Waifu Bean Affiliate AI Content Policy

Version 1.0 · Effective November 8, 2026

Thanks for helping share Waifu Bean with the world! This policy explains how to represent Waifu Bean when you promote us as an affiliate. Please read it before you apply.

1. Your creative freedom comes first

We're not trying to limit anyone's creativity or free expression. Using AI for personal, non-promotional purposes is fine with us. Experimenting, learning, and making things for yourself are your business, and this policy doesn't restrict your general creative freedom.

This policy covers one thing: how Waifu Bean is represented when you promote it as an affiliate, including how you use the official files we share with you for that promotion. Waifu Bean is a new brand built on art from real artists, and we want every promotion to reflect that.

2. What counts as promotion

"Promotional content" means any post, story, video, thumbnail, ad, livestream graphic, or other content that promotes Waifu Bean, our products, characters, or art. Content is promotional if, for example, it includes your affiliate code or link, a discount, or a "shop now" style call to action, is part of a sponsored or paid campaign, or is made to drive sales or sign-ups for Waifu Bean.

This policy doesn't restrict:

  • Your honest commentary, reviews, and opinions in your own words.
  • Real photos or videos of an actual Waifu Bean product you physically own, such as a real unboxing, brewing, or wearing real merchandise.
  • Captions, scripts, voiceovers, or on-screen text about the real product or your real experience. AI may help with wording as long as you fact-check it before posting (see section 8).

3. Promote only with art from Waifu Bean-approved artists

When you promote Waifu Bean, the only art you may use is art created by Waifu Bean-approved artists that we supply or approve for promotion. That includes official character art, product images, packaging imagery, logos, and brand templates that we provide or confirm as approved.

You may add real photos or videos of real Waifu Bean products you own (see section 2). Please don't create your own promotional images of Waifu Bean products, characters, or art. If you're not sure whether a file is approved, treat it as not approved until the Waifu Bean team confirms it.

4. No AI with Waifu Bean characters, art, or products in promotion

Don't upload Sakura or any other Waifu Bean character, art, logo, or product image into AI tools (image, video, animation, or "enhance" tools) to make promotional content. In promotional content, don't create, generate, commission, or post:

  • AI-generated or other affiliate-made images of Waifu Bean products, including bags, cups, pods, apparel, stickers, packaging, or other merchandise.
  • AI-generated or other affiliate-made images of Sakura or any other Waifu Bean character or official art.
  • AI animations, restyles, face or body changes, outfit changes, color swaps, or "enhanced" versions of official art, characters, logos, or product images.
  • Generated product scenes, such as a generated kitchen, café, unboxing, or lifestyle scene showing Waifu Bean products that weren't actually photographed.
  • Generated backgrounds or composites used as a loophole, such as placing official art or a product cutout into an AI-generated scene.

A label, caption, or disclaimer doesn't make any of these allowed in promotion.

5. Official commissioned art vs. unofficial AI work

Official Waifu Bean visuals are commissioned from real artists. Affiliate-made AI images are unofficial: they aren't Waifu Bean art and aren't a substitute for the work of the artists we commission. Don't present unofficial AI work as official Waifu Bean art, or imply that Waifu Bean or its artists created or endorsed it.

Waifu Bean commissions real artists, and you can find our artists on the official website.

6. Labeled AI fan art (non-promotional only)

In the spirit of section 1, you're welcome to make and share AI fan art of the Waifu Bean world for fun. Fan art isn't promotional content or an approved asset, and all of the following must be true:

  1. It doesn't promote. No affiliate code, no affiliate link, no discount, no "shop now" or sales call to action, and it isn't used in a sponsored or paid campaign or ad.
  2. It's kept separate from your promotion. Don't put it in the same post, story, carousel, or video as your Waifu Bean affiliate content, and don't present it as part of your affiliate work.
  3. It's your own fan creation. Simply running official Waifu Bean art, Sakura images, or product images through an AI tool and reposting the result counts as an altered official asset, not fan art.
  4. It doesn't invent products. No made-up Waifu Bean bags, cups, packaging, merchandise, or product scenes.
  5. It's clearly labeled on the image itself and in the caption, with your name or handle and a note that it isn't Waifu Bean.

Required label (on the image and in the caption):

AI fan art generated by [your name/handle] — NOT Waifu Bean. Waifu Bean commissions real artists; find its artists on the official website.

The on-image label must be easy to read in ordinary viewing: not hidden in a corner, not the same color as the background, and not pushed to a later slide or comment. A label never turns fan art into approved promotional art, and it can't make up for invented products.

7. Use official files only as provided

The official files we share with affiliates are for promotion, as provided. Don't use them to train, fine-tune, or build style-copying AI models unless Waifu Bean has given express permission for that specific use. This policy doesn't grant any license to train AI on Waifu Bean's art, characters, products, or files.

8. Accuracy

Promotional claims must be accurate. Don't invent or exaggerate product facts, ingredients, sourcing, roast details, pricing, discounts, shipping, availability, or other offer terms. If AI helped you write a caption or script, fact-check it against official Waifu Bean information before posting. When in doubt, leave it out.

9. Artist attribution

Keep artist credits supplied with approved files visible wherever the format reasonably allows, and don't claim authorship of official commissioned art. Don't remove, crop out, or cover up official credits, and don't imply that unofficial AI fan art was made by Waifu Bean or its artists.

10. Sponsorship disclosure

Affiliate posts that promote Waifu Bean must clearly disclose your commercial relationship with us, for example that you're an affiliate and may earn a commission, following applicable advertising rules and each platform's disclosure tools. A fan-art label isn't a sponsorship disclosure, and a sponsorship disclosure isn't a fan-art label.

11. No fake experiences or endorsements

Don't make up experiences with products you haven't used, invent tasting notes or results, or imply endorsements from Waifu Bean, our artists, other people, or other brands that weren't given. Don't imply that unofficial AI images are official photos, official art, or proof of a product someone would receive.

12. Other prohibited uses

Affiliates must not:

  • Use Waifu Bean names, logos, characters, or approved files with illegal, hateful, harassing, pornographic, or otherwise harmful content.
  • Use official assets in a way that's misleading about the product, the brand, or your relationship with Waifu Bean.
  • Present themselves as Waifu Bean staff, or create accounts, domains, or storefronts that appear official.
  • Register or try to register Waifu Bean names, slogans, characters, or confusingly similar marks.

13. Approved promotional art

Approved promotional art is art from Waifu Bean-approved artists that we have supplied or approved. If you have questions about a file, just ask the Waifu Bean team. There's no option to create new AI promotional imagery of Waifu Bean products, characters, or art and ask for approval afterward.

14. Review by our team

Suspected issues are reviewed by real people on the Waifu Bean team, and enforcement is always a human decision. We don't use automatic takedowns, automatic penalties, or machine-only judgments, and commissions are never withheld automatically because of a suspected content issue. Any decision to pause, withhold, adjust, or recover a commission, or to suspend or end an affiliate relationship, is made by a person after review.

15. Consequences

If this policy is broken, after review and at Waifu Bean's discretion, we may:

  • ask you to edit or remove the content;
  • suspend your participation in the program; or
  • terminate your participation in the program.

We'll choose the response that fits the situation, and a serious breach may lead directly to termination. Commissions earned before termination are handled under the affiliate program terms. This policy works alongside the affiliate program terms.

16. Acknowledgment

Applicants must read and agree to this policy, by checking the acknowledgment box on the affiliate application form, before submitting an application. Applications without this acknowledgment won't be accepted. Existing affiliates are also asked to acknowledge this policy.

Questions? Contact us through the official Waifu Bean website.