Idk why but she gives me Nemona from Pokémon if furry.

Birb... Always really liked this one!

I almost never go to e621 because there is too much trash to filter through to get to anything good. This site has great art on every page.

It's sad that AI is taking over the work of artists but it's the reality we live in. We have to cope. We can't shut our eyes and pretend it isn't happening and hope for the best. If we have to deal with AI, then we might as well get some damn enjoyment out of it!

My last favorite

I hope we can disagree like gentlemen. Handshake, smile, keep talking. The internet has gotten so full of pure spite that it feels rare to just sit with different views without trying to crush the other person. I still want that, even when it’s hard.

Absolute takes on whether AI has a place in art or none at all feel unwise to me. We’ve been arguing about what counts as art since photography. Pressing a button on a box isn’t automatically art. Doing it with real care, composition, context, and intent can still reach people. Same with prompting. I don’t like that anyone can just declare themselves an artist. Painters, illustrators, directors, storytellers, even careful prompters—those are fine. “Artist” is something other people raise you to when the work actually moves them. A thousand filtered selfies, fingerpaints, mediocre funding-driven movies, AAA Studios creating the worst of games, or pure prompt spam don’t automatically qualify just because someone wants the title.

Some people reduce the whole idea of art down to their own hunger for the story of the starving artist—the toiling, suffering, romantic figure who must bleed for it to count. That story has beauty for people who need it, but it isn’t the only way. Effort isn’t the whole story either. Someone sitting on a rock telling a story that makes strangers cry can be more of an artist than someone grinding forever for nothing. Mastery often looks quieter than people expect—less wasted motion, more of the thing that actually lands. Sun Tzu wrote about winning with elegance and as few moves as possible. A lot of the real victories in life look like that and go unnoticed.

AI datasets are a snapshot of the visible internet of humanity. That’s why the argument about “stealing art” feels incomplete to me. Steve Jobs liked quoting Picasso: “Good artists copy; great artists steal.” T.S. Eliot said something close: “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.” Of course you still have to make it your own. But shapes, lines, ideas, words, colors—at some point the opposite turns dystopian. Corporations already copyright birdcalls, the sound of wind, nature ambience, even specific colors. Ownership of ideas has become one of the strongest weapons companies use against each other and against everyone else. I don’t condone direct theft of finished objects or money. I do find the total lock-down of iteration strange.

Of course we get flooded with slop on For You pages, recommendations, and when scrolling. We call those places home? Is this really the place we lost? We shouldn’t use those things in the first place. We’re supposed to tell one another what we like, visit the channels we want directly, and search out things with purpose and will instead of letting the algorithm serve us and then complaining about what arrived.

At the same time the tools can be useful. My brother cares for someone paralyzed from the neck down; they give him back expression and function. I’m a nurse for a post-stroke patient who used to do technical drafting and now struggles with her hands. I generate custom writing practice sheets for her every day so the exercises aren’t childish. It takes minutes and frees time for actual care. That’s not nothing to me.

Prompters can still be artists if they treat it like a director: not chasing cash or instant dopamine, but trying to evoke something real with care and media literacy. Creativity comes from the mind more than the hands. Directors often never touch the camera. Photographers don’t invent the light. Storytellers retell old things. The medium isn’t the point. Whether it comforts the disturbed, disturbs the comfortable, or just makes someone feel less alone is.

We already live with worse everyday: violent media kids access too young, porn desensitization, social media anxiety and status games, short-form attention destruction, radicalizing music, beauty contests and reality TV that commercialize bodies and manufacture narratives people love to hate. AI is another tool in that mess, not the unique apocalypse. Infighting over it mostly distracts from the platform holders and big companies who profit either way.

I spent time in academic art circles in Vienna and did commercial 3D and illustration work years ago. Back then the academic and professional side was often more open about adapting new tools and approaches than people outside expected. It’s almost funny—most would assume the trained, institutional world would be the rigid and elitist one. In the end a lot of self-taught internet artists turned out to be the more prideful and gatekeeping. Less accepting of other ways to do things, more certain their method was the only pure one.

Experimenting with this stuff once got me treated like I was tainted by black magic inside a friend group. It wasn’t about the work itself. It cooled down later and we stayed friends, but the speed of the spite was real and shocking. I’m tired of the endless squabble about who gets to decide what art is allowed to be. Art is an experience that happens in the head. I’ve seen AI-assisted work that stuck with me emotionally the same way certain moments in nature do—light through leaves, color on a single petal, wind on skin. If it moved someone, it moved them. If it didn’t, it didn’t.

There’s something beautiful in still being able to sit with all of this without needing to win. In wanting people to keep creating, keep feeling, keep disagreeing without turning it into another war. Even when the tools are messy, even when the flood of slop is real, even when we don’t fully agree—there’s still the chance to leave someone with a little more hope or a little less pain than they arrived with. That still feels worth protecting.

Dude, open a Discord server or Telegram group before e6ai shutting down please.

Glad we got to see this cutie before the site's death... just look at those eyes, man

boneslime said:
huh? the whole site is based on open-source code... the github link is right there at the bottom of the page. what's to stop one of us from just hosting a new instance?

i always assumed that's how E6AI came about in the first place. didn't even know this site was affiliated with BD or the original E621.

I'm thinking it will cost a bit of money, where does this come from?

boneslime said:
huh? the whole site is based on open-source code... the github link is right there at the bottom of the page. what's to stop one of us from just hosting a new instance?

i always assumed that's how E6AI came about in the first place. didn't even know this site was affiliated with BD or the original E621.

Money. Hosting a site with thousands of images and users takes a ton of cash. Only reason the big image boards are still alive is due to sponsors, parent companies and ads.

huh? the whole site is based on open-source code... the github link is right there at the bottom of the page. what's to stop one of us from just hosting a new instance?

i always assumed that's how E6AI came about in the first place. didn't even know this site was affiliated with BD or the original E621.

Phenomenal work!!!

What a lovely goodbye Ceri

hammapajamma said:
I always want to believe that, but then a small hair gets like 0.1 inch up my urethra and I suddenly have difficulty with the idea of a steel rod somehow being pleasurable.

if you've never done it you gotta start very slow and carefully and ideally with dedicated sounding rods and plenty of lube

delken said:
Highly concentrated spit™

Now do one with the other end 😏

Woah mama, so good

kingcatto said:
sounding is not cock and ball torture it actually fells pretty good

I always want to believe that, but then a small hair gets like 0.1 inch up my urethra and I suddenly have difficulty with the idea of a steel rod somehow being pleasurable.

Hot!
Do you think you could do futa version?

anominous_director said:
He should have put socks on.

She ...

alaskan_huzky said:
What he said?

You dont want me near you tonight

autobot said:
Have you considered Inkbunny? Would be great to see you there.

You're kinda the only creator here who I actually follow. Probably because half of my tag searches end up with your pictures being listed. :)

Basically impossible. Inkbunny requires metadata in such a way that large, multi-part, inpaint-heavy pieces are impossible to upload there. I would need to provide metadata for basically every one of my thousands of inpaints per piece.

And IB's full of pedo stuff, so I have little desire to be associated with it.

sounding is not cock and ball torture it actually fells pretty good

leeto said:
I'm on the e6ai discord from time to time. If someone manages to create a replacement site I'll be there. In the meantime I'm considering hosting my own site as a stopgap, or perhaps X / twitter. Most likely any account or site I create will be under the name "Leetoraptor".

Have you considered Inkbunny? Would be great to see you there.

You're kinda the only creator here who I actually follow. Probably because half of my tag searches end up with your pictures being listed. :)

чтож, теперь точно есть причина плакать
🫠

I also think part of the reason is that people are leaving e621 and moving to e6AI. Speaking from my own experience, before e6AI came along, I was on e621 almost every day. Once e6AI launched, I switched over there, and now I only check e621 about once a month.

Also, users were upset that AI content was starting to leak into e621. But by shutting down e6AI, they’re just going to get even more of it.

Like it or not, AI is unstoppable. If it's not this site, someone else will build one, and we'll all just migrate there eventually. And let's not forget, traditional artists will also die out (or evolve) someday; we can't just stay in the Stone Age forever.

anotherfurryfan4679 said:
So how long to we got to download what we liked?

apparently the 13th of this month it goes away.
Look at the news, top of the page

It was a pleasure with ya all!

I love this site and I will miss you very much.

rrul said:
so this site dies off with braixen pussy? curious.

Couldve been shitting dick nipples... I'l take the Braixen any day for this end 8-)

tailupsd said:
There will be! :D Minx the sylveon will be posted next week as the final eeveelution for the set.

With e6ai shutting down soon, where will we be able to see the last 3 (or 4 if you do Eevee)?

observatoritority said:
where can we follow and keep up with you after this site shuts down? most of your art that is on e6ai isnt on sofurry, or atleast the new ones as far as i can see

I'm on the e6ai discord from time to time. If someone manages to create a replacement site I'll be there. In the meantime I'm considering hosting my own site as a stopgap, or perhaps X / twitter. Most likely any account or site I create will be under the name "Leetoraptor".

leeto said:
Well, looks like Snava ended up being my first and last upload to e6ai. Fitting, I guess.

where can we follow and keep up with you after this site shuts down? most of your art that is on e6ai isnt on sofurry, or atleast the new ones as far as i can see

chastitycoyote said:
"Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb". Classic!

Not to be confused with Dr. Strangeglove, who is well known by all farm animals.

usernamenull said:
Loved the snava new design

Well, looks like Snava ended up being my first and last upload to e6ai. Fitting, I guess.

so this site dies off with braixen pussy? curious.

qwenker said:
...Or I might just quit if it all gets too bothersome. The future is a mystery 👻

Well, logically the thing will end anyway, just nicer if its the natural conclusiom instead of like my for now dead pool as we see if theres a solution soon.

We can just blame it on the Saluki

Winner gets first crack at Keith

Try looking at it from a different angle: perhaps this will push more people towards other platforms, places where users and creators are treated with the respect they deserve, where the rules actually make sense, and where the staff know how to behave like rational, decent human beings. As far as I'm concerned, I won't be mourning the loss of this place. I mourn the tens of hours I wasted because of it.

Nice animation though :))

Sad news.
To find decent AI-generated images on other sites, you have to sift through tons of junk. Here however, such trash doesn't make it past moderation.
And sorry, but frankly, many hand-crafted work are no better than create AI. Still have to dig through tons of garbage to find any decent work, because the moderation process lets even the most amateurish scribbles (for example, on e621 itself).
But if I understood correctly the saddest part is that they won’t even keep the site up in an archived state.

georgeo said:
Discord works, there's plenty of ai focused servers

Yeah, I thought about making a thread in furry diffusion or e6ai's server, but it would probably be very inconvenient for both me and everyone else. It would also require a discord account just to read, which I'd really hate.

And I don't know if age verification would be needed. I recall there was some ruckus not too long ago about them wanting to see an ID for adult servers (then the IDs got leaked). That's a no go for me.

My last upload :(

qwenker said:

I def will not be making my own booru. I assume this site's userbase will try to whip up something. If not I might bite the bullet and make a discord account, assuming it doesn't ask for verification. Don't know how posting there would work or if it would be worth it at all.

Discord works, there's plenty of ai focused servers

It's sad that E6ai is shutting down.
You can follow my work on my Telegram channel: https://t.me/+pJ2WHrF6zAU0NWYy
If a service similar to E6ai emerges, I'll most likely post my new work there as well.

Well this is a crazy way to find out…

georgeo said:
Damn rip. Maybe you can return to /sdg/ until you make your own booru or something? Your stuff is top shelf.

Nah, the comic's far too confusing to post in short lived threads without context, and using /sdg/ only to facilitate activities attached to one's off-thread persona is bad manners. Just look at all the controversies surrounding user #20623.
Also part of the reason I stopped going there is to give the regulars a break from the local intelligentsia. Don't know if they calmed down any but if I started posting again for this, the thread would be mostly nonstop seething. I miss funposting, but I'd rather not ruin the thread for anons.

I def will not be making my own booru. I assume this site's userbase will try to whip up something. If not I might bite the bullet and make a discord account, assuming it doesn't ask for verification. Don't know how posting there would work or if it would be worth it at all.

Or I might just quit if it all gets too bothersome. The future is a mystery 👻

Since theres no e6ai group on telegram is anyone interested in helping me set one up? I can create super groups on there that allows the use of topics which are basically separate chats within a chat and I know how to make communities to link multiple groups up so they can all be located here's a link if interested
https://t.me/+s45ljYGKPLtjMmM5

wherewolf said:
LOL, thanks very much! I've wanted to post her for months. I figured the minute flaws would warrant rejection, but ceti was very gracious. I would post more, but I think they've suspended edits for me if not the entire site, now. :P

I don't see any flaws ^.^

geo said:
Shutdown is the 13th I believe, so aim to get everything you want by the 12th, just to be safe.

And it’s not possible to download all the images from the page as a keepsake ?

anotherfurryfan4679 said:
So how long to we got to download what we liked?

Shutdown is the 13th I believe, so aim to get everything you want by the 12th, just to be safe.

Bruh…

ramblingrenegade said:
I've loved your work here.. Will truly miss it

Thank you for loving my AI slop all this time. It's been an honor, goodbye and farewell (T_T)

If I dreamed of him, I would first pull his donut once with two fingers, and then stick my hand into him up to his shoulder

That means no more Invoke High. That was always a highlight to see the crazy misadventures of those students. Then add in all the other great posts of things.

Time for e6ai not anymore :(

It was kinda interesting seeing the final posts on the site before uploads were closed. And here we are with the last one.

Thanks, Lunaryth, for posting some of the most peak content there is. Hopefully I find you somewhere else once the site shuts down.

So how long to we got to download what we liked?

astronomix said:
Imagine being such a miserable POS that you have to put down others for pursuing art, just because they don't do it the same way you do.

Ai art isnt stealing. Educate yourself before following crowd sentiment.

Some AI art is stealing. but there is no way of knowing which, and that is the problem. Must people will just assume that every genai model has scraped art without consent. Unfortunately everyone seems to have black and white opinions in a grayscale world.

qwenker said:
No idea, just waiting and seeing for the moment. Don't think there's anywhere else that would be as convenient as e6. After what happened with imgbox it's getting rather annoying.

As above, I got nothing. Well, you know who the lynxes are gonna end up with at least (eventually).

Damn rip. Maybe you can return to /sdg/ until you make your own booru or something? Your stuff is top shelf.

diaspora said:
Just when you returned, the site shuts down.
Smh, you were the Herald of the End

I should have stayed in my cave, never to emerge 😭

Just when you returned, the site shuts down.
Smh, you were the Herald of the End

I am incredibly sorry to everyone who followed and enjoyed my content and the story behind it. There were only a few more images (4–5) left to share. Unfortunately, I cannot continue here—at least for the time being—because the site is currently not allowing any further uploads from members. I truly hope that things don’t reach the point where E6AI has to shut down. I want to thank every single person who liked and followed my content. Perhaps—hopefully—we will see each other again soon, either here or somewhere else. Best regards, Commander

You can find all the generations I haven't uploaded here on my Discord.
You'll find tons of my gens there. Feel free to join and post your own creations: https://discord.gg/nwSQzJGxkU

alaskan_huzky said:
So, people who don't even come here and like the stuff here are punishing for this site to be closed? Isn't that the internet in a nutshell? If every site had to close just because people didn't like it, there would be zero internet. BD should stand their ground and not do what the idiot masses want.

That this is happening in the furry community is staggeringly hypocritical.
What argument has been made for the rights of furries to exist; to be allowed to express themselves, enjoy each other's company, and to be left alone by those who do not share their interests and values;
What such argument does not apply equally here.

Big AI needs to be regulated and held accountable, before it polutes our water, screams into the quiet nights of our communities, and possibly brings about the extinction of the human race, but
nit-picking how furries get off is not the way that battle will be won.
Shutting down a well-managed furry sight will is not progress toward eliminating AI slop.

If you choose to share your art publically, and you are good at it, there will be people who imitate you.
This has always been true. It is true for every medium.
We have seen it with AI scraping, but
We have seen it with tracing before that.
We do see it every day in 3D physical media.
How many knock-off transformers are out there, obvious copies of existing characters?
Hasbro (that evil cesspool of... I digress.) just has to grin and bear it.

If you want to fight plagerism;
Support sites (like e6ai) with responsive and proactive moderation.
Call out specific individuals for their specific theft, just as you would when you catch someone tracing other artist's work.
Support artists by paying for commissions.

Stop blaming the tool for the workman's crimes.

Was wondering after the news broke who and what the last submission would be.

This Braixen will live in infamy history 8-P

n_n said:
Dang i wanted to make a simple gif.. altho way under site rules standards it would still just be a fox waving goodbye.

Hope many more will join the discord

I have my own server and, as I mentioned in my last post, anyone who is interested is welcome to join and share their gens there too! ^^

Just an FYI but posting thinly veiled artist hate and conspiracies justifying it in a roundabout way are part of the reason no one likes AI and it's proponents and are only proving them right on every front. The fact that e6ai existed in the first place, by the same people that made a regular art booru, was always a double edged sword and the fact it survived for as long as it did is honestly a miracle. A lotta people could use being a bit more mindful of the tools they are using, and especially of the artists they are literally prompting.

Absolute tease.

wherewolf said:
I would post more,

Maybe link an imgbox, or zip in a catbox in private message?

Take me!

Until whenever a new website is born...

celeste_shamrock said:
One basic question: Why are they taking down E6AI? Its certainly well supported with an abundancy of posts. Were they brow-beat by the hand-doodlers to end it? What happened?

Vocal minority of anti ai individuals whom proclaimed themselves as artists do not like ai art, as they can no longer charge obscene amount of money just to satisfy somebodys sexual fetish. If you learn basics of inpainting and have at least semi decent hardware you can generate better images than those ¨artists¨ ever painted, that pisses them off.

Guess what drawing animal genitalia does not make you real artist, and making furry porn is not a real job.

Hey again, Sagrael.

I got one more recommendation for you. It's another furry discord channel:

https://discord.com/invite/yChB2wCHjU

Dang i wanted to make a simple gif.. altho way under site rules standards it would still just be a fox waving goodbye.

Hope many more will join the discord

touchesfluffytail said:
Huh. Any good programs that would download my favorites for me, adding at least some selected tags in the filenames or something? I'm honestly too lazy to do that by hand.

I made this script for those of you wishing to download a bunch of images.

https://hastebin.com/share/uhebicavag.php

Just paste it into a powershell window in the directory you want the images saved and give your tags (fav:<yourusername> will get all your favorites, works with normal e6ai search query syntax as well.)

If you have a lot of favorites, it will take quite some time to download. The script intentionally does not download images in parallel to be nice to the e6ai servers.

Obligatory DON'T RUN RANDOM POWERSHELL SCRIPTS ON YOUR COMPUTER IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY DO. If you aren't scripting savvy, throw it into an LLM or even google AI search and ask if it is safe.

Fuck. That hole.

I love how he gets hard <3

Ahhh the last dragon and the last cloaca post, everything just seems like a dream and I'm being pulled back to reality.

I'm gonna his this place and all it people.