TL;DR:
You can place stickers on other people's images. It costs a use from a sticker you own plus a price the creator sets, and most images take a few free placements too.
You control your own images. Off, review each one, or auto-approve, all in settings. Review is the default, so nothing shows up on your work without you saying yes.
Every bit of that Buzz goes to the creator. We take nothing from the placement.
Creators set the price and the size limit. The slider starts at 50 Buzz and defaults to 100, with your ceiling set by your creator score and raised within your band by your membership tier. Size defaults to 25% of the image width.
A decline isn't free for the placer. The creator keeps 30% and the rest goes back to them. Leave one unreviewed and it expires after 48 hours with a full refund.
Yellow and Green Buzz only. No Blue Buzz.
What it is
A few weeks ago we asked how image creators should be able to earn here, and this is one of the things we said we'd build. Reactions are free and disappear into a counter. Comments take effort and sit below the image. Sticker placement is the thing in between: you put something on the image itself, it stays there, and the creator gets paid for it.
Placing costs one use of a sticker you own, the same uses you spend putting a sticker in a comment, plus the price the creator set. That price goes to them in full. You still buy the stickers themselves in the shop like any other cosmetic.
How to place one
Open an image, hit the sticker button, pick a sticker, and drag it where you want it. You can scale it, rotate it, flip it, and fade it back so it sits into the art rather than on top of it. Place several at once before you commit, and if you put the panel away mid-placement your draft stays put.
Stickers show up in feeds behind a toggle, so you can browse with them on or off. You can't place from a feed though. That happens on the image page, where you can see what you're doing.
Don't own any stickers yet? You can still try one. Open the panel, hit the shop, and drag a sticker out onto the image. It lands as a draft you can move and resize, and you only buy it at the point you place it. Pull out as many as you like and buy the ones you keep. It has to be a drag onto the image itself, a tap won't do it.
They get a soft double shadow and a little wobble as they animate in. A sticker should read as a sticker, not as something the artist drew.
If it's your image
Everything about your space is yours to set, in your creator settings:
Off, review each one, or auto-approve. The default is review, so nothing appears on your work without you saying yes.
Your price. The slider starts at 50 Buzz and defaults to 100, and it shows your own ceiling when you open it. That ceiling comes from your creator score, and your membership tier raises it within your score band. Score is the bigger lever, so most of your ceiling is earned rather than bought.
How much of your image a sticker may cover. Defaults to 25% of the width, and you can dial it up or down.
You can set all of this account-wide, or per post, or on a single image. The most specific setting wins, so a blanket rule for your account still lets you open up one post or lock down one image.
Since people will ask, here are the actual ceilings. Your creator score sets the band, and your membership lifts you within it:
Score under 10,000: 100 Buzz on a free account, up to 500 on Gold.
10,000 and up: 250 free, up to 1,000 on Gold.
25,000 and up: 500 free, up to 2,500 on Gold.
100,000 and up: 1,000 free, up to 5,000 on Gold.
Bronze and Silver land between the two numbers in each band. Climbing a band is worth more than climbing a tier, which is the point: your ceiling should mostly come from what you've made here. These are a first guess and we'll move them once we see what people actually charge.
Decline something and you keep 30% of what they paid, and the rest goes back to them. All 30% of it reaches you, we don't take a cut of a decline either. The 30% is what keeps your queue from being free to flood, and one person can have at most 10 placements waiting on you at a time. Accepting pays you the whole amount, so there's never a reason to decline something you'd otherwise keep. If you never get around to reviewing one, it expires after 48 hours and the placer is refunded in full.
There's a history panel next to the place button with every sticker in placement order, each one hovering to the placer's creator card, and a replay you can step through or play straight. On the image page the stickers arrive oldest first rather than all at once, with a longer pause where there was a longer gap, so you can see how the image got built up.
Placers can leave a note with their sticker. You can accept the sticker and refuse the note separately, and a note can be reported on its own.
Once you've approved a sticker, you can't remove it for a week. Without that lock a placement could be accepted and swept off before anyone saw it, whether the placer paid for it or used a free slot. After the week it comes off at your discretion, and no Buzz moves either way. Our mods aren't bound by the week, so anything that really needs to come down still can.
Approved placements count toward your image's Buzz total, since a placement really is a kind of tip.
Free placements
Not every placement costs Buzz. You can accept a set number of free ones per image, and that's on by default.
It's capacity, not an allowance. Set 4 free slots and the image takes 4 free stickers. They don't refill tomorrow.
Your ceiling comes from your creator score and tier, same as your price. The bottom band is 1, and Gold at the top band is up to 10. Set it to 0 if you'd rather everything was paid.
You get paid for accepting them. 10 Blue Buzz per free sticker you accept, up to 100 a day.
Free placements are reviewed like any other, unless you auto-approve, and they get their own notification you can switch off separately.
An accepted free sticker holds its slot for the week it can't be removed in. Four accepted free stickers means no free capacity until that lapses.
If you're placing rather than receiving: you get one free placement a day across the whole site, stickers and remix galleries together. Not one per creator. The placer's screen tells you how many free slots an image has left and whether it lands instantly or goes to review, and your daily free is spent even if the creator declines. You can never place free on the same image twice.
Why placing costs anything
Past your free slots, placing is the only place a sticker costs Buzz. Use them in comments, in DMs, on your own articles and it costs you nothing beyond the uses you already own. The one place a sticker costs Buzz is on an image that belongs to somebody else, because that's their space.
That price isn't a fee on stickers. It's the creator's income. Work that never earned anything now earns when someone wants to be part of it, which is the whole point of building this.
The least obvious reason matters most to the creator. A placement costs them attention, not just pixels. Three hundred stickers is three hundred decisions in someone's review queue, and they didn't choose to spend their evening there. A price keeps placement something people mean.
Layering is a feature
You can place a sticker over someone else's sticker. That's deliberate. Put a hat on a character somebody else's sticker gave a speech bubble to. Covering someone costs the same as any other placement, and it's still the image owner's call whether any of it stays.
Getting covered doesn't erase you either. Open the image and the stickers animate in one at a time, oldest first, so yours is seen going down even if something ends up on top of it. The history panel replays the whole thing on demand. You're part of how the image got built, not just what it looks like now.
Rules and cleanup
Report a sticker from the sticker. Say what's wrong and it goes to our mods, who can remove any placement.
Yellow and Green Buzz only. Rewards pay out in Blue Buzz so they stay where they were earned. Paying another user directly is exactly the thing that would undo that, so Blue is out here. Blue Buzz still spends on generation, in the cosmetic shop, and on models from creators who accept it.
Tell us what you think
It's day one for this. If you'd rather not have stickers on your work at all, switch them off in settings.
Does the price range give you enough room? Is review-each-one the right default? What would you want to place stickers on that you can't yet? This came out of the creator earning proposal and the feedback you gave us on it, so keep it coming.