The major shift did occur years later and the main figure to blame for this is V3. After V3 was released things started to change and suddenly everyone had to undress the poser figures.

If V3 hadn't appeared, another (more or less) anatomical correct female model would have be the leading poser figure. Perhaps it's hard to accept but the market isn't ruled by moral standards. Sex sells and not only on the internet. Back in the eighties there were three kinds of videotapes on the market: VHS, Betamax and Philips 2000. Although Philips 2000 was technical superior to VHF, it died a silent death because Philips didn't want to sell pornotapes.
And there is another economic principle working: The most supported figure will have the greatest support, in another words: everyone loves a winner.
But what the main issue is: Poser is a tool, that makes it possible to visualise someones imagination in such an easy way that you don't need a master degree in computer graphics to achieve that.
For most  people it would be better to keep those  fantasies private, but a lot of them suffer on overestimation and shameless show them to the rest of the world. Those are the same people you see in the pre-auditions of Idols.  You look at them and you tear your sofa apart in an empathic feel of shame.
It would be good for this community if there was a hall of fame but also a hall of shame for the galleries, which would judged by an indepent professional jury., and not the hug-clubs that are haunting this place.
If we could show the best , but also the worst what poser has to offer, perhaps it would be taken mopre seriously.

my €0,02.

Bopper.

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