Your name is on leaked videos that are not you
You search for your stage name and find videos of another person with your name in the title or the tags. This happens to many creators. It is frustrating, but you have options.
Why do sites put your name on videos of someone else?
Your stage name brings visitors. Leak sites and tube sites know that people search for it. So they:
- add popular names as tags to unrelated videos
- give a video of a lookalike your name in the title
- make "leak" pages with your name that only show ads or other people
- copy your name from a list of popular creators, with no check at all
Most of these pages want search traffic. They do not care who is in the video.
Can you send a DMCA notice?
A DMCA notice is for content that you own. If the video shows someone else, you do not own it, so a DMCA notice for that video is not correct.
CAUTION: Do not send a DMCA notice for content that you do not own. You sign the notice under penalty of perjury, and a false claim can make you pay damages.
There are two exceptions:
- The page uses your photos. If the thumbnail, the preview or the profile picture is one of your photos, that photo is yours. Send a DMCA notice for the photo.
- The page uses your logo or watermark. Your own artwork is your copyright too.
See DMCA basics for what a notice needs.
How do you ask a site to remove your name?
- Find the contact form, the abuse address or the content removal page of the site.
- Say that the video does not show you, and that the site uses your name without permission.
- Give the exact page addresses.
- Ask the site to remove your name from the title, the tags and the description, or to remove the page.
- Add a link to your own platform profile, so the site can see who you are.
Keep it short and factual. Large sites usually ban misleading titles and impersonation in their rules. Name that rule if you can find it.
What if it is a fake made with your face?
A video that puts your face on another body is different. It shows you, but you did not make it.
- Many sites remove explicit fakes of a real person when that person asks. Use the abuse or content removal form of the site.
- Google has a form to remove explicit fake images of you from search results. Find it in the Google Search help center under personal content removal.
- Since May 2026, a US law (the TAKE IT DOWN Act) requires many sites to have a process to remove explicit fake images of a real person.
Can Google remove pages that only use your name?
Usually not. Google does not remove a page only because it uses a name. Google does remove some things:
- Personal information. Your legal name together with your address, phone number, email or ID. Use the personal information removal tool of Google.
- Explicit fakes of you. See the section above.
- Your own photos. Use a copyright notice. See remove from Google.
- Legal reasons. In some countries, Google acts on a court order or a defamation claim.
If you registered your stage name as a trademark, some sites and search engines also act on trademark complaints.
Is it sometimes better to wait?
Sometimes. A page that only uses your name as a tag often gets few visitors. It can drop out of search results by itself. Act first on pages that show your real content, or that link your stage name to your legal name.
What does Unexpose do?
Our scan searches for your stage name, your photos and your face. Some matches show a page with your name but another person. Ignore those matches. We send DMCA notices only for your own content.
Add your photos and turn on face recognition in Your protection. Then we find the pages that really show you, and you can tell them apart from pages that only use your name.
If someone uses your name on fakes, or on pages with your personal details, open a ticket on the Help page. We will tell you what we can do.
For your own content, see how we remove leaked OnlyFans content and remove leaked Chaturbate recordings.
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