Community Guidelines

Last Updated: May 2026

Huzzah exists to make sharing creativity easy: one prompt, one shot, every day, with people you actually know. These Community Guidelines describe what makes Huzzah feel like home and what gets you removed. Read them. Live them. Hold others to them.

These Guidelines are part of your agreement with Huzzah along with the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy. Violating these Guidelines can result in your content being removed, your account being temporarily suspended (1 → 7 → 30 days for an escalating ladder of repeat violations), or your account being permanently terminated. Severe violations — CSAM, terror content, credible threats — are immediate permanent bans and may be reported to law enforcement.

THE SPIRIT OF HUZZAH

Huzzah is for sharing how YOU see the world. Some days you'll nail the prompt. Some days you'll forget. Some days you'll post the dumbest possible interpretation and that'll be the one that goes viral with your friends. That's the point.

Make it weird. Make it real. Make it your own.

Lift other people up. The best part of any creative community is when one person's shot inspires the next person's shot. Comment, like, repost, share a friend's post you love. Don't be a passenger on someone else's profile only when you need them to view yours.

Disagreement is fine. Cruelty is not.

1. BE RESPECTFUL

Treat every Huzzah user the way you'd want a stranger to treat your sibling.

• No harassment, bullying, intimidation, or trolling.

• No targeting individuals or groups with mean, mocking, or degrading language.

• No unwanted sexual comments, advances, or DMs.

• No piling on. If someone's post is bad, scroll past it. Don't organize a comment storm.

• No "constructive criticism" that's actually cruelty wearing a mask. If your "honest take" makes the recipient feel worse about themselves and that was your intent, it's not feedback — it's harassment.

• No mocking how someone looks, sounds, dresses, or photographs.

• Disagreement and debate are welcome. Personal attacks are not.

The first rule of Huzzah: if you wouldn't say it to their face in front of their mom, don't post it here.

2. NO HATE SPEECH

We have zero tolerance for content that promotes hatred or violence against people for who they are.

Hatred based on any of the following is prohibited:

• Race, ethnicity, or national origin

• Religion or beliefs

• Gender or gender identity

• Sexual orientation

• Disability or medical condition

• Age (including elder-targeting)

• Immigration status

• Caste or socioeconomic status

• Body type or appearance

Hate speech includes slurs, dehumanizing language, dehumanizing imagery, hate symbols (e.g. swastikas outside clearly educational contexts), coded hate (memes, dogwhistles, "ironic" Nazism), and "jokes" framed for plausible deniability that everyone understands the meaning of.

Religious, political, and ideological critique are allowed when respectful. Attacking ideas is different from attacking people.

The server-side filter blocks the most common explicit forms (slurs, the word "kys," explicit doxxing prompts, mass-shooting threats, terror recruitment phrases like "join isis," "heil hitler"). Trying to evade the filter with leetspeak, unicode tricks, or homoglyphs is also a violation.

3. KEEP IT SAFE

Huzzah should never be the reason someone feels unsafe in their own life.

• No threats of violence — direct or implied, "joking" or otherwise. The server-side filter blocks phrases like "im going to kill," "i will kill," "school shooting," "bomb threat," "mass shooting." Threats to specific people, schools, places of worship, or workplaces are reported to law enforcement.

• No glorification of violence, murder, mass-casualty events, or terror groups. Don't post martyrs of mass shooters. Don't post terror recruitment materials. Don't post celebratory commentary on real violence.

• No content promoting self-harm, suicide, or eating disorders. No "pro-ana" or "pro-mia." Phrases like "kys" and "kill yourself" are filtered and lead to immediate post removal and a strike on your account. If you're struggling, please reach out — in the U.S., call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline). Outside the U.S., a country-by-country list is at https://findahelpline.com.

• No dangerous challenges, stunts, or pranks likely to cause injury.

• No content celebrating, glorifying, or instructing the use of weapons against people.

Doxxing — sharing someone else's private information without their consent — is prohibited. This includes home address, school, workplace, real name, phone number, license plate, social security number, financial info, or any combination that lets someone be located or harassed off-platform. The server-side filter blocks phrases like "dox them," "doxx them," and "swat them." Coordinated harassment campaigns ("brigading") are immediately bannable.

4. PROTECT MINORS

The safety of young people is non-negotiable.

• You must be at least 13 to use Huzzah. If you are 13–17 you must have a parent or guardian's consent.

• Accounts under 18 have certain protections that are locked: no behaviorally-targeted ads (the AdMob "non-personalized ads" flag is forced on), and a 10pm–6am Quiet Hours window that silences pushes during local nighttime.

• Accounts under 16 additionally have streak-reminder push notifications locked off. We don't push "don't lose your streak!" anxiety reminders to 13-year-olds.

• No content that sexualizes, exploits, or endangers minors in any way. We treat suspected child sexual abuse material as a zero-tolerance permanent ban. Our automated image scanner flags any submission containing nudity where a detected face is estimated to be under 18 — the image is deleted from storage immediately, the account is permanently suspended, and the incident is reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) CyberTipline as required by federal law (18 U.S.C. § 2258A).

• No soliciting personal information from minors.

• No inappropriate contact with users known to be minors. Adults should not initiate private messages with teens they don't have a real-world relationship with. We will permanently suspend accounts that pattern-match on grooming behavior.

• If you encounter content that exploits a child, report it immediately using the in-app flag (reason: "underage"). You can also report directly to NCMEC at https://CyberTipline.org or by calling 1-800-843-5678.

Adults: do not test these rules. We will find you and you will be banned.

5. KEEP IT APPROPRIATE

Huzzah is a photo app open to users as young as 13. Content must be appropriate for a Teen audience.

• No nudity. No sexually explicit, sexually suggestive, or pornographic content. No images shot through the perspective of fetishization.

• No graphic violence, gore, or disturbing imagery.

• No content depicting or promoting illegal drug use. (Posting a photo of a beer at brunch is fine; posting a step-by-step guide to cooking meth is not.)

• No content depicting animal cruelty, abuse, or non-veterinary harm to animals.

• No gambling promotions.

• No fire-arms-as-aesthetic, no "look at my arsenal," no anything that would scare a parent looking over their kid's shoulder.

Artistic context matters at the margins (a museum sculpture is not pornography; a war photograph is not glorification). We review such cases individually and use judgment. Repeated posting that pushes the edge "for art" will be treated as bad-faith.

6. BE AUTHENTIC

Huzzah only works if every account is one real person showing what they see.

• No impersonation of other people, brands, public figures, or Huzzah staff. If you make a fan account, label it clearly ("not the real X").

• No bot accounts, automated posting, or click-farms.

• One account per person. No alt accounts, no sock-puppets, no accounts created to evade a previous ban.

• No artificially inflating engagement. No buying likes, comments, followers, or views. No like-for-like rings. No coordinated comment storms designed to manipulate ranking.

• No deepfakes of real people that could plausibly be mistaken for the real thing.

• No misleading captions or location tags designed to deceive (e.g. claiming a photo was taken somewhere it wasn't, for purposes of misinformation).

• No deceptive editing on news events designed to manipulate public understanding.

Account purchases, sales, and trades are prohibited. Your account belongs to you and only you.

7. RESPECT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Only post content you have the right to share.

• Don't post photos taken by someone else without their permission. Reposting a friend's shot via the in-app Repost feature is fine — that's what Repost is for, and the original poster is credited automatically. Cropping out someone's username and reposting their photo as your own is not.

• Don't post copyrighted images, art, or media you don't own (album covers as your shot, screenshots from movies/TV/games as your shot, etc.).

• Don't use Huzzah to distribute pirated content.

• Give credit when sharing or referencing others' work. Tag the original creator if they're on Huzzah.

• Respect trademarks. Don't claim affiliation with brands you have no relationship with.

If your copyright has been infringed, send a DMCA notice to huzzahapp@yahoo.com with the elements described in our Terms of Service Section 9.4. Repeat infringers will lose their accounts.

8. USE MESSAGING RESPONSIBLY

DMs are private conversations. Treat them that way.

• No sending unsolicited explicit or sexual messages. Especially to people you don't know.

• No sending threats, harassment, abuse, or insults via DM.

• No spam messaging or mass identical messages.

• No using DMs to circumvent blocks (don't make an alt account to message someone who blocked you — we'll catch it).

• No phishing, scams, payment requests, romance scams, fake-giveaway scams, or any attempt to extract money or personal information from another user.

• Respect message privacy settings. If someone has DMs set to "Friends Only" or "Nobody," they don't want to hear from strangers. Don't try to find another way to contact them off-platform.

• Sharing a screenshot of a private conversation publicly without the other person's consent is harassment unless you're reporting a violation. Use the in-app report instead of public callouts.

The "Allow DMs: Everyone" setting comes with a cap of 5 new non-friend conversations per recipient per day, so even if someone has it on, you can't flood them. Accounts under 16 cannot select "Allow DMs: Everyone" at all — they're limited to "Friends Only" (mutual followers) or "Nobody" (no DMs). This is enforced both in the Settings UI (the "Anyone" option is hidden) and on the server (any tampered attempt to set it silently reverts to "Friends Only").

Messages you've read are automatically deleted from our servers 90 days after they were marked read. Unread messages are retained until you read them (then 90 days) or until you or the other person deletes the conversation or their account.

9. REPORT, DON'T RETALIATE

If you see a violation, report it. Don't engage. Don't escalate.

• Use the in-app report feature (flag icon on profiles, posts, comments, and within chats).

• Choose the most accurate reason category: spam, harassment, hate speech, nudity, violence, self-harm, false info, scam, underage, impersonation, or other.

• Add details when possible — they help us investigate faster.

• False, frivolous, or retaliatory reports are themselves violations. Reporting someone because you disagree with their opinion is abuse of the reporting system.

• Reports are anonymous. The reported user is not told who reported them.

• Don't publicly "call out" or "expose" other users. Use the reporting system. Public callouts often turn into mob harassment.

• Block first. Block is a powerful tool. Use it. If someone keeps bothering you, blocking removes them from your experience entirely — they can't see your profile, your posts, message you, or interact with you in any way.

You may file up to 5 reports per hour. There is a one-report-per-target limit (the same person cannot report the same post twice).

Reports filed by very new accounts (under 24 hours old for posts, under 7 days old for accounts) are not counted toward auto-moderation thresholds. We do this to prevent coordinated brigading attacks where a swarm of fresh accounts is created to take down legitimate content.

If a report involves a credible imminent threat (self-harm, violence to specific people, kidnapping, etc.), call local emergency services first (911 in the U.S.) and then report on Huzzah.

10. HOW WE ENFORCE

Huzzah's moderation is layered — automated systems handle obvious cases at machine speed, and human review handles judgment calls and appeals.

10.1 Automated Content Filtering

A client-side filter scans every caption, comment, message, and profile field before it leaves your phone. A server-side filter (independent of the client filter so a tampered or unofficial client cannot bypass it) scans again on the server. The filter normalizes leetspeak (0→o, 3→e), strips separators (f.u.c.k → fuck), unscrambles Cyrillic homoglyphs, and matches against an evolving block list. Severe matches (KYS, CSAM language, terror recruitment, school-shooting threats, doxxing prompts) are blocked outright. Moderate matches (slurs, sexual solicitation, drug-dealing language) are blocked with a polite "this content contains language that isn't allowed" message.

10.2 Automated Image Moderation

Every photo you submit is sent to AWS Rekognition for nudity, violence, hate-symbol, weapon, drug, gore, and self-harm detection within seconds of upload. Detected violations result in the post being hidden, an auto-report being filed, and a notification to you explaining the action. If nudity is detected AND a face in the image is estimated to be under 18, the post is treated as suspected CSAM: the image is deleted from our storage, the account is permanently suspended, and the incident is queued for NCMEC reporting.

10.3 Community Reporting

Reports accumulate in rolling time windows:

• Posts: 30-day window. Auto-hidden when reports exceed max(5, 0.5% of the post's view count) AND max(3, 10% of the post's like count). Scaling with engagement prevents weaponized mass-reporting of legitimately popular posts.

• Comments: 14-day window. Auto-deleted at 5 reports.

• Accounts: 30-day window. Auto-suspended at max(10, 2% of follower count). Reports counted only from reporters whose accounts are at least 7 days old.

10.4 Suspension Ladder

For accumulated reports leading to suspension:

• 1st auto-suspension: 1 day

• 2nd: 7 days

• 3rd: 30 days

• 4th: permanent (subject to manual review and appeal)

During suspension, your posts are hidden, your profile shows as suspended, you can't post/comment/message/like, and push notifications addressed to you are suppressed. The suspension automatically lifts at the scheduled time (no action needed from you).

10.5 Severe Violations

The following are treated as immediate permanent suspensions and may be reported to law enforcement:

• CSAM or any sexualized content involving minors.

• Credible threats of violence (school shootings, bombings, targeted attacks).

• Terror recruitment or glorification.

• Coordinated harassment or doxxing campaigns.

• Sale or distribution of illegal materials (drugs, weapons, stolen credentials).

• Repeated copyright infringement.

• Discovery that the account is operated by someone under 13.

10.6 Tamper Detection

The App performs on-device checks for jailbreak indicators, debugger attachment, app tampering, and tampered local storage. Detected violations may result in the App refusing to operate in certain features and a generic incident category being logged to our backend. We do not collect any diagnostic data from these checks.

10.7 Rate Limits

Almost every write operation is rate-limited (the full list is in the Privacy Policy Section 13). Hitting a rate limit gives you a temporary rejection. Trying to bypass rate limits (with multiple accounts, automation, etc.) is a Terms of Service violation.

10.8 Notifications About Moderation

When automated moderation takes action on your account or content, you'll see a moderation notification in your bell explaining what happened and why. You can appeal any decision (see 10.9).

10.9 Appeals

If your content was removed or your account suspended in error, email huzzahapp@yahoo.com with subject "Appeal" and include your username and a description. We aim to respond within 7 business days. Permanently suspended accounts have 90 days to appeal before data may be deleted.

11. CRISIS RESOURCES

If you or someone you know is in crisis:

• United States — 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (call or text 988, 24/7).

• United States — Crisis Text Line (text HOME to 741741).

• Trans Lifeline — 1-877-565-8860.

• Trevor Project (LGBTQ+ youth) — 1-866-488-7386 or text START to 678-678.

• Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network — 1-800-656-4673.

• National Eating Disorders Association Helpline — 1-800-931-2237.

• National Domestic Violence Hotline — 1-800-799-7233.

• International — https://findahelpline.com lists country-by-country resources.

• Imminent danger anywhere — local emergency services (911 in the U.S., 999 in the UK, 112 in the EU, 000 in Australia, etc.).

If you see another Huzzah user expressing suicidal ideation or planning self-harm, encourage them to reach out to a crisis line, report the post (so we can intervene), and if you believe danger is imminent, contact local emergency services with whatever location information you have.

12. SAFE ACCOUNT PRACTICES

• Use a strong device passcode and biometric lock — your phone is your Huzzah account.

• Never share your verification SMS code with anyone. Huzzah will never ask for it. Anyone who asks is trying to steal your account.

• If you lose your phone, use Find My iPhone to erase it remotely (Apple feature, not Huzzah).

• Review your blocked-users list periodically.

• Use Hide Friends & Followers if you'd prefer your social graph stay private.

• Use Private Account if you only want mutual friends to see your posts.

• Use Allow DMs: Friends or Nobody if you don't want unsolicited messages.

• Use Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information if you prefer no behavioral ad targeting.

• Periodically export your data (Settings → Other → Export My Data) so you have a backup.

13. GROWING UP ON HUZZAH

Some of you will start using Huzzah at 13 and still be here at 18, 25, 40. The protections that apply to you change as you age:

• 13–15: Streak reminders silenced, personalized ads off, quiet hours on. Some privacy defaults (hide friends list, hide streak) are turned ON by default — you can turn them off if you want.

• 16–17: Personalized ads off, quiet hours on. Streak reminders are now under your control.

• 18+: All settings under your control. You decide.

The system automatically reads your date of birth and updates which restrictions apply as you reach each age threshold. We don't need you to do anything for the protections to lift on your 16th and 18th birthday — they update on their own.

14. UPDATES TO THESE GUIDELINES

We update these Guidelines as the App grows and as harms evolve. For significant changes we'll notify you in the App. The "Last Updated" date at the top reflects the latest revision.

Suggestions for improvement are welcome — email huzzahapp@yahoo.com with subject "Community Guidelines Feedback."

15. CONTACT

Email: huzzahapp@yahoo.com

For reporting violations, the in-app flag icon is fastest.

For appeals, use subject "Appeal."

For DMCA notices, use subject "DMCA Notice."

For parent inquiries, use subject "Parent Request."

For business inquiries, use subject "Business Inquiry."

For law enforcement, use subject "Law Enforcement" and submit from a verifiable agency email.

The Huzzah community is everything. Thank you for helping keep it good.