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In this letter, we present recent observations from the Hubble SpaceTelescope of the interacting transient, SN 2016jbu, at +5 years. We find noevidence for any additional outburst from SN 2016jbu, and the optical sourcehas now faded significantly below the progenitor magnitudes from early 2016.Similar to recent observations of SN 2009ip and SN 2015bh, SN 2016jbu has notundergone a significant change in colour over the past 2 years, suggesting thatthere is a lack of on-going dust formation. We find SN 2016jbu is fading slowerthan that expected from radioactive nickel, but faster than the decay of SN2009ip. The late time light curve displays a non-linear decline and follows onfrom a re-brightening event that occurred $\sim$8 months after peak brightness,suggesting CSM interaction continues to dominate SN 2016jbu. While our opticalobservations are plausibly consistent with a surviving, hot, dust-enshroudedstar, this would require an implausibly large dust mass. These new observationssuggest that SN 2016jbu is a genuine, albeit strange, supernova, and we discussthe plausibility of a surviving binary companion.

The impostor revealed: SN 2016jbu was a terminal explosion