Happy 2nd Birthday to Illustrious!

Two years ago (minus a few hours) Illustrious 0.1 was first released! While we've seen many new base models since, none of them look to be displacing Illustrious due to their higher cost/resource expenditure and being closer to sidegrades (with worse licensing). I can tell you that virtually all generation on Civitai using my LoRAs is of Illustrious, even beyond the advantage you'd expect from it being the base model I support most: Of all the models that earned buzz this month, there were twenty seven Illustrious models, four Krea 2 models (mostly near the start of the month from the contest spillover), two Anima ones, and one small earning PDXL one. Illustrious looks like it will continue to see use and get LoRA support.

I'd have a new Illustrious LoRA to celebrate, but Kohya isn't working right now. Kohya works better for tag models like Illustrious.