What's your opinion on custom gallery poses?

I think they make the sims look better than they really are.

I don't have a problem with people using them, I just wish there was an option to filter them off when I want to. It gets to the point where all I can see is poses and I find it a bit distracting. To the point where I have stopped downloading other player created sims from the gallery because (for me) wading through all the poses and trying to see what the sims are actually like (not because poses mask anything, but because they are distracting to my own brain) isn't worth bothering and my neighborhood just gets townies and ones I create myself.

I don't mind the ones that look like family portraits. Some of the 'model' or couple poses can get a bit ridiculous though.

Hate it...and it’s all the same type of sim, skinny with blonde hair and seemingly squished features...boring.

I don’t like them because they’re distracting, and I hate it when people use them to show off sims with default replacements/cc skins or whatever because I’m not looking for cc.

Some of the custom poses are nice. Some are just weird and do not do anything for the Sim at all. I personally dont use custom poses. I prefer a more classic pose.

Some of them are very awkward looking to me. Sometimes they make me roll my eyes if every other girl sim has a come hither stare going on (but that's just overuse I think).
I actually like the shots that pull in closer to a sims face. It helps me see what I'm getting before downloading.
My searches are pretty specific though so I doubt it actually changes what I download much.

I dislike them. I think most of the poses make the Sim(s) look dumb, especially male Sims,

I don't use the Gallery for Sims but they're the first things that I see when I go online to check out a build by someone.

"JC1979;c-16799392" wrote:
Hate it...and it’s all the same type of sim, skinny with blonde hair and seemingly squished features...boring.

There was actually an article recently that showed up on my newsfeed about basically what you just wrote. Very few ethnic Sims. My Guy has more of the Native American/Hispanic/Latino look, being part Native American myself, very few portrayed in the gallery and then people want to feud that Native Americans don't have facial hair when someone gives them a bit of growth...I beg to differ lol

Truly need more diversity, not all blonde, blued eyed teen girls.

They look cool but it makes it hard to see the sim's face and other details I want when I download so it's frustrating. No thanks.