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I wanted to provide a detailed timeline of recent events concerning bghira, the creator of the popular LoRA training tool, Simpletuner. Things have escalated quickly, and I believe the community deserves to be aware of the full situation.

TL;DR: The creator of Simpletuner, bghira, began mass-reporting NotSFW LoRAs on Hugging Face. When called out, he blocked users, deleted GitHub issues exposing his own project's severe license violations, and took down his repositories. It was then discovered he had created his own NotSFW FLUX LoRA (violating the FLUX license), and he has since begun lashing out with taunts and false reports against those who exposed his actions.

Here is a clear, chronological breakdown of what happened:

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1. 2025-07-04 13:43: Out of nowhere, bghira began to spam-report dozens of NotSFW LoRAs on Hugging Face.

2. 2025-07-04 17:44: u/More_Bid_2197 called this out on the StableDiffusion subreddit.

3. 2025-07-04 21:08: I saw the post and tagged bghira in the comments asking for an explanation. I was promptly blocked without a response.

4. Following this, I looked into the SimpleTuner project itself and noticed it severely broke the AGPLv3 and Apache 2.0 licenses it was supposedly using.

5. 2025-07-04 21:40: I opened a GitHub issue detailing the license violations and started a discussion on the Hugging Face repo as well.

6. 2025-07-04 22:12: In response, bghira deleted my GitHub issue and took down his entire Hugging Face repository to hide the reports (many other users had begun reporting it by this point).

7. bghira invalidated his public Discord server invite to prevent people from joining and asking questions.

8. 2025-07-04 21:21: Around the same time, u/atakariax started a discussion on the StableTuner repo about the problem. bghira edited the title of the discussion post to simply say "Simpletuner creator is based".

9. I then looked at bghira's Civitai profile and discovered he had trained and published an NotSFW LoRA for the new FLUX model. This is not only hypocritical but also a direct violation of FLUX's license, which he was enforcing on others.

10. I replied to some of bghira's reports on Hugging Face, pointing out his hypocrisy. I received these two responses:

    2025-07-05 12:15: In response to one comment:

    i think it's sweet how much time you spent learning about me yesterday. you're my number one fan!

    2025-07-05 12:14: In response to another:

    oh ok so you do admit all of your stuff breaks the license, thanks technoweenie.

11. 2025-07-05 14:55: bghira filed a false report against one of my SD1.5 models for "Trained on illegal content." This is objectively untrue; the model is a merge of models trained on legal content and contains no additional training itself. This is another example of his hypocrisy and retaliatory behavior.

12. 2025-07-05 16:18: I have reported bghira to Hugging Face for harassment, name-calling, and filing malicious, false reports.

13. 2025-07-05 17:26: A new account has appeared with the name EnforcementMan (likely bghira), reporting Chroma.

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I'm putting this all together to provide a clear timeline of events for the community.

Please let me know if I've missed something.

(And apologies if I got some of the timestamps wrong, timezones are a pain).

Mirror of this post in case this gets locked: https://www.reddit.com/r/comfyui/comments/1lsfodj/full_breakdown_the_bghirasimpletuner_situation/

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