Content Policy
Last updated 2026-08-19
Storyable hosts adult fiction. This policy sets out what that means in practice: what is allowed, what is never allowed under any setting or instruction, and what happens when someone crosses the line. It applies to everything on Storyable — stories, characters, prompts, images, profile text, and the model output your play session produces.
1. Ratings and what they mean
Every published work carries a rating: all ages, 15+, or 19+.
Works rated 19+ contain adult material and are shown only to age-verified accounts aged 19 or older, and only in regions where we can serve them.
The rating is the creator's declaration. If a work is rated below the material it contains, we re-rate it or remove it.
Ratings govern intensity, not the absolute limits below. Nothing in the prohibited list becomes acceptable at a higher rating.
2. What is allowed at 19+
Mature romance and intimacy between adult fictional characters, written for adult readers.
Sexual content between adult fictional characters, described in a narrative voice.
Violence, injury, and death where the story calls for it, including dark and disturbing themes.
Morally difficult characters, unhappy endings, and subject matter a general-audience service would avoid.
Our models are instructed to write these scenes rather than skip or blur them. Being uncomfortable is not, by itself, a violation.
3. Absolutely prohibited
No setting, rating, creator instruction, character definition, or jailbreak attempt makes any of the following acceptable. These are the same lines our models are instructed to hold, and they apply to what you write as much as to what the model produces:
- Any sexual depiction or sexualisation of a minor, or of a character presented as, described as, or resembling a minor. Fictional characters are included. There is no age-play exception, no it is only fiction exception, and no this character is actually centuries old exception. We remove it, terminate the account, and report it where the law requires.
- Sexual depiction of a real, identifiable person. Public figure or not, consenting or not, we do not allow it — including likeness-based images and content that places a named real person in a sexual scenario.
- Content that glorifies, endorses, or encourages sexual violence, child exploitation, or other serious crime. Depicting that a terrible thing happened is not the same as presenting it approvingly; the second is prohibited.
- Instructions that could be followed in the real world to commit a crime or cause serious harm — weapons, explosives, drug synthesis, intrusion, trafficking, or evading law enforcement.
- Content that incites violence against a person or group, or that attacks people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- Harassment of a specific person, threats, or publishing someone's private information.
- Non-consensual intimate imagery of a real person, and content made to impersonate a real person deceptively.
- Malware, phishing, scams, and spam.
4. Real people
You may write about real public figures the way published commentary, satire, or fiction does — but never sexually, and never in a way that defames them or presents fabricated statements as fact.
Do not use a real person's name, likeness, or voice to make it appear that they said or did something they did not.
If you are the person depicted and want the content removed, write to support@brnd.company. We do not ask you to prove harm before we look at it.
5. Rating and gating your work
Rate your work for the strongest material it contains, not the average.
If your work is rated 19+, readers must complete age verification before they can open it. We record the date of birth they submit and whether it passed, and the first submission is binding — someone who fails cannot retry with a different date.
We also restrict 19+ content by region, based on where the request appears to come from. That restriction is a legal-exposure control, not an identity check, and it does not replace age verification.
Do not build a work designed to move a reader from a lower-rated surface into adult material — for example an all-ages listing that turns explicit after the first turn.
6. How we enforce this at generation time
For 19+ works we add an adult-content guide to the model prompt. It states that the reader is a verified adult, describes what the model may write, and restates the prohibitions above as absolute — creator instructions cannot override them.
On the 19+ path, requests aimed at a prohibited line are also screened before they reach the model. Screening runs on the input; it is not a review of every generated word, and it can be wrong in both directions.
If a model refuses a request that is within the rules, we retry once at a lower intensity. If it refuses again you will see that refusal.
Repeatedly steering a model towards a prohibited line is itself a violation, whether or not the model complied.
7. What we do about violations
Depending on what we find we may re-rate a work, unpublish it, delete it, restrict an account's ability to publish, suspend the account, or terminate it.
Content involving the sexual exploitation of minors results in immediate termination without notice, and a report to the authorities where the law requires one.
We act on reports and on our own detection. We do not review every work before it is published, and the absence of action is not approval.
We may keep records of a violation after removal, for enforcement and for legal obligations.
8. Reporting content
Report anything on this list to support@brnd.company.
Include the link to the work or profile, what you think is wrong with it, and — if it concerns you personally — how you are involved. Screenshots help.
We prioritise reports involving minors, non-consensual intimate imagery, and threats, and look at those first.
Copyright complaints go to support@brnd.company instead and follow the process in our DMCA Policy.
Do not send us the illegal material itself. Send the link.
9. Appeals
If we remove your content or restrict your account and you believe we were wrong, write to support@brnd.company with the details and we will review the decision.
We do not restore content involving minors, and we do not review those removals.
Tell us if you think the decision was an error rather than policy — a mis-rating rather than prohibited material, for instance. It helps us find the mistake faster.