Being on retro social media is nuts when you're dealing with gore

 Okay so this is the only blog I'm making on this, and funny enough this will also be posted on Bliish and Napo [probably] since this is something I've been wanting to point out for a long time. Before we get into this, this will be the ONLY time I mention this publicly as I don't want to cause more issues than usual. Today I'm talking about one of my biggest issues with the retro social media platform Spacehey, it's gore problem to be precise.

Disclaimer

This isn't to bash on or destroy the reputation of Spacehey, but this also isn't going to be me sugarcoating the situation. I may not show images but I will describe some of the things I saw as this has actually affected the mental health of me and a handful of my friends. If you are from spacehey and you have also witnessed gore, please let me know in the comments, your words are appreciated. With this out of the way, let's get into the issues.

First, I'm gonna give you some information on me as most of what I'm going to describe is my own personal experience. I was about 15 when I joined spacehey, but I turned 16 pretty soon after since I joined in late October 2024 while my birthday is early November. I joined spacehey to be with one of my friends {who I don't talk to anymore}, yet ended up making a lot more friends along the way. For the first few months I was fine, though I was aware that the layouts were shut down due to a gore spam [someone who was on the site during the time told me]. So I knew gore WAS seen on the site, however I didn't really see it myself until the summer of 2025 where a friend of mine alerted me to a gore account.

Now I will say, I used to think I wasn't affected by gore as I've seen it before, but I will admit that I was horribly wrong. When I saw the accounts I made the mistake of not using something called a report link, which is basically just a link that immediately sends you to the report page so you don't have to see the account. I won't go into FULL detail of what I saw [for the sake of those who might be sensitive of it] but it was bad enough to make me sick to my stomach, nevertheless I reported the accounts and went on with my day. But little did I know, I was gonna be dealing with these accounts for a while.

But I wasn't the only one seeing these accounts, hell one of my friends [who I won't name] started a whiteboard just to be gore spammed. These whiteboards let you draw with other people and even paste images, unfortunately some assholes spammed the board with gore which shocked my friend enough to shut the whiteboard down. I remember hearing about it and feeling horrible, especially since the friend in question was actually a couple years younger. That's when I first realized just what I and many others my age range got into, and it only got worse from there.

Circa July 2025, I had long since created a Spacehey group meant to help report users who break rules to keep Spacehey safe. However I was one of the only ones who really did much, though I wasn't the only one trying to help others. There was one specific gore spam that I failed to realize would actually cause some damage to me mentally, purely because of how predatory their tricks were. They made their pfp something cutesy and had "click for cute animals" as their username, which may seem like an obvious trap until you realize that most people in this site were 13-16 and probably didn't expect something as innocent as that to be a trap. But they also did the cheap shot to remove the block and report buttons, trying to keep their accounts up for as long as possible. Now I knew how to make report links and thus I went through each account and ignored the feeling of my stomach turning as I took their IDs and made report links. By the time I was done, I couldn't really get the images out of my mind. I ended up stepping away from the site for a while, I didn't come back until January.

During my time off spacehey, I wasn't exactly doing well in the head. I couldn't get those disgusting images out of my head no matter what I did, I lost sleep, grew paranoid, and ended up falling into one of the worst pits of anxiety in my lifetime. I did have friends and family to help me out, but that can only do so much when the images of dead children, torn flesh, internal organs strewn across floors, and even brain matter being seen still in someone's head still plays in your head. And even when I wasn't on the site, it was still happening. I've had many of my friends mention other gore attacks while I was gone, and I knew what would happen if I came back. But I chose to come back anyway.

I've only PERSONALLY see a couple gore spams during my time back, but I only walked in to witness one of them. And while it was horrifying, me and my friends on a discord server managed to get that dealt with pretty quickly alongside others on Spacehey who happened to witness the images as well. But I was recently made aware of a CSAM ridden account that was up on the site a few weeks ago, however I was not there to see the account myself. But it does being me to my point.

Clearly, Spacehey has a problem with gore on its website and I feel like there needs to be more people aware of this situation. Because not only have users of the site denied the issue entirely because of them not seeing it themselves, but some folks have even tried calling other people sensitive for reacting so strongly to gore. And obviously I know it isn't JUST Spacehey they has this issue, but that doesn't change the fact that the issue still stands.

I apologize for any grammatical errors in this, I'm not an English major, I just wanted to quickly write this to try and spread more awareness to this issue.

To anyone who may come from spacehey and have their own experiences with gore, I would love if you commented on this post and tell me your own thoughts on this situation, your words matter and should be heard. And if anyone has any questions, I would love to hear your thoughts. Thank you for reading.