How to Report Harassment on Chaturbate or Stripchat
Harassment is a reality that many cam models encounter, and knowing how to respond effectively, swiftly, calmly, and with a record, makes a significant difference to both immediate safety and longer-term outcomes. Whether it is a viewer making threats in your chat, someone demanding content you have not offered, or a pattern of targeted aggression from a repeat visitor, you have tools available to address it. Using them correctly matters.
This guide covers what constitutes harassment in the context of cam platforms, how to use the reporting and moderation tools on Chaturbate and Stripchat specifically, how to document incidents properly, when to escalate beyond the platform, and what support exists for cam models navigating these situations.
What Counts as Harassment on Cam Platforms
Understanding the definition is the first step, both because it helps you recognise what you are experiencing and because platforms apply their own definitions when evaluating reports.
Harassment on cam platforms typically includes:
Direct threats. Threats of physical harm, sexual violence, or threats against people in your offline life. These are generally treated with the highest urgency by platform trust and safety teams, and may also constitute criminal conduct depending on your jurisdiction.
Targeted verbal abuse. Persistent, demeaning, or degrading messages directed at you personally, not a single offensive comment, but a sustained pattern of abuse or a particularly severe single incident.
Coercive requests. Repeatedly demanding sexual acts, content types, or personal information you have clearly declined to provide. This can also include conditioning tips on compliance with demands you have refused.
Doxing or threats to dox. Claiming to have personal information about you (your real name, address, employer, family members) and threatening to expose it, or actually posting it in chat. This is serious and should be documented immediately.
Blackmail and extortion. Threatening to share screenshots, recordings, or personal information unless you comply with demands. This is criminal in most jurisdictions.
Stalking behaviour. Following you from platform to platform, repeatedly creating new accounts after being banned, or showing knowledge of your offline life or routines.
Hate-based harassment. Targeted abuse relating to race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexuality, religion, or national origin. Latina performers in particular may experience racially directed harassment, this is not something you are obligated to tolerate, and platforms prohibit it.
If you are unsure whether something constitutes reportable harassment, err on the side of reporting it. Platforms can assess whether it meets their policy thresholds. Under-reporting is a more common problem than over-reporting in this context.
Immediate Actions: Before You Report
When harassment begins, your first instinct might be to engage, argue back, or explain yourself. For your safety and the effectiveness of any subsequent report, resist this where possible.
Silence the user immediately. Both Chaturbate and Stripchat allow you to mute individual users in your chat. This stops them from disrupting your show without necessarily triggering them to escalate in other ways. Your viewers do not need to see the harassment continuing while you manage the situation.
Screenshot everything before you take action. Before banning, muting, or reporting, take screenshots. Capture the username, the chat messages with timestamps visible, and the URL of your current broadcast room. Some platforms partially anonymise usernames after moderation actions, and you need the record before that occurs.
Do not delete anything on your end. Whatever harassment you receive, chat messages, DMs, tip notes, do not delete it. Your screenshots and their platform records are the evidence base for any report or escalation.
Note the time and date. Sounds obvious but under stress people often forget. Note when the harassment occurred, not just when you screenshot it.
Chaturbate: Reporting and Moderation Tools
Chaturbate is one of the largest cam platforms globally and has moderation tools available to both broadcasters and viewers. However, its reporting system places significant control in the broadcaster’s hands.
Banning Users from Your Chat Room
As a broadcaster on Chaturbate, you have full authority to ban any user from your room. Banning removes them from your chat and prevents them from returning unless they create a new account. This is the fastest immediate action.
To ban a user: click on their username in chat to bring up their profile card, then select “Ban.” You can ban with a note (for your own reference) and the ban applies immediately. Banned users see a message telling them they have been banned from the room.
Your room moderators (mods) can also ban users on your behalf. If you have trusted mods, briefing them on your tolerance thresholds and giving them banning authority allows harassment to be addressed even when you are focused on your performance.
Reporting to Chaturbate
Banning handles your immediate room, but it does not prevent the user from harassing other broadcasters or creating a new account to return to yours. Reporting the account to Chaturbate’s moderation team is the step that can result in permanent platform-level action.
To report a user to Chaturbate:
- Navigate to the user’s profile page (not your chat room, their actual profile)
- Scroll to the bottom of their profile page
- Click “Flag/Report” or the equivalent report option
- Select the most relevant category (harassment, threatening behaviour, etc.)
- Write a clear description of what occurred including dates, times, and the specific content of the harassment
- Attach or reference your screenshots
Chaturbate’s support can also be contacted via their Support page at chaturbate.com/support. For serious incidents, threats, doxing, blackmail, email their trust and safety team directly with your documentation. In your message, be specific: “On [date] at approximately [time], user [username] posted the following messages in my broadcast room: [quotes].” Vague reports get vague responses.
Using Chaturbate’s Filtered Words Tool
In your broadcaster settings, Chaturbate allows you to set up a word filter that automatically removes messages containing specified words or phrases. Proactively filtering common harassment terms, slur words, and triggering content before it appears in chat is a useful preventive measure. Regular offensive terms, racial slurs, and common threat language can be added to this list.
Setting Your Room to Followers-Only or Members-Only
For persistent harassment from anonymous or new accounts, restricting your chat room to followers only (users who follow your profile) or members only (users who have been in your room before) raises the barrier to entry for harassment. It slightly reduces potential new viewer discovery but significantly reduces exposure to random bad actors.
Stripchat: Reporting and Moderation Tools
Stripchat has a somewhat different interface but comparable functionality.
Blocking and Banning on Stripchat
On Stripchat, you can silence or ban users directly from chat. Click on the user’s name in chat to bring up options including mute (prevents them chatting) and ban (removes them from the room). Room moderators you have appointed can do the same.
Stripchat also allows you to ban users from your profile entirely, not just from a live session. This means a banned user cannot access your public profile or send you messages on the platform.
Reporting to Stripchat
To report a user to Stripchat’s moderation team:
- Go to the user’s profile page
- Click the three-dot menu or “Report” option visible on their profile
- Select the appropriate category
- Provide a detailed written description of the incident
- Include timestamps and any relevant usernames if they have created multiple accounts
Stripchat’s support centre is accessible via the Help icon on the platform. For serious incidents, use the support ticket system and mark your ticket as urgent. Stripchat has a dedicated Trust & Safety function and does take broadcaster reports seriously, particularly for threats and doxing.
Stripchat’s Geo-Blocking
One Stripchat feature worth knowing about: you can geo-block specific countries from seeing your broadcasts entirely. If you are experiencing a pattern of harassment from users in a specific country, geo-blocking is a blunt but effective tool. Stripchat allows this in your Privacy settings under your broadcaster dashboard.
Documentation: Building a Record That Actually Works
The difference between a report that results in action and one that does not often comes down to the quality of documentation provided. Platform trust and safety teams process high volumes of reports; the ones with clear evidence and specific detail get resolved faster and more reliably.
What to Document
For every incident of harassment, capture:
- Username exactly as it appeared, including any numbers, symbols, or alternative spellings
- Full screenshots of the offensive messages with timestamps visible and the room/conversation URL in the browser address bar
- Time and date of the incident in your local time (include timezone)
- Platform (Chaturbate / Stripchat / other)
- What preceded the incident if relevant, were you declining a request? Had a previous interaction with this user?
- What you did in response and when (muted, banned, reported)
- Any follow-up actions by the user, did they return under a new username? Send a support message? Appear on another platform?
Where to Store Your Records
Keep harassment documentation in a dedicated folder outside any platform account. A cloud storage folder (Google Drive, iCloud, Dropbox) with subfolders by date or username works well. If a platform account is suspended or you lose access for any reason, your documentation should be independent of it.
For incidents involving threats or doxing, forward the screenshots to a personal email address as well. This creates a timestamped record independent of your cloud storage provider.
Pattern vs. Isolated Incident
A single offensive message and a sustained campaign of harassment are different things that may warrant different responses. Document the distinction. If someone has returned under multiple usernames over weeks, that pattern, which you can demonstrate through your records, is evidence of targeted behaviour that platforms treat more seriously than a one-off comment.
Escalating Beyond the Platform
Platform reporting handles the majority of harassment situations. But some situations require escalation.
When to Involve Law Enforcement
If any of the following occur, contact your local police:
- Direct threats of physical harm that are specific and credible (e.g., “I know where you live and I will hurt you”)
- Blackmail or extortion (demanding money or sexual content under threat of exposure)
- Actual doxing, your real name, address, phone number, or family members’ information being posted or distributed
- Non-consensual sharing of intimate images (recording or screenshotting your live content and distributing it without consent)
- Stalking behaviour that extends into your offline life
When going to police, bring printed copies of your documentation including screenshots with timestamps. Explain clearly what has occurred, when, and what platform it occurred on. In many jurisdictions, officers may be unfamiliar with cam platform contexts, so providing clear written summaries is helpful.
In the UK, online threats are covered under the Communications Act 2003 and the Protection from Harassment Act 1997. In the US, laws vary by state but many have criminal provisions for cyberstalking and online threats. The Wikipedia article on cyberstalking provides an overview of how different jurisdictions approach online harassment legally.
Specialist Support Organisations
Cyber Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI), cybercivilrights.org, provides crisis support specifically for people experiencing non-consensual intimate image sharing and online harassment. They operate a crisis helpline and can assist with takedown requests.
Revenge Porn Helpline (UK), revengepornhelpline.org.uk, provides free specialist support for anyone experiencing non-consensual image sharing in the UK.
StopNCII, stopncii.org, a platform that allows you to create a hash of intimate images before they spread, enabling partner platforms to automatically detect and remove them.
SWOP (Sex Workers Outreach Project), operates chapters in many US cities and provides peer support, resources, and advocacy specifically for sex workers experiencing safety issues.
Your Chat Room: Proactive Moderation Strategies
Managing your room environment proactively reduces the frequency and severity of harassment incidents.
Building a Good Moderation Team
Trusted moderators are one of the most valuable tools you have. Experienced mods who understand your tolerance thresholds, your community norms, and your personal preferences can handle the majority of chat disruptions without requiring your direct attention during a show. Good mods catch trouble early, before it escalates, and they can be your eyes on the chat while your attention is elsewhere.
Pay your mods, even modestly. Unpaid volunteer moderation leads to inconsistency and burnout. A small tip or token arrangement maintains the relationship professionally.
Setting Clear Room Rules
Pin a clear set of room rules at the top of your chat or in your room bio. These create an explicit standard against which violations can be measured, make it easier to justify bans to moderators and to the platform, and set viewer expectations before they engage with your room. Rules should include what language is not acceptable, whether or not requests of certain types are entertained, and what will result in a ban.
Controlling Who Can Chat
On Chaturbate, you can limit chat access to verified users (users who have completed age verification) or users with tokens. On Stripchat, similar restrictions exist. These settings reduce the volume of completely anonymous bad actors who have no account investment whatsoever. Users who have tokens or a purchase history have more to lose from a ban.
Looking After Yourself
Harassment is emotionally costly even when handled correctly. The objectification, entitlement, and aggression some viewers direct at performers takes a toll, and acknowledging that is important.
After a serious harassment incident, give yourself time to decompress before your next show if at all possible. Discuss what happened with a trusted friend, a fellow performer, or a professional support resource. Communities of cam models, both platform-specific groups and independent communities, are often the best source of specific, practical emotional support from people who understand the context.
For ongoing challenges, the Mamacita.cam blog and performer communities at Mamacita.cam can connect you with other performers who have navigated similar situations and built their own frameworks for handling them.
The goal is not simply to endure harassment but to handle it efficiently enough that it takes up as little of your mental energy as possible, so you can focus on what actually matters, building your show, your audience, and your career.
Summary: Step-by-Step Harassment Response
Immediate:
- Mute or silence the user in chat
- Take screenshots before any further action, capture username, messages, timestamp, URL
- Note the time, date, and platform
Short-term: 4. Ban the user from your room 5. Report the account to the platform with your documentation 6. Check whether the user has created alternative accounts
If serious (threats, doxing, blackmail, stalking): 7. Document everything in a dedicated folder with copies in email 8. Contact the platform’s trust and safety team directly, not just the general report function 9. Consider contacting law enforcement with your documentation 10. Reach out to support organisations (CCRI, Revenge Porn Helpline, SWOP)
Ongoing: 11. Use word filters, room restrictions, and a strong mod team proactively 12. Update your documentation records and watch for new accounts from the same person 13. Talk to someone, the emotional cost of harassment deserves attention too
Harassment is not a condition of doing this work, and you are not required to normalise it. The tools exist. Use them consistently.