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@paywallawareness
I literally just want to scream THANK YOU from the top of my lungs to all the cc creators who doesn’t put their downloads behind any Harmful sites!!
Thank you Thank you Thank you from the deepest depths of my heart ♥
some ppl dont really acknowledge the fact that the shit is really slowly murdering our computers, while others just don’t know which is okay… but fuck you if you know and don’t give a damn…
The problem with these permapay cc creators thinking you should just pay if you want their stuff and act like it should be no big deal because you own the game make no sense when there's probably thousands upon thousands of cc creators, and if you had to pay all of them, you'd easily go broke even if you had money
Oh yes. So let’s talk about this. So I’m friends with a few different people who are subbed to permapaywall creators because they have no choice if they want to use their content. And one of them made a really great comment about it.
They said “I cannot support early access creators like I want to because I have to pay for paywalled content.” THINK ABOUT THAT. See, the truth is that a lot of paywall creators charge extreme prices for their content. Some examples below: Breezemotors: $29 a month for all content Leosims: $15 a month for all content Blackmojitos: $25 a month for all content Slephora: $10 a month for all content Safari.Sims: $29.50 a month for a large build felixandre: $20 a month for all content. Aggressivekitty: $10 a month for builds full of other people’s CC. Those prices are insane. And because early access folks tend to have lower prices, for the same price of ONE sub to these folks a month, you can support a ton of early access creators. Here’s an EXAMPLE post I made where I showed how the $15 I could have spent on Leosims content went to EIGHT different early access creators. In a perfect world, everyone who offers CC would do early access and have prices that are reasonable for it (ex: no more than $5 or so). And patreons could sub to different creators and switch subs around from month to month to support different creators based on what early access content they’d like, and be able to support more creators because of the early access clause and lower prices. But that’s not the reality, and sadly, unless people like you and me speak out and talk about how these creators are literally bleeding the community dry with NO care for ethics, copyright, or rule-following....this will continue to be the case.
Brandysims Drama: Clownery at it's finest.
DISCLAIMER: DON'T HARASS OR SEND DEATH THREATS TO ANYONE I WILL MENTION. SOME OF THESE WILL CONTAIN MY OPINION AND MAY NOT BE 100% CORRECT. PLEASE FORMULATE YOUR OWN OPINIONS ON THE TOPICS I WILL DISCUSS
TW: Mentions of Suicide, Doxing, and Harassment
Like the patreon post I was originally going to do a Google doc going in full detail about the situation. Fortunately, I didn't because it was emotionally charged and very biased.
PLEASE NOTE: I was not innocent in this situation and I have made some emotionally based claims about this situation.
But I want to talk about this. Because even though it is over, there are still long term effects that effected the community especially the BIPOC community in the sims 4.
I will be talking about the Brandysims Drama and it's long term effects on the community and the pettiness of the Black Alpha Community.
Before I go into the drama. I want to talk about main reason behind it. Or at least what I think was the main reason.
Sims 4: Musty Dusty Skin tones and not enough diversity.
Before the big skintones update (Which I love), the sims 4 had less skin tones and some of the skintones don't look so well in game.
Black simmers wishing for improved skintones for YEARS and asked Gurus for it.
This didn't get anywhere until June of 2020 when the black lives matter movement was still active and white simmers started talking about the lack of diversity in game.
Sooner or later bigger names started talking about it with likes of Plumbella, Lilsimse, Pixelade ect.
That is when the big update was announced.
Black simmers also ask for more representation for hairs as most hairs are very poorly textured (Ex. Cauliflower Fro) or badly done in game.
EA and the Sims Team didn't listen until bigger white youtubers started to talk about it and finally improved the hairs.
(except Cauliflower Fro. When are you going to improve THAT sims team? I'm waiting.)
The only reason I say this is because POC, black people especially, feel like they are not represented in thier own game with having horrible textured skin tones and fewer hairs.
Which is why the community relies so much on CC because of this fact.
Because let's be real, EA is money hungry and will milk out the franchise anyway they can and don't care about the fans of respected games.
Now that we have some context. Let's take a look at what happened.
What happened?
Savvysweet aka Shelly is a Maxis Match Creator that creates hairs for the black community in the sims 4
Here are some of her hairs:
Pretty Right?
It wasn't until November, she started using a hair base that seemed very detailed:
It wasn't long until December 20th, a Alpha Creator named Brandysims aka Brandy called out Shelly for stealing his base mesh without credit.
With that post, a lot of Brandysims's Fans started harassing and calling Shelly a thief until Shelly made a post on her patreon:
While this happened people pointed out that he also steals meshes from other platforms which is against EA terms of service.
Which gave the Paywall argument up again. I explained this in another post.
Even after Shelly left, people were still harassing and hating on her because of Brandysims.
Eventually Brandysims went to on instagram live to talk about the situation. It was both disrespectful and childish. Told people to "suck my d*ck".
Looked down on her hairs as if his was better.
Showed that 2+ year old DM conversation that was poorly worded.
A lot of people defended Shelly not because stealing a mesh was okay, but because how Brandy handled the situation.
In my opinion, Brandy should have did this way differently because there is a lot of minors that will see that post and think that attacking another creator is ok.
(Also "she added the thick edges on my base mesh" I don't know if he thought it was a permanent edges, but those are edges she custom made by herself that was taken by EA. You can easily take it off. So in hindsight, you were insulting the sims team for those edges Brandy.)
To Brandysims: Even if Shelly stole your base, It's not having a little effect on you or your patreon. You just gave other nasty and greedy creators the option to make a call out post so they could have thier young fans and emotionally charged adult fans to harass a creator off a platform. You didn't act like a bigger person, you acted like a coward and a overall child over something that could have been handled privately.
Which is the saddest part of this whole thing.
But Brandy isn't the only one.
Diversedking and KikoVanity: The enablers
Now I was wasn't going to talk about these two at first in full detail, because they didn't do much in the situation.
After some digging I realize they are just as bad as Brandysims.
I want to start with KikoVanity.
KikoVanity is a Alpha CC Creator that makes nice alpha cc.
She recently was apart of the scandal with Brandysims when she entered the live.
Telling Brandy that what he did was okay. Meaning that she was fine that he threaten legal action and encourage his fan base to harass and witch hunt another creator down for a hair base.
You see how unethical and horrible that is?
Made up a lie for Brandy that was completely debunked in his other one.
KikoVanity: "He stole those because he knew those people!" (Along those lines)
Which in all cases is not true. Brandy stated in his second live that he didn't knew those people.
KikoVanity lied to save a friend's behind so he doesn't have to face any criticism about it.
Another thing I want to add is that she is also patreon locked and even if you unlock it. There is an ad.fly link, even on the website. Which for those who don't know ad.fly can give people viruses for 5 cents.
Which is an overall scummy move.
But I'm not done here,
Diversedking is an alpha creator, who also makes alpha cc,
He also defended Brandysims in his live but only in the chat. Also enabling his behavior.
But that's only because he also has this behavior as well.
How do I know?
He was also attacking another creator who he believed to be Shelly. All because of the similar simstyles. When it wasn't the case.
Still don't believe me?
Here is a screenshot:
He also made people believing it was Shelly causing simsecret trolls and his fans to go and harass him.
Now I keep saying simsecret. What is it?
I will quote a tumblr user that will remain anonymous: "It’s a community on LiveJournal that’s been around since the days of Sims 2, where you can send in anonymous secrets on graphics that are then posted for members (and non members) to see and comment on every week. It’s really a shit show most of the time, a lot of hate and drama is started there and it’s a great place to find trolls who send in secrets just to start crap with simmers. It wasn’t as bad back before the simming community hit Tumblr and flourished, but since it has, Sim Secret has started going deeper and deeper into the drama that you can only find on Tumblr. Personally I don’t care if people post on it, I even sent in secrets a couple times back in TS3′s heyday. It’s just one of those things that people either love to hate or hate to love, but frankly, I doubt it’s going anywhere even with people constantly trying to get it shut down. I was just being sarcastic when I posted about it earlier, someone sending in a secret about me, good or bad, doesn’t bother me. I’m too old to give a damn about what people online think about me, besides, I learned a long time ago, long before LiveJournal was even a thing. That if you’re part of an online community, you have to have a thick skin. Not everyone’s gonna like you, or like what you think, or what you say. You can’t let other people, especially people you don’t know, have so much power over you."
In my opinion, I don't really care about simsecret I think it's a bunch of trolls trying to get reactions out of minorities and simmers.
But there were severe cases of bullying and driving a person to go suicidal.
How does this apply to Diversedking?
Well recently he followed and liked an tumblr user who drove out two smaller creators out of a community all because shelly stole a base mesh. They also is a simsecret user.
Here are some screenshots:
Calling Shelly narcissistic and manipulative all because she stole a hair base. Not like she stole multiple of bases but just one.
Also claiming to be a male when it's not true.
This is also the same person that claimed that sims community supporting Shelly is like a cult.
Overall, this is not a good look for both Diversedking and KikoVanity as they are not only petty and scummy people who think the worst of others all because of something so small.
Conclusion
So where is everyone now?
Shelly made her apologies to Brandy and defend a young creator that was thought to be her.
She currently is not active.
As for Brandy he left tumblr and made a website to "start fresh"
Those followed were Diversedking and KikoVanity.
Honestly this is more than a base mesh being stolen. This is a black man telling his fan base to bully and harass a black women because of one thing being stolen that could have been handled professionally. Which gave simsecret trolls a reason to hate her and go after her.
The situation is very messy. I wish it didn't go so far as it should.
Honestly the sims community should be ashamed for letting these types of people even ROAM in thier community with little to no consequences.
This is overall an issue that we as a community should be talking about.
Especially if the community has:
Doxxing
Locking other people's cc behind paywalls
Being mean to a patreon supporter
Bullying a creator out of a community over one hair base
Even reference suicide
And so on..
Also as for the simsecret troll. I suggest not going after them. They want attention it's best not to give them that attention.
Also DON'T send death threats to them either. Because they are going to think what they are doing is okay. Also they claim to have a ip tracker. I suggest stay away from them as possible.
They haven't been active since January. So let's keep it that way.
Thank you all for reading this long ass post! It means a lot. I hope my message can do something for this community.
We as a community can do better. Just sayin’.
You have ALREADY gotten money for your early access content. You do not need to risk people’s computers.
Stop it. Ad.fly is it’s own sort of paywall. Not every extension works, and not everyone can figure out how to install Universal Bypass.
A short list of content that Leosims has stolen from secondlife recently:
Just because tigers do not change stripes.
https://www.leosims.com/product/orange-juice-2/
VERSUS
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Seek-Orange-Juice-pose/18347927
https://www.leosims.com/product/christmas-cookies-2/
VERSUS:
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Christmas-Cookies-3/8250351 AND
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Christmas-Cookies-2/8250350
https://www.leosims.com/product/ac-day-18/
VERSUS
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/UR-Christmas-2017-Joy-Sign-full-perm-mesh/13282499 AND
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Trompe-Loeil-Ornament-Holder/18615027
https://www.leosims.com/product/bear-mirror/ https://www.leosims.com/product/bunny-mirror/ https://www.leosims.com/product/kitty-mirror/ VERSUS
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Marmelade-Wood-Bunny-Mirror/15845394 https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Marmelade-Wood-Bear-Mirror/15845393 https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Marmelade-Wood-Cat-Mirror/15845396 ——————–
I’m sure I could probably find more if I really wanted, but it’s well known that Leo steals/converts/whatever you wanna call it from Secondlife. Yet they’re here claiming they are protected by DMCA and all this crap when it isn’t even their content. EVEN IF YOU BUY IT USING A COMMERCIAL LICENSE AND EDIT IT, IT’S STILL A DERIVATIVE WORK, AS IT IS NOT 100% YOURS! Which most of the “secondlife” licenses don’t allow for copying or editing of the mesh outside of secondlife. So uh, there’s that. This doesn’t even mention the stuff that @simblrdirectdl mentioned in their blog earlier tonight. Thankfully Leo won’t see this since they blocked me for simply answering an ask from someone asking if they were still up to their old shenanigans of stealing meshes and I happened to post proof. Oops. :)
Anti-Permapaywall Directory
Because why not? Posts summarizing the whole Anti-Permapaywall Argument: HERE, HERE, HERE Posts talking about the cost of Permapaywalls and the effect it has on people: HERE, HERE, HERE Posts about the behavior/content of Permapaywall creators (and some of their supporters) INSANELY HIGH POLY COUNTS/BAD QUALITY DOXXING/STEALING MESHES RELEASING BROKEN CONTENT STEALING FROM ANOTHER CREATOR HARRASSMENT/QUALITY ISSUES BULLYING ANOTHER CREATOR OUT OF THE COMMUNITY —> ONE, TWO CLAIMING “EARLY ACCESS” BUT NOT RELEASING CONTENT RUDE MESSAGE TO PATREON WHO ONLY SUBBED A MONTH THREATENING TO DOXX PUBLIC SEMI-DOXXING OF A PATREON KEEPING POC CONTENT BEHIND PAYWALLS (#1) KEEPING POC CONTENT BEHIND PAYWALLS (#2) KEEPING POC CONTENT BEHIND PAYWALLS (#3) STEALING MESHES FROM SECONDLIFE WILLINGLY LINKED PEOPLE TO VIRUSES/PUT OTHER CREATOR’S CONTENT BEHIND HER PAYWALL PRO-PAYWALL ACCOUNT REFERENCES SUICIDE WHILE DEFENDING PAYWALL CREATOR PRO-PAYWALL ACCOUNT DOXXES SOMEONE SHE GETS IN ARGUEMENT WITH STEALING MESHES PAYWALL BUILDER STEALS FREE CC/LOTS FROM OTHERS, HAS ZERO REMORSE —> ONE, TWO, THREE
Post about copyright/EA’s TOU specifically: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE Places to get permapaywalled content without paying: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE Great accounts fighting against the permapaywalls: Myself (obviously) @simblrdirectdl, @anachrosims, @catsaar, @watermelons-posts, @patreonreleased @xldkx, @bill-l-s4cc
Where to find great early access creators to support and enjoy: HERE, HERE, @maxismatchccworld, @mmoutfitters
Let’s Chat
I guess since I’ve been MIA on here and I haven’t been as vocal on things, that people have been mistaking my silence for complacency. I’m not okay with a lot of things I’ve been seeing take place in the community as of late. I’ve been focusing on trying to further myself as a streamer and a content creator so I haven’t been arguing, nor in the mix but there is a clear problem.
Patreon. Some agree with it. Some don’t. My only problem personally with Patreon is those who put content on it and who never have any intentions on sharing it to the public. Even after Amanda (Sim Guru Drake) explicitly expressed that this practice was not okay. More specifically, I have an issue with NON BLACK content creators, especially the ones who have been in the community for a while. (The ones who used to tell black simmers “they don’t know how” or “make it yourself” when they request content catered to us.) Even ignoring black simmers when they reached out on how to create content on their own. Once you found a way to capitalize off of it you mysteriously learned how to create/convert a curl, or to create cornrow textures.
Like I said, I don’t mind Patreon myself, shit I HAVE a Patreon, but it’s only a 1$ and it’s more focused on if you want to support me as a Youtuber/Streamer. The CC I’ve created/converted is available all over the place. My website, TBS forums and even some Sim file share folders.
Someone is going around saying that 3 people in TBS had something to do with Emma being doxed. I DEFINITELY want to know who, because that shit is corny, and excessive. And I damn sure do not agree with it. I really like Emma and have supported her since my early Youtube days. Unless you can come with receipts that’s a fucking LIE.
It’s also going around that in my community that we pick and choose who to support blah blah blah. Yeah NO. In the midst of me working on what I work on from day to day I noticed creators like Gram Sims, Vittler & others who try to post their creations in the Facebook group, (Or send others to) in an attempt to get patrons. I stopped accepting those posts. Even kicked a few people from the group entirely. My community is not a space for you to take advantage of a under appreciated demographic. Even new creators who JUST joined the community sliding up in TBS with locs and braids talking about Patreon only. GTFOH. I’m not okay with creators doing Patreon only CC PERIOD, but my main discussion is focused on NON BLACK simmers making CC catered to US, and making it PATREON EXCLUSIVE IN AN ATTEMPT TO FORCE US TO PLEDGE, and how people are ASSUMING that I’m OKAY WITH THIS, and ASSUMING that I’m letting it FLY in my community. Just because I don’t go off about shit as frequent as I used to doesn’t mean I cannot see and I am not doing what I can to keep the fuckery OUT.
“Oh but your friend has a Patreon” I don’t have an issue with what @ebonixsims is doing because it’s all early release. It gets released to the public a few weeks later. It’s not being kept behind Patreon, forcing people to pledge to her. Despite this, she’s still doing really good with it.
So don’t get it twisted, I’m not on social media arguing with folks so people just assumed I’m okay with this shit, I’m really not. I’m actually two seconds off dropping Patreon share folders. (That also have my shit in it)
Supporting people is one thing, but a lot of these motherfuckers are becoming extremely exploitive, and it’s aggravating. It’s like you goofy motherfuckers sit in DMs like “yeah let’s make some CC for the negros and put it on Patreon” Fuck outta here. And it’s not even just hair, it’s skins and even CLOTHING STYLES. Y’all are really wilding the hell out. African necklaces, black girl magic chains, Juicy Couture sweatsuits. Who the fuck do you think you’re fooling?
IM TIRED! Next time someone asks me where I got something and it’s Patreon exclusive I’m dropping a SFS link. FUCK OUTTA HERE!
Ok, I just really wish you didn’t LIE about me this way. I have never ever use the The Black Simmer to promote my patreon page.
I joined the facebook group last year, i had only good things so say to you for creating a platform to share and celebrate blackness and diversity. That’s why i joined, that’s why i shared my cc with the group, but was only public cc. I have never link to my patreon, either send nobody to do it and i really would like to see where did you “notice” that.
Now i’m receiving hate messages to make me feel like shit because you drop my name out o nowhere. I create cc for years now, and who follow me since The Sims 3, know that diversity was always represented on my sims. I never create black cc or black sims because it’s a “trend”.
Don’t get me wrong, i do agree with many of these issues, for years i have to listen the “it’s impossible to do this” or “do yourself” when i first started. Gramsims was one of a few creators as well who start to create curly hair back in sims 3. All the content i been accuse of apropriate (anonymously) was requested by people who support me in patreon. So yeah, if people want me to create a juicy sweatsuit i would do my best to create it. As a black brazilian person I have the same amount of african blood on my body to use an african necklace just as you.
I don’t think is exploitive having a patreon, i don’t think is exploitive receiving support for something you’re providing in some way; if you do that’s okay. You don’t need to agree, but i really hope you didn’t grab me to this issue as someone who’s exploring the black community, i’m part of it.
No creator currently share everything they create in patreon 2 weeks after released, that’s bs
Just throught I would throw in piece of info here because I have seen that “image” a bunch of times while dealing with the crap Emma, of Emma’s Simposium blog, got and it is one that L*osi*s posted to her when she started in harassing her, then d*x posted it and it just went on from there. But only the people that went after Emma had that “image” and constantly kept throwing it out at her and everyone that defended her. Just one tiny problem, Drake had left the sims when this “image” came out and if you use the sims game for your cc, then it belongs to EA. Everyone is saying this and honestly it is true. Ok I am done with this and all the hell it has caused, and it is evident who else was part of that 7 that Emma talked about coming after her. Course it could have been more than 7, only those that came after her using the anonymous nick, would know who they are.
I am not going to sit by and watch that “image” be waved around like some flag of victory when it is just the opposite!!!!
Alright, let’s debunk this one and use some reading comprehension as to what this is about.
Translation:
- What is exactly asked here in this very confusingly worded question:
Can you monetize 3d meshes made with an external program that can be used for 3d projects or any game, including the sims, if the buyer of said mesh wants to alter it for that? Aka a 3d mesh that is not specifically made for the sims and unless the buyer modifies it that way, also doesn’t function in the sims at the moment of the sale.
- SimGuruDrake’s answer:
Obviously you can monetize these 3d meshes as they do not fall under UGC. The 3d mesh has nothing to do with the sims at the moment of sale.
- 2nd question:
Asking for affirmation that these 3d meshes do not need early access release on Patreon.
- SimGuruDrake:
Reiterates they have no involvement when it comes to these kind of 3d meshes, but that you do need to be aware to not infringe on the trademark/ IP rights of the sims.
Conclusion: This isn’t even about cc / mods for the sims 4.
EAxis TOS on UGC: Here
Dear cc creators, I love y'all but
can y'all change your “Stop Adblock Users” on Adfly to “No” because I ain’t tryna get a virus
If I may ask, why shouldn't people use simsdom? I tend not to use it anyways, the site is just annoying in general, but if you could, may you clear up why it's shameful?
Hi there~!
This got very long so I’ve written an explanation under the cut:
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Things the Sims 4 Community Can Do About Paywalls...A Post...
[This is going to be a bit long, so you may want to save it and read it when you have time, or just…you know, buckle in.]
I thought I would ring in the new year by talking about something that I feel we as a community need to finally decide on. (It’s been debated since 2017 or so, and it’s now 2021…) I’d like, if possible, to try to suggest some real solutions and choices that we can make that will hopefully create a better and more honest community out of all of us. Now I would like to start by making some postulates. In geometry, postulates are facts that do not need proven with a mathematical proof. They are assumed to be true. Thomas Jefferson and the founding fathers would call these “Self-Evident Truths”. I would like to use these as a bit of a basis for my arguments.
Truth: The Sims 4 has been enough of a cash cow for EA. If you buy the base game ($40) plus all expansion packs (40 each x 10) + all game packs (20 each x 9) + all stuff packs (10 each x 17) you would come to a total of seven hundred and 90 dollars ($790) plus tax. This is of course, without sales, bundling, etc, which many people DO take advantage of, but STILL. That is a TON of money for EA’s pockets. EA makes a majority of its money on the fact that the Sims 4 is an “incomplete game”. It “completes” the game further and further by adding more “expansions” to the game to the point that it seems almost useless to buy the base game alone without adding to it.
Even with sales and other things, it’s easy to spend over $500 dollars on the sims 4 game + expansions. Still a lot of cash for a game that is years old. This is just money that is spent on the game that goes to EA. This does not account for: * Money spent to buy a new computer because your old one wouldn’t run the sims. * Money spent supporting CC artists who have donations open or early access. * Money spent on access to sites that have ads/paywalls/exclusive sims 4 CC such as Leosims, etc. (Which are the problem, frankly)
We should be able to respect the fact that a majority of us paid a hefty amount for this game. It is unfair, and frankly greedy to REQUIRE people to pay MORE just to unlock or gain access to specific user created content.
I am not talking about a VOLUNTARY support or donation because they like what you offer. I am talking about FORCING people to pay if they want to ever be able to use the CC or mod you offer.
Now, the typical defense for this is “Well, I’m an artist! I spend time/effort/etc working hard on these meshes, the code, etc to make this content!” Which leads me to point #2.
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Important
Malicious ads broke my computer. I had to pay a lot of money for that so some other person can make 3 cents. No thanks, never again!
Please do your research and reblog!
ADF.LY BYPASS TUTORIAL
So I’m probably going to get some heat for this but that’s okay. I am against adf.ly being used at all but in regards to my CC especially. I’m not mad at anyone who uses it, I still love and appreciate you and the work that you do! ☼ But I think that it’s time to find an alternative. Please support the creator that is in the link shown here, she is lovely and makes fabulous CC! ♥
So here is a little tutorial on how to bypass the new adf.ly page that pops up now after the initial page. It comes up after the chrome extension skips the ad but cannot always be skipped by that alone. So with these simple steps you can bypass the whole shebang and hopefully avoid a debilitating virus! :)
Also, any editing of my CC that I find behind adf.ly links will be put on my website under the photos of the image as a direct link to the file sharing service.
I’m really disappointed at Sims3planet. They reuploaded people’s CC without linking to original creator’s website and put monetize link (short.est) to make money from creators.
Guys, If you aren’t aware, Sims3planet upload CC content in their website as their own content without linking to original creator’s website.
Long time ago, I used Sims3planet to download content that had been deleted by original creator or broken link. I’m a creator, and I’ve already aware that my content has been reuploaded by other people/website without my permission, although I put TOU: Do not reupload my custom content to other sites. Do not monetize my custom content.
But when I tried to click my own CC on their download button, it brought me to shorte.st (monetizing like adf.ly) link!
This is really unacceptable.
The site is difficult to navigate also, and I don’t know where to complain.
Please all, beware of this site. Reblog to inform others. Do not support or ever download any CC from that website. Because it reuploaded CC made by various creators then put them behind monetizing link (shorte.st) to make money!
If anyone knows how to complain in Sims3planet, please tell me. Thank you.
ADF.LY BYPASS TUTORIAL
So I’m probably going to get some heat for this but that’s okay. I am against adf.ly being used at all but in regards to my CC especially. I’m not mad at anyone who uses it, I still love and appreciate you and the work that you do! ☼ But I think that it’s time to find an alternative. Please support the creator that is in the link shown here, she is lovely and makes fabulous CC! ♥
So here is a little tutorial on how to bypass the new adf.ly page that pops up now after the initial page. It comes up after the chrome extension skips the ad but cannot always be skipped by that alone. So with these simple steps you can bypass the whole shebang and hopefully avoid a debilitating virus! :)
Also, any editing of my CC that I find behind adf.ly links will be put on my website under the photos of the image as a direct link to the file sharing service.
