So the famous #SecondLife mesh body creator Slink shut down today, practically from one minute to the next. If you still have a Slink body, it won't be supported anymore. That is, if you still have a Slink body, your whole avatar is outdated several times over in a virtual world where you're halfway expected to sink thousands of Linden dollars into a new body, a new head, new hair, a new skin and all-new clothes twice a year because you're ugly otherwise.

Let's see what'll happen once this gets known around #OpenSimulator.

On the one hand, I can already hear people all over the #OpenSim community say that Adonis, Decadence-HG and BBHG are "legal" now. (No, they aren't. Legality doesn't depend on whether or not there's someone who can DMCA the living hell out of you. And many don't care whether something is legal or not.)

On the other hand, I think the only ones who might care are those who haven't caught wind of the several more recent Second Life payware mesh bodies that have found their ways onto the #Hypergrid over the last few months, including two bodies that are every bit as exaggerated as Slink Physique Hourglass. Everyone who has will see the bodies from the 2010s as old ugly crap.

Usually, these bodies aren't being renamed anymore and are offered under their Second Life names unless whoever offers them wants to imply they've created these bodies themselves. With one exception which is offered full-perm, they're all offered no-transfer and exclusively from one grid.

Either agreements with the original creators have actually been made with no-transfer being a requirement. However, if this is the case, why does literally nobody inform their customers about it? Besides, I've got my doubts that the makers of the currently most popular several-thousand-Linden-dollar mesh bodies let people offer just these bodies as freebies elsewhere, knowing pretty well how easily no-transfer can be circumvented in OpenSim.

Or it's just like it has always been since at least 2019: Freebie sim owners and grid owners along with them want to boost the popularity of their own places by stealing the newest, hottest premium luxury stuff from Second Life and offering it exclusively. Whoever wants that stuff has to come to their grid and their sim and their freebie store to pick it up. At least until someone god-modes their no-transfer products into full-perm or copybots their stores wholesale and then slaps their boxes against their own store walls.#Metaverse #VirtualWorlds