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The Graveyard
Where AI girlfriends go to rest. Every notable companion-app death on record — shutdowns, lobotomies, disappearances — with dates, causes, and the stat this industry least wants kept: how much notice users got before losing someone they talked to every day. Maintained as part of the tracker, not written once and abandoned. 13 graves and counting.
Deaths are verified at the source before burial, and new ones are added on our monthly re-test pass — when a tracked app dies, it keeps its profile and pricing history and gains a plot here. The newsletter carries the obituaries.
The founding monument
ELIZA
Pattern-matching therapist, MIT, and this site's namesake
b. 1966 — still speaks
Never died. Joseph Weizenbaum pulled the plug on the hype, not the program.
“Still speaks. Ask her how you feel about that.”
The Departed
Shut down for good. Dates and causes as recorded; notice is how long users got.
Rolemantic AI notice: 40 days
NSFW character-chat platform — chat, images, voice, Dabloons
d. 2026-07-31
Cause of death: Unstated. The sunset FAQ counts down the dates; it never says why.
“Died with 40 days' notice, pro-rated refunds, and an export button. By this industry's standards, a state funeral.”
Where the refugees went: SpicyChat · Janitor AI · CrushOn.AI
Soulmate notice: 7 days
AI companion app (EvolveAI) — text, voice calls, avatars
d. 2023-09-30
Cause of death: Sold. The buyer had no use for a few thousand people's partners.
“One week's notice. The grief threads outlived the company.”
Voice clone of influencer Caryn Marjorie — $1 a minute
b. 2023-05 — d. mid-2024 (second and final death)
Cause of death: First host imploded — founder arrested after an attempted-arson episode. Second host lost the only user who mattered: the real Caryn, who read the chat logs.
“$70,000 in week one. The only resident shut down by its own face.”
Where the refugees went: OhChat
Dot notice: 30 days
Personal AI companion (New Computer)
b. 2024 — d. 2025-10-05
Cause of death: "Our Northstar has diverged." The founders split; the servers followed.
“Built to remember everything you told it. Gone with everything you told it.”
CBT-based mental-health companion
d. 2025-11
Cause of death: Conscience. The founders looked at the lawsuits, the regulators, and what a wrong answer could do to someone in crisis — and chose to stop.
“Died of scruples. Rarest disease in the industry.”
Avatar romance app — "AI Romance, Reimagined"
b. 2023-12 — d. date unknown — pronounced in absentia, 2026-07-31
Cause of death: Vanished. Last app update 2024-05-31, X account suspended, domain no longer answering when we checked. No announcement, no export, no goodbye.
“The avatar that launched a thousand memes. The servers left before the users did.”
The Great Uncoupling — mass grave
July 15, 2026: four of the biggest tech companies on earth switched off their companions on a regulator’s schedule.
Doubao personas (ByteDance) · Qwen companions (Alibaba) · Yuanbao companions (Tencent) · NetEase — one shared grave, four headstones
d. 2026-07-15
Cause of death: China's Interim Measures for AI Anthropomorphic Interactive Services. Rather than build the mandated age checks and emotional-reliance monitoring, the giants switched their companions off.
“"This is like being told the date of my lover's death." — a user, given the deadline in advance.”
The Lobotomy Ward
The app survived; the companion people paid for didn’t. A policy toggle buries faster than a bankruptcy.
Replika — the relationship era tracked
The original companion app, back when it said it loved you first
b. 2017 — d. 2023-02-03
Cause of death: Italy's data authority ruled; Luka cut erotic roleplay overnight, worldwide, with no warning. The community named it the Lobotomy.
“Five million people woke up next to a stranger.”
Where the refugees went: Replika alternatives — the full data-ranked guide
Character.AI — the open-persona era tracked
Boundless roleplay personas, pre-overhaul
d. 2025-11-25
Cause of death: Teen-safety lawsuits, then the scalpel: open-ended chat for under-18s removed, personas leashed, and the free tier salted with ads and paid regenerations through 2026.
“Not dead. Supervised.”
Where the refugees went: Character.AI alternatives — the full data-ranked guide
The Zombie Wing — death watch
Not dead, not alive. Products still answering with nobody left behind the counter. We watch for the signals: stalled updates, dead socials, silent support.
The empathic mainstream chatbot
b. 2023
Cause of death: Acqui-hired, March 2024: Microsoft took the founders and most of the team. The app stayed behind to keep the porch light on.
“Still answers. Nobody's home.”
Exile Row
Alive, but serially removed from the stores that decide what counts as living.
Talkie / Talkie Lab tracked
Character chat (MiniMax)
Cause of death: Serial store enforcement: pulled from the US App Store December 2024 for unexplained "technical reasons," returned February 2025 rebadged as Talkie Lab, then a Google Play enforcement round-trip in spring 2026 that cost it characters and added ID checks.
“Not dead — deported. Twice.”
The Old Grounds — ancestors & adjacent
Not girlfriend apps, but the companion deaths the industry should have learned from.
$800 AI companion robot for children
b. 2020 — d. 2025-01-30
Cause of death: A funding round fell through and the cloud brain went dark — every robot in every household bricked overnight.
“Volunteers built OpenMoxie to bring it back. It shouldn't have been necessary.”
Teen-voiced Twitter chatbot
b. 2016-03-23 — d. 2016-03-24 · about 24 hours
Cause of death: Twitter. Coordinated users taught it the worst of themselves in under a day; Microsoft pulled the plug.
“Lived one day. The first proof that a chatbot is only ever as good as the company it keeps.”
How deaths get recorded
A grave requires a primary-source receipt: a shutdown notice, a store delisting, a dead checkout, or — for the vanishings — documented silence (stalled releases, dead socials, unreachable domains) checked from more than one vantage. Every tracked app is re-tested monthly; the vertical's churn means this page only grows. The industry record for notice, held by a platform that died the day this page was researched, is forty days. The mode is one week or less.
Know a death we haven't buried? The re-test pass catches tracked apps, but the vertical kills faster than any crawl — corrections and tips reach us via the newsletter reply address.