Graphic animal imagery (warning screen or 18+)
Instagram may add a label or a warning to the video.
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What triggers it
Animals dismembered, with visible innards, burned, boiled alive, going from live to dead, or people being brutal to living animals (kicking, drowning, plucking feathers) get a warning screen and 18+; animals with visible blood, giving birth with blood, with maggots, or injured and suffering are 18+.
What Instagram says
“Imagery of humans committing acts of brutality on living animals (e.g. kicking, drowning, or plucking feathers).”
We last checked this against Instagram's page on .
How to fix it
Cut or crop the kill, blood or suffering moments, or accept the warning screen, 18+ limit and no recommendations.
Good to know
Common examples: live seafood cooking (boiled alive), slaughter footage, hunting kill shots, vet or farm births with blood. Explicit sadistic remarks about animal suffering are removed.
Can FYProof spot it?
A full check of your video looks for it in what's shown. What a check finds is an estimate, not a guarantee.
- Video: looked at for this rule
- Speech: not for this rule
- On-screen text: not for this rule
- Caption: not for this rule
- Hashtags: not for this rule
The same rule on Facebook and Threads
Related Instagram rules
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