Community Guidelines

The short version

Act like you are in a rehearsal room with people you have just met. Perform hard, be generous about other people's work, and leave alone anyone who is not enjoying it.

Harassment or bullying

Do not target a person. That includes pile-ons, repeated unwanted contact after someone has stopped replying, mocking somebody's appearance, voice or accent, and posting anything that identifies where a person lives, works or studies.

Criticism of a performance is fine and is part of what this is for. “That reading did not land for me” is a note. “You look ridiculous” is not.

Hate speech

No content that attacks or demeans people for who they are — race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age. That covers slurs, dehumanising language, and hate symbols, whether they are in your performance, your caption, a comment or a message.

A scene can contain a bigoted character. It cannot be a vehicle for saying the thing and calling it acting.

Sexual content

Keep it to what a 13-year-old could watch. No nudity, no sexual acts, no sexually explicit dialogue, and nothing framed to draw attention to a body rather than to a performance.

Anything that sexualises a minor ends the account immediately and is reported to the authorities. There is no warning and no appeal for this one.

Violence and threats

No real violence, no threats against a person, and nothing encouraging anyone to hurt themselves or someone else.

Scenes can be violent — a thriller with a knife in it is a genre, not a breach. What is not allowed is real harm, footage of it, or a threat wearing a script.

Spam and manipulation

No bulk or repetitive posting, no bought or traded engagement, no second accounts to inflate your own numbers or gifts, and no using messages to advertise. The leaderboard is worth something only if it is honest.

Anything else

Other things we will act on: posting somebody else's performance as your own, recording a person who has not agreed to be recorded, impersonating someone, and anything illegal.

If something is wrong and does not fit the headings above, report it as “something else” and tell us what happened.

How these are enforced

Every video is checked automatically before it goes live. Frames from it are scanned for nudity, sexual content, violence and hate symbols, and anything flagged is held back for a person to look at rather than published.

That check looks at pictures only. It does not listen to audio, and it does not read comments or messages — nobody reads your messages unless you or the person you are talking to reports one.

So the rest of it depends on people reporting things, and reports are read by a person rather than by a machine. Automated screening misses things and it flags things wrongly; that is what the report button and the block button are for, and using them is not an overreaction.

What happens when something is reported

A person reads it. Depending on what it is, we may leave it alone, remove it, stop two accounts from contacting each other, or close an account. Serious or repeated breaches end an account without a warning.

Removed content is kept on our side so a decision can be reviewed. It is no longer visible to anyone in the app.

How to report something

• A performance — the menu on the video, then Report.
• A comment or a message — press and hold it, then Report.
• A person — their profile, then Block. Blocking is immediate and works both ways: you disappear from each other's feeds, comments and messages.

You can also write to support@actitup.app, and you should for anything urgent or involving a minor.

If you are under 18

Some things work differently for you, and they are not optional. Adults cannot message you and you cannot message them. Messages are limited to people you follow unless you change that in Settings. Gifting is closed until you are older.

You do not have to explain yourself to anybody here. If an adult makes you uncomfortable, block them and tell us — you will not get in trouble for it.

These sit alongside the Terms

The Terms of Service are the agreement; this page is what those rules mean in practice. Where the two could be read differently, the Terms are the binding version.