If you are a seasoned IMVU user you would know that IMVU allows you to hide your outfit(s) from other users. A way to get around that was to use a feature on the IMVU Emporium (IMVU-E) called the Hidden Outfit Viewer. I believed the hide outfit option on IMVU hurts creators in the long run. What is really the point of hiding your outfit from other users? Is it to stop people from copying your look? I can understand that you don't want people copying your originality, but in the grand scheme of things that feature stops the creators that made what you are wearing from potential new customers. I ultimately don't have a huge problem with the feature IMVU offered, but here is where IMVU-E gets unethical. I mentioned before that IMVU-E had a feature to un-hide outfits. I don't remember exactly when but at some point they started to charge $10 to remove your avatar from having it's outfit viewed! If you don't see the problem with this, then allow me to explain. IMVU offered a feature to hide your outfit...for free; IMVU-E then offers a feature to un-hide that avatars outfit...for free; IMVU-E then comes around and starts charging people for a service they were getting from IMVU for free already that THEY took upon themselves to undo! And you know what the worst part is? I have some links that will unhide outfits anyway and as far as I know they aren't exploiting users for $10. Remixie's IMVU Pro This is my biggest gripe with IMVU-E. They are charging for a solution to the problem they created. I would not have an issue if they offered the feature to opt-out of having your outfit un-hidden for free. As I said before I believe the option to hide outfits hurts creators, but no one should be exploited like that. And yes it is exploitation. Obviously no one is forcing people to pay the $10 but at one point the two sites I linked above were not available. This meant that if you really did not want people on IMVU seeing your outfit you had to pay that $10.
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