Cute Animals

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Cute animals are beloved creatures that bring joy and warmth to our lives. They often possess endearing features, playful behaviors, and irresistible charm. Here are a few examples of cute animals: 1. Kittens: Known for their fluffy fur, tiny paws, and curious nature, kittens are adored for their innocence and playful antics. 2. Puppies: With their floppy ears, wagging tails, and wide-eyed expressions, puppies exude cuteness and evoke feelings of love and companionship. 3. Bunnies: Soft and gentle, bunnies captivate with their fluffy coats, twitching noses, and adorable hoppy movements. 4. Pandas: These gentle giants steal hearts with their iconic black and white fur patterns, round faces, and playful nature. 5. Hedgehogs: With their prickly spines and tiny snouts, hedgehogs have a unique charm that has made them popular in the cute animal category. 6. Red pandas: Resembling a mix of raccoons and foxes, red pandas are known for their bushy tails, masked faces, and playful climbing skills. 7. Baby elephants: With their large floppy ears, innocent eyes, and playful nature, baby elephants are undeniably adorable and cherished by many. 8. Otters: These aquatic creatures are known for their playful behavior, holding hands while floating on their backs, and melting hearts with their cute antics. 9. Koalas: With their fluffy ears and round faces, koalas have a charming and cuddly appearance that has made them popular icons of cuteness. 10. Baby ducks: With their fluffy feathers, tiny wings, and adorable waddling, baby ducks are a delight to watch and are often associated with cuteness. These are just a few examples of the many cute animals that capture our hearts and bring smiles to our faces. Their innocence, charm, and sometimes comical behavior remind us of the beauty and joy found in the animal kingdom.

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Cute Animals Popularity Trend

Heat score, last 12 months

Heat score

8,014°

This week

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0.0%

8,016° then, 8,014° now

This month

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0.1%

8,022° then, 8,014° now

Past year

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2.5%

8,089° then, 8,014° now

7,000°

Floor

The scale runs from 0° to 9,999°. Everything below 7,000° is kept for models no source reports on yet, which carry a stand-in number there so lists stay complete. 7,000° is where measured data begins: a model with real data but almost no downloads sits at the floor, and the measurements fill the degrees above it. The floor says nothing about the model; only the degrees above it do, and they are what separates one model from another.

+1,112°

Civitai downloads

5,084 downloads of this exact version on Civitai. Downloads are the heaviest ingredient and are counted on a log scale: ten times the downloads adds the same 300°, so a model with a million downloads is not a thousand times hotter than one with a thousand. The six download sources share that one term, split between them in proportion to their counts.

+399°

Likes

459 likes and thumbs up across the sources. A like weighs half a download, on the same log scale.

−497°

Age

−497° because the SDXL weights came out in 2023. Every model inherits the age of the weights it is built on: 150° a year, up to 750°, and it keeps growing until then. Without it the top of the list would be 2022 and 2023 checkpoints on the strength of downloads that had years to pile up.

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Every number on this site can be checked. This model's heat score is 8,014°, and here it is built one ingredient at a time, with the running total after each: the floor, the degrees each source adds, the bonus for the kind of model and what the age of its weights takes away. The colors are the bands of the chart above. The glossary at the end defines every term.

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Start at the floor.
Why 7,000° and not zero: the scale runs from 0° to 9,999°, and the part below 7,000° is reserved for models no source reports on yet, which carry a stand-in number there so the lists stay complete and never outrank a model with data. 7,000° is where measured data begins. A model with real data but almost no downloads sits here; everything that follows is measurement, and the room above the floor holds ten tenfold steps in downloads at 300° each. The floor is the same for every model, so it decides nothing; the degrees above it do.
7,000°
running total
2
Add the downloads.
5,084 download-equivalents in all, from Civitai downloads. Ten times the downloads adds the same 300°, so size matters but never runs away with the score.
+1,112°
8,112°
running total
3
Add the likes.
459 likes and thumbs up, at half the weight of a download.
+399°
8,511°
running total
4
Take off the age.
The SDXL weights came out in 2023: 150° a year, up to 750°, growing until then.
−497°
8,014°
running total
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The heat score.
Where this model stands on every list of this site. Nothing else adjusts it.
8,014°

Glossary: the terms used here

Heat score: One number for how much a model is used and wanted right now, from 0° to 9,999°. Every list on this site that says hottest is sorted by it and nothing else.
Floor: The 7,000° every model with real data starts from. The scale runs from 0° to 9,999°; the part below the floor is reserved for stand-ins (models without data), so that a model with data always ranks above one without. The floor is the same for everyone and decides nothing; the degrees above it are the measurement.
Download-equivalents: Everything the score treats as a download, added up: downloads themselves, each torrent seeder as 1,000, each AI Horde image and each run on a generation site as one.
Log scale: Counting by tens, not by ones: going from 1,000 to 10,000 downloads adds the same degrees as going from 10,000 to 100,000. It keeps giants from crowding out everything else.
Likes: Thumbs up and likes from every source, worth half a download each on the log scale.
Adoption rate: How many downloads a day a model gets right now, from the difference between two readings of a source. A quarter of the weight of the download term.
Measured and estimated: Measured means two readings of a source exist and the difference is real. Estimated means only today's total is known and the past is spread over the model's life; the site says which one it is showing.
Seeder: Someone who keeps a copy of the weights online for others to download over a torrent, or a hosted mirror doing the same. Each one counts as 1,000 downloads.
AI Horde: A volunteer network that generates images for free on donated computers. The number of images it has made with a model is public, and each counts as one download.
Generation sites: Sites that host their own copies of a model and let people generate with it, such as PixAI, SeaArt and Yodayo. Their downloads count like Civitai's and each generation run as one download.
OpenRouter tokens: A text model served through an API, such as Claude or GPT, has no weights to download, so its usage is measured in tokens: the pieces of text it read and wrote through OpenRouter, a gateway many apps use, over the last 30 days. Every 10,000,000 tokens count as one download. Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), CC BY 4.0.
Full model (checkpoint): The weights themselves, the file that generates on its own. It gets a bonus because add-ons depend on it.
LoRA and embedding: Small add-on files that steer someone else's weights toward a style, a character or a concept. They cannot run alone.
Family and weights: The base a model is built on, such as SD 1.5, SDXL, Flux or Wan. Every model inherits the release date of its family's weights.
Age: Degrees taken off for how long ago the family's weights came out: 150° a year, up to 750°. It keeps old downloads that had years to pile up from freezing the top of the list.
Family boost: A small, bounded nudge for LoRAs of a family this site is pushing forward right now, always listed in the breakdown.
Stand-in score: A stable number below the floor given to a model no source reports on yet, so lists stay complete. It never ranks above a model with data.
New! (grace period): A model less than 7 days old shows New! instead of a score and holds no place in the rankings. Its score is computed from day one, but a model one day old grows faster than anything, so without the wait the week's #1 would always be whatever came out yesterday rather than what held up for a week.
Trend: How a model's growth over a period compares with the typical model's growth over the same period. Faster than typical reads as a rise, slower as a fall.
Typical model: The middle of the catalog: half the models with a figure grew faster over the period, half slower.

How this model's popularity has moved against the rest of the catalog: its growth in downloads, likes and usage over each period, measured against the typical model's growth over the same period, with its heat score at the time. Above the typical growth reads as a rise, below it as a fall. The past is reconstructed from today's totals, the model's first day and its measured download speed where two readings exist; a model that did not exist at the start of a period shows n/a.

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amazing quality, masterpiece, best quality, hyper detailed, ultra detailed, UHD, perfect anatomy, portrait, dof, hyper-realism, majestic, awesome, inspiring, - a fluffy cute #giz# gizmo( inspirated in Pikachu:2.3), cinematic composition, soft shadows, national geographic style,

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easynegative, bad proportions, low resolution, bad, ugly, terrible, painting, 3d, render, comic, anime, manga, unrealistic, flat, watermark, signature, worst quality, low quality, normal quality, lowres, simple background, inaccurate limb, extra fingers, fewer fingers, missing fingers, extra arms, (extra legs:1.3), inaccurate eyes, bad composition, bad anatomy, error, extra digit, fewer digits, cropped, low res, worst quality, low quality, normal quality, jpeg artifacts, extra digit, fewer digits, trademark, watermark, artist's name, username, signature, text, words, human,

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amazing quality, masterpiece, best quality, hyper detailed, ultra detailed, UHD, perfect anatomy, portrait, dof, hyper-realism, majestic, awesome, inspiring, Captured in the midst of a serene swim, this adorable fluffy otter basks in the tranquility of its natural habitat midst colorful trash. However, a stark reality unfolds as the river it calls home is marred by pollution, trash and debris. This poignant image serves as a stark reminder of the urgent need to protect our waterways and preserve the delicate ecosystems they support. #WildlifeInCrisis #ProtectOurRivers, cinematic composition, soft shadows, national geographic style

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bad proportions, low resolution, bad, ugly, terrible, female, girl, painting, 3d, render, comic, anime, manga, unrealistic, flat, FastNegativeV2, watermark, signature, worst quality, low quality, normal quality, lowres, simple background, inaccurate limb, extra fingers, fewer fingers, missing fingers, extra arms, (extra legs:1.3), inaccurate eyes, bad composition, bad anatomy, error, extra digit, fewer digits, cropped, low res, worst quality, low quality, normal quality, jpeg artifacts, extra digit, fewer digits, trademark, watermark, artist's name, username, signature, text, words, human, american flag, muscular

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2.5

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913322754

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832x1216

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Closeup, amazing quality, masterpiece, best quality, hyper detailed, ultra detailed, UHD, perfect anatomy, portrait, dof, hyper-realism, majestic, awesome, inspiring, Capture the joy of life within a humble pea pod: tiny, smiling zhibi peas basking in the gentle warmth of the sun filtering through the open translucent pod. Let the radiance of nature's embrace illuminate their laughter, cinematic composition, soft shadows, national geographic style

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Closeup, thumb-up, a cute fluffy raccoon in the middle of a hoarder's front garden full of garbage and food scraps, the raccoon in the middle of the garbage is happy and laughs into the camera, thumb up pose, very detailed, hd, RAW photograph, masterpiece, top quality, best quality, official art,highest detailed, atmospheric lighting, cinematic composition, complex multiple subjects, 4k HDR, vibrant, highly detailed, Leica Q2 with Summilux 35mm f/1.2 ASPH, Ultra High Resolution, wallpaper, 8K, Rich texture details, hyper detailed, detailed eyes, detailed background, dramatic angle, epic composition, high quality , (8k, RAW photo, highest quality), hyperrealistic,

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Helmet, Muscular, NEG-fixl-2, easynegative, bad proportions, low resolution, bad, ugly, terrible, painting, 3d, render, comic, anime, manga, unrealistic, flat, watermark, signature, worst quality, low quality, normal quality, lowres, simple background, inaccurate limb, extra fingers, fewer fingers, missing fingers, extra arms, (extra legs:1.3), inaccurate eyes, bad composition, bad anatomy, error, extra digit, fewer digits, cropped, low res, worst quality, low quality, normal quality, jpeg artifacts, extra digit, fewer digits, trademark, watermark, artist's name, username, signature, text, words, human,

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