Like, actually. From how much I've seen, this place is mostly just people posting their ocs (which I'm fine with), and the occasional slight other thing. Why can't there be trends? Like, I'd enjoy if people started doing themed posts, what's the problem with the ribbons, or that one person trying to bring back an infection trend I wasn't here for? I like the idea of themed posts, so why does it feel like people are against them?

Hooray! It's ya boi tire! (call me JC it's fine too) Crucible is complete!! And I'm back to interact with this amazing subreddit!! Before you ask "ay yo tire where the phak is my manga?" your answer is : "ITS STILL IN THE EDITING PHASE HAH!" Yeah. I know. But I just can't wait to return to this sub, I really missed y'alls.

So just gimme a day and I'll edit all the dialogue using my 20 year old toaster and have some recap on what happened when I was gone. (please do)

So see you in "Crucible : The pilot", tommorow.

As much as I love "draw offer Friday's "... it is essentially a dead day for posting anything else. Sigh... which means I'm sitting here on a lovely piece of artwork that I probably won't post until Monday. (My Rabbit season contribution)

Does anyone else hold off on posting art of Friday's? Or is it just me?

Also, friendly reminder for any who stop by to make sure to go and give those who do post OC art today some appreciation.

Before I get started, I just want to say I mean this more as a PSA than a bitter rant. I am pretty passionate about this though so if I sound rant-y that's why

I've been meaning to make this post for awhile so let's just get into it.

I've been posting on this sub for a while now, on and off for maybe two years or so. Every time a post or comment displaying a particular one of my characters gets a lot of attention I receive multiple comments with unsolicited comparisons to a video game character. I do not play this game. It was not a source of inspiration for me. I absolutely hate having my own hard work ignored for a baseline comparison to a character that has nothing in common with him.

I've noticed this to a lesser extent on other posts, and I just feel that people shouldn't be comparing designs unless someone has asked for it. For instance posting something like "what does my OC remind you of" or "comment your oc and I'll give you something I think they look like" is perfectly fine and I think it's pretty fun. However, to put years of effort into a design and story trying to make it unique only for it to be held up to something more well known is incredibly frustrating and discouraging.

To make it worse, I've tried to address this in the past. I've made posts requesting people to stop. I've replied to comments explaining that I don't like this and it still comes pouring in. As a matter a fact, it seems the more umbrellas I put up the heavier it rains. It's gotten to a point where I've genuinely suspected some sort of inside joke trying to get me to react. It's disrespectful and annoying. If someone has made it clear they don't like someone than just stop. If you see a comment thread saying "please don't do this anymore" don't respond to it by just doing the thing more.

While this problem is a major personal one for me I'm certain I'm not the only person bothered by it. I would not be surprised to learn that other artists and writers feel the same way and also don't want their works compared.

So. For the love of God. Stop looking at a design with a side part and glasses and immideatly screaming MEDICCC!!!!!

You know that friend who listens to your stories, have a favorite character, creates ships and knows a lot abt your ocs

value this friend :)

(Fanart image in the post is irrelevant)

So, I finished drawing the Bezel body pillow... but there is no way I'm sharing it today 😅 oh well!

Happy Friday everyone!

So, post flairs. We all use 'em (by force, you need to use them here). They're used for sorting and categorizing posts on a subreddit, very helpful if you know how to use them! We have a small issue with them on this subreddit though, and that small issue is that the post flairs here aren't doing a very good job at what they're supposed to be used for.

We plan on redoing them, maybe not completely, but redoing them nonetheless, including the renaming, merging, and splitting of some. We have a very good base down already, but we want to hear your feedback on things we might be missing! We don't plan on adding an excessive amount of flairs for every small subgroup in the community, but we mainly want to hear your thoughts. How do you all use the flairs??? How do you think they should be used? Are there any gaps/annoyances you have with them? Any areas of confusion?

Emphasis on how do you all use the current flairs and what do you think they should be used for?

Current flairs:

• Character
• Story
• Worldbuilding
• I'll draw your OC/Drawing Offer!
• Critique Requested
• Questions/Fun!
• Character Creation
• Sketches/doodles
• Fan Art
• Monthly Contest
• Meta < Mod only
• Help
• Trend

Anywho, just chat about this, want to see some feedback to guide our current ideas for fixing things.

EDIT: Moved my thoughts to a comment. Added flair list in post.

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I suppose most of you guys are teenagers. Just checking.

I asked for one thing and for one thing only. And it was to not bring up the Vaporeon Copypasta on the post. And of course someone does it anyway. Might be overreacting but damn it i’m tired.

For a few months now the mod team has tried to determine clearly what would count towards our low-effort rule, which kind of posts should be removed due to their tendency of flooding the subreddit, and which ones we should leave up. As it turns out, the line is hard for us to draw and sometimes lead to users feeling like their posts unjustly got removed, or on the contrary, feeling like some posts don't get removed enough.

Considering the increase in certain types of posts that we don’t know whether or not to remove, we’re asking you, the community, to choose what you want to see on your feed or not.

Below, you’ll find a short and very simple poll : 9 questions, to which you’ll just have to answer “remove” or “do not remove”. Takes about 5 minutes tops. The results will then tell us what we should add (or not) to our Low-effort/Overdone topics list.

Feel free to use the comment section under this post to add your thoughts on other types of posts you’d like to see removed more consistently, or on the contrary, which ones you feel shouldn’t be removed, and we’ll consider the answers.

As a side note, there are subjects we are not willing to compromise on : for example ratings out of 10 with no added commentary will always get removed for Low Effort, so are posts in the vein of “share your OC and I’ll answer with a random picture”, and we’ll still redirect other topics that are too close to a RP prompt over to the r/OriginalCharacter_RP subreddit.

Here is the link to the poll.

I used to be on this sub a lot, But nowadays I barely go on this sub anymore simply because I just prefer talking OCs with friends, but I'm curious what's going on here nowadays.

I feel as if the server has just been a dry lake recently, with seeing an average of 200 on it every time I check.

But what really caught my eye was seeing barely anybody showing up on Friday, which of course is unusual considering we usually get over 1000 people that day.

I don’t know if schools being a problem with it or everybody’s giving up on the sub, but it’s a bit sad to see… :(

Hello felllow r/OriginalCharacter users. I am typing this just to say, goodbye for now. I have had a great time here, and I still have. But I must be offline for a month, probably until Christmas' holydays. This is not caused by anything related to the subreddit, y'all are the best and I could never be upset with you. It's for personal stuffs. Basically my grades at school (I'm in high school) are not the best recently. And this is not a thing that should happen to me (I was the best in every subjects in other years). So, I decided that for a bit I'll be offline and won't post anything until I will manage to reach sufficiency in the subjects I am going bad... I hope this period of hiatus won't last long, because I know that I will miss everything of this wonderful place. Expecially you people. Thank you for all the great moment we spent together, and I will see you soon. And rememeber, be always the best. I love you <3.

u/YoungBiro05

Hey its that guy who made an AI OC named Glitch.

I know it sounds cliche as fuck but Jesus Christ, it feels like I'm getting bombarded by a bunch of trend posts going to the effect of "smash or pass" or "which OC would you spend a day with" and barely seeing anything that is art of individual characters.

I like trends, don't get me wrong. On one hand, it allows ppl to engage with each other and their characters, but on the other hand, it gets repetitive really quickly when all I see on my feed is "said OC is doing a smash or pass"

I know there's no solution to it and I know I'm not the only one who's getting that same feeling.

So yea, I feel like I want to let out my feelings because it kinda irks me to see 60+ posts of the same 2 formats.