Porn bots and sexual content have been problems on social media for years, yet they continue to appear across different platforms. These accounts spam comment sections, disrupt conversations, and post pornographic and sexual content. They also use their stories and profiles to share links to adult websites and ways for people to contact them to arrange sexual encounters. Pornographic and explicit sexual content should stay on adult websites because most people do not go on social media to see that kind of content. People should be able to browse social media without being exposed to unwanted sexual content. Social media platforms need to take stronger action against porn bots, remove pornographic and explicit sexual content, and prevent these problems from continuing.

For example, on Instagram, I regularly see porn bots who have inappropriate profile pictures. They target popular accounts, including sports accounts, and spam comment sections with messages like "wanna meet up" and "wanna link up." They also spam emojis and post many repetitive comments. They do the same when replying to other people's comments, disrupting conversations. They also post pornographic and sexual videos, mostly on their stories, showing people engaging in sexual activities, including pornography and sex. They often cover the videos with emojis, sometimes covering nearly the entire screen, even though you can still hear the videos. They also post the same content across multiple accounts, allowing the same pornographic and sexual material to appear repeatedly. Their stories and profiles contain links to adult websites and contact links intended to get people to contact them and arrange sexual encounters. Covering pornographic and sexual videos with emojis can make it harder for the content to get removed when people report it. Reposting the same content across multiple accounts also makes it more difficult to stop the problem by removing just one account.

On YouTube, bots try to make their comments look like ordinary people wrote them. However, when you click on their channels and look at their subscriptions, you find accounts with inappropriate profile pictures and links to adult content and adult websites.

Another issue is that some people (those who do adult content), particularly women, use social media to promote their adult content pages, such as OnlyFans, by posting sexual photos and videos that do not violate platform guidelines and including Linktree links in their profiles that lead to their adult content pages. The Bop House has received criticism from people who believe that promoting OnlyFans and other adult content platforms through mainstream social media exposes children and teenagers to sexualized content. Critics argue that even when posts don't violate platform guidelines, they can still direct younger audiences to adult-content pages through profile links and other promotional methods. Some people also worry that this kind of promotion makes the adult-content industry seem glamorous and financially appealing to young people who may eventually consider joining it themselves. These concerns highlight why social media platforms should have stricter rules against promoting adult content on platforms used by minors. Adult content should remain on adult websites instead of being promoted through posts, profiles, stories, and links on mainstream social media.

Social media platforms need to take stronger action by banning porn bots, removing existing accounts, preventing them from creating new accounts to continue the same behavior, and enforcing rules against pornographic and explicit sexual content. Users should not have to keep dealing with the same problem year after year.

The goal of this petition is to get social media platforms to ban porn bots, remove existing accounts, prohibit pornographic and explicit sexual content, and take effective measures to prevent these accounts from returning. Users deserve to participate in discussions and browse social media without having to deal with persistent spam and unwanted pornographic and sexual content.