Gifts are small animated objects bought with Stars and sent to somebody. The recipient can display one on their profile, keep it privately, or convert it back into a balance.
What makes it different from any other present is that it can be put on show, which means it is partly a message to everybody else.
What you will be able to do
- check_circle Send a gift and know what it costs.
- check_circle Decide what to do with one you receive.
- check_circle Read what a profile full of gifts says.
- check_circle Avoid the version that is a waste of money.
A gift arrives in the chat and the recipient decides whether it appears on their profile.
card_giftcard A present with an audience
Most presents are between two people. This one has a third party built in: displayed on a profile, it is visible to everybody who opens that page, along with an implication that somebody thought enough of this person to buy it.
That is exactly the appeal for some people and exactly the awkwardness for others. A creator with an audience displaying gifts from readers is showing appreciation received. A private individual displaying gifts is closer to putting cards on a mantelpiece for visitors to count.
The recipient controls all of it and should know that before deciding anything. A gift can stay off the profile entirely, and it can be converted back into a Star balance instead — which is the polite escape from an unwanted one, since nobody is told what you did with it.
For the sender, the honest framing is that you are buying an animation. Its usefulness is symbolic rather than practical, so the amount matters less than the moment: a gift for an occasion is a nice gesture, and a large one to somebody you barely know is a message they may not want on their page.
Four positions
The third is the one nobody explains to recipients.
favorite Occasions, not amounts
visibility What the shelf says
swap_horiz The quiet option
psychology_alt What it tells you about somebody
A gift is a gesture with an audience. Send for occasions, and display only what you want read.
settings Sending and receiving
- Open the contact's profile The gift option is there.
- Convert the price to real money Before choosing one.
- Send it with a message The words are the present; the animation is the wrapping.
- Decide whether to display a received one Nothing appears without your choice.
- Convert it to Stars if you prefer The sender is not told.
- Keep a displayed shelf short Two says warmth; twenty says something else.
This page puts objects on a profile. The curriculum step is the page they sit on: what strangers can see, which parts you control, and what the whole assembly says about you before anybody messages.
At a glance
- 1Gifts on profiles
Displayed gifts are visible to every profile visitor.
- 2Your choice
Hide gifts or convert them to Stars.
- 3Not proof
A decorated profile proves nothing about trust.
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