I was given an unused Toyhou.se account and it was great and then I decided to make my own two accounts and i wanted to add an art peice for an oc and I clicked the wrong image for the oc and people started to call me out that the oc was stollen And they started to post pictures of the stollen oc and i replied to them that in the morning i would change the picture and so when i logged on the next morning all three of my accounts were banned and i sent an email to the toyhouse support team last year saying i apologize for uploading another users oc by accident and to this day i still haven't gotten a response from Toyhou.se support...and my accounts are still banned and to top it off my original account was unbanned and i sent a ticket on my other two accounts apologizing for any stollen ocs and what did the admins do banned my unbanned account for bann evasion. I am currently trying to get my accounts unbanned I have a ton of ocs on my accounts that im wanting to save to my computer but the chances of me being unbanned is *******.1% a problem i saw on toyhouse before getting banned is some of the folks on toyhouse were falsely accusing the innocent people of toyhouse for no reason and asking for personal information inorder to adopt a free or to buy a character which is Illegal and dumb. I am still trying to get my accounts and ocs back to this very day. I even have friends on toyhouse who are fighting on my side to get me unbanned...Toyhouse will respond to their support email about bugs you found on the sight this is what i did one time and they responded to my email but then when i sent them an email asking to be unbanned they ignored my email compleatly
In all there is one admin incharge of toyhouse and 0 mods and the communication with the admin is very bad also toyhouse has been in the testing stage for years with no updates the admin refuses to awnser unrealted bug issues and ignores appeal forms and anything reguarding rule breaking not only that but people who are selling or giving away ocs are asking for personal information
I joined toyhouse a few years back as a way to archive my ocs and art but shocked to find how bad it was, the site is hard to use with little to no advice unless you already have friends who know what they're doing, toxic groups of people + just bad people in general but hey good luck reporting them and getting them banned (I've done this a few times but only got one person banned). I've had some serious issues with users, one refused to give me back a character they had said they would multiple times, when I told toyhouse and provided proof I got told since it was on discord it didn't count. Then I delt with someone who contiues to stalk me and encourages people to make false reports on me, all toyhouse have done have said "oh we can't actually do anything but we'll keep that in mind for future reports". I wasn't even shocked when I learnt there is only one admin on the site anymore and they refuse to hire any new staff. Hell I saw someone recently have their premium stolen and given to their friend when all they tried to do was buy their friend premium. Which btw some basic functions are locked behind there: want to look up certain fourm posts? Want to mass upload characters or images, maybe you wanna customised your whole profile? You have to pay for those features not to mention thats pretty much it apart from a star next to your name, not to mention it's not worth the price of what your getting which a broken website. The site has been in beta for years, with your only way of getting in is codes or paying which btw the admin has said they won't do anything against people who want you to buy or trade huge things for codes, like wtf, I've been extremely lucky to find many that work as I have. Tldr I don't recommend this site at all, I've seen people be wrongfully banned but seem actual bad people get to stay on the site, oh and if you do say good bye to all your characters even if your the creator, you won't get to see em. I recommend miniors stay away from the site too its full of ped0s. Look for toyhouse alternatives as I am it'll be much more worth your time
There is only one staff member who actually does stuff on the site
The site
Forget this website honestly. While it might be the most "popular" OC website, it has absolutely zero moderation. The admin is incompetant and refuses to hire any help and on a website this large that is ridiculously stupid. The website has been in the same alpha development for years with no sign of ever actually going public neither, not that it even matters since getting a code is very easy.
The website is full of doxxing, harassmennt, stalking, callout posts and generally drama hungry children to the point the website has multiple "drama" blogs just dedicated to talking about the users who use it, often full of nefarious claims to the point many users will admit to feeling on eggshells while being on site. Users have no etiquette and will dogpile you openly if they disagree with you. If you like problematic material ie. Anime with 18+ themes, transgressive works of fiction, forget it - they'll harass you off site. Tickets raised do not get answered for months at a time - if you're okay with being scammed, having your characters disrespected or stolen or otherwise planning on locking yourself down on "quiet mode" and being a hermit go for it. Quite frankly out of all my years I've never been on a site as badly run or with as many reactionary cruel users.
Stick to other OC sites. Refsheet, charahub, ocbin, etc. The lack of moderation or concern from the admin at all and seemingly being complicit in allowing users to make insane bogus callout posts accusing people of horrific crimes ranging from pedophilia to abuse is absolutely monstrous. I actually think the admin is scared of the userbase and backlash that they have lost all sense of a backbone. It's the users that control the website and they do it by bullying and harassing others.
Only good side is the coding of profiles, but if you want to sacrifice your mental health and be constantly in a state of anxiety for that - your call.
When I was in the toyhouse community, (I've gotten banned wrongfully like. 3 times?) my experience there wasn't that great.
CS' taking down innocent characters at the speed of light when said characters have one simple trait from their weird species, p3d0s, st4lk3rs, and gr00m3rs running freely, children getting banned by random people that they had a bad experience with, people not being taken seriously by the mods and never getting responses, yeah.
Their banning system is awful, too. They don't warn you or let you try to fix your mistakes (ESPECIALLY with the age falsification ban), and when you contact their email they simply ghost you.
That website is basically only good for scamming gr00mers, basically. Just creepy adults that the toyhouse mods somehow take seriously.
When I was banned, my friend was permanently banned as well. Why, you may ask?
Because two adults who loved to take advantage of minors banned us because we told them we didn't want to talk to them anymore.
We were INSTANTLY banned (since only the adults are taken seriously!) and weren't allowed back. My account is banned for 4 years while my friends is permanent.
I just do NOT recommend. ESPECIALLY for random kids that just want to store their ocs or writing, if you're planning on doing that, start running because GOOD GOLLY is that site awful.
And, mind you, in the screenshot it says I interacted with sexual content (which I did NOT, it just says that for every age falsification ban which is quite harmful since I did nothing of the sort lol. I didn't even know you could upload nsfw or have nsfw on the site, so I believed I was okay)
Minors, don't use it. And if you do, don't come into contact with ANYONE. Just mind your business and move along.