Forza Horizon 6 Itasha Designs Mass Taken Down as Creators Withdraw
The mass withdrawal of popular itasha designs suggests a coordinated reporting campaign may be driving enforcement actions in Forza Horizon 6, raising questions about how user-generated content moderation handles anime-style liveries.
Reporting from 1 source: Automaton.
Popular itasha livery creators in Forza Horizon 6 are withdrawing their shared designs after reported bans. Creators Kamikaze SSSS and Kracsa saw their design counts drop to zero. Speculation points to a Chinese-speaking community running a reporting campaign against anime-style paints, though its actual influence on operator decisions remains unclear.
Forza Horizon 6, set in Japan, includes over 550 real cars and lets players create and share custom decal designs. Itasha liveries featuring anime-style characters are a popular category among shared designs.
Reddit threads show that Kamikaze SSSS, a streamer with about 500,000 design downloads, and Kracsa, with about 350,000, both had their shared designs reduced to zero. Other itasha creators have also stopped sharing.
Kamikaze SSSS posted on X that sharing was temporarily banned and that many itasha creators are withdrawing. He cited a case where a design with only a parts manufacturer's logo was deleted, raising fears that automatic deletion could follow report counts.
Speculation points to a Chinese-speaking community running a campaign to report paints depicting children in inappropriate clothing, with about 100 members and a list of about 20 usernames. The community claims 30 to 40 designs were deleted and more than five creators banned, though its actual influence is unconfirmed.
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