Stronger Separation Between GA and AP in Private Rooms

It should be like before AP users should be able to wear AP items in any room without restrictions.
It was better for creativity, freedom, and overall user experience. No need to limit it now.

I want to start by addressing a serious concern. You make a big issue out of AP content, underage access, and enforcing standards in your platform. However, every time I open the main pages to access rooms, I’m immediately met with vulgar and explicit images. This is completely unacceptable.

I am tired of having to pay for an adult pass just to access content appropriately, while at the same time being exposed to inappropriate material without consent. If I didn’t work here, I would not use this platform at all. What I’m seeing is not only unprofessional—it’s outright disgusting and uncalled for.

You claim to be concerned about standards, yet your platform is increasingly filled with sexualized content. This is not what your program was originally meant to be. You’ve allowed it to drift into something that resembles a sexual-content-driven environment rather than a creative or social space.

At the same time, you restrict users by locking rooms to friends only due to harassment, while introducing features that only make the situation worse. You’ve reduced support hours, removed meaningful communication channels, and then question why problems continue to grow. The issues are clear—you need to address them at the source.

Let me be very clear: I do not want apologies or generic responses. This is something you have full control over, and it can be corrected immediately. If you intend for this to be an adult-only, sexually explicit platform, then separate it properly onto its own server. Stop forcing all users to be exposed to this content.

I have family and grandchildren. Opening this platform and seeing explicit imagery is embarrassing and inappropriate. It reflects poorly on your company and makes it difficult to take your standards seriously.

You continue to focus on monetization—charging high fees for features, slots, and access—while ignoring the actual user experience. Many of us are paying customers who are keeping this platform alive, yet our concerns are overlooked. Instead, you target and penalize long-time users while failing to address the real issues, such as underage users and those abusing the system.

This platform used to have standards. There was a time when even minor language was restricted, yet now explicit and graphic content is openly displayed. That shift is unacceptable.

I am here to create and interact with my community—not to participate in or be surrounded by explicit content. I do not want to engage with features like “Next,” nor do I want to be pushed into a social media-style system that does not align with why I am here.

If meaningful changes are not made, you will continue to lose users who actually care about the platform. It is time to refocus on the community that supports you, rather than prioritizing profit over standards.

You need to address these problems now.

It's still my though to just separate the kids completely. Make 2 sites one for under 18 and the other for adults. Don't even let the kids see the adult version of the game. In other words ask the question how old are you before you show the sign up page.

Wow, so many unhappy comments to this sudden change. And rightfully so. I have seen so many GA rooms with black market items and avatars using their own during my chatroom adventures. A lot of the time in GA room tags I see the tag "T4" sometimes, a friend said it's what people use to mod as a way to bypass AP. I have attempted to report two different chat rooms that were clearly against TOS, and all IMVU told me was to refer to the flagging system. Those rooms are still public. IMVU should really look at the bigger issues before this separation nonsense.

What Most People Have Said Here Below This??

If You Actually Read A Lot Of This,
This Makes IMVU Staff Look Criminal...

That Is All I'm Saying, ~___~

& I'm Not Going To Disagree With Other People's Comments
& Responses On This At All, o____O

Just So We Are Clear About This:

They Are Not Hurting GA People By Doing This,
They Are Actually Hurting Those Who Are AP By Doing This...

Why, You Might Ask??

Because They Know We Don't Want Incest All Over IMVU,
& They Also Know That We Have AP On Our Accounts...

Soooo, Naturally They Further Create A Problem Out Of Nothing
To Make Our Experiences Worst By Forcing Us Into Rooms With The Incest
By Telling Us We Can No Longer Be In GA Rooms Anymore, ~___~

If Nobody Has Figured This Out Yet??

You Aught To Start Paying Attention More, o___O

Cause This Isn't About The GA User Base,
This Is About Screwing With The AP User Base,
& Manipulating Us Into Things We Might Think Are Good,
But In Turn May Also Be Very Bad For Us, Too, ~___~


PS:

#1 I Got AP For More Privacy...
#2 I Got AP To Keep Enjoying What I Had With GA...
#3 I Want More Maturity Which Can Allow More Control On My Experiences...

What I Don't Want Here Is This:

#1 To Engage In Areas Of Incest & Be Trapped As Apart Of The Incest Market...
#2 To Engage In Areas Of Toxic Behavior Or Immaturity...
#3 To Be Manipulated & Controlled By A Harboring Deranged System Bent On Harmful Intent...

What I Most Likely Do Not Care About:

#1 If Others With AP Engage In Incest
#2 If GA Users Are Toxic & Immature
#3 If Other People Want These Updates & Things

The #1 Thing Is, IMVU Has To Work For Everyone Involved,
& The Main Thing Is That What I May Want, Someone Else May Not,
& What They Want, I May Not... Sooo We Have To Find A Middle Ground
Where Things Can Work For Everyone Involved...

Right Now In 2026, IMVU Is Not Working For Most People On The Platform,
& If It's Even Working For Remotely Anyone At All, Then It's Only Working
For A Select Few, & Only That, & That's All...

We Need IMVU To Be Working For Everyone, Not Just A Select Few,
Otherwise You Don't Have A Working System, What You Have Instead
Is A Chaotic Mess, & We Need To Get IMVU Back To A Working System Again...

That's My Point Here... o___O

Non-ap users can't see our outfits in the first place, but to completely ban us from GA room unless we change into something GA is wild. It's bad enough certain words are censored now it's this. Honestly after the censorship of certain words I made all of my rooms AP, now I don't even care to have "GA" rooms anymore because more rules are being implemented.

This update is an absolute disaster. As a long-time AP user, I feel like I’m being punished for supporting the platform financially. We are the backbone of IMVU, yet we are the ones being restricted and 'caged' in our own private spaces. This isn't protection; it’s a systematic destruction of the social experience.

The logic behind this 'hard-block' is fundamentally broken. By removing the 'shimmer' effect, you are killing the social dynamic that defines this platform. We are now forced to choose between our identity (our purchased inventory) and our social circles. Beyond the social isolation, this update effectively destroys years of creative investment.

Many of us have spent countless hours and thousands of credits meticulously decorating GA-labeled private rooms. We now face an impossible choice: abandon our hard work or strip our avatars of the items we legally purchased just to enter our own homes. To make matters worse, there is no functional way to upgrade an existing private room from GA to AP without jumping through broken hoops that risk destroying the entire layout.

You are locking us out of our own designs. Private rooms are our personal domains. Dictating what we wear in our homes and refusing a viable migration path for room ratings is a failure in both technical design and customer respect. We need a revert or a real solution that doesn't treat paying adults like a problem to be hidden away. Stop treating your most loyal supporters as a liability.

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I'm on classic client and don't see any of that mess you are talking about with shimmer or whatever. If the new platforms have that then fix the new platforms. Don't punish EVERYONE for the mistakes of your devs. The update is ridiculous and an exaggeration of the issue. I should not be told how to dress in my own rooms whether private or personal. Why not use the same filtering technique used previously on client? It showed a green midsection and forest green shorts to every Ap outfit viewed by a GA user. Worked just fine for years. Just because someone messed up with that "shimmer" mess does not mean you rework the whole system. Just rework the stupid shimmer. I have lots of friends who have left IMVU for other apps. While IMVU has the bulk of my investment, it's hard to support the growth of a service that tends to cripple its main money machine - adults. This update should be rolled back to old and that shimmer should instead be fixed or changed. Although you have kids on this app your profit is from adults. Separate the kids PLEASE but don't cripple the adults by adding us into that "shimmer" crap. Fix the damn "shimmer" smh that seems like an easier thing to do. Ok I am repeating myself lol. I'm f'n frustrated asf. DO BETTER IMVU

I must agree with those that have commented before me. The censorship is getting absolutely ridiculous. We understand that children exist on the platform, and the importance of protecting them. However, its unreasonable and illogical to censor AP users in this manner. The adult users are literally the reason IMVU exists in the first place, because ADULT USERS ARE THE ONES PAYING THE MONEY! We continuously get smacked in the face each update by something new and foolish to censor! WHY have we VERIFIED OUR IDENTITIES + AGES, purchased VIP, AP, and AP+ to STILL NOT GET TO BE ADULTS??????!!!! On the internet and in the real world there will, unfortunately, ALWAYS be weird, predatory behavior! I will never ever condone that behavior, but IMVU is going to have to grow up and be realistic OR lose most of your loyal users/customers! I have been here for almost 18 years, and this is by far one of the most unthought-out updates to date!!! PLEASE ROLL THIS BACK TO THE WAY IT WAS!!!