VGen is a sort of fiver-like site "by vtubers for vtubers" catered towards vtubers. Has gotten into "controversy" this week after implementing some very reasonable buyer protection measures.

Art asset scams are notorious in the vtubing scene, and just as infamous are what I’d call recalcitrant artists - artists who seem to take forever when working on small indie clients’ jobs but are suddenly on the ball when doing work for more renowned streamers, with few if any updates to their worried clients about what’s going on.

Thus, Vgen has sought to implement a minimum guaranteed delivery date of a 2-year period to create some sort of safety net for clients, as well as restricting users’ accounts who have 3 or more overdue jobs for clients.

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Twitter thread links, Nitter / Twitter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Over-entitled artists were upset at very basic buyer protection measures for works that can cost clients sometimes several hundred dollars (particularly with models or art assets) and seethed about it on social media. The only real direct changes were that Vgen delayed implementing these new measures until June, and pushed back the guaranteed delivery date to 2 years instead of 150 days.

For a day or two twitter was filled with an assortment of screeds about how this is “literally killing artists” by making them work under realistic delivery conditions.