Categories on your profile
For creators looking for tags, hashtags or a niche to sit in — the six categories that exist, the limit of three, and what they do on Discover.
EVVA has six creator categories:
- Lifestyle
- Photography
- Music
- Gaming
- Fitness
- Cosplay
A creator can hold at most three of them. That is the entire vocabulary — there are no free-text tags, no hashtags, and no way to add a seventh category.
Three is a ceiling, not a target. Pick the categories that describe what you actually publish: somebody browsing a category expects to find work that belongs in it, and a category that does not fit you costs you the visit rather than winning it.
What that means on Discover
Your categories are how somebody browsing by niche reaches you:
- the category chips on Discover carry the categories that publicly visible creators hold,
- filtering by a category narrows the grid to the creators who hold it,
- so browsing by niche is a route buyers can use to reach you.
The category list is cached for two minutes, so a category you have just taken on can take that long to show up in the chips.
How else do people find my niche?
By your words as well as by a category. Three mechanisms respond to what you publish:
- Your categories. They put you in the chips and in the category filter on Discover.
- Your handle and display name. The Discover directory query matches a plain substring of those two fields and nothing else. If there is a word people search for, it works there only if it is in your handle or your display name.
- The ranked search box. That covers your posts as well as your profile, so the words in what you publish are findable.
The two searches on Discover explains which is which.
The feed does not mix topics. The only variety rule in the ranked feed is per creator, not per subject. See How the home feed decides what you see.
If a category name is asked for that does not exist
A request that names a category outside the six is refused with “Unknown category” rather than ignored. That is deliberate: quietly dropping the filter would return every creator on the platform under that category’s heading, which would be worse than an error.