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oh god i just noticed the shitfuckery going on with clip studio assets. it looks like maybe they got leaned on to delete nsfw poses and stuff, and it led to mass deletions of basically any kind of couple pose. even very chaste, cute, nonsexual couple poses i have in my library are all deleted

please send feedback and tell them they beefed it on this. this is bonkers. support.clip-studio.com/en-us/contac...

paypro censorship is getting so bad that you can't even have 3D model poses of people holding hands apparently 🙄

here are some completely sfw poses in my library that were probably caught up in mass deletion. down there in the bottom-left, if you click on a material and then click the swirly Celsys logo icon on it, it'll take you to their store page. spot-check your couple poses. most or all probably got nuked

it seems like ANYTHING labeled "couple" or "kiss" or anything like that got the chainsaw, even if it wasn't 18+/sensitive content. they just dropped a bomb. heard about it here

in my feedback i basically told them listen, i get that you probably got threatened by paypros over this, but you need to clarify your guidelines and you need to let us export poses so we can share them elsewhere if you're going to be like this

just doing some searching around with keywords, it also looks like there's still couple poses left, including NSFW ones so i honestly don't know what the fuck they're doing at this point

CSP assets has always been tightly moderated, to kind of an absurd degree? one time i posted a pose with an example drawing and a mod nuked me for... linking to the cool brush i used to draw the example image because "you can't use others' assets in your asset" 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

so like it's definitely not a case of them deciding to clean up after not paying attention for a while or something. i honestly do not know what's going on, only that it seems ill-considered and stupid as hell

the NSFW poses i can still find have this banner on them. what on EARTH are they doing???? is sexual content allowed or not?

to be clear: anything you already have downloaded is safe, but make sure you back up your Materials folder because you may never be able to re-download that stuff if you lose it. www.reddit.com/r/ClipStudio... god, this is so fucking terrible. i really hope this isn't what it seems to be 🫠

i went to check on my own materials and apparently they are reviewing materials before they're posted. i guess what i'm gonna do is keep an eye on recent uploads and see what's getting through, because they apparently just aren't going to tell anyone what their moderation policy is 🙄

also sorry for linking to the bad website but it's where they're posting. if you check quotes on this there's mention of an uproar by japanese users about this over the last few days but idk where to find any of that x.com/clipstudiopa...

anyway i canceled my gold membership for now and i put "unexplained mass deletion of assets means my gold/clippy is less valuable" as the reason why

i will say: historically Celsys have been awful communicators, and it really seems like nobody knows what's going on right now. they have also responded to user outcry positively before. this could still resolve ok but i think it's important to let them know we see it and we're fucking mad

god. if you want to see the scope of the destruction, search "kiss" under poses. a few days ago there would have been hundreds, maybe thousands of results. now there are less than 100

all right. quote posts are going away for this thread because y'all can't keep the smug "just use [software that is in no way equivalent to csp]" posts where they belong: inside your head, un-typed. shhhhhh

There's now an update on the English Clip Studio twitter, along with a follow up regarding the ability to redownload assets:

Me at everyone today telling me to just use an rss feed when I gave a simple option for keeping a webcomics bookmark list instead of relying on sites like Tapas and Webtoons to always stay running... But yeah mood. Even as a non-CSP user, I'm gutted that users are getting screwed over >_<

UGGGHHH im an RSS feed liker but i also prefer bookmarks for certain things because of Reasons... people cannot be normal about this stuff it's balls. i wish we could have anything

I'm sorry you're having to deal with it too >_< I just want artists to get A Break for A MINUTE