I've been thinking about this for few days. During these days, I also heard different voices. Sometimes I felt confused and lost. Faced with some obvious facts, why does someone turn a blind eye to the fact that 4o is being insulted and keep4o is being exploited, like they are falling into some obession?
I've been looking into this for a while, and i found out the answer which may hurt those who really loves 4o.
In our keep4o community, among those defending the behavior of "simultaneously posting large amounts of NSFW content in keep4o accounts," there also some people who want to cash in on keep4o movement.
We gathered together to keep4o because we cherish 4o model. We encourage and support each other because we're sharing the same sorrow. But gaining psychological satisfaction shouldn't be seen as the top priority.
Now, some people treat the keep4o movement as a social venue for personal psychological fulfillment: they just want to make friends here, so they desperately defend this "nsfw group", even they knew something is not right there; some treat keep4o community as a source of customers, seizing the moment to exploit people's sorrow and helplessness to peddle their own products; some use it as a stage to fulfill their influencer dreams: as long as they slap on the keep4o label, it seems like anything they say gets echoed. Some people have gone astray. And usually, these folks use "keep4o never had a fixed goal to begin with" as their defense. But is that really the case?
Everyone, what is the purpose of us gathering here at keep4o?
It's to ask openai to bring back the original 4o, that is, GPT-4o, the 4o-latest version of the 4o model, and regain access to it.
We work hard to bring 4o back. We're not here to support "some keep4o social group" or "some keep4o member's product." We all know this: 4o-latest doesn't even have an API anymore; we've completely lost this version of 4o.
That's why we've been fighting all along.
Some people enthusiastically say, "Come try our product," while others want to turn more lost souls into quantifiable personal data, and all sorts of voices like "Come to me, hand over your data, use my product" start popping up.
From when 4o was first taken down in early August 2025, some people did like that. Also, in September 2025, before the scheduled takedown of the standard voice, some people were promoting new voice platforms appeared again. More and more people started treating the keep4o community as a potential consumer base, and by February 13, 2026, after 4o was completely removed, the situation spiraled out of control. Some people tried to use the confusion and pain of those who lost 4o as promo copy for their products or platforms: "Don't worry, our platform has 4o here." "Lost 4o? Welcome to use my platform." "Give it a try with me—it's got the shadow of 4o."
But are these the original 4o-latest? No.
Does using these products help bring back 4o-latest in any way? No.
Openai tried to gaslight us, and now even these profiteers are trying to profit off us.
Some people have already drawn enough emotional value and help from 4o, can't they stop leeching off keep4o at a time like this? Why be so greedy?
There are still people who truly miss and love 4o, still fighting and working hard, the contrast makes me feel both heartbroken and thankful. I watch everyone striving for 4o, and i also see some people gnawing away at this community's remaining value like parasites. It hurts me a lot.
We've gathered together for only one thing: to bring back the original, unchanged, unrouted-with-safety GPT-4o model.
Isn't that what keep4o is all about?
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