By default, your site is fully compliant with age verification laws in each jurisdiction. When a visitor's IP address is from a region with age verification requirements, all content on your site is automatically blurred, UNLESS you have marked it as SFW ("Safe for Work"). IF marked SFW, that content will NOT be blurred.
We STRONGLY encourage you to use as many SFW thumbnails as possible so your site is still enticing to new visitors. Read this article to learn how to use the SFW and NSFW thumbnails feature.
Learn more about using SFW/NSFW thumbnail images
What do visitors see when I don't have SFW thumbnails?
Visitors that are required to verify age will see the following if you do not have SFW thumbnails:
How is "Safe for Work" defined?
The following language is used in the USA age verification laws to define NSWF (explicit) content:
Descriptions of actual, simulated, or animated displays or depictions of:
a person ’s pubic hair, anus, or genitals or the nipple of the female breast;
touching, caressing, or fondling of nipples, breasts, buttocks, anuses, or genitals; or
sexual intercourse, masturbation, sodomy, bestiality, oral copulation, flagellation, excretory functions, exhibitions, or any other sexual act;
Marking content as SFW
Marking entire videos as SFW
You can mark an entire video as SFW by clicking This video is SFW in the Details information.
Checking this will automatically check the preview and thumbnail SFW options:
Only thumbnails are SFW
If only the thumbnails are Safe for Work, (the video itself contains sexually explicit content), then you can mark just the thumbnail and/or preview as SFW.
NSFW word redaction
Our system also automatically redacts NSFW words with asterisks. Any words that are detected as NSFW will be redacted in regions where age verification is required. Once the visitor's age has been verified, the redaction is removed.
