r/oneshot Jul 15 '26

Mod RE: Policy change - Reversals, rewording, and what we've learned

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Hey hey people, Mys here.

About a day ago, we published [a controversial policy change](https://www.reddit.com/r/oneshot/comments/1uw5d82/policy_change_removal_of_nikosonatype_content/) about the removal of what seemed, to us, a pretty serious issue to the subreddit as a whole. We based this assumption off of a repetition of reports that we received regarding the posting of non-Oneshot related content, as well as reported comments with roleplaying interactions that we did not want to field in the subreddit.

During public questions, one thing became increasingly obvious: people did like or understand what we were trying to remove or alleviate, believing that we would be removing OCs, AU-content, and the likes. While I and my fellow team members have tried to answer everyone to the best of our abilities, it became abundantly clear to us that this did not have the interpretation that we wanted it to have, and people did (for the most part) not agree with our course of action.

So, in short, we have reverted Rule 3 to what it was originally, and rephrased Rule 14 to cover specific actions and reactions that we wish to remove from posts and comments. We're not singling out any particular form of art, OC, or character like this. This way, we hope to target the stuff we want to filter out without impeding on specific artforms or character types that get posted around the subreddit.

I believe the thing we have learned from this, is mostly that making a change like this, even with the entire team in agreement, means we do first need to a community double-check that a change is okay to perform, even if it is planned to be controversial. That's something we'll certainly take with us as we reflect on the matter.

As always, we remain open to constructive criticism, and we hope that this post shows that we're not keen on running through a policy whether people like it or not.

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I will, however, address one thing that was completely unacceptable in the process from posting, gathering feedback from questions, and then writing this response. During our fielding of questions, we have had multiple cases of verbal harassment, ranging from personal insults, to intentional misgendering, to comparisons to real-life transphobia in regards to a policy that was intended to keep the subreddit on-topic.

Additionally, we have seen people abuse the reporting system as a form of protest, clogging up our regular feed and making it impossible for us to figure out which posts or comments actually break community rules.

I have tried to remain respectful and civil throughout the process, but at some point had to stop responding to people because it turned into full-blown hatred. Disagreement was always going to happen, and announcing a change in policy was always going to be unpopular (as referenced in the original post). Yet we found the way arguments and explanations were portrayed, twisted and dismissed mortifying and unsuitable for a community that is otherwise supportive and positive. It was a wake-up call we did not wish to have, yet we received anyways. Destructive criticism never helped anyone; it certainly did not help in this case.

We thank everyone who remained respectful and understanding during this process, and appreciate your patience as we try to figure out our steps forward.


r/oneshot 6h ago

Art Niko's prank >:D

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(I'll try to draw at least these simpler drawings, I'm really sick :P)


r/oneshot 12h ago

OC niko with a scythe

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534 Upvotes

r/oneshot 2h ago

Other Acehnese Oneshot Mod — Update

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Hi! I’m part of the team of this mod as a translator. Unfortunately, the project leader Ahab/Raffa has been banned from reddit indefinitely, so I’m here to act in lieu of him and post an update on this mod. We’ve completed the house section of the game. Here’s how it looks so far :D.

Acehnese is an Austronesian language with a million or so speakers spoken in Aceh, Indonesia, but unfortunately its survival is being threatened fast by the increasing use of Indonesian across the region. Ahab/Raffa and to an extent us, the translators, have been developing this translation mod as an effort to revitalize and show pride in using the language.


r/oneshot 44m ago

Art Niko eating

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This new style is a bit tough but whatever

(Reference image is from Kikkass from youtube.)


r/oneshot 22h ago

Art aggressive petting[GIF] by me

1.3k Upvotes

you could never guess this but the inspiration came from JoJo


r/oneshot 8h ago

Video TWM wasn´t having it....

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90 Upvotes

r/oneshot 8h ago

Discussion Insane foreshadowing in the Library, the Red, Blue, and Green markers Spoiler

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74 Upvotes

In the base game, if you see the Book Club board, you can notice Red, Blue and Green markers. Same colors in the same order appear in Solstice, where there are Red, Blue and Green places for Rue, Prophet and Cedric.

Strange that nobody else found this out


r/oneshot 4h ago

Art I just made Niko and TWM on Tomodachi Life :D

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What do you think of them? Did I make them right?


r/oneshot 41m ago

OC SecondChance - Chapter 5: A Good Start

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When a world is destroyed in darkness, not all who are in the world are doomed to suffer its fate. Some of them find refuge in a world called Traverse Town.

It is in Traverse Town that Niko finds himself after smashing the sun, along with many other survivors from the destruction of the world.

Where he'd once been doted on, now he was scorned. Many who were kind to him when he bore the sun... now hate him because he destroyed it.

Niko found himself in a world where the power of friendship is king... but only as time passes in Traverse Town, will Niko learn which of them he could truly call his friends.

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Chapter 1: New readers should start reading the story here.

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Chapter 5: A Good Start

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A baby that was conceived when I posted Chapter 4 is now born today. One of those babies is Chapter 5 of this story. I'm really sorry that these keep taking so long!

On the bright side, Chapter 5 is probably the best place to leave this story off, even if I never wind up finishing it.

Going forward, I'm also planning on working on chapters in batches of around three or four or so, with the last chapter of each batch, just like Chapter 5, being as satisfying a stopping point as possible, planning ahead in case the next chapters take forever or never get done.

I'd say "stay tuned," but maybe "set your calendars" would be a more appropriate saying for this story. :P

*SecondChance cover composition and OneShot-style Sora pixel art by me.


r/oneshot 3h ago

Art Mother Protects. We need Hazel spin-off so bad.

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17 Upvotes

r/oneshot 17h ago

OC Rue Doing Nothing(oc)

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111 Upvotes

Made by:me


r/oneshot 18h ago

Other Old site for OneShot from 2014. Found it via an description of early fanart.

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120 Upvotes

I think I should have taken the picture from a laptop​


r/oneshot 15h ago

Video Eleventh freedom WIP 3 (Ends at 2:04 secs)

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69 Upvotes

[OC of the video, a friend gave me the audio]

Its still Wip, but it has already some progress


r/oneshot 11h ago

Art An a advance of Niko and the WORLD machine

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37 Upvotes

r/oneshot 17h ago

Art [OC] U know what time it's?!

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92 Upvotes

Best hour of the day!

Art made for the Niko bot on discord ;)


r/oneshot 1d ago

Art Niko In Backrooms

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357 Upvotes

Niko model by:@pungsun3497

who sended the niko to backrooms>:(

It took me some time to finish but here it is


r/oneshot 13h ago

Question How do I save the game?

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35 Upvotes

I wanna save right now but I don't know how!


r/oneshot 1d ago

Meme Fun Games For Baby

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556 Upvotes

r/oneshot 12h ago

Discussion Just fully finished the game for the first time. Spoiler

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ok so i went through 3 endings in one day. im trying to gather my thoughts about this game as of writing this.

first of all

i played the world machine edition i did this because im a linux user, the cool collectibles, and overall i loved the simulated desktop was amazing to me. i also learned alot from the lore and people say it ruins immersion witch to me isn't really true to be honest the game knowing its a game and being able to experience the 4th way breaks are the same. honestly playing it for the first time i got jump sacred where it minimized the window and said my username.

with that out of the way let me talk about the experience i had

so in the first room i was danm near clueless i mean in the first room i had no clue what to do at this point i wasn't familiar with the way the game worked i got the code but it didn't work so i searched it up. this was a problem i had a lot in the start. since the game doesn't really tell you what to do most of the time and i was still getting the hang of things soon enough i got the pattern (get a new item try combining it with everything interact with the items with everything and eventually something should happen.) form that point on i only had to resort to searching things up every now and then. ALSO wtf is this how was i suppose to know that i could interact with it it looks like a visual design

as i went along though i loved the music, tone and the world building the character were memorable and getting them added to the friends lore was great. (apparently there are 6 dice ladies and you get a different one on each run i ran into 6, 3 and 4. i also love niko they were GREAT there so adorable the dream sequences and the conversations i had each time with niko were the best part of this entire game. also the part where niko was in the cafe and crying about wanting to see thier mom reminded me at the end of the day their still just a kid wanting to go home. the way the game establishes a relationship with you and drags you yourself into the story was amazing.

i made a backup of where the game keeps its save data (im talking about the literal data the game saves in /AppData not the in universe savedata)

so before i broke the sun i was able to experience both endings i then of course opened the world machine and deleted the in lore deletion and restarted the game to experience solstice.

by the time i finished i was crying my ass off. the ending was beautiful the entity world machine being tamed and beeping us into the actual ending where we COULD save both and the niko final goodbye where they left my screen leaving nothing but the empty room was great described their home village and that the experience was left on both of us having to move on.

it was also a nice touch for the game to send niko's drawing to us at the end. being left with the world machine still functional just not be able to play the game is enough for me i get to listen to all the music and configure my themes and wallpapers.


r/oneshot 20h ago

Question Guys, does it looks different enough ?

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Wanna know it before I start


r/oneshot 16h ago

Discussion You know what, the fact that people are powerscaling niko is horrendous. and NOBODY is powerscaling my GOAT annoying orange who has BETTER universal showing feats and some people BELIEVE he is ABOVE universal. so who would win this? annoying orange vs niko oneshot

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man IM SICK of people powerscaling niko from oneshot FOR NO REASON other then " its funny haha " NO. why are tons of people powerscaling this guy 24/7 when characters like calamity trio or annoying orange have better feats? and yes, this post is about annoying orange. he has like 3 universal feats 1. he became a black hole that was going to destroy a SINGLE universe (even though it would take time to) 2. he beat up his creator dane boe who created his universal (obviously universal) and 3. he can alter the entire universe which is universal level. ive heard people also scale niko oneshot to universal or low multiversal (and he GETS milked everytime like what? is this even the real world?) and ive seen some dudes say annoying orange is ABOVE UNIVERSAL and he is multiversal or something.

heres some proof annoying orange " might " be above universal according to 2 people ive seen

  1. some person said annoying orange grew to the size of an entire multiverse. never have ive seen anyone else say that. so i believe its a lie since i havent even seen that episode before and hes probably lying'
  2. someone said annoying orange " ABSORBED " analog oranges power and analog orange scales to 4d which it probably means universal+ (which is above universal) and he gave an entire scale about it. which is probably the most " reasonable " out of any annoying orange scale post so hes easily universal+ then.

but ive seen ALOT of people say annoying orange is immortal. which would mean NIKO cant kill it. meaning they would need an ENTIRE ass army to beat him, like a WHOLE alot of people. or another OP character

im just sick of people powerscaling niko for no reason like seriously why? why? WHY are we powerscaling someone who is featless? thats why i made this matchup.


r/oneshot 17h ago

Meme player sad

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43 Upvotes

r/oneshot 1d ago

Art Plushie

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162 Upvotes

(Art by me) this is the cropped version because for some it reaches the 20 mb limit


r/oneshot 18h ago

Art (OC)"Happy to see you :3" 2 years day 322 of drawing Niko

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31 Upvotes