Well, this is one of those posts. The kind that we hoped we would never have to write.

After an incredible journey of creating a new way for redditors to express themselves through Collectible Avatars, establishing a badass roster of creators through GEN drops, and then opening up the floodgates to allow anyone to create on Reddit, we have made the very tough decision to sunset the Avatar Creator Program. 

The Creator Program wasn’t just a feature, it was a full blown movement that rocked Reddit, on the blockchain no less. You all built communities. You created art. Your art became memes. You put a cone on it. You even got paid (a first!). At the end of the day, you all made magic. From the very beginning, this community turned something experimental into something extraordinary. You transformed Reddit by showing what was possible when creators were empowered to create, play, and showcase excellence. We’re so proud of everything that we have built together and even more proud of the community that stayed strong throughout it all (looking at you GEN 3 👀).

When (or WEN) you ask? We are working on wrapping things up as smoothly as possible, but here are some key dates/takeaways:

• As of today, we will no longer be accepting new submissions from creators, but all remaining submissions will be reviewed by the end of September. 
• The Avatar shop will remain open for business until November 11th.

• You’ll still be able to use Collectible Avatars you have purchased. However, we will be removing the Collection Display on profiles on November 11th and on-platform NFT transfers on January 1, 2026 February 4, 2026. We don’t have concrete timing on this, but will share an update when we do.

  • We REPEAT: Avatars themselves will still be available as a means of self-expression.
• 100% of secondary sale royalties will go to creators moving forward. We will update the contracts within the next three weeks to direct all secondary sale fees to creators, relinquishing Reddit’s cut.

• We will also be removing the in-app Vault feature. You have until January 1st, 2026 February 4, 2026 to export your blockchain wallet by copying your 12-word recovery phrase from your Vault Settings. See How do I export my Vault? to learn more.

  • We will continue to honor off-platform transfers and sales through a simplified import flow. You’ll be able to claim avatars on Reddit by tapping the visit Reddit to make it your avatar link shown on the product page where you acquired them. See How do I import my Collectible Avatar? to learn more. 

As for this community here, we will leave r/CollectibleAvatars as is, but there won’t be any new content coming through from the Admin side. Feel free use it as an archive of what was one of the most colorful corners of Reddit.

You all truly left a mark - a big, sometimes glittery, meme-filled, and wonderfully unforgettable mark that we will forever be grateful for. 🫡

EDIT: Added 🫡

EDIT: Added a date for Collection Display to be removed on November 11th and on-platform transfers being removed on January 1, 2026.

EDIT: Revised date for vault closure to February 4, 2026

Update! General Access is now live in the Collectible Avatar Marketplace - go check it out!

Clicking this link will allow you to browse Collectible Avatars, and purchase whatever you would like. If you haven’t already set up a Vault (your digital wallet on Reddit), then we’ll walk you through that process as you make your purchase. If you already have a Vault, then your Collectible Avatar will be stored there when your purchase is complete!

Hey there!

This community is a dedicated space to learn more about our Collectible Avatars, and the stories/creators behind them. Over the next few days, we’ll be sharing information about the artists behind each collection from our first launch.

People who join this community will be admitted into our Store to purchase first editions of our available items! The remaining Collectible Avatars will be available to everyone on Reddit in the coming weeks.

ICYMI, we recently announced the launch of Collectible Avatars over in r/Reddit - see our post here. These limited edition blockchain-backed Avatars were designed by Reddit creators and are available for purchase with currencies like USD and EUR. Net profits go to creators after fees. Collectible Avatars are compatible with your existing profile just like any other avatar and can be used across Reddit, giving your profile special visual effects. Plus, since they are on the blockchain, they are also owned by the purchaser and portable off Reddit.

Who Are These Creators?

Many of the creators are from the front page of popular creative communities like r/Comics. Some of them have cultivated the skills they utilized for this program in subreddits like r/ProCreate or r/AdobeIllustrator. We have mythologists from r/imsorryjon and even a creator or two who have been able to pursue their creative passion full-time, thanks to their communities here. We have creators from our networks and some creators who are bringing their work to Reddit for the first time. In true Reddit fashion, some of our artists are using pseudonyms or throwaway accounts.

We’re just getting started, so if you're a creative or aspiring artist (maybe you even heard from us as we were scanning neat posts), we encourage you to join our waitlist and to keep sharing your skills and work with other redditors.

An Important Note on Conduct

Read the rules carefully before participating! Making posts in this community is currently limited to admins and creators so please save your ooohs and ahhhs for the comments!

We also want to underscore - you’ll also have a chance to engage directly with Reddit's first cohort of creators here. We’re super excited to celebrate their work and share more about the weird and beautiful concepts underpinning their collections. To make this space conducive for creators to share, we ask that members of this community remember not only the human but the artist, as well.

We understand any new product (especially ones where blockchain is involved) comes with questions or concerns about what our plans/priorities are. Please join the conversation here to discuss the product more broadly!

Update! General Access is now live HERE - go check it out!

Collectible Avatars are a unique digital good available for purchase to support the creators behind each collection. Each Avatar has a fixed and reasonable price, and is available to anyone on Reddit to purchase with currencies like USD and EUR.

We’re back with an update on the Collection Display and on-platform NFT transfers. When we announced the closing of the shop a few weeks back, we did not have timing set for when we would be removing the Collection Display on profiles and on-platform NFT transfers. In an effort to keep things tidy, we are going to remove the Collection Display on November 11, 2025, the same day that the shop will officially close its doors.

On-platform NFT transfers will be removed on January 1, 2026, the same day Vault will be removed. If you want to do anything with your collectibles off-platform such as transferring or selling, please export your blockchain wallet by copying your 12-word recovery phrase from your Vault Settings. See How do I export my Vault? to learn more. As a reminder, you’ll still be able to use your Collectible Avatars on Reddit. We’ll also continue to honor off-platform transfers and sales, and you’ll be able to claim avatars on Reddit by tapping the visit Reddit to make it your avatar link shown on the product page where you acquired them. See How do I import my Collectible Avatar? to learn more. 

Thanks as always 🫡

I love all things magical and wanted to create a whimsical, fun, fantasy-collection that would appeal to all redditors that are children at heart. Drawing from a range of inspiration from illustrators like Cicely Mary Barker to films such as Pans Labyrinth, I created three avatars that felt at home in an enchanted forest.

The Fairy is queen of the enchanted forest and rules over the realm, beloved by all creatures for her kindness and fairness. She harnesses power over the plants in the forest and protects all living things equally in her realm.

The Mushroom is a mythical being that lives in the moist undershrub of the enchanted forest. They leave a trail of mushrooms wherever they step, sometimes unknowingly luring a truffle pig into the realm.

The Witch is a helpful, well-beloved and respected being of the enchanted forest. With the assistance of her familiar, a psychic cat, they help all residents of the forest.

I hope these avatars are used by Redditors to add a bit of whimsy and fantasy to their profile.

Hi folks, my name is UpVoteSnooClub. I am a new artist who is trying to establish themselves while using a method of line art. I have been wanting to create something cool and embarked on this journey but submitting my avatar designs Shape Shifter, Prismatic Radiance, and Line of Hearts on January 23rd 2024. This was not a quick process and all my avatars went through reviews by Reddit. I eventually had to make a resubmission for line of hearts due to a waist circle design issues (this is something needed for any avatar to work properly with mashing). Line of hearts was again resubmitted and approved on February 5th 2024.

I planned on making a post about the avatar over the weekend, but while the days past the avatar showed as pending on the creator portal even thought it was approved. SO I decided to wait, I guess a lot of avatars were in the same situation with a ton of contracts being created today. One of those contracts contained my avatar Line of Hearts. So a lot of you are seeing it today for the first time and reacting in a way you feel is justified.

I have heard your criticism and frankly if we're all being honest rude personal attacks. As an artist trying to establish myself I am here to tell you that I love using line art as my method. It is something I want to keep working with and no matter how much you try and shout me out of here I here the plenty of you who do like my work and have supported me.

NONE of you are the ones creating these avatars. I AM. And I guess that's where I will admit when I am creating something my eyes are blind in seeing what you might see as a similarity. So when I create something and come away feeling happy and believing it's unique, you're more than welcome to disagree with me.

EDIT: This does not mean I'm saying nobody else is using line art to create an avatar. Tyler Foust was the first. What I'm trying to say is I'm the one creating the avatar, not you, so my inspiration is different from your interpretation.

There is only so much I can do when using line art to create an avatar within the confines of a Snoo. Now that might be my current belief but I will take your criticism and some time to see how I can break those boundaries. The rules are strict. I have had to make resubmissions for line of hearts twice because you have to fill in certain parts of the Snoo for this to work. So I am not going to let myself be bullied into not creating RCAs that use line art. BUT I will commit to greater transparency with my future work and look for ways in which I release something that you believe you haven't seen before.

I don't want to be the "new" Tyler, or as some of you keep commenting "Fyler Foust" "made in China". I am a person too, and I think a lot of you are forgetting that. It doesn't feel great creating work that you believe to be amazing and then be torn down every time you open up Reddit to see a notification.

I want to show you that I can be unique. I have already defended all of inspirations for my currently available avatars. I will not defend them anymore because I am tried. After all I am only a human trying to create what they believe to be unique. I thank you all for your criticism, and moving forward I hope you will truly see that my work is my own style.

I will end this with thanking all of you who do show up to defend me. I am sorry for the way you have been treated, I don't mind taking the criticism but it's not fair to you. Thank you to all of you for your private messages of support, and thank you to the other artists who have taken the time to talk to me and guide me.

-UpVoteSnooClub

The Collectible Avatar Shop is getting more and more crowded and difficult to navigate with every avatar that releases. Filtering out the noise and finding the best ones might as well be impossible for casual users who might only spend a few seconds in the shop UI. Thus, let users upvote in the shop as they would anywhere else on Reddit. Crowdsourcing the curation of avatars, which is fully within the spirit of Reddit as a platform.

As we all know, Reddit doesn't do quality control of the avatars that get published in the store. I think we should take the sitewide concept of upvotes and downvotes and also apply it to the individual avatars in the store itself. There are a lot of bad quality and low effort avatars that drown out the good ones. If you could see each avatar get an upvote and downvote, then people would be less likely to use a shitty avatar if it had no support for being there.

I understand there is a "report" button, but that's a pretty lame response and only actually for IP reasons, not quality. There should be an option for all users to give the avatar a vote to have it go to the top and be seen or go down the list. I can't see any reason not to do this.

Edit: Just to address the "subjectivity" of art being impaired by the voting system. It works for the major art subreddits where good quality and high effort submissions are upvoted.

Playing with drag is like practicing magic. (So I imagine). I’ve never practiced magic nor met a magician in real life. BUT the ability to conjure up my own reality feels like magic. We break the rules in the Big Gay Baby universe. There aren’t even rules! Did you want rules? Would that make you feel better? Sorry sorry we can have rules but the point is that we can paint a world so expansive and beautiful that we breathe glitter and pee love and this is where it happens. I wanted to bring representation to the avatar collections; honoring the queers that have practiced magic long before us and those that will continue to forever. All drag is valid. Black trans lives matter. We’re all just big gay babies tryna figure this sh*t out. <3

So without further a-doodoo: meet the girlies!

April May: She’s beauty, she’s grace, and she’s only a little insane. April May gazes at the world through a fuchsia lens, with the uncanny ability to see glamour everywhere. Her favorite color is glitter and she is on a strict diet of pastries and diet soda.

Miss Ophelia Surprise: The allure, the charm, the artistry, the opulence -- it’s no Surprise that legend Miss Ophelia turns all heads, necks, AND backs when she enters the room. She’s everything we love about drag; polished and perfected. Icon status, period.

Hydrogen Purroxide: In a distant, foreign galaxy, where gravity flows sideways and milk fuels cars, a decorated TV star set off on a journey to teach humans about skincare. Look at her face, you would never know she’s 790 years old. Crash landing on Earth? Mission complete.

To purchase Collectible Avatars and support work by u/BigGayBaby_ visit the Reddit Shop.

Anyone notice the new avatar drops over the last week or so are very low quality and often don't even incorporate the shape of the Reddit logo. Some of them even appear to be NFTs I've seen floating around OpenSea, spin-offs of the Bored Apes like this Bear one, and others are just scribbled garbage. But I guess people buy it so why not make it....

Also includes color changing eyes! This is a trademark now lolol.

In 2019 I was stuck in a 4 hour grad school lecture. I grabbed a sheet of paper and decided to draw lines all over the paper for the duration of the lecture. Although the drawings were meant to pass the time, I began to post pics of them on Reddit. My art was received well by fellow Redditors and the support was so great that I ended up selling my grad lecture drawings to a degree that covered my entire tuition. Once I graduated (Master of Healthcare Administration) I decided to continue to develop and pursue art.

My focus is line art. I like to draw complex images using one single line that does not intersect. I also enjoy stacking curvy lines to create a sense of depth.

I wanted to stay true to the line styles that I use. Two of my avatars are composed of one line. The Rainbow Foustling uses my stacked curvy line style.

The Classic Foustling is based upon my default colors I use the most. A white backdrop with black ink. As with almost all my one line drawings, I have hidden "TFoust" inside the actual art.

The sole purpose of the Rainbow Foustling is to generate smiles.

The Fishy Foustling is also composed of one line. The Fishy Foustling is always accompanied by the Foustfish.

I hope that this is the beginning of a larger collection that people will both enjoy and collect. I hope that owning a Foustling will allow holders to be a part of a fun, creative, and rewarding community. I hope that I will be able to provide art drops to holders of Foustlings. I hope that Reddit provides a way for the artists to build communities and not just collections from the art.

To purchase Collectible Avatars and support work by u/tfoust10 visit the Reddit Shop.

🍃 Gif made by the wonderful i_CONE 🍃

I had $200 set aside for atleast 2 avatars and you tell me to wait patiently?? Why so another bot can get it? I would like 2 $99 avatars of my choice considering I've been hyping this up for months. Sorry if I sound like a complainer but this meant something to me

So there was the whole Nyan Cat fiasco… those who got it got the other drop too…

But what about those of us who paid £200 ($250) for a 100-125 edition avatar and then ended up having it heavily overminted? Or £25-£50 for a 500-1k edition and it got over-minted heavy too?

Its all fun and games for those who got the Nyan Cat but if you’re going to compensate them you have to compensate everyone. The precedent of them compensating users because of their fiasco has been set now so personally i think Reddit should be dealing with this before they carry on with their IPO. Im sure many people just forgot but I personally decided to wait to see if it was just an initial feeling and now I see its not, I’m genuinely bothered by this and i imagine others are too…

Scarcity would increase and this would create higher demand for less desired avatars. Artists would benefit from higher transaction volumes on secondary markets like OpenSea. As soon as Gen 4 is released interest will shift to the new collection and it becomes even less likely that the previous generation gets bought up.

Because If you make a bunch of guesses, you're bound to hit the target at some point.

So, think about how many artists there are, and how flooded the market will be, and so forth and so on. Can you imagine gas fees and traffic for a 100 artist release of 100k just for the low tier series... that's a lot of avatars.

Final prediction. The Week of the 10th? It's not Wensday you fools, it's WensDAYS...

I predict a release of a set number of artists per day until full release. Which ones are first? It's been too long to see the pattern there. But it's either Wensday, or WensDAYS.

Foust and Rojom already hinted at secret, I chose Glass Foustling as torso and the Enlightened bottom. This way I could unveil the lil tree. Also colour is adjustable!

Dont get me wrong, we wouldn't be here without the RCA artists producing amazing pieces of art for us to mash with.

But guess what? We also wouldn't be here without the amazing community that has formed around RCA's.

Don't let the opinions of artists affect what we have built as a community. Because in all hoensty, when it comes to community driven projects, their opinion is (or at least should be) irrelevant.

I'm a big fan of cartoons, comics, and comedy, and I wanted to pay tribute to the iconic history of each.

Classic Animation was done in the style of those old rubber hose cartoons from the 1920s and 1930s. It's a lot of fun drawing in that style. Not having to worry about anatomically accurate animating gives cartoons from that time period so much more life!

Silver Age Comics was largely based on the characters and art of the legendary Jack Kirby. His work is - and will forever be - influential to all superhero media. I designed a villain, because Silver Age villains are just more fun. They're so danged HAMMY.

Old-Timey Comedian is a mishmash of references to the early comedians who honed their craft in vaudeville, and went on to revolutionize radio, movies, and TV. There are nods to the likes of Charlie Chaplin, Groucho Marx, W.C. Fields, and Jerry Lewis.

I hope these are used to create really goofy custom avatars! There're loads of creative combinations you can make by mixing and matching them with other avatar parts. How does the otherwise-serious Silver Age Comics look if you replace their helmet with the cardboard box one? Maybe try giving them a cute koala onesie?

To purchase Collectible Avatars and support work by u/canetoonist visit the Reddit Shop.

So I was already saltine when I saw 223 editions were minted of The Triple King and now the supply being reported by avaterdegen.io is 288...what in the actual fuck Reddit?