3 Tips to Keep Your Sex Positive Account Safe
This week's newsletter was spawned from a very fortunate conversation Queen P was able to have with a former TikTok employee, who used to work in their policy department 🤫
We sat in with other sex educators and sex positive podcasters to discuss:
✔️ what works for us on the TikTok platform
✔️ what measures we take to keep our accounts' safe
✔️ what actually trips up their algorithm that results in getting accounts flagged
Of course, as sex-positive content creators, we know it’s not a walk in the damn CGI park 🌳🚶♀️🌳
Fortunately, THERE IS HOPE.
We’ve got three things that you can do ~right now~ to keep your sex-positive account safe on Instagram.
📝 So, sharpen your pencil, or keep your mouse-clicking finger at the ready, because here we go…
✅ Check Your Account Status ✅
They don’t really make this an easy feature to access (because, why would they, right?), but you can find your Account Status in one of two ways:
👆 Click the Professional Dashboard on the profile page of your account, then find Check Account Status under Next Steps
👆 Go to Settings > Help > Account Status
Once you’ve navigated to the Account Status section, you can see which of your posts have been removed by the platform for violations, as well as whether or not your content is eligible to be recommended to people that aren’t following you, and, if ineligible, the posts that have made you so.
Note: If your account is ineligible for recommendation, then your content won’t appear in all of the places it needs to in order to be seen by non-followers - Explore, Search, Reels tab, etc.
🤔 What can you do about this? 🤔
1️⃣ You can dispute the violations by clicking “disagree with decision.” In our experience, it is possible to get violations removed, and once they're removed, they do not count as dings against your account.
2️⃣ You can remove the content in question and repost an altered version of the graphic/video/carousel, in hopes it won't get flagged again.
3️⃣ You can implement a minimum age requirement on your account, as well as certain branded content; something that we will cover in greater detail in the next section.
👀 Minimum Age Requirement 👀
This is an extremely simple way to fly under the Instagram content radar, and it can be implemented as soon as you finish reading this email. You can even set specific age limits country-by-country.
Now, we suggest setting your account to age 18, across the globe. This will help to ensure that your content isn’t seen, and subsequently flagged, by a younger user.
To do this, head over to your Settings > Business > Minimum Age, and you’re good to go!
🗣 Use CTAs Wisely 🗣
Here’s a tip that seems straightforward, but in practice, can get a bit muddy.
If your content is sexual in nature (e.g. about blowjobs, anal, penetration, etc) and includes a call to action that points off the platform, you’re treading in risky territory.
Instagram’s bots do not have the ability to visit every URL linked in a CTA, so if the platform encounters an overtly sexual post that points off the platform, the assumption will be made that that the URL could very well be a porn site.
This is an important fact to keep in mind when you’re sharing content, paired with CTAs, on both Instagram and TikTok!
As much as you want to share your juiciest, most engaging content, it’s important to focus on sharing educational content, while encouraging your audience to engage right there on the platform. Doing so will, in the end, increase your audience and preserve the audience you’ve worked so hard to build. Additionally, you can create specific content that encourages people to follow you elsewhere, while not necessarily sharing tips/tricks toward a better sex life.
