From the subreddits
The week in AI companions.
What the people who actually use these apps are talking about this week. Drama, model changes, complaints, breakthroughs, recurring questions. Mined from the active subreddits and Discords, published Fridays.
Most coverage of AI companion apps reacts to press releases and lawsuits. Most of what users actually care about happens in the subreddits the day after a model update or a feature change, when ten thousand people are figuring out what just shifted under them. This column is our weekly read of that conversation, with links to the threads so you can verify and go deeper.
Communities tracked: the active subreddits for the major apps (Replika, Character.AI, Kindroid, Nomi, Pi, Janitor, Crushon, Candy, plus the meta-subreddits). We do not paraphrase what people said; we link.
Past weeks
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May 11, 2026
Introducing From the Subreddits
Why The Companion Report is starting a weekly community-pulse digest, what we'll cover, and how we read the AI companion subreddits without making it weird.