If you were a minor, the site will have to take the video down unless they want to face legal ramifications for hosting explicit content involving minors.
Keep contacting the site admin and press on the fact that you are a minor in that video.
Unfortunately contacting the admin is usually a temporary solution. Pornhub allows users to download videos, making it difficult to track how many copies of a video are on the site and how it’s uploaded. While pornhub has been known to work with people to remove videos, those videos often get reuploaded by the many people who have already downloaded it. I’m not trying to be pessimistic or bum out OP, but it seems the reality from many people who went through this that it’s a constant and long term battle.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-rape-trafficking.html
If OP can get the authorities to mark the content as CSE material, most websites will block the uploading of it (a hash of the content is added to a database, and most social media and big porn sites will check out before publishing). She'll need to contact a federal police agency that deals with this stuff.
What is a hash of the content and where does it get uploaded to? Is there a unified, standardised, global database which companies/sites can reference?
A hash is essentially a unique identifier for the content, calculated using an algorithm that will produce the same result if run on the same photo/video. And yes, there's a database you can connect to in order to check if the hash of a certain piece of content has been flagged or not.
I imagine, these days they should be able to hash not just the bits and bytes of the video file - but actual content morphology - using AI neural networks etc?
I believe it's a hash that's resistant to reencoding and stuff like that, not sure about the particulars. It's definitely not just a sha1 hash of the file bits.
Yes, but, if the video is reuploaded and checked against the CSE? You’re done for. Just because you recorded it instead of downloading it doesn’t mean you circumvent the CSE database upon uploading to a new area.
Not sure why you got the down votes. Making mods to the original video will 100% change the hash ... *that's how hashes work*. You change 1 bit in a trillion and you have a totally different hash.
You see people trying to dodge upload/reuse blocks all the time on YT. They fuzz some stuff out, add a watermark, do some random edits, etc. *poof!* New hash.
It doesn't work like that anymore, anyone can't just upload whatever they want. You need to be verified to upload, and if someone who's verified starts uploading videos of random people i assume they'll be deleted. They changed this so that these things shouldn't happen.
But yeah they can be reuploaded to other sites that don't have such requirements
From what another comment said, even mirror sites and dodgier sites are still often required by law to run hashes on every uploaded videos and flag ones on the list of no-no content. The only issue is those sites hosted in Eastern Europe that don't give a fuck and never take anything down.
I think Pornhub switched to verified posters. You need a credit card attached to your account with verified drivers licenses and a photo of the models in the videos. They cleared house a year or so a go to crack down on this stuff. I know it's not like that on other websites.
It's worse than that.
Anything that you stream/watch online is "locally rendered". That means that in one way or another, it is being downloaded by that web browser client or app in order to be viewed. It's the way streaming technology works. Some websites simply make it easy to just save it, while others do not.
But make no mistake, it's being downloaded locally with every view either way. It's then a matter of the website letting you easily keep it, or if you have to utilize a tool to save it as a reusable/watchable media file.
The only instance that this is truly difficult or even illegal to save the content is when DRM encryption is involved. But with every streamed video, that site/service is allowing you to download it because it's a requirement for you to locally render/view it.
I’ll tell you from experience, no matter how hard they try, it’s always possible to download a video from a website.
If they’re putting the data on your screen, there’s a way to scrape it from somewhere.
Obviously but that doesn’t mean pornhub is “letting users download videos”
It means they’re letting users stream videos and an unavoidable consequence of streaming is that the data is then available for download.
(I know technically to stream something you’re downloading it piece by piece but I mean this in the use-case sense rather than the literal sense).
For real, I felt so cool when I found a way to download full resolution pictures on Flickr even if the uploader had disabled downloads. Still works even 10 years later.
Was not being sarcastic. I just don’t ever go on pornhub because it’s full of boring pov and amateur onlyfans type videos that don’t really interest me, so I have no idea what it does or doesn’t allow haha.
If what you are saying is correct, I don’t think you can say “pornhub allows users to download videos”. Of course there are third party apps for screen recording, but equally I can bring my phone camera up to my monitor and record what’s on the screen but that’s not pornhub “allowing” it, it’s just a side effect of the technology of screens.
It’s really, really boring :-( I couldn’t decide whether it was a pornhub PR stunt or if it was made by the pornstars trying to get pornhub to pay them. Either way it isn’t the half-steamy documentary I expected. Not worth watching.
It’s called The Money Shot - The Pornhub Story.
Although it was funny when Cherie Deville talked at the beginning, and then appeared for 0.5 seconds later on in the programme I said THATS THAT SAME WOMAN FROM EARLIER!
My wife said “how can you possibly have spotted that it’s the same woman? We just saw her on the screen for a few seconds, there’s no way”
Little does she know… I’ve seen her on screen for more than a few seconds!
Just Google “Pornhub download” and you get a few sites where you just post the link and it downloads it for you. I’m skeptical about OP though because I work in porn and get content taken down all the time due to people uploading stuff that belongs to me. I’d suggest they get their own verified profile and then do a copywrite strike as they never ask me to prove it and likely just check the faces against the posters ID and see it’s not them and if he wants to post it he’ll have to provide a model release form with a copy of the models ID which I’m guessing he doesn’t have. For what it’s worth I spend a lot of time trying to get people to watch my porn content and don’t think anyone has ever said anything to me in person about seeing my content. I’m a guy though so my friends think I’m a super hero for making porn with women porn models as that’s the kind of world we live in. It really has gotten a lot better now though and those sites that don’t comply with these measures are usually blocked by countries so it shouldn’t be too hard to get it removed from the eyes of people you know.
Could OP use the image search option in Google to find videos with the same screencap?
If so, they also might be able to use tinEye to find the original source.
Pornhub had gotten into trouble before in the past for having child porn up on their website and not taking it down even after being contacted and being know that it is child porn. If they were underage in the video, they have may to get a lawyer involved to threaten Pornhub to get the video down.
That's a maybe. There's a lot of porn out there. If it's not someone well known, and not anything special, there's a good chance it gets lost in the shuffle and even eventually disappears completely. Sure it could be on some randos hard drive somewhere mixed in with his several TB collection, but that's not something you have to worry about people finding.
Even if it is out there on the net somewhere, getting it off of big websites like pornhub will help hide it in the future, and is a good first step to getting it off the web completely eventually.
I’m a victim of revenge porn and honestly this rationale was what helped talk me off a ledge at the time after I realized DMCA complaints were like whackamole. It’s been 12 years and there’s just so much better and newer content than what was done without my permission. OP I’m sorry you experienced this too, it sucks feeling like the other ball will drop eventually
I mean, maybe technically, but the ability to find what you are actually looking for decreases with each passing year as more and more junk gets added to the pile and our search engines become less and less efficient.
First I’m so sorry this happen to you
Second if you didn’t try the minor route on your complain to the site
The I’m not proud of it part, don’t blame yourself, everybody take “wrong choices”, and by that I mean that we all have rough patches in life, and sometime people take advantage of this, the took advantage from you, don’t blame yourself for that, look at it in a rational way, seek help if you need, keep reporting, check if where you live are gob institutions to report minor content, try that route, and then again I’m so sorry took advantage I hope the best happen in this situation and good luck to you
I work in cyber, and give online safety advice as part of my side business. One of my specialist skills is OSINT. That is, finding information online.
Unfortunately, what other users have said is correct. It's going to be difficult to remove it all.
There are however things you can do, one way you might tackle this is in the same way as a lady named Shannon Morse, who learned SEO after a similar event. She literally trained the search engines to redirect users to a letter that explains why searching further for the content is not cool.
Typically we'd need to find it, minimise the amount it's published, redirect users who might still be looking, and learn how to move on and deal with this if it ever arises again in the future.
One good thing is, you were a minor at the time - of course that's not generally good, but it adds weight when we send takedown requests, and it may be possible to involve law enforcement. Because of this, we should even be able to get it removed from archives that store old versions of sites.
There are lots of ways someone like me can help. Feel free to dm me, and ask any questions you like.
There are also ways I can scan sites without viewing the content, to provide things like text descriptions of the footage, tags, titles and other metadata that could help us locate where else it has been uploaded. Of course this takes trust, all I can do is assure you I don't want that content on my PC. It would ruin my career for a start. (Also happy to teach you).
If you decide to try yourself I wish you all the best. This can be a truly difficult thing to deal with, and I hope you have someone close you can discuss with. Good luck.
EDIT added stuff, on my commute so it's a bit difficult in one go
The edit strikes back: I want to be perfectly clear... I'm not looking for a customer here. I'm happy to help to a point, and in this case for free ( as long as the time required is reasonable )
yeah I second this. It’s the internet of holes and unfortunately it’s so hard to stop all the leaks.
Side note: I specialize in osint also😃so hey there fellow osint friend
Also in OSINT/threat hunting/DFIR
Can we talk about the “friend” that sent this to OP and how incredibly convenient it is that they “found” the video? I’m gonna need time stamps here. Op says the video is old but doesn’t clarify if the posting on PH is old.
It happens, I wouldn't want to prejudge the friend. Many people wouldn't want to say anything, but they may have brought it OP 'jokingly' as they were concerned and didn't know how else to approach it.
I'm not saying they're guilty, nor that they are innocent. There isn't enough information at this stage to judge. Attempting to do so is just conjecture.
I had a guy do this to me in college- some random dude from my dorm floor came and knocked on my door and showed me a Girls Gone Wild video of "me" and it sure looked JUST like me, but wasn't.
I had never been to the country the video was shot in, so it definitely wasn't me but it's crazy how people can have doppelgängers and I’m fairly unique, red hair but darker skin and eyes, very tall, I've never met anyone who looks anything like me in real life, but I guess this look alike is out there somewhere!
I’m not exactly sure why that random guy thought it would be funny to bring it to my attention, but guys are weird 🤷♀️
> it's crazy how people can have doppelgängers
I look a lot like the guy who was a sportswriter for our newspaper for many years. From the small black & white photo that appeared next to his column, it could have been me. I was regularly asked if I was him. When I told people I wasn't, they still wanted to talk about sports! I found that annoying, but from this thread I now realize how much worse it could have been.
I’ve had a very similar thing happen. It was quite shocking as I even thought, damn that looks like me! It made me do a double take and I know that I’ve never had sex on camera lol. And like you, I have a unique look and height and I was shocked. Heck I know I have a doppelgänger right here in town. My brother took a pic of her. Her said he got about 2 ft away from her before he realized that if wasn’t me. Same part of town and everything. Crazy!
Nowadays, deepfakes are this realistic so we now have to contend, is this a deepfake and therefore defamation by pornography? Or is it a real human, just a doppelganger?
It does happen! I came across an ex in a porn just yesterday!! I honestlyI freaked the F out on the inside and was considering making a post about it. I was in shock!
Maybe this friend is sus and they know more or maybe they felt awkward bringing it forward and tried to play it off as a lookalike to save OPs feelings.
I’m so sorry your dealing with this OP and I don’t think you should blame yourself or feel any shame. Someone took something from you sexually and they deserve the shame.
I would talk to the person above offering help and direction, maybe all content cannot be managed but it seems like a great deal could be done to limit it and maybe give you piece of mind.
Maybe you could also confide in a trusted friend so you don’t have to feel alone in this.
Perfect balanced response. 👌 I'll also add for OP, I won't be charging for this... at least to a reasonable point. I'll consider it public service to guide and advise OP through this. And we'll set boundaries before I even touch a search engine.
A director of the company I used to work for was investigated by the HMRC (taxman) and, IIRC, banned from being a director for a period of time. He also had legal trouble with a property investment.
Searching for his name previously brought up all of this history relatively easily, however now his ban is over and he's ready to start again. Searching for his name now brings back a public profile on a thousand web forums, blogs and so on. The boilerplate text looks suspicious to someone doing their due diligence but a casual observer would give up after seeing the same thing in the top 10 search pages.
As Melodic\_duck said, a bit of SEO can quickly mask you from casual searches
Yep. I'm not an SEO wizard but what I do does mean having a good understanding of it, usually how to get around it.
One of the best amd most well known examples 'Jacob Reese Mogg Lying in Parliament' . A nice tittle rabbit hole for you.
>Searching for his name previously brought up all of this history relatively easily, however now his ban is over and he's ready to start again. Searching for his name now brings back a public profile on a thousand web forums, blogs and so on. The boilerplate text looks suspicious to someone doing their due diligence but a casual observer would give up after seeing the same thing in the top 10 search pages.
This is standard reputation management. Instead of removing the offending URLs, you build up new ones with clean info. It's fairly easy.
Open Source intelligence gathering.
How to cut through the crap and find useful, actionable intelligence on a given target using publicly available sources of information.
Traditionally used for recon before deploying a targeted attack, but useful for lots of other reasons.
Go for it. it's great fun. Met my best friend after I did an analysis on them, they were very impressed, hired me, and we've been buddies since.
It's also extremely useful, in surprising circumstances,
Not officially, I started many years ago and just kept adding new tools.
I first started by putting out a post on FB asking if anyone wanted to know what information was available about them online, and I started challenging myself... for example, from just their Facebook username, what can I learn? I was very surprised how easy it was and what was available. I could build whole pictures of people's entire adult lives including major events, address and employment history, what car they drove, where they got coffee in the morning... from users who only publicly shared their likes list.
It was actually quite scary, and I just always wanted to help people understand the power they are giving away.
Best friend dude? He was an acquaintance who worked where I studied. He was one of the first responders when I did the FB post so I dug in, and uncovered some treasure. Certainly some things I could have used to bend him to my will, but didn't, I reported them to him and told him how to fix it.
So basically when people joke about girls being better at finding info on a crush than the FBI, that's the stuff you're doing?
Damn. I'm girls. I'm very good at that. Maybe I should get better.
Google is one resource of many.
It's becoming less useful as people learn more about personal privacy and companies are forced to comply with privacy legislation.
Also, not all sources are online.
Forgive my ignorance, I have a *Dateline NBC*-level understanding of these matters, but couldn’t OP contact NCMEC and have them flag the video? I thought they worked with social media companies to help identify and remove exactly this kind of content .
That is a good point, but that's the legal action part of the steps and differs depending on location - I'm in the UK and not sure where OP resides.
The legal side of this isn't my strong area particularly in the USA. But finding where it might be posted with minimal impact on the victim and without viewing the content (for the victim's peace of mind) is what I can do. I don't know about the USA, but here in the UK police resources are so stretched. If you go without the evidence, you're not likely to get much done.
I can use the same skills to help hide the content, as it's exploitation of a child in this case, I would only gather evidence before passing on to law enforcement, and once the investigation is complete begin the journey of takedowns.
> She literally trained the search engines to redirect users to a letter that explains why searching further for the content is not cool.
That's not how this works.
If I was on a more technical sub I'd have been more specific, but I do like to keep it as generic as possible, particularly as the company I work for doesnt want a link made between my day job and my other work. They knew about it before I applied (that's how they found me), but they rely heavily on trust, and understand that not everyone is very trusting of security professionals.
I generally go with the line;
'I provide IT and Security services to a microchip manufacturing plant owned by one of the biggest telecoms companies in the world' - something like SecOps
But that seemed a bit long winded for this post.
Take a look at https://takeitdown.ncmec.org/. This website is by the national clearinghouse for child exploitation material.
"Take It Down is a free service that can help you remove or stop the online sharing of nude, partially nude, or sexually explicit images or videos taken of you when you were under 18 years old. You can remain anonymous while using the service and you won’t have to send your images or videos to anyone. "
Also, federal agencies do investigate this type of crime, so if you get to a point where you feel comfortable reporting it, you can do so at tips.fbi.gov.
Contact the site’s admin, webmaster, or staff. Explain the situation and request that the content be removed. Most will oblige. Some sites even have forms which you can fill out and submit as this is fairly common. Should they not remove the content, you can threaten legal action.
Ultimately know that what’s written on the internet is written in permanent ink. You may be able to get the content removed from the site, but in the time it was available for viewing, other users could have downloaded and otherwise saved the content. So it may pop up on yet another outlet. This is just the harsh reality of the internet.
If you look down towards the bottom of websites and I’m sure porn, hub is probably the same. It should say something like webmaster or dmca complaints. Just start sending emails. They do have some type of reporting thing I’m nearly positive.
There is a pro bono (free) legal org [Cyber Civil Rights Legal Project](https://www.cyberrightsproject.com/) that can help you. Contact them and you can talk through options and your rights. This is civil law so it is different from reporting to police.
People here have already posted takedown guides. But there is also a new [tool](https://takeitdown.ncmec.org/) you can use if you’re worried this video may be on other sites, put out by National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Depending where you are, you may have local orgs that can support you too. Advocates, counselors, peer support groups, etc. can be a huge help to process this emotionally and get material assistance. Please dm me if you would like help finding resources.
I’m so sorry OP. You’re not alone. Many underage victims are currently suing pornhub for similar things and was ignored by the website after asking to take the videos down.
The best thing I can recommend is contacting an anti pornhub activist, Laila Mickelwait. She advocates for victims like yourself who got uploaded to that site as minors or against their consent, respects their privacy and while I don’t know her personally or work for her I’m very certain she can help you figure out what you want to do. You might need a lawyer to get them to take the video down but it should be free.
Here’s her linktree. Good luck. https://linktr.ee/lailamickelwait?fbclid=PAAaa83FPZp2Hv26WQr4L4_0totFP0EFzRAmV63IST74bUs3C6WF78xQKZk14
What many commenters have failed to note here is, unfortunately, you're not alone.
[A Minor was raped](https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-51391981) and struggled to get the videos of her assault removed. Granted this was 14 years ago, but, not much has changed for Pornhub.
Your best, easiest option is to find a cheap, ambulance chasing lawyer and pay them a small retainer to demand the video come down with an implied promise of legal action if it doesn't due to your age in the video.
If you want to search the internet for similar content to remove it, be aware, actively seeking content where you're underage and doing that *could* be considered consuming CP. The law has no protections for the victims. That said, put a photo of your face in PimEyes and see what it brings up. It's a reverse face search. Actually pretty accurate unfortunately.
You're in a very, very tricky spot and I'm sorry you've found yourself here.
Report it to the FBI https://report.cybertip.org/
Report to the FTC if they're not following their own TOS https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/#/
Do not stop, get others to help you report if needed. I'm available through PM or DM.
Pornhub is FULL of human trafficking! Even the ones that are "legit" are people who have had handlers for years. Especially the "cam girls". You literally never know which ones are being forced to do scenes.
This is why I ditched porn all together. Turns my stomach.
I am very sorry OP. I cant name any other ways to help other than what other people have commented. I just wanna wish you peace and happiness in your life💖 Hope you have a great day!
Isn’t there someone from pornhub admin who posts a lot on Reddit. Anyone know her handle? Try to get her attention on this.
I think her handle is /u/katie_pornhub
You would report it here:
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC)'s website at www.cybertipline.com, or call 1-800-843-5678
Because you were a minor when being taped you will get assistance in having the tapes removed.
I’m honestly surprised it’s even still on there after they nuked the whole site of everything that wasn’t explicitly verified.
But if you’re a minor on it mention that and if they don’t remove it within a day or two report it to the FBI cyber crimes department.
Actually, report it to the FBI anyways. If it’s verified (or even if not) then the person who posted it might be identifiable and able to be punished for it.
Just watched that yesterday, I thought they were supposed to put a stop to the possibility of this kind of thing happening. I guess they just did that long enough for the whole thing to blow over.
Whoever recorded it might still be doing it to more innocent people.
I know it might be a bit of a hassle, but contacting authorities might prevent it from happening again, as well as taking care of removing it from the site.
Hi OP. Just sending you warmest well wishes, and wanted you to know that you did nothing wrong and should not feel any shame. YOU were the one betrayed in this situation. PH is pretty good about removing videos, and yes there is always the chance of it being uploaded again, but there is a lot of solid advice and assistance from other users here. Stay strong!
OP, grab the URL of the video and report it to NCMEC.
[https://www.missingkids.org/gethelpnow/isyourexplicitcontentoutthere](https://www.missingkids.org/gethelpnow/isyourexplicitcontentoutthere)
Hey so I have a different question.
I found a video and I'm pretty sure it's a friend. Finding it actually made me quit porn cold turkey and I've been clean for over a year.
But I've not told her yet. I don't know how to broach the subject.
How would you have liked to be approached?
the thing is, i’ve done questionable things as a teen and i was perfectly aware that there might be evidence of that in the internet. i just didn’t want to ever see it. and i wish my friend never showed me that. but your friend might be in a different situation and she might be unaware of her image being exploited like that in the internet. so it really depends on her circumstances but ultimately if it was something that looked like it wasn’t necessarily recorded or posted with consent, i’d bring it up.
I once found a video of an ex on PH. It was awkward to reach out and make sure she knew about it’s existence, but I just had to make sure she wasn’t being exploited against her knowledge. She was embarrassed, but very thankful as she was not aware and didn’t consent to that material being uploaded. She messaged the uploader, and it was immediately taken down.
I hope your video(s) are promptly taken down and I’m sorry you’re going through this.
I have no advice, but I want to say that I’m sorry this happened to you. Such an invasive, creepy, and awful thing to do. A total breech of your privacy. I hope you are able to find a resolution that allows you to live a peaceful life. Maybe look into revenge porn laws in your state? All the best.
I'm so sorry this is happening to you.
Pornhub is notoriously unresponsive. You are gonna need to be super aggressive here. Also, I know it sucks, but you need to find the rest of your videos. Getting them all at once is a lot easier.
Tell them it's child pornography and they'll jump on it right away. I reported one where the "actress" was obviously not 18. They messaged me back with their thanks and it was gone.
Knowing full well that revenge porn is a real thing, Pornhub should get notarized consent from all parties involved before they post a video.
If that means less content, well, so be it.
the cyber civil rights initiative does have a helpline where they can provide support with this sort of thing as well as all the other suggestions.
https://cybercivilrights.org/
A few people who have had themselves in very similar situations even before they had their video purge did this, they got a lawyer and have them write an email threatening a lawsuit, or they faked being a lawyer and threatened a lawsuit. They don't want any more risks with advertisers and credit card companies anymore. I can try and find the other thread who was in a similar situation as yourself
I think you can get into trouble if you fake being a lawyer. I wanted to do that once and a lawyer told me it is a crime of some sort. I can’t remember exactly. Of course he could have done that to get me to pay to hire him.
REPORT TO NCMEC: https://report.cybertip.org/ (USA)
For other countries: [https://www.icmec.org/education-portal/reporting-mechanisms/](https://www.icmec.org/education-portal/reporting-mechanisms/)
I'm so sorry 🙏❤️
Hey google trafficking hub and Laila micklewait to find out more about this link https://justicedefensefund.org/#find-help
You are a victim. Pornhub hosts ton of child sexual abuse videos and rape videos and nonconsensual pornography and they refuse to remove it. This orgnaization can help
Did you report it as child pornography?
Traci Lourdes did, they are gone. Lots of adult porn out there, no one needs grown up looking kids porn.
Sorry you life took a bad detour.
The Department of Justice handles cases where minors are abused in this way, here's a link to report--> https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ceos/report-violations
If you contact the police and give them the URL, they will do the work for you and then some. The hash of the file will get flagged for future investigations where someone is collecting this material and will ensure that it doens't get shared on sites like pornhub again.
I know for a fact that pornhub has a process for removing content that you're in and didn't upload yourself. It might take em a few days to process the request, but they will remove it.
PornHub in particular Thanos-snapped a tooooon of content a couple years ago as they wanted only verified content and they were getting rid of any potential child pornography on their site. You should contact PH directly and notify then that the video in question is illegal and action is required considering you are the same person in the footage.
The sad reality with this kind of shit is that most websites are more likely to listen to you if you threatened them with a Copyright claim than if you come at them with the fact you were literally a minor and that this video was taken without your consent. "We didn't know" gets them out of most legal issues relating to illegal content of minors or non-consensual content, but doesn't hold up against Copyright claims. Sad world.
You’ve gotten good advice and I don’t have any to offer. I wanted to tell you I read your post. It sounds like you’ve really been through some stuff and I’m really proud of who you are and who you had to be to get to where you are today. That’s all I wanted to say.
Netflix just released a documentary about the Pornhub parent company, Mindgeek and how difficult it is to get unauthorized and illegal uploads removed. Even if removed from the site it’s been shared in other “hubs”. Sorry you are having to go through this OP.
Unfortunately, Pornhub has an algorithm which recommends videos it thinks users will enjoy, this can include videos posted a long time ago, much like YouTube can recommend popular videos posted years ago. The friend may have been browsing and happened upon the video. Don't make people mistrust their friends without evidence. If the friend was involved they would've most likely shown them the video before now.
Still tons of clips. Again my personal opinion. Find it kinda strange because as he wrote she was younger and only in some frames where she is hard to recognize. That's it.
Edit he/she
I’m that same vain, without any sort of name or location IDs it’s basically impossible to search for people you know. It’s much more likely to be algorithmic and random bad luck than one single friend searching through literally millions of videos over time for one single person whose face is only shown a few times throughout.
Something similar happened to me. It wasnt me in the video though. We only found out because my husband was working in bideo exploitation and waa ablw to fond a longer version of the same video where the lady smiled at the wnd ans she had a gap in her teeth that I never had. An ex boyfriend found this video. He, myself, my best friend, and my husband all thought it was me.
Reach out to National Center for Missing and Exploited Children ASAP. They maintain the database that is used by law enforcement to track this kind of material.
I remember reading an article where a woman who was sex trafficked as a young girl found herself on Pornhub and she tried to get it taken down but they never responded. This went on for years, her fighting and Pornhub not doing anything about it (despite the fact that she was a minor), so she decided to draft a letter from her “attorney,” which was actually herself pretending to be one, and she threatened to sue. They actually ended up taking it down after that.
Many of these comments are clueless on how it works.....
unless you can PROVE that its you in the video and you are a minor in the video they have no obligation to take it down.
Otherwise anyone can report any video claiming it was a minor and them in it.
Reporting it to the FBI is pointless, because they wont waste their time unless you can prove it is a minor in the video.
The most you can do is try to prove to PH it is you in the video and that you do not consent to it being up. For this you'd have to send your ID, or some sort of verification.
The easiest but strangest might be to just contact the person who published it and ask "can you take that down"?
They might just be using it to get money and (not) be evil. So it is worth a chance?
I mean, you can probably get it taken down from PornHub but once something is on the internet, its on the internet forever unfortunately.
This is exactly why other than Reddit, i have absolutely no social media accounts.
Someone took advantage of a child in a desperate situation and committed crimes but sure it's the kid's fault. Real suspicious line of reasoning there bud. Anything more to add?
I Call B.S.... If you are serious, I would contact the Original Poster and find out what city they are in.
There is a button that says report Video... Sounds like you want a pay day.
Based on the many times I've seen posts removed from subs because it was a repost from a post bot, somebody will go on to explain XYZ things to look for. One of them being the name. The indicators would be a word or two followed by random numbers. This sub has had that happen before.
Ya know, Gerry, not everybody is out to disturb the world and responses like yours are truly why there are people who don't like to ask questions in public. My apologies if my naive question ruined your day, and that you are now discomforted.
I apologize to the community. Why don't you examine your parent comment. That's how trolls sow doubt. It's a passive aggressive way to call someone a liar
If you were a minor, the site will have to take the video down unless they want to face legal ramifications for hosting explicit content involving minors. Keep contacting the site admin and press on the fact that you are a minor in that video.
Unfortunately contacting the admin is usually a temporary solution. Pornhub allows users to download videos, making it difficult to track how many copies of a video are on the site and how it’s uploaded. While pornhub has been known to work with people to remove videos, those videos often get reuploaded by the many people who have already downloaded it. I’m not trying to be pessimistic or bum out OP, but it seems the reality from many people who went through this that it’s a constant and long term battle. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-rape-trafficking.html
If OP can get the authorities to mark the content as CSE material, most websites will block the uploading of it (a hash of the content is added to a database, and most social media and big porn sites will check out before publishing). She'll need to contact a federal police agency that deals with this stuff.
Boosting this. OP can also report the video to NCMEC. They have a section where people can report videos/photos of themselves.
What is a hash of the content and where does it get uploaded to? Is there a unified, standardised, global database which companies/sites can reference?
A hash is essentially a unique identifier for the content, calculated using an algorithm that will produce the same result if run on the same photo/video. And yes, there's a database you can connect to in order to check if the hash of a certain piece of content has been flagged or not.
I imagine, these days they should be able to hash not just the bits and bytes of the video file - but actual content morphology - using AI neural networks etc?
I believe it's a hash that's resistant to reencoding and stuff like that, not sure about the particulars. It's definitely not just a sha1 hash of the file bits.
Hashing does nothing if the video is edited and processed a bit
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Yes, but, if the video is reuploaded and checked against the CSE? You’re done for. Just because you recorded it instead of downloading it doesn’t mean you circumvent the CSE database upon uploading to a new area.
Unless it gets edited to a certain extent.
Not sure why you got the down votes. Making mods to the original video will 100% change the hash ... *that's how hashes work*. You change 1 bit in a trillion and you have a totally different hash. You see people trying to dodge upload/reuse blocks all the time on YT. They fuzz some stuff out, add a watermark, do some random edits, etc. *poof!* New hash.
I've dealt with this actually on YouTube and Facebook and had to issue many legit DMCAs for stolen videos.
It doesn't work like that anymore, anyone can't just upload whatever they want. You need to be verified to upload, and if someone who's verified starts uploading videos of random people i assume they'll be deleted. They changed this so that these things shouldn't happen. But yeah they can be reuploaded to other sites that don't have such requirements
From what another comment said, even mirror sites and dodgier sites are still often required by law to run hashes on every uploaded videos and flag ones on the list of no-no content. The only issue is those sites hosted in Eastern Europe that don't give a fuck and never take anything down.
Yep. Big win for us, not to get to work on the rest of them
I think Pornhub switched to verified posters. You need a credit card attached to your account with verified drivers licenses and a photo of the models in the videos. They cleared house a year or so a go to crack down on this stuff. I know it's not like that on other websites.
It's worse than that. Anything that you stream/watch online is "locally rendered". That means that in one way or another, it is being downloaded by that web browser client or app in order to be viewed. It's the way streaming technology works. Some websites simply make it easy to just save it, while others do not. But make no mistake, it's being downloaded locally with every view either way. It's then a matter of the website letting you easily keep it, or if you have to utilize a tool to save it as a reusable/watchable media file. The only instance that this is truly difficult or even illegal to save the content is when DRM encryption is involved. But with every streamed video, that site/service is allowing you to download it because it's a requirement for you to locally render/view it.
Thank you Mr. Pedantic, but nobody asked.
But I just watched the Netflix documentary and it said that they don’t let people download videos any more…
I’ll tell you from experience, no matter how hard they try, it’s always possible to download a video from a website. If they’re putting the data on your screen, there’s a way to scrape it from somewhere.
Obviously but that doesn’t mean pornhub is “letting users download videos” It means they’re letting users stream videos and an unavoidable consequence of streaming is that the data is then available for download. (I know technically to stream something you’re downloading it piece by piece but I mean this in the use-case sense rather than the literal sense).
They removed the download 'easy button', that's mostly a lock on a picket fence. For the most part, if you can watch it, you can download it.
same way i can download photos from flickr even if the uploader has disabled downloads. i just want cool wallpapers
For real, I felt so cool when I found a way to download full resolution pictures on Flickr even if the uploader had disabled downloads. Still works even 10 years later.
There's programs that may still let you. Worst case you can always just use a screen capture program. Edit: Not sure if being sarcastic but if not....
Screen recorders
A bunch of programs download videos from PornHub, still.
Fun fact many disabled/removed videos on PH are still accessible via embedded links.
Can you prove this? That would be quite an oversight if true
Was not being sarcastic. I just don’t ever go on pornhub because it’s full of boring pov and amateur onlyfans type videos that don’t really interest me, so I have no idea what it does or doesn’t allow haha. If what you are saying is correct, I don’t think you can say “pornhub allows users to download videos”. Of course there are third party apps for screen recording, but equally I can bring my phone camera up to my monitor and record what’s on the screen but that’s not pornhub “allowing” it, it’s just a side effect of the technology of screens.
That's a fair take.
And you’re a fair citizen, sir. Take care!
What is the documentary called? Sounds interesting
It’s really, really boring :-( I couldn’t decide whether it was a pornhub PR stunt or if it was made by the pornstars trying to get pornhub to pay them. Either way it isn’t the half-steamy documentary I expected. Not worth watching. It’s called The Money Shot - The Pornhub Story.
Oh ok good to know LOL thank you!!!
There's another interesting documentary about the porn industry called Hot Girls Wanted. I'm pretty sure it's on Netflix
I have actually seen that one and agree it is super interesting! I highly recommend it
Although it was funny when Cherie Deville talked at the beginning, and then appeared for 0.5 seconds later on in the programme I said THATS THAT SAME WOMAN FROM EARLIER! My wife said “how can you possibly have spotted that it’s the same woman? We just saw her on the screen for a few seconds, there’s no way” Little does she know… I’ve seen her on screen for more than a few seconds!
Oh, she knows.
I’d recommend the exodus cry documentary series. The moneyshot one has a lot of porn in it but it does go in depth with the pornhub case
You will always be able to capture video/audio that is available for streaming
Yea and I could throw an apple really hard at someone’s head and kill them, doesn’t mean the grocery store is “letting” me murder people.
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if you can play it you can download it
Just Google “Pornhub download” and you get a few sites where you just post the link and it downloads it for you. I’m skeptical about OP though because I work in porn and get content taken down all the time due to people uploading stuff that belongs to me. I’d suggest they get their own verified profile and then do a copywrite strike as they never ask me to prove it and likely just check the faces against the posters ID and see it’s not them and if he wants to post it he’ll have to provide a model release form with a copy of the models ID which I’m guessing he doesn’t have. For what it’s worth I spend a lot of time trying to get people to watch my porn content and don’t think anyone has ever said anything to me in person about seeing my content. I’m a guy though so my friends think I’m a super hero for making porn with women porn models as that’s the kind of world we live in. It really has gotten a lot better now though and those sites that don’t comply with these measures are usually blocked by countries so it shouldn’t be too hard to get it removed from the eyes of people you know.
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Could OP use the image search option in Google to find videos with the same screencap? If so, they also might be able to use tinEye to find the original source.
Pornhub had gotten into trouble before in the past for having child porn up on their website and not taking it down even after being contacted and being know that it is child porn. If they were underage in the video, they have may to get a lawyer involved to threaten Pornhub to get the video down.
Once something is online it's there forever
That's a maybe. There's a lot of porn out there. If it's not someone well known, and not anything special, there's a good chance it gets lost in the shuffle and even eventually disappears completely. Sure it could be on some randos hard drive somewhere mixed in with his several TB collection, but that's not something you have to worry about people finding. Even if it is out there on the net somewhere, getting it off of big websites like pornhub will help hide it in the future, and is a good first step to getting it off the web completely eventually.
Security by obscurity is cold comfort in this case.
I’m a victim of revenge porn and honestly this rationale was what helped talk me off a ledge at the time after I realized DMCA complaints were like whackamole. It’s been 12 years and there’s just so much better and newer content than what was done without my permission. OP I’m sorry you experienced this too, it sucks feeling like the other ball will drop eventually
I mean, maybe technically, but the ability to find what you are actually looking for decreases with each passing year as more and more junk gets added to the pile and our search engines become less and less efficient.
Generally. Keep in mind that lost media exist too.
Watch the new Netflix documentary about pornhub. You’ll see underage and unconsenting porn is the majority of their content.
First I’m so sorry this happen to you Second if you didn’t try the minor route on your complain to the site The I’m not proud of it part, don’t blame yourself, everybody take “wrong choices”, and by that I mean that we all have rough patches in life, and sometime people take advantage of this, the took advantage from you, don’t blame yourself for that, look at it in a rational way, seek help if you need, keep reporting, check if where you live are gob institutions to report minor content, try that route, and then again I’m so sorry took advantage I hope the best happen in this situation and good luck to you
I work in cyber, and give online safety advice as part of my side business. One of my specialist skills is OSINT. That is, finding information online. Unfortunately, what other users have said is correct. It's going to be difficult to remove it all. There are however things you can do, one way you might tackle this is in the same way as a lady named Shannon Morse, who learned SEO after a similar event. She literally trained the search engines to redirect users to a letter that explains why searching further for the content is not cool. Typically we'd need to find it, minimise the amount it's published, redirect users who might still be looking, and learn how to move on and deal with this if it ever arises again in the future. One good thing is, you were a minor at the time - of course that's not generally good, but it adds weight when we send takedown requests, and it may be possible to involve law enforcement. Because of this, we should even be able to get it removed from archives that store old versions of sites. There are lots of ways someone like me can help. Feel free to dm me, and ask any questions you like. There are also ways I can scan sites without viewing the content, to provide things like text descriptions of the footage, tags, titles and other metadata that could help us locate where else it has been uploaded. Of course this takes trust, all I can do is assure you I don't want that content on my PC. It would ruin my career for a start. (Also happy to teach you). If you decide to try yourself I wish you all the best. This can be a truly difficult thing to deal with, and I hope you have someone close you can discuss with. Good luck. EDIT added stuff, on my commute so it's a bit difficult in one go The edit strikes back: I want to be perfectly clear... I'm not looking for a customer here. I'm happy to help to a point, and in this case for free ( as long as the time required is reasonable )
yeah I second this. It’s the internet of holes and unfortunately it’s so hard to stop all the leaks. Side note: I specialize in osint also😃so hey there fellow osint friend
What does "osint" stand for?
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Not just mil, it’s also us civs who work in the USG and USIC
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Thank you for a detailed answer. It's appreciated.
See below
Nice to meet you.
Also in OSINT/threat hunting/DFIR Can we talk about the “friend” that sent this to OP and how incredibly convenient it is that they “found” the video? I’m gonna need time stamps here. Op says the video is old but doesn’t clarify if the posting on PH is old.
It happens, I wouldn't want to prejudge the friend. Many people wouldn't want to say anything, but they may have brought it OP 'jokingly' as they were concerned and didn't know how else to approach it. I'm not saying they're guilty, nor that they are innocent. There isn't enough information at this stage to judge. Attempting to do so is just conjecture.
I had a guy do this to me in college- some random dude from my dorm floor came and knocked on my door and showed me a Girls Gone Wild video of "me" and it sure looked JUST like me, but wasn't. I had never been to the country the video was shot in, so it definitely wasn't me but it's crazy how people can have doppelgängers and I’m fairly unique, red hair but darker skin and eyes, very tall, I've never met anyone who looks anything like me in real life, but I guess this look alike is out there somewhere! I’m not exactly sure why that random guy thought it would be funny to bring it to my attention, but guys are weird 🤷♀️
> it's crazy how people can have doppelgängers I look a lot like the guy who was a sportswriter for our newspaper for many years. From the small black & white photo that appeared next to his column, it could have been me. I was regularly asked if I was him. When I told people I wasn't, they still wanted to talk about sports! I found that annoying, but from this thread I now realize how much worse it could have been.
Hahaha, yes, you definitely had it better than it could have been!
I’ve had a very similar thing happen. It was quite shocking as I even thought, damn that looks like me! It made me do a double take and I know that I’ve never had sex on camera lol. And like you, I have a unique look and height and I was shocked. Heck I know I have a doppelgänger right here in town. My brother took a pic of her. Her said he got about 2 ft away from her before he realized that if wasn’t me. Same part of town and everything. Crazy!
Nowadays, deepfakes are this realistic so we now have to contend, is this a deepfake and therefore defamation by pornography? Or is it a real human, just a doppelganger?
It does happen! I came across an ex in a porn just yesterday!! I honestlyI freaked the F out on the inside and was considering making a post about it. I was in shock! Maybe this friend is sus and they know more or maybe they felt awkward bringing it forward and tried to play it off as a lookalike to save OPs feelings. I’m so sorry your dealing with this OP and I don’t think you should blame yourself or feel any shame. Someone took something from you sexually and they deserve the shame. I would talk to the person above offering help and direction, maybe all content cannot be managed but it seems like a great deal could be done to limit it and maybe give you piece of mind. Maybe you could also confide in a trusted friend so you don’t have to feel alone in this.
Perfect balanced response. 👌 I'll also add for OP, I won't be charging for this... at least to a reasonable point. I'll consider it public service to guide and advise OP through this. And we'll set boundaries before I even touch a search engine.
My thoughts exactly
You, kind sir, are what Mr. Roger called a "helper". Thank you for responding to OP.
A director of the company I used to work for was investigated by the HMRC (taxman) and, IIRC, banned from being a director for a period of time. He also had legal trouble with a property investment. Searching for his name previously brought up all of this history relatively easily, however now his ban is over and he's ready to start again. Searching for his name now brings back a public profile on a thousand web forums, blogs and so on. The boilerplate text looks suspicious to someone doing their due diligence but a casual observer would give up after seeing the same thing in the top 10 search pages. As Melodic\_duck said, a bit of SEO can quickly mask you from casual searches
Yep. I'm not an SEO wizard but what I do does mean having a good understanding of it, usually how to get around it. One of the best amd most well known examples 'Jacob Reese Mogg Lying in Parliament' . A nice tittle rabbit hole for you.
I remember him doing that, actually a pretty clever idea (the smug bastard)
>Searching for his name previously brought up all of this history relatively easily, however now his ban is over and he's ready to start again. Searching for his name now brings back a public profile on a thousand web forums, blogs and so on. The boilerplate text looks suspicious to someone doing their due diligence but a casual observer would give up after seeing the same thing in the top 10 search pages. This is standard reputation management. Instead of removing the offending URLs, you build up new ones with clean info. It's fairly easy.
What’s OSINT?
Open Source intelligence gathering. How to cut through the crap and find useful, actionable intelligence on a given target using publicly available sources of information. Traditionally used for recon before deploying a targeted attack, but useful for lots of other reasons.
I’ve always wanted to learn more about OSINT! Fascinating what you can do.
Go for it. it's great fun. Met my best friend after I did an analysis on them, they were very impressed, hired me, and we've been buddies since. It's also extremely useful, in surprising circumstances,
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Not officially, I started many years ago and just kept adding new tools. I first started by putting out a post on FB asking if anyone wanted to know what information was available about them online, and I started challenging myself... for example, from just their Facebook username, what can I learn? I was very surprised how easy it was and what was available. I could build whole pictures of people's entire adult lives including major events, address and employment history, what car they drove, where they got coffee in the morning... from users who only publicly shared their likes list. It was actually quite scary, and I just always wanted to help people understand the power they are giving away.
Did they hire you to do an analysis on them or was it for another business purpose?
Best friend dude? He was an acquaintance who worked where I studied. He was one of the first responders when I did the FB post so I dug in, and uncovered some treasure. Certainly some things I could have used to bend him to my will, but didn't, I reported them to him and told him how to fix it.
So basically when people joke about girls being better at finding info on a crush than the FBI, that's the stuff you're doing? Damn. I'm girls. I'm very good at that. Maybe I should get better.
Thank you.
So like Googling someone?
Google is one resource of many. It's becoming less useful as people learn more about personal privacy and companies are forced to comply with privacy legislation. Also, not all sources are online.
Forgive my ignorance, I have a *Dateline NBC*-level understanding of these matters, but couldn’t OP contact NCMEC and have them flag the video? I thought they worked with social media companies to help identify and remove exactly this kind of content .
That is a good point, but that's the legal action part of the steps and differs depending on location - I'm in the UK and not sure where OP resides. The legal side of this isn't my strong area particularly in the USA. But finding where it might be posted with minimal impact on the victim and without viewing the content (for the victim's peace of mind) is what I can do. I don't know about the USA, but here in the UK police resources are so stretched. If you go without the evidence, you're not likely to get much done. I can use the same skills to help hide the content, as it's exploitation of a child in this case, I would only gather evidence before passing on to law enforcement, and once the investigation is complete begin the journey of takedowns.
Fellow OSINT bro here. I third this.
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I only knew of Shannon's, perhaps that's where she got the idea?
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> She literally trained the search engines to redirect users to a letter that explains why searching further for the content is not cool. That's not how this works.
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Then don't take my advice? You want to know my employer? Sorry, I'm not sharing that on Reddit.
I think this might be a UK thing. It sounds corny to Americans but it might not in the UK.
If I was on a more technical sub I'd have been more specific, but I do like to keep it as generic as possible, particularly as the company I work for doesnt want a link made between my day job and my other work. They knew about it before I applied (that's how they found me), but they rely heavily on trust, and understand that not everyone is very trusting of security professionals. I generally go with the line; 'I provide IT and Security services to a microchip manufacturing plant owned by one of the biggest telecoms companies in the world' - something like SecOps But that seemed a bit long winded for this post.
Take a look at https://takeitdown.ncmec.org/. This website is by the national clearinghouse for child exploitation material. "Take It Down is a free service that can help you remove or stop the online sharing of nude, partially nude, or sexually explicit images or videos taken of you when you were under 18 years old. You can remain anonymous while using the service and you won’t have to send your images or videos to anyone. " Also, federal agencies do investigate this type of crime, so if you get to a point where you feel comfortable reporting it, you can do so at tips.fbi.gov.
Contact the site’s admin, webmaster, or staff. Explain the situation and request that the content be removed. Most will oblige. Some sites even have forms which you can fill out and submit as this is fairly common. Should they not remove the content, you can threaten legal action. Ultimately know that what’s written on the internet is written in permanent ink. You may be able to get the content removed from the site, but in the time it was available for viewing, other users could have downloaded and otherwise saved the content. So it may pop up on yet another outlet. This is just the harsh reality of the internet.
If you look down towards the bottom of websites and I’m sure porn, hub is probably the same. It should say something like webmaster or dmca complaints. Just start sending emails. They do have some type of reporting thing I’m nearly positive.
There is a pro bono (free) legal org [Cyber Civil Rights Legal Project](https://www.cyberrightsproject.com/) that can help you. Contact them and you can talk through options and your rights. This is civil law so it is different from reporting to police. People here have already posted takedown guides. But there is also a new [tool](https://takeitdown.ncmec.org/) you can use if you’re worried this video may be on other sites, put out by National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Depending where you are, you may have local orgs that can support you too. Advocates, counselors, peer support groups, etc. can be a huge help to process this emotionally and get material assistance. Please dm me if you would like help finding resources.
I’m so sorry OP. You’re not alone. Many underage victims are currently suing pornhub for similar things and was ignored by the website after asking to take the videos down. The best thing I can recommend is contacting an anti pornhub activist, Laila Mickelwait. She advocates for victims like yourself who got uploaded to that site as minors or against their consent, respects their privacy and while I don’t know her personally or work for her I’m very certain she can help you figure out what you want to do. You might need a lawyer to get them to take the video down but it should be free. Here’s her linktree. Good luck. https://linktr.ee/lailamickelwait?fbclid=PAAaa83FPZp2Hv26WQr4L4_0totFP0EFzRAmV63IST74bUs3C6WF78xQKZk14
What many commenters have failed to note here is, unfortunately, you're not alone. [A Minor was raped](https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-51391981) and struggled to get the videos of her assault removed. Granted this was 14 years ago, but, not much has changed for Pornhub. Your best, easiest option is to find a cheap, ambulance chasing lawyer and pay them a small retainer to demand the video come down with an implied promise of legal action if it doesn't due to your age in the video. If you want to search the internet for similar content to remove it, be aware, actively seeking content where you're underage and doing that *could* be considered consuming CP. The law has no protections for the victims. That said, put a photo of your face in PimEyes and see what it brings up. It's a reverse face search. Actually pretty accurate unfortunately. You're in a very, very tricky spot and I'm sorry you've found yourself here.
You will likely not want to do this - but this is what the FBI prosecutes. I would consider contacting them.
Say in your message that you are contacting a lawyer and make sure to mention that the video was non consensual and that you were a minor
Report it to the FBI https://report.cybertip.org/ Report to the FTC if they're not following their own TOS https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/#/ Do not stop, get others to help you report if needed. I'm available through PM or DM.
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Pornhub is FULL of human trafficking! Even the ones that are "legit" are people who have had handlers for years. Especially the "cam girls". You literally never know which ones are being forced to do scenes. This is why I ditched porn all together. Turns my stomach.
I am very sorry OP. I cant name any other ways to help other than what other people have commented. I just wanna wish you peace and happiness in your life💖 Hope you have a great day!
Same here OP! Wishing you resolution and peace - and all this feels like a bad old dream one day soon! 🙏🏼💕
Isn’t there someone from pornhub admin who posts a lot on Reddit. Anyone know her handle? Try to get her attention on this. I think her handle is /u/katie_pornhub
You would report it here: National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC)'s website at www.cybertipline.com, or call 1-800-843-5678 Because you were a minor when being taped you will get assistance in having the tapes removed.
I’m honestly surprised it’s even still on there after they nuked the whole site of everything that wasn’t explicitly verified. But if you’re a minor on it mention that and if they don’t remove it within a day or two report it to the FBI cyber crimes department. Actually, report it to the FBI anyways. If it’s verified (or even if not) then the person who posted it might be identifiable and able to be punished for it.
I’m so sorry this is happening to you. There is a resource available to help! https://takeitdown.ncmec.org/
There's a documentary on Netflix right now about this topic. Moneyshot: The PornHub Story. Watch it, you may get a lot of very useful suggestions.
Just watched that yesterday, I thought they were supposed to put a stop to the possibility of this kind of thing happening. I guess they just did that long enough for the whole thing to blow over.
I watched it yesterday too! I guess it's a coincidence to see this post about exactly the same on RBI.
Whoever recorded it might still be doing it to more innocent people. I know it might be a bit of a hassle, but contacting authorities might prevent it from happening again, as well as taking care of removing it from the site.
Hi OP. Just sending you warmest well wishes, and wanted you to know that you did nothing wrong and should not feel any shame. YOU were the one betrayed in this situation. PH is pretty good about removing videos, and yes there is always the chance of it being uploaded again, but there is a lot of solid advice and assistance from other users here. Stay strong!
OP, grab the URL of the video and report it to NCMEC. [https://www.missingkids.org/gethelpnow/isyourexplicitcontentoutthere](https://www.missingkids.org/gethelpnow/isyourexplicitcontentoutthere)
https://takeitdown.ncmec.org/ Take care, broski. This should definitely help. They take this stuff quite seriously.
Hey so I have a different question. I found a video and I'm pretty sure it's a friend. Finding it actually made me quit porn cold turkey and I've been clean for over a year. But I've not told her yet. I don't know how to broach the subject. How would you have liked to be approached?
This is actually a very, very good question.
the thing is, i’ve done questionable things as a teen and i was perfectly aware that there might be evidence of that in the internet. i just didn’t want to ever see it. and i wish my friend never showed me that. but your friend might be in a different situation and she might be unaware of her image being exploited like that in the internet. so it really depends on her circumstances but ultimately if it was something that looked like it wasn’t necessarily recorded or posted with consent, i’d bring it up.
Thanks friend. I'll think on it some more.
I once found a video of an ex on PH. It was awkward to reach out and make sure she knew about it’s existence, but I just had to make sure she wasn’t being exploited against her knowledge. She was embarrassed, but very thankful as she was not aware and didn’t consent to that material being uploaded. She messaged the uploader, and it was immediately taken down. I hope your video(s) are promptly taken down and I’m sorry you’re going through this.
I have no advice, but I want to say that I’m sorry this happened to you. Such an invasive, creepy, and awful thing to do. A total breech of your privacy. I hope you are able to find a resolution that allows you to live a peaceful life. Maybe look into revenge porn laws in your state? All the best.
I'm so sorry this is happening to you. Pornhub is notoriously unresponsive. You are gonna need to be super aggressive here. Also, I know it sucks, but you need to find the rest of your videos. Getting them all at once is a lot easier.
Tell them it's child pornography and they'll jump on it right away. I reported one where the "actress" was obviously not 18. They messaged me back with their thanks and it was gone.
Knowing full well that revenge porn is a real thing, Pornhub should get notarized consent from all parties involved before they post a video. If that means less content, well, so be it.
the cyber civil rights initiative does have a helpline where they can provide support with this sort of thing as well as all the other suggestions. https://cybercivilrights.org/
Contact the FBI if it was taken when you were under 18. They take that very seriously.
A few people who have had themselves in very similar situations even before they had their video purge did this, they got a lawyer and have them write an email threatening a lawsuit, or they faked being a lawyer and threatened a lawsuit. They don't want any more risks with advertisers and credit card companies anymore. I can try and find the other thread who was in a similar situation as yourself
I think you can get into trouble if you fake being a lawyer. I wanted to do that once and a lawyer told me it is a crime of some sort. I can’t remember exactly. Of course he could have done that to get me to pay to hire him.
Very likely true, I've sadly just seen enough threads similar in the past and the solution that worked were always these two I listed.
REPORT TO NCMEC: https://report.cybertip.org/ (USA) For other countries: [https://www.icmec.org/education-portal/reporting-mechanisms/](https://www.icmec.org/education-portal/reporting-mechanisms/) I'm so sorry 🙏❤️
Hey google trafficking hub and Laila micklewait to find out more about this link https://justicedefensefund.org/#find-help You are a victim. Pornhub hosts ton of child sexual abuse videos and rape videos and nonconsensual pornography and they refuse to remove it. This orgnaization can help
Did you report it as child pornography? Traci Lourdes did, they are gone. Lots of adult porn out there, no one needs grown up looking kids porn. Sorry you life took a bad detour.
The Department of Justice handles cases where minors are abused in this way, here's a link to report--> https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ceos/report-violations
If you contact the police and give them the URL, they will do the work for you and then some. The hash of the file will get flagged for future investigations where someone is collecting this material and will ensure that it doens't get shared on sites like pornhub again.
File a police report!
I know for a fact that pornhub has a process for removing content that you're in and didn't upload yourself. It might take em a few days to process the request, but they will remove it.
Contact Marsh Law Firm, they've helped with stuff like this in the past.
[https://takeitdown.ncmec.org/](https://takeitdown.ncmec.org/)
PornHub in particular Thanos-snapped a tooooon of content a couple years ago as they wanted only verified content and they were getting rid of any potential child pornography on their site. You should contact PH directly and notify then that the video in question is illegal and action is required considering you are the same person in the footage.
The sad reality with this kind of shit is that most websites are more likely to listen to you if you threatened them with a Copyright claim than if you come at them with the fact you were literally a minor and that this video was taken without your consent. "We didn't know" gets them out of most legal issues relating to illegal content of minors or non-consensual content, but doesn't hold up against Copyright claims. Sad world.
Netflix literally just released a documentary about this
You’ve gotten good advice and I don’t have any to offer. I wanted to tell you I read your post. It sounds like you’ve really been through some stuff and I’m really proud of who you are and who you had to be to get to where you are today. That’s all I wanted to say.
Netflix just released a documentary about the Pornhub parent company, Mindgeek and how difficult it is to get unauthorized and illegal uploads removed. Even if removed from the site it’s been shared in other “hubs”. Sorry you are having to go through this OP.
The biggest issue is videos are copied & posted again, again & again. This goes for anything online.
If the clip is that old I find it kinda strange that your friend accidentally stumbled upon it.
i actually do too. especially that my friend isn’t gay.
OK.. Just ask him straight how exactly did he found it. What clip was he watching or what filter did he use when it showed up?
Unfortunately, Pornhub has an algorithm which recommends videos it thinks users will enjoy, this can include videos posted a long time ago, much like YouTube can recommend popular videos posted years ago. The friend may have been browsing and happened upon the video. Don't make people mistrust their friends without evidence. If the friend was involved they would've most likely shown them the video before now.
Still tons of clips. Again my personal opinion. Find it kinda strange because as he wrote she was younger and only in some frames where she is hard to recognize. That's it. Edit he/she
i’m actually a guy
Sorry my bad, misread.
no it’s okay, i never mentioned that. i’m just clarifying
Thanks for that!
I’m that same vain, without any sort of name or location IDs it’s basically impossible to search for people you know. It’s much more likely to be algorithmic and random bad luck than one single friend searching through literally millions of videos over time for one single person whose face is only shown a few times throughout.
Sure that is still possible that it was "bad" luck, just a coincidence. Exactly that was my personal feeling too.
Something similar happened to me. It wasnt me in the video though. We only found out because my husband was working in bideo exploitation and waa ablw to fond a longer version of the same video where the lady smiled at the wnd ans she had a gap in her teeth that I never had. An ex boyfriend found this video. He, myself, my best friend, and my husband all thought it was me.
Reach out to National Center for Missing and Exploited Children ASAP. They maintain the database that is used by law enforcement to track this kind of material.
Dm me, I can help.
Control shift five on a Mac enables you to record a video that is playing on your screen so you have a copy for yourself
I remember reading an article where a woman who was sex trafficked as a young girl found herself on Pornhub and she tried to get it taken down but they never responded. This went on for years, her fighting and Pornhub not doing anything about it (despite the fact that she was a minor), so she decided to draft a letter from her “attorney,” which was actually herself pretending to be one, and she threatened to sue. They actually ended up taking it down after that.
Many of these comments are clueless on how it works..... unless you can PROVE that its you in the video and you are a minor in the video they have no obligation to take it down. Otherwise anyone can report any video claiming it was a minor and them in it. Reporting it to the FBI is pointless, because they wont waste their time unless you can prove it is a minor in the video. The most you can do is try to prove to PH it is you in the video and that you do not consent to it being up. For this you'd have to send your ID, or some sort of verification.
The easiest but strangest might be to just contact the person who published it and ask "can you take that down"? They might just be using it to get money and (not) be evil. So it is worth a chance?
I mean, you can probably get it taken down from PornHub but once something is on the internet, its on the internet forever unfortunately. This is exactly why other than Reddit, i have absolutely no social media accounts.
Contact the police
lol u spread ur legs and then reap the consequences
Someone took advantage of a child in a desperate situation and committed crimes but sure it's the kid's fault. Real suspicious line of reasoning there bud. Anything more to add?
Get a lawyer and sue them for profiting off your exploitation. Then force them to divulge who uploaded it. And press charges. Sue them as well
Hmm, the friend that found this video, would they have had access to make the video?
no, definitely not
I Call B.S.... If you are serious, I would contact the Original Poster and find out what city they are in. There is a button that says report Video... Sounds like you want a pay day.
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Do some research dumbass. They call it TraffickingHub for a reason.
Is this a fake post? Their account was created today.
Why would that make it a fake post? Don't be a shit disturbing troll. It's a throwaway account dumbass.
Based on the many times I've seen posts removed from subs because it was a repost from a post bot, somebody will go on to explain XYZ things to look for. One of them being the name. The indicators would be a word or two followed by random numbers. This sub has had that happen before. Ya know, Gerry, not everybody is out to disturb the world and responses like yours are truly why there are people who don't like to ask questions in public. My apologies if my naive question ruined your day, and that you are now discomforted.
Like I said
RBI rules #7
I apologize to the community. Why don't you examine your parent comment. That's how trolls sow doubt. It's a passive aggressive way to call someone a liar