UGC Animations getting validation rejected. (Global Issue)
Expected behavior
Since May 26, 2026, UGC emotes are no longer passing validation after upload. Emotes I submitted on May 25 uploaded without issue but have now sat unapproved for 4 days straight, and not a single one of my group’s emotes has cleared validation since. This is not isolated to me — sorting the public emote catalog by recently created shows no new emote has published platform-wide since May 26
First noticed: ~May 26, 2026 (about 24 hours after my May 25 uploads).
This never happened to me, normally within ~5 hours at the most it would pass the validation.
Emotes upload fine, then get stuck in an unapproved / not-validated state forever. The ~4 emotes I uploaded on May 25 still have not passed after 4 days. Before this, the longest I had ever waited for an emote to clear was about 5 hours.
- None of my group’s emotes have passed validation since May 26 — across multiple separate uploads, not one bad asset.
- The public emote catalog, sorted by recently created, shows the most recent successfully published emote is from May 26. Nothing newer has gone live across the entire platform: Catalog
- There has been no announcement of any change to emote terms, validation rules, or moderation policy that would explain this.
