we’re coming up to 4 years of vgen in nov and admittedly, many of our ops / moderation processes have only gotten expanded over time without any fundamental updates. but as systems get with scale, they are now reaching their limits and it’s time we re-evaluate and rebuild to really consider the scale at which we operate now. we do think there’s more we can do but it’s going to take us some time because these changes will require a complete reworking of all our ops processes and how they work together to simultaneously keep vgen welcoming to human artists and safe from those pretending to be. these challenges were much easier to deal with when we were smaller, but now being the home to so many artists and clients around the world, these challenges have become harder - however, with our team and community behind us, we’re confident we’ll be able to find the best solution moving forward, as we’ve done many times in the past. while the fall26 product roadmap has been locked in for a while and cannot be changed (icymi app is coming), we will be conducting a full assessment of our ops processes (incl but not limited to applications, artist codes, verifications, moderations, AI reports, and brokers). we appreciate your efforts to keep the community safe and keep us accountable - we love our community and we’re forever grateful that you care. we promise to do more and we’ll share more about how we’re thinking about these systems moving forward during our upcoming fall26 anniversary release stream in nov. thank you for your help, patience, and understanding as always 💚