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Community Guidelines

Effective August 21 2026 · Version 2.0 · Also our Acceptable Use Policy

Tubaar is a place to create, answer and belong. These Guidelines say what's welcome, what isn't, and what happens when something crosses the line. They apply to everything on Tubaar — videos, Echoes, sounds, Stories, lives, comments, Scenes, profiles and messages — and to everyone, including guests.

How these Guidelines work

For each area we describe what we remove, what we restrict (keep up but make ineligible for For You, age-restrict, add a warning, or mute audio), and where context matters. Some content is allowed only for viewers 18+; some is allowed but not recommended. When we act, we tell you what we did and why, and you can appeal (Section 14).

We look at context. A video documenting violence to raise awareness, satire, fiction, education, art and counter-speech are treated differently from content that promotes harm — but you have to make that context clear, and some things are never allowed regardless of context.

Minimum age and teen safety

  • You must be 13 or older to have an account (older where your country requires). Accounts of children under 13 are removed.
  • Members aged 13–17 get a protected experience. Don't try to bypass it — yours or someone else's.
  • Never sexualise, groom, solicit, threaten or endanger a minor, on or off Tubaar. Don't share a minor's private information. Don't post or request content that shows a minor in a sexual, abusive or dangerous situation. Any of this is a permanent ban and a report to the authorities. See the Child Safety Standards.
  • Videos featuring children must be posted by a parent or guardian, must not show them in minimal clothing, dangerous activities or distress, and must not include identifying details like a school or address.

Safety

Violence and threats. We remove threats or incitement to violence, glorification of violent acts or their perpetrators, and instructions for making weapons intended to harm. We restrict graphic footage of real-world violence posted for documentation, with a warning, and we remove it if it's gratuitous.

Violent extremism and hate. We remove content that promotes, praises or represents terrorist organisations, violent extremists, hate groups or criminal organisations, and hate speech — attacks on people because of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, caste, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, serious disease, disability or immigration status, including slurs, dehumanising comparisons and hateful ideologies. Counter-speech and education are allowed when the intent is clear.

Harassment and bullying. We remove content that degrades, threatens, sexually harasses or shames a person, including through Echoes, duets, comment pile-ons, Scene campaigns or repeated unwanted messages. Public figures can be criticised, not threatened or sexually harassed. Using Echo to mock, stalk or target someone is harassment.

Dangerous acts and challenges. Video spreads behaviour fast. We remove content that shows or encourages dangerous challenges, stunts without professional precautions, choking or fainting games, misuse of medication, extreme dieting, or activities likely to cause serious injury — especially anything a young person might copy. We restrict professional stunts and extreme sports from For You unless clearly framed as professional and not imitable.

Suicide, self-harm and eating disorders. We remove content that promotes, glamorises or instructs suicide, self-harm or disordered eating, including "thinspiration" and numbers. We allow recovery stories and awareness content, often with resources attached, and we restrict content that depicts scars or self-harm even in a recovery context. If you or someone you know is struggling, the app surfaces local help lines when you search these topics.

Sensitive and mature themes

Nudity and sexual content. We remove pornography, sexual acts, sexual solicitation and content that exposes genitals, anus or (female) nipples outside of clearly non-sexual contexts such as breastfeeding, medical or cultural contexts, and art. We remove sexually explicit language or gestures directed at a person, and any sexual content involving a minor. We restrict suggestive content — dancing in minimal clothing, implied nudity — from For You and from viewers under 18.

Non-consensual intimate imagery. We remove intimate images shared without consent, threats to share them ("sextortion"), and sexualised deepfakes of real people. Report these from the video or message and we prioritise the review.

Shocking and graphic content. We remove gore, mutilation and animal cruelty shown for shock value. We restrict medical, accident or conflict footage that serves a documentary purpose, with a warning screen and 18+ gating.

Mature themes. Strong language, alcohol, adult humour and frightening content are allowed, are labelled where appropriate, and are filtered from under-18 feeds.

Integrity and authenticity

Misinformation. We remove content that is false and likely to cause serious harm: dangerous medical misinformation, content that interferes with elections or civic processes, and conspiracy content that targets a protected group or incites violence. We restrict unverified claims during crises and label content fact-checked as false.

Edited and AI-generated media. You must label realistic video, audio or images that were generated or significantly altered by AI, and we add a label automatically where we can detect it. We remove synthetic media that depicts a real person saying or doing something they didn't in a way that could mislead or harm, sexualised synthetic content of real people, and synthetic content of minors. Obvious parody, animation and art don't need a label.

Impersonation. Don't pretend to be another person, brand, Scene or Tubaar itself. Parody and fan accounts must say so in the handle or bio.

Spam and fake engagement. No buying or selling loves, views, Echoes, followers or comments; no bots, engagement pods, mass-follow/unfollow, identical reposts across Scenes, misleading thumbnails or captions, or links to malware and phishing.

Platform manipulation. No coordinated inauthentic behaviour, no hijacking of hashtags, sounds or Scene prompts to push unrelated content.

Intellectual property. Post only what you have the right to post. Use sounds from the Tubaar catalogue or audio you own or have licensed. Echoes are allowed because the original creator enabled them; ripping a video and re-uploading it as your own is not. See the Copyright & IP Policy.

Regulated goods and commercial activity

  • Drugs: no sale, trade, promotion or instructions for illegal drugs or misuse of legal ones. Recovery and harm-reduction content is allowed.
  • Weapons: no sale, trade or instructions for firearms, ammunition, explosives or knives intended as weapons. Sport shooting, hunting and collecting in lawful contexts are allowed and not recommended.
  • Alcohol, tobacco, vaping, gambling: no sale or promotion to minors; no content encouraging excessive use; gambling content is 18+ and restricted.
  • Scams and fraud: no pyramid schemes, fake giveaways, investment "signals", phishing, or selling counterfeit goods.
  • Sexual services and trafficking: no offering or facilitating sexual services, and nothing that facilitates human trafficking or exploitation. Permanent ban.
  • Branded content: if you were paid, gifted or sponsored, turn on the paid-partnership label. Undisclosed advertising is removed.
  • Prohibited promotion: no ads for weapons, drugs, adult services, get-rich-quick schemes or political advertising.

Privacy and personal data

  • No doxxing: don't publish someone's home address, phone number, ID documents, financial details, or private images, or call on others to find them.
  • Don't film people in private spaces, or in situations where they'd reasonably expect privacy, without consent. Blur or remove bystanders when asked.
  • Don't share private messages, or screenshots of them, to harass or shame someone.
  • Don't post or request someone's precise location. Tubaar never shows it; don't work around that.
  • Don't use Tubaar to collect data about members — scraping, harvesting handles or contacts, facial-recognition matching.

Echo etiquette

Echo exists so videos can become conversations. It works only if people trust it.

  • Respect the creator's Echo setting. Don't screen-record to "Echo" a video that had Echoes turned off.
  • Credit is automatic — don't crop, cover or edit it out, and don't claim an Echo as an original.
  • Don't use Echo to pile onto someone, strip a video of its context to mislead, or sexualise the person in the original.
  • Original creators may detach an Echo from their chain. Repeatedly re-Echoing after being detached is harassment.
  • Echo chains involving minors are limited to their followers by default; don't try to widen them.

Scenes

  • A Scene's name, cover and description must be accurate and must not impersonate, infringe or mislead.
  • Moderators must enforce these Guidelines inside their Scene, remove violating posts and members, and may not use moderator tools to harass or to run pay-to-stay schemes.
  • Scenes created to host content that breaks these Guidelines — even if each post alone is borderline — are closed.
  • Prompts and challenges must be safe and imitable without risk; see Section 3 on dangerous challenges.
  • Local Scenes must not be used to organise harassment, vigilante action or gatherings that break the law.

Live

  • Live is for members 18+ in good standing. Hosts are responsible for their stream, including guests and on-screen comments they pin.
  • All of these Guidelines apply in real time. Streams can be ended immediately and live access removed.
  • No streaming while driving, no streaming of dangerous acts, no soliciting gifts for harmful or deceptive purposes, no sexual performance for tips.
  • Don't stream other people without consent, or stream content you don't own (matches, films, concerts).

Comments, messages and Stories

Everything above applies to comments, direct messages, Scene chats and Stories. In addition: no unsolicited sexual messages, no repeated messaging after being ignored or blocked, no mass-sending of links, and no using message requests to evade a block. Creators can filter comments, limit them to followers, or turn them off per video; doing so isn't censorship — it's their space.

Eligibility for recommendation

Some content stays on Tubaar but isn't pushed to people who didn't ask for it. We keep out of For You: sexually suggestive content, dangerous-looking stunts, unverified claims during breaking events, graphic documentary footage, tobacco, alcohol and gambling content, low-quality or repetitive uploads, content with unlabeled synthetic media, and content from accounts with recent strikes. Creators see an "ineligible for recommendation" label on affected videos, with the reason.

Enforcement

What we do depends on severity, intent, harm and history:

  • Remove the content.
  • Restrict it — ineligible for recommendation, age-restricted (18+), warning screen, muted audio, or limited to followers.
  • Strike the account. Strikes expire after 90 days. Accumulated strikes lead to temporary feature limits (comments, Echo, posting, Scenes, live, messaging) and then to temporary suspension.
  • Suspend the account temporarily.
  • Permanently ban the account. Zero-tolerance violations — child sexual exploitation, credible threats of violence, terrorism, sexual services and trafficking, non-consensual intimate imagery, severe repeat harassment — result in an immediate permanent ban, and may be reported to authorities. Banned people may not create new accounts.

Because the account is shared with Ontryst, a ban for zero-tolerance violations applies to both services. Other restrictions apply only in the app where the violation happened.

Reporting and appeals

Report any video, Echo, sound, comment, Story, live, profile, Scene or message from its menu; you can choose the reason and add context. Reports are confidential. Child-safety and imminent-harm reports are prioritised and reviewed around the clock. You can also email support@tubaar.com or, for child safety, child-safety@tubaar.com.

Appeal any decision about your content or account from the notification, in Settings → Account → Moderation history, or by email. A reviewer who wasn't involved in the original decision looks at it and replies, usually within a few days. If we got it wrong, we restore the content and remove the strike.

Updates

We review these Guidelines regularly and update them as the platform and the risks people face change. Material changes are announced in the app before they take effect. These Guidelines complement the Terms of Service; in case of conflict on a moderation matter, the Guidelines prevail.