Fanvue lets creators post and sell most lawful digital content, including labelled 18+ material, but its rules ban anything involving minors or non-consent, other people without verification paperwork, physical goods, off-platform payments and filming where the public could see you. Every upload is also scanned by machine, and anything flagged stays hidden until a human moderator has reviewed it.
The rules are spread across several legal documents and a handful of Help Centre articles that summarise them, sometimes from an older version. This guide maps each rule to the document that actually governs it, translates the prohibited list into plain terms, and ends with a checklist to run before every upload. AI-specific rules have their own page, the Fanvue AI creator rules checklist, and are only touched on here.
Which Fanvue documents set the content rules
When a Help Centre article and a legal policy differ, follow the policy. The Acceptable Use Policy says it prevails over the General Terms for its own subject matter, and the help articles themselves send readers back to the legal pages for the current wording.
| Rule area | Governing document | What to watch for |
|---|---|---|
| Prohibited categories | Community Guidelines, section C | The Help Centre's content-not-allowed page only points back to the policies, so read the guidelines directly |
| Labelling adult material | Age Verification Policy, labelling clause 6.1 | Mislabelling to dodge age restrictions is prohibited, and the explicit-content declaration made at verification is locked |
| Profile picture, banner, intro video and bio | Acceptable Use Policy, public media standards (2.6) | Must suit a general audience even when the feed does not |
| Anyone other than you in the content | Co-Authored Content Policy | The help page on selling limits mentions only Fanvue KYC for collaborators, but the policy also accepts verified adults with ID and consent on file |
| Goods, meetings and outside payments | Creator Terms, section 5 | Breaches can mean immediate suspension and withheld payouts |
| Filming outdoors | Community Guidelines, outdoor clause C6.4 | The Help Centre article quotes policy wording from October 2023 that reads differently |
| Scanning, review and appeals | Content Moderation & Protection Policy | Flagged uploads are hidden, not necessarily rejected |
| Ownership and reposting | Acceptable Use Policy, authenticity clause 2.3 | Content must be your own or made with approved collaborators, and removed content cannot be posted again |
Prohibited content, in plain terms
Section C of the Community Guidelines runs to sixteen headings. Grouped by what a creator actually needs to avoid, they come down to the following:
- Minors in any form. No one under 18 may appear, whether featured or in the background, and the Help Centre's list of what you cannot sell extends that to non-sexual contexts. Fanvue applies zero tolerance and reports evidence to law enforcement.
- Anything without consent. That covers media of people who did not agree to appear, intimate material recorded without someone's knowledge or shared without their agreement, and intimate content sent to users who have not opted in to receive it.
- A defined set of banned adult themes. The guidelines list, among others, simulated non-consent, role-play suggesting anyone is under 18, participants who are asleep or unconscious, and anything involving violence or a risk of physical harm; read the full list in the original rather than relying on a summary.
- Harmful conduct: terrorist or extremist material, harassment, coercive control, hate based on protected characteristics, sexual exploitation and trafficking, encouragement of self-harm, promotion of disordered eating, and animal cruelty.
- Weapons and controlled substances, which may not be shown or promoted at all.
- Deception and exposure: impersonation, scams and phishing, election misinformation, and publishing anyone's private details, including identifying metadata left inside shared files.
- Links to prohibited material elsewhere. Section A says linking to another site that hosts a prohibited type of content counts as prohibited content in its own right.
Section E also lets Fanvue remove content or suspend accounts for conduct that is not listed but is judged harmful to the community, so the list is a floor rather than a complete map.
What you cannot sell on Fanvue
- Physical products. The merch article answers the question with a one-word no, and the selling-limits page names merchandise, clothing, art prints and shipped custom items as examples.
- Meetings in person, paid or unpaid. The changelog entry for 25 September 2026 records the Acceptable Use Policy update that bans requesting, arranging, offering or advertising them.
- Payment outside the platform. The Creator Terms forbid asking for or accepting money off Fanvue, promoting external payment links, and delivering paid content elsewhere.
- Content you do not own, such as screen recordings, clips from other platforms, or material from third parties without permission.
- Collaborations without verification, meaning anything featuring someone who has not completed one of the co-authored routes.
- Restricted themes outside their conditions. The selling-limits page allows financial domination only when consensual and within strict rules, fetish content only when legal and consensual, and AI likenesses only within the transparency and consent rules.
One item on the Help Centre list is puzzling: it places content of a religious nature under illegal content, yet the Community Guidelines contain no matching ban beyond the rules on hate and discrimination. If religious themes are part of your work, ask support in writing before building a series around them.
Fanvue Checkout does not open a route to merchandise either. Its prohibited and restricted products policy limits it to lawful digital products and services and lists physical goods, or anything needing physical delivery, among the exclusions.
Outdoor content: an old summary versus the current guideline
The Help Centre's outdoor content article still quotes policy wording from 3 October 2023 that bans anything recorded in or broadcast from a public place where members of the public are visible. Section C6.4 of the current Community Guidelines is framed differently. It bans content showing public nudity recorded where public nudity is illegal, and intimate activity recorded in a public place where members of the public are reasonably likely to see it, while saying that outdoor places with no public present, such as a private garden or a secluded natural spot, are not caught.
The current guideline is the binding text, but the older wording is the safer working rule: if any member of the public could appear in the frame or see what you are filming, do not shoot there. Local law on public decency applies regardless of what Fanvue allows, and a passer-by caught in the background also creates a consent problem under the co-authored rules.
Moderation holds: why an upload is hidden or slow to appear
The Content Moderation & Protection Policy says all uploads are scanned by third-party AI moderation, both before and after publication. The scan looks for nudity and explicit acts, weapons, drugs or illegal activity, violence, estimated age, hand signs, written text and the number of people in shot, and whether the media was generated by AI. Anything flagged is hidden from view and queued for a human moderator, who may delete it, escalate it or contact you for clarification or documents.
Fanvue does not publish an article explaining each upload status label, so treat the following as inference from the policy. An upload that sits unpublished has most likely been flagged rather than rejected. Items with more than one person, visible text or signs, or features an age estimator could misread are the likeliest to be held. Answer any document request quickly, and do not upload the same file again: section A of the Community Guidelines bars reposting content that was removed for breaking them. If something is deleted and you think the decision is wrong, the Fanvue restriction and appeal guide lists the deadlines.
Labels, declarations and who receives what
Intimate content is permitted only when it is marked as 18+ content, and an account may carry explicit material only if the creator declared that intention during verification. Viewers in regions with age-verification laws must pass a check before adult content becomes visible to them, which is one reason accurate labelling matters. Messages count too: the guidelines treat sending intimate content to people who have not clearly opted in as a breach, so keep adult media for subscribers and buyers who have asked for it.
Your public profile follows a stricter standard than your feed. The picture, banner, intro video and public bio must suit a general audience, and the Fanvue profile audit checklist applies those rules element by element. People who appear alongside you need the paperwork set out in the co-authored content verification guide.
Pre-upload compliance checklist
Run this list on every upload, including media sent in messages and items added to the vault for later.
- Every person seen or heard is you, a verified Fanvue creator you will tag, or an adult whose ID and signed release Fanvue already holds.
- No one under 18 appears anywhere, background included, and nothing in the props, costumes, setting or wording suggests youth.
- The content falls outside every heading in section C of the Community Guidelines.
- You made it or hold a licence for it, and none of it comes from another platform or creator.
- It was filmed somewhere no member of the public could appear or look on, and filming there was lawful.
- Adult material carries the 18+ label, and your account declared explicit content at verification.
- No weapons or controlled substances are visible.
- No one else's private details are visible, and location data has been stripped from the file.
- The caption and price describe exactly what the buyer receives.
- The caption contains no outside payment handles, external links or offers to meet.
- AI-generated or AI-altered media carries a visible disclosure.
- The file is not a re-upload of something Fanvue already removed.
- If you are unsure about any line, you asked support in writing before posting and saved the answer.
Limitations of this summary
This is a plain-language reading of Fanvue's documents as published on 1 October 2026, not an official interpretation and not legal advice. The prohibited list is deliberately summarised in general terms, moderation combines automated tools with human judgement, and Fanvue can act on conduct its documents do not name, so passing this checklist lowers risk rather than removing it. Laws on adult content, filming in public and intimate images differ by country and change often; where your plans depend on them, speak to a lawyer in your jurisdiction.