🧭 Side Quest May 2025 – Final Recap

7 days, 7 themes, 3 Daily Challenge placements, 16,150 Buzz awarded and nearly 6,000 public generations!

What. A. Week.
The Daily Challenge Side Quest started as a small experiment – a little promotion for my LoRAs, a fun bonus round for the community and honestly... a test to see how much creative chaos I could manage 😅
And you all absolutely delivered. From start to finish. Pure madness – in the best possible way.

📊 The Numbers

Over the course of 7 days, 5,885 images were generated directly on CivitAI using one of my LoRAs.
⚠️ That number only includes public online generations through the CivitAI site – local renders and manual uploads are not included. So the real number? Definitely higher.

In addition:

• 💰 I earned 1,392 Buzz through public use of my models

• 🏆 I awarded 16,150 Buzz during the event
  (adjusted to exclude the 3rd place prize I would’ve paid myself 😅)

📁 All Collections – Day by Day

Here are the official Side Quest collections with all selected images for each day:

• 📅 Day 1 – Tools-World-Morph: Collection Link

• 📅 Day 2 – Immerse in Iridescent Bubbles: Collection Link

• 📅 Day 3 – Reptile Scales: Collection Link

• 📅 Day 4 – Cable: Collection Link

• 📅 Day 5 – Diamonds: Collection Link

• 📅 Day 6 – Cheese: Collection Link

• 📅 Day 7 – Galaxy: Collection Link

Each one contains my daily selections – up to 2 per user – from which the final Top 3 were chosen.

📈 Most Used LoRAs (online public generations only):

• 🕸️ Gothic Detail Enhancer – 3,993

• 📼 Retro-Futurist Comic Engraving – 1,211

• 🌀 Celtic Detail Enhancer (released May 11th) – 285

• 🍅 Tomato Morph – 157

• 🍚 Rice Grains Morph – 130

• 🥚 Eggs Morph for icy799 (released May 9th) – 109

🏆 How winners were picked

Each day, I reviewed all entries submitted to the Daily Challenge that visibly used one of my LoRAs.
From each user, I selected up to two standout images and added them to the day’s public collection.

From those, I narrowed it down to a Top 8–10 and with help from friends, family – and one day, even ChatGPT, the final Top 3 were chosen.

⏱️ I spent about 2–3 hours per day reviewing and curating – not counting my awesome little helper crew. Big thanks to them!

🥇 Most frequent winners

15 unique users made it into the Top 3 across the week. Some of you really made a streak out of it:

• 2N3055 – 4×

• Colorblind_Duck – 3×

• Manuka, nemosenchou798 – 2× each

• Also featured:
  DeMarco, 2lab, stephandroid,
  AdanAC, Wizardludas, Wizardmonn,
  YasKong, luciabluestar, Moritanik, toshakin

🌠 Bonus: Official Daily Challenge placements (using my LoRAs)

Three images using my LoRAs also placed in the official Daily Challenge:

• 🥉 Day 1 – Akisa3 → View image

• 🥈 Day 6 – Heim777 → View image

• 🥉 Day 7 – Myself 👀 → View image

💬 Got feedback? I'd love to hear it!

If you’ve got tips, tricks, suggestions, wishes or even criticism about one of my LoRAs –
please post it directly on the model’s page.

That way it won’t get buried and I can:

• highlight great user advice in the description

• or use it to guide future improvements

💡 And if you’ve got feedback about this event – what worked, what didn’t or what you'd love to see next time –
drop a comment right under this post!
I read everything and it helps more than you think.

🙌 Thank you!

To everyone who joined, supported, posted, voted, reacted or just followed along from the shadows:
You made this Side Quest something special.
The energy, the quality, the ideas – you went beyond anything I imagined.

Will there be another Side Quest?

Oh yes. Absolutely.
…once my Buzz wallet stops crying in a dark corner. 😅

Keep rockin’ and generating –
Moonbear 🐻🐾