One could argue that it screams entitlement from grandfathered users to complain about having to pay 10$ monthly, when it’s a known fact that creators earn good money from IMVU, even more so with grandfathered creators who are pioneers and earn much more than the average VIP creator.

It is a bit of entitlement indeed. However, it’s important to highlight some factors on why this entitlement might not be anything other than simple frustration towards IMVU’s greediness:

As discussed above, one of the most important factors limiting creators is MASA and how some users have created multiple accounts to be able to cash out their own money. This system is made by IMVU.

I can easily earn 6000$ a month as a hard working mesh creator, however my motivation will drop when I will have to wait 1-2 years to be able to cash out all the money I have made in the first 6 months of earning 6000$ a month. This will force me to create multiple accounts and set multiple derivation chains to split my profit, so that I can cash out as much as I can from my own money. It’s already troublesome, a lot of work, a lot of micro management, but I must do it if I want to have a full time job while working on creating IMVU products.

IMVU’s decision will now force me to pay VIP for all of my accounts (which, let’s assume that were all grandfathered accounts), meaning I will have to pay 10$ for each account I have set. Sure, 10$ or even 200$ a month maybe is not that much when you are earning over 4000$, however, the discussion isn’t really about the sum that I have to pay, but rather it’s an observation that IMVU is doing anything it can to make my own work even harder.

Fine, I can pay 50$ monthly for my grandfathered accounts (just an example), especially since I was privileged for a long time and did not have to pay this sum. However, this decision of IMVU is nothing more than another punch in the gut just like every single other decision regarding the creating system on IMVU. I would be mad not for having to pay that sum, but rather that IMVU always finds ways of punishing the good kind of creators (in this case it just happens to be the long-lasting creators that have set some standards for IMVU), while doing nothing for the creator community in general. Or, at least, it seems like it.

Where is IMVU to punish people that abuse the unclear MCG and post obvious Access Pass items while rating them as General Audience? Where is IMVU to punish the creators that keep topping the first pages with branded content and have been getting away with it for over a year? Where is IMVU to take fast action when a nude body stays on the front page of IMVU’s shop for over a week?

IMVU needs to understand that while it might seem weird for creators who earn good money to pay a few extra bucks a month to IMVU (because in the end it’s their platform) to be upset about it, IMVU needs to understand that it’s just a dick move on their side to push creators to pay for that VIP without any other benefits. It really seems like a push just for IMVU to get a little extra money. This is even more angering towards the creator community in general considering that IMVU has done nothing in the last several years to help the good kind of creators, but has seemingly done everything in its power to punish hard working creators.

And listen, when I say ‘good’ creators, I’m not saying that everyone who earns money is a good person or necessarily deserves their success or failure. What I am saying is that there are 2 clear categories of creators that you can immediately distinguish one from another:

Obvious thieves/boosters/full of copyrighted stuff vs everyone else.

Naturally, there might be a lot of people in the not-so-obvious category that might do some shady things, but that’s another topic.