This is how to lose a big part of your players .... Konami is really that dumb ... i really cant believe it ... Konami like " kill it kill it with fire"
Over across the pond. First and foremost, love the content broski. Secondly, Konami is 100% in the right about this for LEWD CONTENT ONLY. Hands down, no doubt about it, no ifs, ands or buts. The only thing that irks me endlessly is them talking about sleeves. Sleeves should be a personal choice because I AM spending the money to protect my cards, NOT KONAMI. This doesn't include lewd sleeves, obviously. The reason Im annoyed about it is because I just spent a good amount of money on some custom inner and outer sleeves, only to find out they won't fly at almost anything higher than locals. Then saying the lewd stuff isnt allowed is fine, i cringe hard whenever someone busts out the lewd deckbox, with the sleeves, and the waifu field center, on their lingerie Dark Mag Girl playmat. 🥴🥴🥴🥴
Yeah I'm really hoping that gets refined but the mention on sleeves is the same as the mats, some sleeves either matched the mat or were super dodgy, boarder sleeves may still be allowed "within reason" as they don't really refer to them. Also sucks as I really liked the dragonshield art sleeves they do but guess I'll keep them for local use
If they roll this out everywhere I mean America which literally advanced the custom and specialized accessories for Yugioh for the last 7 years I will quit. Like the deck boxes, the cloth companies that made a business from it, the card sleeve and accessories companies all being damaged by this and all the players that spent money on this are being compromised. This is fucked. I’m at the age now where if they keep doing tier 0 formats and forcing us into the playing expensive decks just to play and now no accessories of your own choosing then naw I will be done with the game.
This is the dumbest thing ever. I get the lewd thing but for everything else, just protest and play with what you want. What are they gonna do?? Ban everyone???
People getting upset over nothing. Not only isn't this a widely enforced policy outside of European championships, but even if it were (and I hope it is), it makes logical sense not only for the attending children's sake but also for the adults who simply don't want to see that crap. It's not like trading card games like Magic haven't had similar rules for decades. You could argue, why now? Just because it has been so for years doesn't mean they shouldn't change, especially given that there is precedent in the trading card scene. Another thing you could say is, well, I could simply turn it around if I battle against a kid or someone who doesn't want to see that. If you think that way, you clearly miss the point. Cameras are everywhere, people are everywhere, so someone would've seen it and that's one too many. That's such a rude attitude. Also, the backside wouldn't have card zones. I hate playmats that don't have them, especially nowadays where the position of cards is so important. What this policy change proves is more of a self-report that someone thinks lewd playmats are appropriate to be seen by children or adults that don't want to know your interests. And it's not like custom mats and sleeves are banned entirely, just that these custom items have to be plain and simple. Granted, that point could need some clarification: what is considered simple and plain? Just one color, two colors, a plain white background but with colored stripes of 5 colors which, I'd argue, is plain and simple. And what about adding in names and logos of you or your team? The final say is with the head judge. It only makes sense that Konami would prefer their customers to use their products as well.
I'm a bit mad about this, but I get why it happens. Should just come out and say perverts are banned. Now if I understand it right I'm not allowed to use my graceful charity sleeves and other fairly cool, but also obviously very modest accessories. Should be fine up till regionals I guess, but still, a shame. I'm not a saint myself, but there is a time and place. EDIT: 4:32 exactly lol.
Perv culture..... Is that what they're calling it these days?? Since when did having pride in your heterosexuality become something to be ashamed of!?? As for the ruling, I mean, I get it; Young kids shouldn't have to be subjected to that kind of content at a venue that was originally meant for THEM, and I'm sure parents would greatly appreciate it too. Still, that's no excuse to be shaming something that really outta be considered normal behavior!!
I haven't purchased a single lewd playmat and their being banned is reasonable but non-official Yugioh-related playmats from Mlikemat and Sabermaster are???😧
Personally I believe if Konami understood their players they'd refine this restriction heavily. The restriction on rude or inappropriate materials should still exist but they shouldn't lock you into buying plain or Konami branded and disguise it as looking out for the youth and making easier for judges. You're probably referring to the short by akemi tcg.
Yeah referring to the short. I agree to you about the outright ban seems to much and so many people are negatively effected as "collateral" However I also understand why they did it as a blanket ban, as people all have different definitions on what "lewd" is. To the majority it is obvious, but if everyone saw the obvious items you shouldnt bring in public, we wouldnt have need for this rule or the deodorant rule. Im disappointed, but objectively can see why its been done. Hopefully its refined in the near future.
I'm hoping they'll allow a way to give a playmat an 'official seal of approval' type thing, even if it's just limited to each event. I was going to draw a playmat and get some custom art Dragon Shield sleeves. But now it doesn't look I'll be able to if this comes to affect locals without changes/updates. I also would argue Spellground and similar playmats that only have the zones and/or simple patterns are allowed and fall under "plain", but it's annoying how vague it is. They should instead say "depicting inappropriate imagery for duelists and their families", which is still very vague but would allow (probably) most playmats to still be allowed and not have every player question every unofficial playmats. Get rid nsfw playmats please, lewd and high gore imagery begone, don't just banning all mats with graphics that aren't made by Konami.
For anyone who doesn’t really understand, as stated in the announcement: • For Europe and Oceania. • It’s only mainly for livestream feature matches, which the event usually will provide a mat for already so it’s mainly just the sleeves you have to worry about but the sleeves policy is the same either way so this shouldn’t be an actual issue whatsoever. If Konami actually bans mats other than their own for non feature matches, they’re going to have a massive problem on their hands….
It's not just for the feature mats, its through out those spercific tournaments as they talk about judges being asked if stuff is appropriate and also walking around the venue etc. Of course you could still use what you want, but I've known in the past ppl getting sharkered on clear sleeves may not be worth the off chance risk
very true, however the issue is "people dont seem to understand what is defined as lewd" obviously to us we know what is and isnt, but clearly people havent understood that or have different definitions as to what they define as Lewd, hense leading to this rule coming into place. To me, its the same as the deodorant, commen sense would dictate that you shouldnt need to be told that the individual smells, yet the rule had to be put in place
Unclear currently, I'd like to think you can and you'd have more ground to argue your point as they don't define that, and ICG accessory quality is much better, I'd say if they limited it to just offical TCG accessories then I'd be more annoyed as that's for monetary reasons imo and not "content" reasons
Lol, havent u heard? Common sense is not really common. But still, I believe they should allow at least mats that has their Team name. Not so much one with monster graphic, but just the name or perhaps one with a child-friendly border design or one that has card placements. Now, my thoughts on this? I believe the rule creations to make YCS more strict is not gonna stop. Its just going to snowball from here. Ever since they spoke up about the hygiene thing, its been seeming like Konami has decided to become more and more vocal over things they have had issues with.
Do you think it's solely a konami decision tho, what I mean by that is its not just judges going round and gone wow these players smell or that mat is lewd there is clearly a base of complaints from the player base\ attendees to?
@@zephyrwargamesyugioh It is at the end of the day BECAUSE of those very reasons. Its like the warning labels where its common sense that fresh served coffee is going to be hot, until someone got burned and sued because "they werent told it was hot". These people who go around making these things happen to make Konami react in the way that they do are why we have all these rules in the first place. Its a public event that involves all kinds of people and kids, so they need to carry themselves responsibly. My only issue with it how strongly they went about it. Instead of allowing some exceptions to allow the advertisments of classy artists, they said solid color or Official Konami products only. Like, dang, fa real? Its that serious?!
@VampirusX1 yeah I feel bad for the artist but as we have already established common sense seems to be lacking from the game and I'd expect if konami said something like "we are banning lewd accessories" they would still get their stated issue of people asking if its lewd or not and using a lewd mat and saying "oh I thought this was fine" making it direct, to the point with no grey area would in Theory end the questions there imo
But then it'll fall within a grey area or what constitutes lewd, again logic and obvious deductions should make that answer common sense but the deodorant rule and now this one exist because ppl clearly can't use common sense
That's stupid because if they do that for the children you COULD see at events (since it's not always the case with a game that complicated) those sames see more than that every days and sometimes even worse than that. Children now have seen more than us at the same age. It's time to stop assuming they are innocent that's the past
It's not just for the children the exact wording is "if a game mat is appropriate for the attendees, which includes children" I also refer to the TG Mat used as an example, "Do you think that is an appropriate mat to be used in public, anywhere not just yugioh events"
@@zephyrwargamesyugioh yea I reacted really early before you said one color… and eeew I stopped using dragon shield they are very poor quality I had like 5 packs from various locations come with poor quality from not sealed properly or poor inconsistent cuts on the side, to crempt what look to be weed in between the plastic
@@remylordskiI use, dragon shield since 5 years now and the decks I used them I never had to change the sleeves. I cannot say that for other brand especially Konami xD
Yep, only official Konami branded playmat allowed. Edit: you can use non official playmat but they need to only one color, like full blue playmat or full black,
Lood come on let’s not act like Karen’s here remind me again this card game stems from where a anime it’s anime culture to have large melon and curvy angles everywhere and saying stuff like that is in appropriate for children is bad parenting shaming of any like or the human body is bullying behind yellow tape and should be fraud apone it’s straight up Karen behavior if you think stuff like high school dxd is in appropriate everything can be inappropriate when taken out of context like most Karen’s do this I a real Karen move on Konami’s part
Do you not think that this could have come from multiple complaints around the community, and its not bigger chests etc, some of the playmats and Agedo accessories are really bad, full nudity tokens etc, that's defo not appropriate. Yes stuff can be made more appropriate hense some card art being censored in the TCG (yes I know konami have now found a way to monetise that with lost arts) I'm not saying I agree with everything they do, and if common sense was put into place this wouldn't even be a thing, but surley you don't go to events with some of the tour guide mats shown in the video right?
@@zephyrwargamesyugioh so what kids don’t go to museums like the stupid Karen’s of the world where successful able to convince the general public that nudity is tabboo bad but with no valid reasoning behind… point blank Konami should Not be allowed to prevent players to express them selves with there accessoiries
@@remylordski I'm not sure if you've seen the same mats that I have at events plus it's not just kids that see it, some general people are not comfortable with and using the Tourguide mat as an example seeing a mat or a character (ago also un confirmed BTW) bound with questionable facial expressions and having her feet licked, do you think that art is acceptable to be displayed in a public environment?
@@zephyrwargamesyugioh I go to event with rubicon field centers field centers like that but there i have some class with it; the field center has two sides and I don’t flip the fully exposed side when I do see kids or females I don’t know to not offend anyone’s precious feeling
@@zephyrwargamesyugioh art is art and it shouldn’t be sheltered but unveiled for everyone to enjoy and if it makes someone uncomfortable well straight up 💯 they can grow the F up and deal with it for a round like what the worst that can happen a mat with a fully erected pickle if my opponent had a mat like that you think I would be like judge this person has a di*k on the mat and I don’t feel comfterable because I like girl parts lol absolutely not I would laugh about it and have a great duel
Broo because of you agreeing with corporations to limit the freedom of expression WtF i play what i want if Konami doesn’t want it they will pay the consequences with my wallet. Other than that your a puppet!! Hahah
A puppet?, because I agree that Underage depictions, inappropriate designs- boarderline Hentai accessories should not be displayed in a openly public place that also has children around. Id say thats sensibility and common sense, which you clearly lack if you think mats like the TG one shown in the video are acceptable in these enviroments?
This is how to lose a big part of your players .... Konami is really that dumb ... i really cant believe it ... Konami like " kill it kill it with fire"
Over across the pond. First and foremost, love the content broski. Secondly, Konami is 100% in the right about this for LEWD CONTENT ONLY. Hands down, no doubt about it, no ifs, ands or buts. The only thing that irks me endlessly is them talking about sleeves. Sleeves should be a personal choice because I AM spending the money to protect my cards, NOT KONAMI. This doesn't include lewd sleeves, obviously. The reason Im annoyed about it is because I just spent a good amount of money on some custom inner and outer sleeves, only to find out they won't fly at almost anything higher than locals. Then saying the lewd stuff isnt allowed is fine, i cringe hard whenever someone busts out the lewd deckbox, with the sleeves, and the waifu field center, on their lingerie Dark Mag Girl playmat. 🥴🥴🥴🥴
Yeah I'm really hoping that gets refined but the mention on sleeves is the same as the mats, some sleeves either matched the mat or were super dodgy, boarder sleeves may still be allowed "within reason" as they don't really refer to them.
Also sucks as I really liked the dragonshield art sleeves they do but guess I'll keep them for local use
They take all cause who gets to be the judge.
If they roll this out everywhere I mean America which literally advanced the custom and specialized accessories for Yugioh for the last 7 years I will quit. Like the deck boxes, the cloth companies that made a business from it, the card sleeve and accessories companies all being damaged by this and all the players that spent money on this are being compromised. This is fucked. I’m at the age now where if they keep doing tier 0 formats and forcing us into the playing expensive decks just to play and now no accessories of your own choosing then naw I will be done with the game.
Same for me
I have imperium 2 player mat with pretty blank except zones and I couldn’t use it according to this
This is the dumbest thing ever. I get the lewd thing but for everything else, just protest and play with what you want. What are they gonna do?? Ban everyone???
People getting upset over nothing. Not only isn't this a widely enforced policy outside of European championships, but even if it were (and I hope it is), it makes logical sense not only for the attending children's sake but also for the adults who simply don't want to see that crap. It's not like trading card games like Magic haven't had similar rules for decades. You could argue, why now? Just because it has been so for years doesn't mean they shouldn't change, especially given that there is precedent in the trading card scene. Another thing you could say is, well, I could simply turn it around if I battle against a kid or someone who doesn't want to see that. If you think that way, you clearly miss the point. Cameras are everywhere, people are everywhere, so someone would've seen it and that's one too many. That's such a rude attitude. Also, the backside wouldn't have card zones. I hate playmats that don't have them, especially nowadays where the position of cards is so important.
What this policy change proves is more of a self-report that someone thinks lewd playmats are appropriate to be seen by children or adults that don't want to know your interests.
And it's not like custom mats and sleeves are banned entirely, just that these custom items have to be plain and simple. Granted, that point could need some clarification: what is considered simple and plain? Just one color, two colors, a plain white background but with colored stripes of 5 colors which, I'd argue, is plain and simple. And what about adding in names and logos of you or your team? The final say is with the head judge. It only makes sense that Konami would prefer their customers to use their products as well.
My first playmat when i was 10 years old was a half naked lady posing next to a dragon lmaooo
That's lame beyond lame... Konami really trying to make it's players base mad
They don't have to try. They are usually petulant
So i cant play with my Dragon Shield dual art sleeves. This is insane
I recently purchased a very tasteful Black Rose Dragon Mat :(
Mind if I ask you: is that from Mlikemat on Amazon?
my Dark Magician Girl mat is around 2mm from showing too much but hey, it's official licensed mat so no one can complain 😁
F for mcdonalds tray dino player
I'm a bit mad about this, but I get why it happens. Should just come out and say perverts are banned.
Now if I understand it right I'm not allowed to use my graceful charity sleeves and other fairly cool, but also obviously very modest accessories.
Should be fine up till regionals I guess, but still, a shame.
I'm not a saint myself, but there is a time and place.
EDIT: 4:32 exactly lol.
Honestly makes sense. The perv culture is getting weird
Perv culture..... Is that what they're calling it these days?? Since when did having pride in your heterosexuality become something to be ashamed of!??
As for the ruling, I mean, I get it; Young kids shouldn't have to be subjected to that kind of content at a venue that was originally meant for THEM, and I'm sure parents would greatly appreciate it too. Still, that's no excuse to be shaming something that really outta be considered normal behavior!!
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@@SelfReassuringTitle So, you agree......good!
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@rampagephoenix173 It's not normal it's pervy.😂😂
I haven't purchased a single lewd playmat and their being banned is reasonable but non-official Yugioh-related playmats from Mlikemat and Sabermaster are???😧
Personally I believe if Konami understood their players they'd refine this restriction heavily. The restriction on rude or inappropriate materials should still exist but they shouldn't lock you into buying plain or Konami branded and disguise it as looking out for the youth and making easier for judges.
You're probably referring to the short by akemi tcg.
Yeah referring to the short.
I agree to you about the outright ban seems to much and so many people are negatively effected as "collateral"
However I also understand why they did it as a blanket ban, as people all have different definitions on what "lewd" is.
To the majority it is obvious, but if everyone saw the obvious items you shouldnt bring in public, we wouldnt have need for this rule or the deodorant rule.
Im disappointed, but objectively can see why its been done.
Hopefully its refined in the near future.
I'm hoping they'll allow a way to give a playmat an 'official seal of approval' type thing, even if it's just limited to each event. I was going to draw a playmat and get some custom art Dragon Shield sleeves. But now it doesn't look I'll be able to if this comes to affect locals without changes/updates.
I also would argue Spellground and similar playmats that only have the zones and/or simple patterns are allowed and fall under "plain", but it's annoying how vague it is. They should instead say "depicting inappropriate imagery for duelists and their families", which is still very vague but would allow (probably) most playmats to still be allowed and not have every player question every unofficial playmats. Get rid nsfw playmats please, lewd and high gore imagery begone, don't just banning all mats with graphics that aren't made by Konami.
This sounds more like they just want to monopolize and force people to buy Komoney-made merch instead of Dragon Shield and all the custom mat makers.
For anyone who doesn’t really understand, as stated in the announcement:
• For Europe and Oceania.
• It’s only mainly for livestream feature matches, which the event usually will provide a mat for already so it’s mainly just the sleeves you have to worry about but the sleeves policy is the same either way so this shouldn’t be an actual issue whatsoever. If Konami actually bans mats other than their own for non feature matches, they’re going to have a massive problem on their hands….
It's not just for the feature mats, its through out those spercific tournaments as they talk about judges being asked if stuff is appropriate and also walking around the venue etc. Of course you could still use what you want, but I've known in the past ppl getting sharkered on clear sleeves may not be worth the off chance risk
Sadly some yugioh players and common sense don't know each other
The bottom line, sad truth
Where is best online place to keep decklists ? Duelbook or where ?
Duelingbook is ideal, YGOPro can also be good to help you learn effects.
They hit everyone, when all they needed to do was hit the people using lewd sleeves/mats.
very true, however the issue is "people dont seem to understand what is defined as lewd" obviously to us we know what is and isnt, but clearly people havent understood that or have different definitions as to what they define as Lewd, hense leading to this rule coming into place.
To me, its the same as the deodorant, commen sense would dictate that you shouldnt need to be told that the individual smells, yet the rule had to be put in place
What about official OCG products? I assume we can still use those
Unclear currently, I'd like to think you can and you'd have more ground to argue your point as they don't define that, and ICG accessory quality is much better, I'd say if they limited it to just offical TCG accessories then I'd be more annoyed as that's for monetary reasons imo and not "content" reasons
Lol, havent u heard? Common sense is not really common. But still, I believe they should allow at least mats that has their Team name. Not so much one with monster graphic, but just the name or perhaps one with a child-friendly border design or one that has card placements.
Now, my thoughts on this? I believe the rule creations to make YCS more strict is not gonna stop. Its just going to snowball from here. Ever since they spoke up about the hygiene thing, its been seeming like Konami has decided to become more and more vocal over things they have had issues with.
Do you think it's solely a konami decision tho, what I mean by that is its not just judges going round and gone wow these players smell or that mat is lewd there is clearly a base of complaints from the player base\ attendees to?
@@zephyrwargamesyugioh It is at the end of the day BECAUSE of those very reasons. Its like the warning labels where its common sense that fresh served coffee is going to be hot, until someone got burned and sued because "they werent told it was hot".
These people who go around making these things happen to make Konami react in the way that they do are why we have all these rules in the first place. Its a public event that involves all kinds of people and kids, so they need to carry themselves responsibly.
My only issue with it how strongly they went about it. Instead of allowing some exceptions to allow the advertisments of classy artists, they said solid color or Official Konami products only. Like, dang, fa real? Its that serious?!
@VampirusX1 yeah I feel bad for the artist but as we have already established common sense seems to be lacking from the game and I'd expect if konami said something like "we are banning lewd accessories" they would still get their stated issue of people asking if its lewd or not and using a lewd mat and saying "oh I thought this was fine" making it direct, to the point with no grey area would in Theory end the questions there imo
@@zephyrwargamesyugioh Fair point.
No, they could just ban lewd shit. But they don't, because this makes them more money
But then it'll fall within a grey area or what constitutes lewd, again logic and obvious deductions should make that answer common sense but the deodorant rule and now this one exist because ppl clearly can't use common sense
Is it a requirement to use a play mat period ? I’ve not dueled in 15 years
That's stupid because if they do that for the children you COULD see at events (since it's not always the case with a game that complicated) those sames see more than that every days and sometimes even worse than that. Children now have seen more than us at the same age. It's time to stop assuming they are innocent that's the past
It's not just for the children the exact wording is "if a game mat is appropriate for the attendees, which includes children"
I also refer to the TG Mat used as an example, "Do you think that is an appropriate mat to be used in public, anywhere not just yugioh events"
The weirdos in the community ruin it for everyone because nobody straightened them out, now Konami has to. I feel the players did this to themselves.
Gotta use Konami sleeves??… yuck
Still use other plain colour sleeves
But Konami sleeves suck like they peal right after you sleeve up your card wtf it is like they don’t want tourneys at all
yeah you would still be allowed to use dragon shield, ultra pro ect but must be 1 colour
@@zephyrwargamesyugioh yea I reacted really early before you said one color… and eeew I stopped using dragon shield they are very poor quality I had like 5 packs from various locations come with poor quality from not sealed properly or poor inconsistent cuts on the side, to crempt what look to be weed in between the plastic
@@remylordskiI use, dragon shield since 5 years now and the decks I used them I never had to change the sleeves. I cannot say that for other brand especially Konami xD
So trash! I spent so much money at sleeve chief for custom stuff
Thts crazy about deodorant. But I will say I enjoy yugioh but a lot of players look stinky
Would this mean spell grounds are banned too?
Yep, only official Konami branded playmat allowed.
Edit: you can use non official playmat but they need to only one color, like full blue playmat or full black,
@mollymoltrer7412 well good luck to everyone on this then
Well time to move on to another card game 😂😂😂
ok only konamy official playmat
or plain coloured ones
Lood come on let’s not act like Karen’s here remind me again this card game stems from where a anime it’s anime culture to have large melon and curvy angles everywhere and saying stuff like that is in appropriate for children is bad parenting shaming of any like or the human body is bullying behind yellow tape and should be fraud apone it’s straight up Karen behavior if you think stuff like high school dxd is in appropriate everything can be inappropriate when taken out of context like most Karen’s do this I a real Karen move on Konami’s part
Do you not think that this could have come from multiple complaints around the community, and its not bigger chests etc, some of the playmats and Agedo accessories are really bad, full nudity tokens etc, that's defo not appropriate. Yes stuff can be made more appropriate hense some card art being censored in the TCG (yes I know konami have now found a way to monetise that with lost arts) I'm not saying I agree with everything they do, and if common sense was put into place this wouldn't even be a thing, but surley you don't go to events with some of the tour guide mats shown in the video right?
@@zephyrwargamesyugioh so what kids don’t go to museums like the stupid Karen’s of the world where successful able to convince the general public that nudity is tabboo bad but with no valid reasoning behind… point blank Konami should Not be allowed to prevent players to express them selves with there accessoiries
@@remylordski I'm not sure if you've seen the same mats that I have at events plus it's not just kids that see it, some general people are not comfortable with and using the Tourguide mat as an example seeing a mat or a character (ago also un confirmed BTW) bound with questionable facial expressions and having her feet licked, do you think that art is acceptable to be displayed in a public environment?
@@zephyrwargamesyugioh I go to event with rubicon field centers field centers like that but there i have some class with it; the field center has two sides and I don’t flip the fully exposed side when I do see kids or females I don’t know to not offend anyone’s precious feeling
@@zephyrwargamesyugioh art is art and it shouldn’t be sheltered but unveiled for everyone to enjoy and if it makes someone uncomfortable well straight up 💯 they can grow the F up and deal with it for a round like what the worst that can happen a mat with a fully erected pickle if my opponent had a mat like that you think I would be like judge this person has a di*k on the mat and I don’t feel comfterable because I like girl parts lol absolutely not I would laugh about it and have a great duel
Broo because of you agreeing with corporations to limit the freedom of expression WtF i play what i want if Konami doesn’t want it they will pay the consequences with my wallet. Other than that your a puppet!! Hahah
A puppet?, because I agree that Underage depictions, inappropriate designs- boarderline Hentai accessories should not be displayed in a openly public place that also has children around.
Id say thats sensibility and common sense, which you clearly lack if you think mats like the TG one shown in the video are acceptable in these enviroments?
Good on them, we need less creeps literally having feet fetish and nude cringe playmats and sleeves.
Just sucks when it means literally every custom accessory and not just lewd ones.