# Becoming a creator

> The application, what the review checks, and how the verified badge is granted.

Source: https://reverie.im/en/docs/creators/becoming-a-creator
Language: en

Creator status is granted by review, not by publishing. This page covers the gate you have to clear, the form you fill in, what the review looks at, and the separate verified badge.

## Before you can apply \[#before-you-can-apply]

You need **3 public characters** that have not been deleted. Unlisted and private characters do not count. Until you have them, the creator program card counts how many public characters you have against the number required and sends you to character creation instead of the application.

[Publishing a character →](https://reverie.im/en/docs/characters/publishing)

## Applying \[#applying]

### Open the application \[#open-the-application]

Main menu → **Creators** → **Apply to become a creator**.

### Fill in the form \[#fill-in-the-form]

| Field                                          | Required | Limit                                                                        |
| ---------------------------------------------- | -------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **About Yourself** (bio)                       | Yes      | 1–1,000 characters                                                           |
| **Creation Tags**                              | Yes      | 1–5 tags                                                                     |
| **Banner Image**                               | No       | Recommended 1200x400                                                         |
| **Social Media** — Twitter, Instagram, website | No       | Each must be a valid link                                                    |
| **Who can contact you**                        | No       | **Nobody** / **Followers only** / **Anyone**. Defaults to **Followers only** |
| **Show my creator profile**                    | No       | On by default                                                                |

The bio is the main thing the review reads. Say what you write, who it is for, and what you are working on.

### Submit \[#submit]

Your creator profile is created and every admin is notified, but you are not a creator yet. The Creators page switches to **Under Review**, and **Creator Center** is not reachable while you are pending.

You can have one application open at a time. Submitting again while one is pending, or after you are already a creator, is refused.

## What the review checks \[#what-the-review-checks]

An automated check looks at applications as they come in. It can only approve — it never rejects — and anything it does not approve goes to a human reviewer. That check can also be turned off for everyone, in which case every application waits for a person.

It reads only the application itself: your display name, bio, tags, social links, profile picture and banner. It does not read your characters or your email address, and it does not open the links you supplied.

Your profile picture and banner are not judged on style or quality: a photo, a logo, text or any artwork is fine, and so is adult nudity or sexual content. Only a few kinds of content send the application to a human: blood, gore or violence, real-world political content, hate symbols, a claim to be Reverie staff, payment or contact details for deals off the platform (QR codes included), or advertising.

Any one of these sends the application to a human instead of an automatic decision:

| Blocker                                                      |
| ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Email address not verified                                   |
| Account banned                                               |
| Fewer than 3 public characters                               |
| Any active restriction on the account                        |
| Any unresolved or upheld moderation report                   |
| Any previous admin rejection or revocation of creator status |
| Application text longer than 100,000 characters              |

Automatic approval needs both of these: no blocker above, and an approve verdict from the reviewing model that raises no issue. Everything else is a human decision.

> An auto-approvable application clears within about an hour. An application that goes to a human reviewer has no published turnaround time — it waits for a person.

## While you are pending \[#while-you-are-pending]

A pending applicant earns nothing and unlocks nothing. In particular, the monthly character reward run explicitly skips creators who have not been approved, so usage your characters collected while you waited does not pay out later.

You also cannot receive direct support, publish creator posts, receive creator messages, or enter characters and stories in campaigns until you are approved.

## After approval \[#after-approval]

**Creator Center** appears in the main menu, and your public creator profile goes live. You can reopen the same form later through **Edit creator info** to change your bio, tags, banner, social links, contact setting and profile visibility.

Turning **Show my creator profile** off hides you from creator lists and makes your creator profile unavailable. Your characters stay visible and usable and your earnings continue normally.

> If an admin revokes creator status, that account can never be auto-approved again — any future application goes to a human every time.

## The verified badge \[#the-verified-badge]

Verification is separate from approval and is not something you apply for. A daily check grants the badge to every creator who clears all of these at once:

| Requirement                                 | Threshold                                                                  |
| ------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Account age                                 | 30 days or more                                                            |
| Public characters                           | 3 or more                                                                  |
| Followers                                   | 100 or more                                                                |
| Unique user-days, trailing 30 complete days | 500 or more (a person chatting on three days counts three times)           |
| Reviews                                     | 10 or more                                                                 |
| Rating                                      | 4 or higher out of 5 after smoothing, so one 5-star review cannot carry it |
| Recent activity                             | Published or measured usage within 30 days                                 |
| Moderation                                  | No upheld reports in the last 90 days                                      |

Each run grants a limited number of badges, largest audiences first, so clearing the bar on a busy night can mean waiting for the next one. The check only ever grants. Removing a badge is a manual admin decision, and once removed it is never granted again automatically.

The badge does not change your reward rate, your commission rate or your withdrawal fee. All three are flat for everyone.

## Related \[#related]

* [Revenue streams](https://reverie.im/en/docs/creators/revenue-streams) — what approval actually unlocks
* [Direct support](https://reverie.im/en/docs/creators/direct-support) — fan tips, on by default once approved
* [Creator messages](https://reverie.im/en/docs/creators/messages) — the contact setting you picked on the form
* [Following creators](https://reverie.im/en/docs/community/following-creators) — where your follower count comes from
* [Creator analytics](https://reverie.im/en/docs/creators/analytics) — the numbers behind the verification thresholds