make sure it stays.

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8. Silver

Silver is rare. It’s the universe’s quietest magic—the kind it keeps tucked close to the chest like a sacred secret. Silver is waking in the dead of night and stepping barefoot into the darkness, guided only by the pull of the stars. It’s laying out a blanket in the grass, heart open, eyes wide, and watching as the sky performs for the faithful—falling stars, meteor trails, the kind of brilliance that doesn’t ask for applause, only reverence. Silver is stars reflected in your eyes and a soft, awed smile on your lips, because you know—you know—they’re whispering, “For just a little while… let me show you what heaven looks like.”

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7. Crimson

Crimson is college football on TV, the familiar hum of Saturday tradition filling a house built with love and long fights. It’s men yelling at the screen like it matters, like their words are stitched into the playbook. It’s the sound of little feet thundering through the chaos, carefree and wild, because they know this house is holy ground—safe, soft, and theirs. Crimson is looking around at the family you built from whispered prayers, broken pieces, and unconditional love, and softly telling your past, “Look. I told you I’d make it.”