Research-backed articles on creator mental health, the science of online harm, and why platform moderation consistently fails the people who need it most.
Platform moderation is designed to protect the platform from legal liability — not to protect the creator from psychological harm. These are fundamentally different goals.
Creators are remarkably good at normalizing psychological harm. "It comes with the territory." "You have to have thick skin." These phrases have become the industry standard — which makes it easy to miss the actual signs.
The difference between hiding a comment and deleting it is not semantic. It is the difference between evidence and absence — and for creators navigating harassment, that difference has real consequences.