The Catfishing Situation
Time and time again, this issue is probably raised—catfishing in the online Gallery. Dun-dun-dun? ♪ I know this has probably… most likely— definitely been brought up by many, many players on mult...
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I do specific searches to not view those sims. I must be very good at it, because none ever show.
Okay, good for you? But this issue is experienced by those who simply view the main page Gallery without searching for a specific thing and only sort it by Popular Now, filtering Households only. Try it for yourself. A few years ago, these catfish Sims never appear there, but now it's an epidemic. It’s a different story if we deliberately go out of our way to look for these catfish Sims and complain, but that’s not the case—we just see them without doing “specific searches”. They are occupying the regular space where vanilla (+ packs) no-CC uploads are supposed to be, but we are seeing clearly modded Sims even if we do not tick “Include Custom Content” at all. Popular Now was a way to know the more recent popular uploads and not all-time. Because if we do Most Popular, the likes of Collins and Blue Moon noCC (although, this lot doesn’t seem to appear all the time) will always be on top/first, because by definition they are the most downloaded uploads off all time.
The only time I use the gallery is to search for something very specific. It is predictable that just lazily opening and looking at the gallery by a glance that these type of things may be the most popular. Certain default replacement content does not seem to show as CC. The reason I know that is because I have used many default replacement content items. The game coding basically thinks the items are part of the game.
That’s not… how default replacements work. Once a replacer has its swatches with the wrench icon on top (i.e.: eye color, skin color), even if they are defaults, the Sim will be marked as modded. I even use replacers now to merely improve eye color but not completely change it (or add more). I also use a body mod, and default skinblend. Upon saving it, the blue wrench icon that indicate a household is modded still shows up. If not then, when the household is uploaded/published. And I don’t know what you want to say when you said, “It’s predictable that just lazily opening and looking at the Gallery by glance…” That is the problem, it shouldn’t be. It’s not supposed to be, it’s not intended that modded-looking Sims appear in the non-modded section of the Gallery. That’s why we have the “Include Custom Content” checkbox for. The regular is meant for no-CC vanilla Sims, but they’re being buried by catfish Sims. And even if you have to look for a specific thing, the search bar is still limited. Catfish Sims occupy a lot of hashtags even the normal ones despite claiming they’re “base game” which is already misleading when they have a pack requirement and wall of hashtags in the description mentioning pack names. So if we were to look for this “specific thing,” what is it? #Pretty? #Cute? Handsome? #Asian? #Male? #Female? They also have that covered and you’ll still see them there. If it’s someone or something really specific, then of course, that’s granted, but that’s not a solution nor relevant.
True. I do too and if I do, I don't see those sims. But that is still not how the Gallery is supposed to work and how it worked fine for so many years until those creators started to bypass EA's system. One should not need to use a tag or object search for purely vanilla sims if you already disabled the "include custom content" option.
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