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    Published June 13, 2025by NanashiAnon

    Quick tip: If your LoRA's character has a live action version be clear it's based on something else.

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    (Pictured: James Bond from the 1950s Daily Express comic strips)

    Just a quick piece of advice since I've learned this is another thing that isn't as obvious as I think it is*. If you post a model for a character with multiple separate incarnations, you really should make a minimum effort to clearly specify which version its based on. This is especially so if there's a live action version and/or you use realistic/high quality 3D for the showcase now that there's a total total ban on real person likenesses. Saying what work a character is from is something I consider mandatory for a proper title and description (except possibly some characters where the work's common name is the character's name and there's only one incarnation, but then we're getting pedantic) just for the search optimization alone, but for characters that could possibly be mistaken for a live action version (either by fame or because you want to make the gallery full of realistic looking images) it's especially important.

    The mods are overworked, already make far too many misclicks for the site's own good, some absolute vultures go looking for stuff to report for buzz not caring if its an actual violation knowing they'll get it anyways because of the prior points, and appeals are slow. The mods are not going to go through the trouble of going to compare to the celebrity version and see it's clearly a different version of the character when you couldn't even be bothered to clearly indicate there was a different version.

    *Just had a creator react extremely hostile (block) to the mere recommendation that an uneeded risk be avoided for some reason. Whatever, it's not like I am going to be the one that has to go through an annoying appeals process (and possibly account strike) when its mistakenly reported and a mod doesn't realize your model with realistic showcase is the non-actor based video game version and not the (earlier and more famous) live action one.