So [NPC] Tae just made a news post, and when I hovered over her username I noticed that she had what appeared to be a custom pet:

After a little digging, I found the pet's full overlay, and it's definitely not Tae's pet. I also found that most NPCs had the same pet. Even more interesting, while I was looking through the other NPCs, another custom pet overlay starting showing up, so I went back to Tae and found that her pet had changed to match.

It looks like for any account that does not own a pet, the "active pet" preview on their hover info picks an overlay from the pool of custom pets uploaded by other users. So far, I've seen all of the following pop up:

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(Which I recognized as Nio's old overlay)

Well, I am seeing the same thing you do and that's not a very nice thing if the original customization belongs to an user and not a NPC... Hope something's be said about this soon :)

I have a feeling that this is going to turn out as something along the lines of "art uploaded to the site becomes the site's art" or some bs like that

- I don't think it's intentional at all. When you don't account for a certain scenario when you program (like a player not having a pet), there's no telling what could happen. We're lucky it doesn't crash the site. :P

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Oh, I'm slow. Thanks, Keith. :D

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Wait, now things are displaying strangely if you do have an active pet. @ Keith

For example:

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Almost perfect, but there's a stray semicolon showing up after the active pet now.

1. Just my online experience
2. I didn't actually get the ping for that post. Thought I'd let you know.