whats with all the negativity?
it obviously took this person a lot of time to put together this interest check. I dont see the issue with similar colored sets. The KAT Explosion set was clearly geared towards megumin fansand this set was clearly inspired by avatar and the novelties reflect that. I bought the kat explosion set and if this goes to gb id probably grab this one since in my honest opinion GMK Red Dragon fails to deliver. actually im not even sure if that set is based on avatar. this set however is much closer in theme with GMK Mizu with colors that match the animated series so I could see it being part of that "collection".
Also KAT vs Cherry etc.
Id love it if this set hit GB. Some people are just very close minded. Every keycap set has a theme that it calls home to. If im a fan of avatar id rather have a set that was based on it originally than to try and pass off a megumin set as being "fire nation" colors ya know? its the novelty of it all. When it comes to sets based on animated characters, theres only so many good looking color combinations available anyway. dont let peoples' negativity stop you. id be more worried about copyrights/licensing tbh
The problem is that it:
1. Copied the colorway of KAT Explosion pretty much 1 to 1
2. Uses a (most likely) copyrighted name without having any licensing from Nickelodeon
3. This is far from a fleshed out IC. The basekit render has a ton of errors and there are no real kits whatsoever.
4. The person made an account just for posting this IC (twice by the way) so it's unlikely that they spent "a ton of time" to make this.
I don't agree with comparing the posts from Reddit and Geekhack, as both places are wildly different, one is geared towards the general public, while the other is geared towards the more in depth keyboard community.
But, more points that could be made,
5. No communication with Rensuya at all to hash things out with the colorway.
6. Deciding to IC this during the GMK Red Dragon group buy month.
I don't see anything wrong with another Fire Nation theme, but like I feel as if you probably should have worked on the colorway to distinguish it from any other colorway out there. Making it the same colors that were used by Rensuya for KAT Explosion in the exact same way then just calling it GMK Fire Nation when Rensuya is running GMK Red Dragon makes me believe that his designs influenced you in a way. I could be totally wrong though, there has been times where someone new in the community makes something that has already been designed.