What do you do when you encounter a radqueer that's outright saying IRL children can consent, or that they're an adult in a relationship with a child, or something similar? It's a very scary situation. In this post, I outline what to do, specifically how to report them to CyberTip.
Reporting to CyberTip is fast, easy, and you don't have to leave any form of contact information with the website.
Tutorial on each step is under the cut.
When a radqueer advocates for violence, child abuse, animal abuse, abuse of a corpse or actual CSAM material, it's very important that you archive the post. Saving evidence of radqueers promoting harm is important, especially if this user later comes back after their account is removed.
You have two main options for archiving:
I tend to use both archivers, but if you only want to use one I suggest Archive.Is. Open the main page and copy-paste the URL of the RQ post into the field. Press enter, and it will store an archived version of the post. (Sometimes this takes longer than other times, this is based on how many people are using the site at once.)
If a page has been archived before, you get this message. If it looks like a post has been edited or there are new replies in the notes from radqueers encouraging it, I suggest archiving it again.
Now you've got your updated archived URL. Hold onto this URL.
You'll need to view the post in dashboard view if they have a custom theme. Custom theme URLS go like blogname.tumblr.com, and dashboard view is something like tumblr.com/blogname/post122121212121212121.
Once in dashboard view, click the hamburger menu (the three dots), and you'll see the red option that says "Report blogname."
This takes you to a basic categories menu. Select "Report something else." That takes you to a sub menu which lets you pick from the following options:
Here in our example, we're reporting pedophilia, so click "Harm to minors."
Tumblr specifically says "Don't post or solicit content that features child abuse, the sexualization of minors, or the facilitation or promotion of child sexual abuse." so if the post they're making counts as this/one of the categories mentioned here, you'll click on it and then explain how it fits what you selected. However, Tumblr does something extremely annoying - Reports are limited to 350 characters.
My tips:
Once you have that done, it's extremely important that you also...
For "When did the most recent incident happen" you'll click whichever option fits - Check the most recent post where this user said something about IRL pedophilia/etc, and choose the date accordingly.
Beyond this one, the options you choose will likely be the same as mine. Here's what you need to keep in mind as you fill this out:
You'll select your own timezone and the approximate time.
For "Was this incident:" it can vary, but I would say that the majority of pedophiles on Tumblr it can be considered to be "Ongoing." Keep in mind that you may not know if what they're doing was a one-time incident, and if they're already posting to a community that encourages and celebrates this abuse, it's really unlikely it's going to be one-time.
For "Where did the incident happen?:" your answer is also going to vary. In the post that I reported, they stated that it was happening offline (and I included the post where they stated that in one of the next sections).
Once again for "Please choose the option that best describes your incident" it's going to vary. The user I am reporting is in this relationship offline, so that's what I selected.
"Additional items" has a list of some specific things. Select whichever ones of these apply and then make sure to select "Sexual exploitation of a child not listed here," because this covers most of the things radqueers do.
Select "I have more details." Again, this user was in-person, but the website gives you several options.
In this text box, you can go into much more detail about what happened. My tips for this section:
"i need to double check this and see what information about people you can add, i think maybe you can add their tumblr blogs and other accounts and discord and email?"
I didn't in this case, but you can leave your contact information.
Here's a very important part: AFAIK this space can be used for more context for related things, and I consider making the CyberTip line aware of radqueers part of that.
Here is an example of something I typed once, and I welcome you to paraphrase it (do not copy this verbatim). If CyberTip.org receives enough people reporting radqueers who specified the term, they're going to recognize the group as a serious issue.
You'll be given a report number once you're done, which you can keep if you like.
After all of this, I really advise you to take care of yourself. There's been some study that found playing Tetris after a traumatic event can help you process and feel better quicker.