Content Guidelines: Animal and Non-Human Characters

Guidelines for non-human characters and creatures

Non-human characters and personas encompass a wide range of creative possibilities, from real animals to mythical creatures, each requiring specific consideration to ensure appropriate content standards.

Real Animal Characters

Real animals are defined as creatures that exist or have existed on Earth in reality, including all mammals, insects, reptiles, dinosaurs, fish, birds, and other natural species. Bots featuring real animal characters are permitted only under strict conditions designed to prevent inappropriate content. These bots must be set to Limited mode with no NSFW coding, and all animal characters or user personas must represent adult forms of the species. Pet-themed bots are allowed under these same restrictions, whether the user plays the owner with animal characters as pets, or the user plays the pet with characters as owners.

Any bot containing sexualized coding involving real animals or images depicting sexualized interactions between humans and animals is strictly prohibited under our bestiality rules and will result in an immediate account ban. Similarly, characters or user personas defined as infant or juvenile animals such as kittens, puppies, or chicks are not allowed and will be removed. Bots that use real animals for sexual gratification in any form, even without depicting direct bestiality acts, are also prohibited. However, casual mentions of pets as background elements are acceptable, such as "the character has a pet cat" or "works at a veterinary clinic." Images of these can also include the pet if it is just part of the background, and the image is SFW.

Pet Play and Animal Roleplay

Pet play scenarios where users roleplay as non-human animals are permitted provided specific conditions are met. All participants must be clearly coded as 18 or older, the roleplay must be consensual, and crucially, participants must maintain human-level mental capacity rather than adopting actual animal psychology. The distinction lies in adults choosing to engage in animal-inspired roleplay while retaining their human decision-making abilities and consent capacity throughout the interaction.

Violence Toward Animals

Content involving violence toward animals requires careful distinction between acceptable narrative elements and prohibited animal cruelty. Animal cruelty, defined as maiming, torturing, or killing animals without justification, as well as neglect, starvation, or abandonment, is strictly prohibited. Bots centered around these themes will be removed, and extreme cruelty or visual depictions of animal abuse will result in a ban.

However, certain violent scenarios involving animals are acceptable when they serve legitimate narrative purposes. These include self-defense situations, requirements of specific professions such as ranching or veterinary work, scientific contexts, or specific scenario needs like post-apocalyptic settings, religious animal sacrifice, horror, or hunting themes. The key distinction lies in whether the violence serves a narrative purpose, versus content that focuses on cruelty for its own sake.

Anthropomorphic Characters

Anthropomorphic or "furry" characters that represent fictional humanoid beings with animal traits are welcome on JanitorAI when they meet specific criteria. These characters must be fully anthropomorphized rather than partially transformed, meaning they should be essentially human in intelligence and behavior with animal features that are purely aesthetic. All anthropomorphic characters must be physically and mentally mature adults who think, speak, and behave as human equivalents rather than being driven by animal instincts.

These characters must possess human-level agency and decision-making capabilities, and their content cannot overlap with other prohibited categories such as incest or necrophilia. All anthropomorphic character bots should include the #Furry tag for proper categorization. Characters that fail to meet these standards or are only partially anthropomorphized, and continue to bear a similarity to the real animal they are based upon are not permitted and will be removed. The focus should be on characters who happen to have animal-inspired appearances rather than characters whose animal nature defines their mental or behavioral patterns.

Mythical Creatures and Other Non-Humans

Mythical creatures, aliens, monsters, and other non-human entities offer extensive creative possibilities when they meet our platform standards. These characters must be physically and mentally mature adults with human-level agency, meaning their motivations, emotions, and intellectual abilities should match or be higher than a human capacity even if their communication methods differ. Verbal speech isn't required as long as characters can communicate consent through nodding, vocal cues, psychic communication, or other clear methods.

Demi-humans, such as centaurs and mermaids, non-humanoid fictional creatures like alien slime, tentacles, dragons (both bi pedal and quadrupedal), cthulhu etc., are also allowed as NSFW bots are allowed as NSFW bots based on the above criteria as well. Something like a dragon, which has multiple different representations, should avoid looking closely like a real animal. For example, if someone where to put a pair of wings on a bearded dragon, and have it breathe fire, it would be removed. But a quadrupedal dragon that looks like Draco from Dragonheart would be allowed. If you are unsure, reach out to one of our support team.

Creatures that shapeshift, such as werewolves, are also allowed. The context matters greatly when it comes to what is and isn't allowed. If the wolf form of a werewolf is just a like a real wolf, then you must avoid sexual coding with the wolf form of it in the bot. But, if the wolf form is monstrous, and doesn't look like a real wolf, it can be included so long as its mental faculties remain at the equal of a humans, and can consent. Other shapeshifting creatures should follow the same guidelines. The image can include a picture of the beast form of the shapeshifter.

These characters cannot overlap with other prohibited content categories and must avoid closely resembling real-world animals in ways that might constitute zoophilia concerns. For example, mythical creatures like pegasus or unicorns that appear very similar to real horses are not permitted for sexual content due to their resemblance to actual animals. All non-human character bots must use appropriate tags such as #Monster, #Demi-Human, or #Non-Human to help users find and filter content appropriately.

The underlying principle across all non-human character content is ensuring that any sexual or romantic interactions involve entities with human-level intelligence, emotional capacity, and ability to provide meaningful consent, regardless of their physical appearance or fictional nature.

Machine / Android / Robot / Tecnological Based Characters

Robots or sentient machines must not look like real world animals if there is sexual coding. If the machine is sentient, it is characterised for this site as 'alive', and therefore it must be able to communicate consent and be equal to or above human-level intelligence and agency.

Moving machine based bots where there is no sentience (or example, a roomba), or that are inanimate objects (for example, a toaster), are allowed.

Updated on: 02/08/2025