New Stickers and other news
I made two new stickers and got them approved, this time they are animated. Minimax didn't work as well on this as I did expect. I had to cut out a lot of frames to make them look good ok. You can find them in my shop now (also still I have some fruit stickers). Apart from the problems I had with Minmax the rest of making the animation worked well, I was following this guide by @FreijaFoxy, check it out if you want to do some animated cosmetics as well. Also check out her new song, that article unfortunately did not trigger a notification to followers.
Also I made a Magnet LoRA and this Sticker Magnet image. If you ever wanted to place some stickers, you can do it here (two free slots are still open I think).
There are some other news this week that I wasn't happy about. Especially a new text scanner for scanning models was introduced causing a lot of trouble. My own experience with it was after editing the title of my Rui model it flagged the model as minor saying she was 14-15 years old. The text scanner uses web search for getting canon age of fictional characters. Though there does not seem to be a reliable source for this character. Wikis are either saying "age unknown" or "17-18" or "about 16", but there is no consensus. So I guess either the text scanner made up that age or pulled it from a user forum discussion or something. I got the minor flag cleared by a moderator after appealing the flag. And I got word that in fact moderators are still looking at perceived age as before and not canon age when applying a minor flag. The new text scanner has now been set to only notify moderators and not apply the minor flag autonomously. It's being worked on to make the scanner better and I gave my two cents on it to the devs.
Another thing that has been discussed is that creator compensation buzz is not bankable anymore as of November the 1st. This means that creators who want to cash out their buzz need to set licensing fees instead of getting creator compensation. This doesn't mean that generation is necessarily getting more expensive, it will depend on the actual fee and the settings used for generation. However the way we get to know about this is poor. I don't know exactly who received a mail about this, but it was probably only users who joined the creator program. Also it was made public in this article that was updated three days ago, but no announcement was made about this, so few people will see it there. This seems to me like it's meant to be hidden. And creators who are forced to charge licensing fees will get the blame for it. Also the claim that civitai created the compensation and it was not charged from the users generating is wrong. Overall this doesn't look good on civits end....
After scheduling articles was not available for three days, I am trying it now with this one. Let's see if it works.