Intimate Image Abuse relates to the non-consensually sharing, or threatening to share, of intimate images. Such acts can have serious negative impact on individuals, causing mental health issues, with considerable distress and anxiety experienced by victims and survivors. This can include shame, helplessness, self-blame, isolation and humiliation, and damage to their professional lives, including their finances, education and employment.
An ‘intimate image’ is a photograph or video where the person or people are depicted engaging in, participating in, or being present during a sexual act, and/or where their genitals, buttocks or breasts are exposed or covered only with underwear, this also includes depictions that may have been AI-generated or faked.
4D HYPE prohibits Contributions threatening to disclose, or that disclose private sexual photographs, intimate images or films with intent to cause humiliation, alarm or distress, and for obtaining sexual gratification. 4D HYPE prohibits disclosing, or threatening to disclose sexual photographs, intimate images or films and we also prohibit Contributions that share sexual photographs, intimate images or films without consent. 4D HYPE also prohibits Contributions that share sexual photographs, intimate images or films without consent with the intent to cause humiliation, alarm or distress, and for obtaining sexual gratification (in reference to all the aforementioned prohibitions, we also prohibit Contributions attempting, conspiring, encouraging, assisting, or aiding and abetting the commission and/or facilitation of these).
Non-consensual sharing can manifest in the following ways:
The latter may include sharing intimate images taken or made without consent. This includes images produced through upskirting and downblousing, intimate images made as deepfakes, or images taken as a result of hidden or hacked cameras. It also includes intimate images produced through the use of screen capture technology to create a permanent record of a livestream or ephemeral message. In addition, some perpetrators will hack into victims and survivors accounts to access intimate images.
4D HYPE prohibits Contributions of cyberflashing. If Contributions do not violate the prohibitions for intimate image abuse as described in the ‘Intimate Image Abuse’ section above or do not violate the prohibitions mentioned in Extreme pornography, however do contain or displays genitalia this may amount to cyberflashing. Contributions will amount to cyberflashing if they are seen or sent to another person with the person that creating the Contributions doing so with the intention of causing alarm, distress or humiliation on the part of the receiver or person viewing such material.
Contributions will also amount to cyberflashing when the person creating the Contributions, has done so for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification, and/or has been reckless as to whether by doing so the recipient or person viewing such material may have experienced alarm, distress or humiliation (we also prohibit Contributions attempting, conspiring, encouraging, assisting, or aiding and abetting the commission of all the aforementioned prohibitions).
The prohibitions mentioned in the ‘Intimate Image Abuse’ and ‘Cyberflashing’ sections above can form part of a wider continuum of online and offline behaviours by a partner or former partner, because of this overlap of prohibitions and information from other policies, we may link all the prohibitions found therein and cross reference these with other prohibitions and information found in Do not threaten, stalk, harass, abuse or bully, Controlling or Coercive Behaviour and Do not send threatening communications as additional evidence to provide a comprehensive view of Intimate Image Abuse & Cyberflashing, and then use this to allow us to make judgements on whether Contributions are violative or not.
If you are logged in to your 4D HYPE account, you can submit a report for any Contributions that contain or may violate these prohibitions. To submit a report directly from a Contributions page, click ‘Make report’, from the ‘Send report’ box select ‘This is abusive or harassing and then select “It threatens violence or physical harm’ from the available report types.
If you don't have a 4D HYPE account, you can always submit a report here by selecting ‘Report Content Policy Violation’ from the drop down list under the ‘What do you need assistance with?‘ and then selecting ‘?’ from the drop down list under ‘Policy Violation: *’. When completing the form please include as much information as possible including the URL(s) where applicable of the Contributions within the ‘Details of inquiry: *’ box.