What are some of your peeves in Toyhouse profiles?

When people change the format of their characters profiles! Like I understand, its cool, but I just wanna fav the character, but I can't when I can't find the button! 

Also, when people crop the thumbnails of their pictures. I know this is just a preference, but sometimes I only wanna look at fullbodies,  but when I can only see a headshot I don't even know if your character has any! 

And lastly, those floaty images in the corner of the screen usually, that when you scroll they don't move (not sure what they're called lol). It just makes it hard to move around your profile! Of course, I don't have a laptop, only my tablet so maybe all of these is just me! But small ones are fine or ones you can scroll on. But i find some are super bulky and when you scroll on top of them the screen doesn't move 

!!Exploder105 good point! I try to make my pagedolls small and I use my phone to make sure they aren't huge for people who only use mobile. I like to be considerate! <3

Idk why but I hate when people put art in tabs. I just want to easily access the art, and 5 tabs make it so annoying, AND THEN if you get a character with tabs you can't delete it.

I understand having like one tab to keep worthy or smth though.

Content warnings. I just found out from this thread that I could turn them off and omfg, thank you.

I'm talking about the "don't steals" And the "these characters do bad things but I don't"

One can kind of infer that you don't do those things. I have an entire set if characters who work in an illegal gang but I don't really feel the need to specify that just because they commit atrocities that I also don't?? It's fun to talk about the psychology and the reasoning behind why they do these bad things, you don't have to agree with them. People talk about true crime all the time because it's interesting but they don't need to specify that they don't agree with the person committing the crime. Like, yes, random user, I'm pretty sure you aren't running around and murdering people or committing acts of violence and terror, neither am I? Common sense, I would hope?

It just makes me laugh because if every single author ever had to put that warning before their writing, 99% of books would have them. It just seems like a weird thing to have to say to me? 

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Huh, good point. I understand that and I'd like to put my thought in and say: I believe that the warnings are there mostly to make sure no one gets offended or triggered or such from actions our character makes or what they look like. Like perhaps a character uses needles a lot and someone has a problem with that, or a character hangs themselves and someone has trauma for that. I think it's mostly safe to at least say "Content: *This*" and then end the warning? I only do it on my characters who are extreme.

Something to add onto the content warning peeve, some people just straight up put uncomfy things in there that are graphic enough for me to just be super uncomfortable.. I am usually fine with violence and gore but a few kinds of injury makes me really uncomfy, mostly nail injury, and some warnings say something like “DON’T STEAL MY OCS OR I’LL (insert threat to injure you here)” and it can get so graphic detailing what they’ll do.. The POINT of a content warning is to help people avoid things that make them uncomfy, not to shove uncomfy things in their face!!

I don't know why but I feel like no one really reads the warning. I'm still figuring things out on here. A few of my characters have gore or maybe a few triggers at least. 

I'm a very irritable person though. XD

Found more to mention!

This is probably very rare and super specific but I hate it when people make a folder for each character.  I don't know if that's personal preference or if these users don't know how folders work? Once there was even a profile I stumbled across where every character was a folder and each character image was a separate character inside this folder.  This is really weird to navigate. 

Too many tabs. Some people don't have a normal image gallery for their characters, instead they have over 20 tabs on the side. This is especially annoying for forum games such as "price the character above you". When you view the profile you literally need to  search the images . Even worse when half of them are all empty. 

The third is a big personal preference thing but all the basic /already existing CSS layouts. Barely anyone has a unique one. And yea I know that some knowledge for that is needed for sure, but here are plenty of very talented coders. I just find these super rare. It's a lot more fun to browse through a profile and read character profiles when there's much creative content to explore. At least for me personally. As long as nothing is broken or super hard to navigate. (Or filled with one billion GIFs)

The last thing are transitions. It might look cool at first but it gets very annoying, even after just a little while. When every part of the profile slides in and takes 3 seconds. And I'm not talking about simple image slides. I mean when the whole page has an animation. Having this on a few sites. Like a character profile is fine but completely over the entire page is hardly frustrating :''')

edit: about the crop thing a lot of people are talking about: I crop them as well because I want nice squares. Having images all different sizes looks awful and not organized to me. kinda like a messy desk lol. But cropping it extreme is also something I dislike. I try to keep it as big as possible. 

it's not often but sometimes i stumble onto character pages with lots of folder and buttons that all have gifs and they lag my browser :(
(also i've noticed a fair amount of people don't like cropped thumbnails?? i crop most of my images because i like the neat look of all of the thumbnails being squares ;;)

I like how some custom CSS profiles look, they're cool but sooo confusing sometimes; where do I go to return to other parts of ToyHouse? Is it currently faving or is it not? (Sometimes it takes a lot of time for a favorite to be registered, and I really like the fact the star next to it on basic profiles spins to let us know it's currently faving, but when some custom profiles takes that star out...and nothing changes...what do I do? I don't wanna unfav or spam without noticing!)

I don't see the point of saying "DON'T STEAL" either, because obviously no one wants their OC/art to be stolen. It's like, you go in a bakery and before handing you your croissant, the baker shoves a "DON'T STEAL THE CROISSANT!!!" sign in your face. Obviously I'm going to pay for it before I take it, if they even have a croissant to sell that is!

I have a question, if someone is reading this, knows an answer to it and wants to share it to me: how do you all do when you see a movie, when you read a book and there was no warning about a triggering topic of yours that goes into details? I can imagine that you "simply" stop watching/reading, but how many are going further, like skipping a few pages or closing their eyes during the entirety of the scene, then opening them again? In that case, do you still accept to view a profile with such contents? Also, what if those triggers were in a show or series you love a lot? I'm sure those who skip won't mind THAT much, but those of you that would completely stop - will you still stop watching your favorite show if it happened to have a segment with your triggers? I'm really sorry if I sound insensitive with those questions, but I want to be able to help better, and I can't completely understand everything or put myself into someone else's shoes if they're not my size: I have zero triggers that I can think of. I don't know where's the line between what amount of details will and won't trigger someone. I know it depends on the individual, but still...there are no warning elsewhere, how do you do?

I can understand why most users here don't have the patience (maybe?) to click on cropped images to see if they are fullbodies or simple headshots, but I see it the other way. I like to be curious and make it a "game" - was this pic cropped or not? Then *click* I see for myself, and it's always a pleasant feeling to discover something you couldn't see on its cropped version. On the contrary, I don't like uncropped images haha. When it's not cropped at all it takes all my curiosity away, and we can't see the smallest details very well on most occasions, that's just sad...I'm not one to click to see details I couldn't admire before if I think I saw it all already. I think it's not giving credit to the quality of the art style, it's what should give you the desire to click on the pic in the first place, not the fact it's a fullbody or a headshot (because both headshots and fullbodies can be just as great to look at, we admire the way it was drawn not the quantity drawn). So yeah, I'll stop myself here otherwise I'd talk about it for hours; I crop my images. It gives me the abillity to use them as alternative avatars for my characters without creating another pic or going god knows where to host another avatar and copy-paste the link if I so suddenly want to change/add an avatar on a character's bio. It makes my life easier if it's already in my character's art.

That leads me to excessively watermarked avatars and/or images. What's the point in them? To not steal what's yours? A smaller watermark will do just good. Excessively put watermarks everywhere and nobody will be able to understand the pic. And if it's on a ref, how are we going to do gift art/commissions if we can't see them properly?? Based on what I saw on here, is that it happens to be very often on detailed characters with lots of gradients, but we can't see them really well with watermarks. Please don't shout at us if our art for these characters isn't 100% accurate then! I have the chance to be able to see every color the world has to offer, well the ones a human can see anyway, but what if I was a color-blind person? Or at least, slightly color-blind? I think it can become tricky for them? Also, don't you want to see your own images someday? I like to open my images and go through them all for the sake of art being art: admire them. I don't think Mona Lisa is watermarked when you go to the museum lol. Also, how do you watermark a full animation? Both can still be stolen...and edited...by someone better known, someone that isn't known for stealing. It can still happen, even if unlikely. Heck, I already saw cases of highly watermarked pics being stolen and edited! In any case, my character art is my own little museum, free to come look and see, but obviously not to be taken away. Of course I have no Mona Lisa, but I'm not here to display only famous and top-notch things, I just want a good time here, sit on a bench and eat a croissant while looking at those beautiful statues out there <3 you can't have any scaffoldings around them all when visitors come from far and wide to see them! Is it an art gallery or a warehouse at the end?

OOF, sorry for the massive comment! I hope you like reading...