Trust and safety

What moderation on EVVA does today

For creators and fans: who can take something down, what a removal looks like from both sides, and what you are told about it.

Moderation decisions on EVVA are made by people. A single file can be taken down and put back, and a whole creator can be withheld from every public surface.

Publishing is not held up for a review

A file you upload serves as soon as EVVA has finished processing it. A review does not have to finish first, so nothing sits in a queue waiting for approval before your fans can see it.

A file being visible on EVVA is not a ruling that it complies. Read the content guidelines and judge your own uploads against them rather than treating publication as approval.

Who can take something down, and why

Someone at EVVA can take a single file down. It is always a deliberate act by a person, never something that happens on its own. The reason is recorded as one of six: illegal content, policy violation, copyright, safety scan, legal hold, manual review.

They can also put a file back, which restores it exactly as it was.

What a removed file looks like

It serves to nobody — including you, if you are the owner. On playback it is indistinguishable from a file that never existed. In Discover the row is simply absent: no placeholder, no status, no explanation.

Because a removal hides the file from its owner too, a file of yours that has stopped loading may have been taken down. Keep your own copies of everything you upload, so a removal never costs you the original.

A creator’s Moderation decisions notification setting controls whether EVVA announces a decision on your account to you.

Creators hidden from the public

Someone at EVVA can also withhold a whole creator from every public surface. When that happens:

  • their content list answers “Creator not found”
  • their public profile answers “Profile not found”
  • a direct link to their storefront reports the creator as inactive

Their own side is unaffected: they can sign in, use the console and manage their media as before.

These refusals are deliberately identical to the ones you get for a creator who never existed, one who changed their handle, and one who has been suspended. A page saying “not found” is not evidence that anyone was sanctioned, and there is no way to tell the cases apart from outside.