>>366115543
there was a period of time where the "trust ranks" didn't exist yet, but new users still couldn't upload avatars. you got a message after X hours of gameplay saying you then could. I think that was a better system than "oh lmao, your shaders are now replaced with this default mobile toon shader until you play for at least 500 hours".
Or worse, "oh lmao you're a visitor so everyone has you auto muted and hidden manually, good luck out there".