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The Creator Collab Update: 4 New Ways to Get Seen and Earn

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The Creator Collab Update: 4 New Ways to Get Seen and Earn

TL;DR:

  • Sticker placement. Put a sticker on someone else's image. Free if the creator has a slot open, otherwise it costs Buzz and every bit of it goes to them. Read more

  • Remix galleries. Submit your remix to a creator's image and land in front of their audience if they accept it. Read more

  • Cosmetic packs. Sell a set of cosmetics as one listing at one price, instead of one piece at a time. Read more

  • Collab collections. Invite people to build a collection with you, or open it up and curate what comes in. Read more

  • Free slots on every image. Creators pick how many free stickers and free remix submissions they'll take, and earn Blue Buzz for accepting them.

  • Double rewards until 2 September. Every Buzz reward on the site pays double from today, daily caps included.


What this batch is about

Discovery and creator monetization, which are the two things you've told us matter most. Every one of these is either a way to get in front of somebody else's audience, or a way to get paid for the audience you've built, and usually both at once. It's the follow-through on what we said we'd do when we asked how image creators should earn here.

Two ideas run through all of it.

Your space is yours. Someone placing a sticker on your image or submitting a remix to your gallery is using something you made. So both are set to review by default, and you can shut either down without touching the rest.

Attention is worth something. Where somebody buys space on your work, it costs them and it pays you. Each article says exactly where the money goes and what happens when you say no.

Free first, then paid

Every image carries a set number of free slots, and the creator picks how many. Drop a sticker into one and it costs you nothing, and the creator still earns Blue Buzz for accepting it. Remix galleries work the same way for remixes we can verify were generated from that image here.

One catch worth knowing before you go looking: you get one free placement a day, across the whole site. Stickers and remix galleries share it. So an open slot is only free if you haven't spent yours yet, and it's spent even if the creator turns you down.

Past those slots, a placement costs Buzz, and all of it goes to the creator.

Two reasons it isn't free all the way down. A price is what stops the flood: unlimited free placement means waking up to your image covered in stickers, and a gallery full of whatever a bot could upload overnight. And the space on your image is worth something. If free were unlimited it would quickly become the expectation.

Free slots are the version of free that works: enough that anyone can join in, few enough that nobody can bury your work.

What shipped

Sticker placement. Place a sticker directly on someone's image. You pick the spot, the size, the angle. They set the price, and every Buzz of it reaches them. Off, review each one, or auto-approve, and review is the default. You can also take a set number of free placements per image, and earn Blue Buzz for accepting them.

Remix galleries. Every image can carry a gallery of what people built from it. Submit yours, the creator reviews it, and if they take it you're in front of their audience. The Remix button is a menu now too: edit the image, animate it, or reuse the prompt and resources when we have them. Verified remixes can come in free, up to the number of free slots you set.

Cosmetic packs. Sell a set as one listing at one price. Two to twenty cosmetics, any kinds mixed together, including other creators' work as long as the price covers what they charge for it. Buyers see everything in the pack before they pay, and anything they already own comes off the price.

Collab collections. Invite specific people to add to a collection, with two roles: Contributors add, Managers add and review. Or open it to everyone and leave review on, and it becomes a collection a few people curate and everybody fills.

Two weeks of double rewards

From today until 2 September, every Buzz reward on the site pays double.

That's not a placement promotion, it's everything: the rewards you already earn for being here, plus the new Blue Buzz for accepting free placements and free remix submissions.

It doubles the daily caps as well as the payouts, which is the part worth knowing. A reward capped at 100 a day is capped at 200 during the event, and higher membership multipliers stack on top of that.

The bits people ask about first

Placements and remix submissions take Yellow and Green Buzz, not Blue. 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, where there's a platform fee and we can watch it.

A decline isn't free for the person who asked. Turn down a sticker or a remix and the creator keeps 30% of what was paid, and the rest goes back. Accepting pays the creator the whole amount, so nobody's better off declining something they'd otherwise keep.

Nothing lands on your work without your say-so. Review is the default on placements and remix galleries, and either one can be switched off completely in settings.

Tell us what you think

This is a lot at once, and it's all new. Each article has its own comments, so take the specific stuff there. If you want to talk about the whole direction rather than one feature, do it here.

We built these because you told us discovery and earning were the two real problems. Tell us whether they actually help.

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