Problematic Creators
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I heard sora (now rebranded to komi) attacked a creator for using the same shirt asset as her and accused them of coping her style and made the other creator show proof of purchase. Even when the creator did komi was still mad at her and shunned her and had her mods call her the R slur in the general chat of her server
My friends always have some new drama abt avi creators but it's always ppl who make cutecore booth avis -
7sSanctuary harassed me on Discord and via email because I asked very politely for a refund on her "Moon" avatar and listed several reasons as to why I felt a refund was warranted (avatar did not look anything like the renders on the shop page, assets were placed incorrectly/low quality, etc). She kept quoting her "TOS" and as our conversation went nowhere and started to turn into back and forth arguing I eventually stated that I might have to file a charge-back to recoup my $40. The moment i mentioned a charge-back her entire attitude shifted and she snapped, stating she would have to blacklist me, told me I was rude, etc.
In her email to me she claimed I was lying about her, stating that I was "extremely rude" despite the fact that she had told me point-blank that I would be blacklisted for asking for a refund via a charge-back in the first place. She also claimed that my name has been spread to several creators and at the end of her email capped it off with "Thanks for your backwards cooperation".
So basically avoid this creator. If you want actual good avatars there are tons of other reputable creators out there that make beautiful avatars that are actually worth a $40 price tag. Oh, and she claimed in our Discord chats that she was 'very new' to avatar creation. Well, here's a tip: If you're so new to avatar creation that your work is this subpar... then maybe don't charge that much money for it.
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Hmmm I did not experience much with negative with avatar creators, but some of the tea I heard are from these creators like Cringy, Hazie (super old tea), beaniebaby, Cupkake, etc.
Ooh spill the tea on Cupkake? I love her avatars but I had no idea she was problematic. I know Strawbunny is another notoriously problematic creator as well.
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Ooh spill the tea on Cupkake? I love her avatars but I had no idea she was problematic. I know Strawbunny is another notoriously problematic creator as well.
@Sythra Cupkake avatars are really good and I do like her as avatar creators too. What I heard is she didn't often fix her avatars and there are tons of simp following her. Sometimes when I checkout vr models lots of her avatars are on there lolololol. I could be wrong, and this is just heard from someone else, so please considered not to harassing her.
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not really a HUGE avi creator, but pretty big in the roblox side of things, poobii. theyre generally over all an asshole to the people around them, and seem to think that harassing minors over things they were groomed into doing is okay. yeah i get it hold them accountable, but christ keep it to dms and leave it be. not to mention they charge a rediculous amount for avatars that have basically nothing on them, and got mad bc ppl are ripping them because they dont wanna pay 60$ for an avatar with like 6 expressions and goloco. theyre overall hella immature too and dont handle drama in their server properly. idk if you wanna say this is problematic but yknow.
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any of u know know why some people dont like guttercandy/heartpilled? i keep hearing theyre disliked but no1 tells me why and i wanna know
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I'm gonna put a warning about Nueki in here because at this point people need to know what they're getting into if they commission a Genshin/Honkai avatar from her. I'm still in the process of waiting for an avatar commission from her and she has given me nothing so far to show for it. She refuses to give an ETA for her work, claims she "only works on avatars during weekdays" and while I'm aware she has several people in line ahead of me (I believe I was the 12th person in line when she opened comms again) and can be patient enough to wait it out - it still feels wrong to not give me any sort of updates or progress. Keep in mind that I commissioned her back in June for an avatar and it's now August.
However she also claimed that she can make "1-3 avatars per week" when she is working on commissions, and if that's the case I feel like she'd have something to show me by now. Her communication is spotty at best, and while she does communicate honestly a lot of her practices rub me the wrong way. Especially the fact that on her website she charges an extra $20 to make a commission "exclusive to you". No other creator that I know of charges an extra fee for ensuring an avatar belongs only to you. Oh and she also told me that she pauses "every three commissions" to work on personal projects aka the P2U avatars she releases now and again.
Also while I do understand she had some health issues come up that caused a further delay (which she did disclose) it still feels unfair that I haven't received any further updates or communication regarding my avatar.
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Update on the Nueki situation; she doubled down on her bullshit. I made a brief video explaining the situation and my experience, and she hopped into my comments to promptly doxx me by sharing a PayPal receipt with my full legal name on it in a vain attempt to try and prove she's in the right by having refunded my money. While I am glad to have gotten my money back, my experience with her has definitely soured me from commissions. She also fed me novel-length paragraphs of her living situation, disabilities, etc to try and get empathy from me. She also tried to call me a two-faced bitch in my DMs because a now ex-friend of mine went behind my back and shared screenshots of my venting about the whole situation to her. Oh and she tried to call me ableist... girl, I am disabled. I fully empathize with her situation, income, etc but when you give me these novel-length messages they come off as less empathetic and more like making excuses for your lack of professionalism.
The main crux of my issues with her turned out to be her exclusivity clause. When I initially placed the commission I told her I was fine with my model being non-exclusive. However after about three months of very intermittent communication and feeling uneasy/wanting peace of mind I asked if I could have my model be exclusive to me and was more than willing to pay the fee to do so as she had not started working on my commission yet. She reacted with another novel-length message and dropped a bomb on me stating that my model had already been put up for pre-sales and people had already put money down for the model and she didn't want to refund them because it would lose her money and her only source of income has been pay-to-use avatars and she was even considering ceasing commissions because they don't bring her enough money (gee I wonder why?).
I had never been told that she was setting up my model for any sort of sales when I chose to make it non-exclusive initially and have never experienced another creator doing something like this. Because she refused to make it exclusive to me, I was under the assumption that it wouldn't be put up for sale until I received it first but I guess Nueki runs her business differently - though she hilariously claims that several creators on Gumroad/Payhip/etc do similar practices. She has also since claimed that I rudely made a last-minute request when the exact opposite is true. I messaged her politely and stated how "the more I think about it the more I'd prefer my model to be exclusive to me. I'm willing to pay the extra fee." But no, paint me as the rude, entitled bitch I guess.
I hope people rip her models and share them on here because God knows she fucking deserves it.
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Update on the Nueki situation; she doubled down on her bullshit. I made a brief video explaining the situation and my experience, and she hopped into my comments to promptly doxx me by sharing a PayPal receipt with my full legal name on it in a vain attempt to try and prove she's in the right by having refunded my money. While I am glad to have gotten my money back, my experience with her has definitely soured me from commissions. She also fed me novel-length paragraphs of her living situation, disabilities, etc to try and get empathy from me. She also tried to call me a two-faced bitch in my DMs because a now ex-friend of mine went behind my back and shared screenshots of my venting about the whole situation to her. Oh and she tried to call me ableist... girl, I am disabled. I fully empathize with her situation, income, etc but when you give me these novel-length messages they come off as less empathetic and more like making excuses for your lack of professionalism.
The main crux of my issues with her turned out to be her exclusivity clause. When I initially placed the commission I told her I was fine with my model being non-exclusive. However after about three months of very intermittent communication and feeling uneasy/wanting peace of mind I asked if I could have my model be exclusive to me and was more than willing to pay the fee to do so as she had not started working on my commission yet. She reacted with another novel-length message and dropped a bomb on me stating that my model had already been put up for pre-sales and people had already put money down for the model and she didn't want to refund them because it would lose her money and her only source of income has been pay-to-use avatars and she was even considering ceasing commissions because they don't bring her enough money (gee I wonder why?).
I had never been told that she was setting up my model for any sort of sales when I chose to make it non-exclusive initially and have never experienced another creator doing something like this. Because she refused to make it exclusive to me, I was under the assumption that it wouldn't be put up for sale until I received it first but I guess Nueki runs her business differently - though she hilariously claims that several creators on Gumroad/Payhip/etc do similar practices. She has also since claimed that I rudely made a last-minute request when the exact opposite is true. I messaged her politely and stated how "the more I think about it the more I'd prefer my model to be exclusive to me. I'm willing to pay the extra fee." But no, paint me as the rude, entitled bitch I guess.
I hope people rip her models and share them on here because God knows she fucking deserves it.
@Sythra that is actually so crazy
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@Sythra that is actually so crazy
It's been actually insane. Oh and I forgot to mention that she doxxed me. She put up a screenshot of the PayPal receipt of her refunding me my money to try and paint herself as being in the right and showed off my full, legal name to the whole damn internet.
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It's been actually insane. Oh and I forgot to mention that she doxxed me. She put up a screenshot of the PayPal receipt of her refunding me my money to try and paint herself as being in the right and showed off my full, legal name to the whole damn internet.
@Sythra OMG WTF?? That's actually wild. The fallout they are gonna have is going to be crazy
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@Sythra OMG WTF?? That's actually wild. The fallout they are gonna have is going to be crazy
I've reported her to PayPal and TikTok already. Not much else I can really do unfortunately. And the kicker is I even acquiesced to the fact that it wouldn't be exclusive to me in the end because I didn't want to argue any further and she told me I would have my avatar by the end of the month (Hey look she actually provided an ETA who would have thought)... only to wake up this morning with another novel length message and my money being refunded to me.
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Huge creator, Torinyan actually has become quite problematic. Mass banning of popular people in their server, silencing people who speak up about it. and even banning and ostracizing one of their employees.
Currently is extremely hostile and bans for the smallest of actions. and when one of their longest business partners Polybunny. who has been a large contributor of assets and addons for torinyan avatars. had spent over a year of designing and planning a refresh/Update to the Tetsuko avatar, to bring it upto modern ish standards WORKING with torinyan for it. around the release of shoggoth it was retconned because of torinyans "evolving" standards. which was getting more Totalitarian. there is ALOT more to the fckn story which i will link a timeline of events post. (https://bsky.app/profile/yargon.bsky.social/post/3lvtmapkzkk2b)But to summ the recent event. Polybunny has decided over 2 yr ago to make their own avatar down the line. They painstakingly gathered references and created a design from scratch. and are in the progress of doing their own Robot avatar, with inspiration from their collaborative work with Torinyan. and they shared it with torinyan before they even announced it in their own server for their 2 year anniversary. which Torinyan immediately decided to take it as a personal slight of the highest order claiming direct Plagerism and using designs. "THERE IS NO COPYRIGHT ON MAKING A SMOOTH BODY ROBOT" and proceeded to ban and remove all polybunny assets and the creators inside their server and have a spy account inside the polybunny server. anyone who has spoken at all in the polybunny server has gotten banned without zero warning. as of 8/17/2025 Torinyan has decided to release a "new" avatar as a direct jab at polybunny for their new avatar.
It is absolute fucking pettiness https://tori-nyan.booth.pm/items/7314892
The community that i know is left in the server are either yes-men or are too scared to bring up their opinion or speak on anything on the premise of getting banned. i might of missed a thing or two. but its all i can handle with how pissed i am. -
https://tori-nyan.booth.pm/items/7314892 their shit does not deserve that dumbass two week rule they want if they are gonna play petty.
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Adding onto it aswell. This reflects bad onto vrc itself due to Vrchat directly promoting and displaying Torinyan avatars publicly posting on their socials of working with torinyan to get them as the first few in the avatar market initially and feature multiple tori avatars on their site and videos.
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Huge creator, Torinyan actually has become quite problematic. Mass banning of popular people in their server, silencing people who speak up about it. and even banning and ostracizing one of their employees.
Currently is extremely hostile and bans for the smallest of actions. and when one of their longest business partners Polybunny. who has been a large contributor of assets and addons for torinyan avatars. had spent over a year of designing and planning a refresh/Update to the Tetsuko avatar, to bring it upto modern ish standards WORKING with torinyan for it. around the release of shoggoth it was retconned because of torinyans "evolving" standards. which was getting more Totalitarian. there is ALOT more to the fckn story which i will link a timeline of events post. (https://bsky.app/profile/yargon.bsky.social/post/3lvtmapkzkk2b)But to summ the recent event. Polybunny has decided over 2 yr ago to make their own avatar down the line. They painstakingly gathered references and created a design from scratch. and are in the progress of doing their own Robot avatar, with inspiration from their collaborative work with Torinyan. and they shared it with torinyan before they even announced it in their own server for their 2 year anniversary. which Torinyan immediately decided to take it as a personal slight of the highest order claiming direct Plagerism and using designs. "THERE IS NO COPYRIGHT ON MAKING A SMOOTH BODY ROBOT" and proceeded to ban and remove all polybunny assets and the creators inside their server and have a spy account inside the polybunny server. anyone who has spoken at all in the polybunny server has gotten banned without zero warning. as of 8/17/2025 Torinyan has decided to release a "new" avatar as a direct jab at polybunny for their new avatar.
It is absolute fucking pettiness https://tori-nyan.booth.pm/items/7314892
The community that i know is left in the server are either yes-men or are too scared to bring up their opinion or speak on anything on the premise of getting banned. i might of missed a thing or two. but its all i can handle with how pissed i am.@acervoid i was an early supporter of the person in question who grew in said community the one you are posting that wall of text in support of, i paid them for multiple commissions generously and they always left me with unfinished work that i had to fix, taking a lot longer than if i were to have done the work myself. gave them 100 usd for a simple avatar port something i can do easily they left me with it in a non functional state for actually playing.
tory has been nothing but good to us, the whole gripe about the waiting thing is just idiots who want something free without waiting but think on this she never went after those using her products illegally and even provided up to date content links for all their avatars without ever being a bitch about it.
and no im not some mindless yes man, i call things as I see them. i would be calling tori on shit if I actually felt they deserved it. but as far as i can see they dont. not in this case.... they got seriously threatened by the content license owner cause of someone making clonework of their content without so much as a "can i?" to them before hand which would put their entire shop in danger of closing, someone who might i add was in their server, someone who should of had the common decency to ask rather than just spring it on them last second, doing more than hurting their livelihood and ability to feed themselves and live
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last second? they knew for months they were working on an avatar, they shown and asked about what they think of the avatar well before they released ANY statements. and they got no response for 2 days and then immediately was met with full hostility
@acervoid from how it was explained and from what i could gather they stated they were working on an avatar but kept them in the dark about what it was or how it looked. anything past this is hearsay since im not directly involved in said drama, we dont know which side actually is telling the truth. granted i feel like tori is telling the truth on their end but thats just me cause after all why would you risk almost all your income pissing off the IP owner on purpose?
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It doesn't matter what Torinyan or Polybunny says, what matters is the evidence that is presented that can't be argued against. Polybunny has an estabilished a history of poor, half-finished work, and the model they released__ despite whatever claims they've made__ looks too similar in style to Torinyan's Runa and the concept artists artwork.
What Polybunny has done is poorly thought out at best and malicious at worst, and their claims can't be trusted because even if they aren't just trying to cover up malicious intent, it proves incompetence on their part for not ensuring what they were doing wouldn't cause such a problem in the first place. It's unprofessional.
As for Torinyan it's well established they have issues handling excess stress due to a number of reasons, which is why they have what is effectively a communications manager to handle this kind of thing for them. So if anyone is seriously trying to say Torinyan is the problem here you are either bad at making judgments or are attacking them because of some sort of slight or vendetta, which the latter wouldn't surprise me consider how much the vrchat model community likes to spread misinformation about them.
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