Adding Alternative Spellings of Your Stage Name

Sometimes the same name shows up across the web in slightly different forms — creatorname99 on your profile, creator-name in a URL slug, creator.name in a forum thread. Unexpose now lets you list those alternative spellings so we recognise your content as yours wherever it lands.

What alternatives are

Alternatives are alternative spellings of one of your existing stage names. They're used purely for recognition of content we've already found — they help us flag matches as yours when the page or image URL uses a transformed form of your handle. They're optional, they don't replace your primary stage name, and there's a soft cap of 25 per stage name (which is plenty for almost everyone).

When to add them

Add alternatives whenever you notice your content showing up under a spelling that isn't your primary handle:

• URL-slug variants — your handle is creatorname99, but the leak site stores you as /models/creator-name/. Add creator-name.
• Separator differences — some sites swap underscores for hyphens or dots. Add the variants you see.
• Casing or spacing — Creator Name, creator_name, creator.name. The system normalises these internally, but adding the surface form makes the chip list clearer.
• Common typos or misspellings — if leak sites frequently misspell your name in the same way, you can list those forms too. Our recognition layer is forgiving on small differences (single-character typos) but listing the variants improves coverage.

What alternatives are not

• Not new stage names. Each stage name still has its own settings, statistics, and lifecycle. Alternatives sit alongside the primary spelling and ride with it.
• Not used as search terms. We won't ask the web for your alternative spellings — they only kick in when matching the results we already have. This means you can list URL-slug variants without worrying about polluting your results with unrelated people who happen to share that spelling.
• Not for completely different names. If you go by an entirely different identity (a former name, a different platform handle), add it as a separate stage name with its own type (alias or former) rather than as an alternative.

How to add alternatives

1. Open Settings → Usernames.
2. Either pick an existing stage name to edit, or start adding a new one.
3. Below the stage name field you'll see Alternatives (optional). Type each variant and press Enter or comma to add it as a chip.
4. Remove an entry by clicking the × on its chip.
5. Save the stage name. The alternatives are persisted alongside it.

During onboarding, the alternatives field is tucked behind a + Add alternative spellings link to keep the signup flow short. Click it whenever you're ready to add some — you can always come back and add more later from Settings.

Worked example

Stage name: creatorname99Alternatives: creator-name, creator.name, creator_name, creator name

Now any leaked image under cdn.example.com/models/creator-name/57/ or any page with the URL example.com/creator_name/album/2/ will be recognised as yours and surfaced in your matches list with full confidence.

Validation rules

• Each alternative must be at least 4 characters after spaces, hyphens, dots, and underscores are removed.
• Alternatives can't be the same as the stage name itself.
• Duplicates are blocked.
• Maximum 25 alternatives per stage name.

Related

• Reviewing Matches — how to interpret matches once they're surfaced.
• Monitoring Settings — fine-tune notifications and scan frequency for your tier.