The animal cannot ask you to handle this correctly. Handle it correctly anyway. Report Zoosadism.
When people come across zoosadist content online the instinct is often to do something with it. Share it in a callout post. Circulate it as a warning. Post it to a group chat to organize a mass report. These instincts come from a good place. But they cause serious harm. Zoosadist abuse material is not a callout post. It is a bomb. And the moment you share it, you detonate it.
The Bomb Analogy
Think about how you would treat a bomb if you found one. You would not pick it up and show it to your friends. You would not photograph it and post it online. You would not carry it into a crowded room and shout “everyone look at this bomb, report it!”. You would call the appropriate authorities, clear the area, and wait. You would do this because the danger is in the object itself, not just in the hands of whoever built it.
Zoosadist abuse material works the same way. The harm is not only in the person who created it. The harm lives in the content. Every new viewer is a new detonation. Every new server it reaches is a new blast radius.
It does not matter if you technically did not create it. If it is on your account, your account is the bomb. If it is in your server, your server is the bomb. If you sent it, even with a warning label, you sent a bomb. Intent does not defuse it.
The Harms of Spreading the Content
Networking
People who make zoosadist content often want an audience. Wider distribution validates the content, makes it easier to find like-minded individuals, and in some networks functions as a form of currency or status. When well-meaning people spread it to expose or report it, they are doing the distribution work for the people who made it. The content reaching more eyeballs is the outcome abusers want, regardless of why it spread. This incentivizes them to continue making more content.
Psychological Harm
This content is genuinely traumatic. Moderators, researchers, and law enforcement personnel who have to review it professionally report high rates of secondary trauma and PTSD. When it circulates casually through communities, ordinary people, including minors, are exposed to material that causes real psychological harm, with no support structures in place.
Legal Risks
In many jurisdictions, distributing this material is illegal regardless of intent. Forwarding it as part of a mass report, even with a note saying “please report this,” can still constitute distribution under the law. “I was trying to expose them” is not a legal defense for distributing illegal material. The person who created it remains responsible for the original crime, but you become responsible for your part in its spread.
There is one legally recognized exception. Under the U.S. PACT Act, good-faith distribution of animal crush video is permitted when shared directly with a law enforcement agency, or with a third party solely for the purpose of determining whether law enforcement referral is appropriate. This covers formal reporting to organizations, or direct submission to IC3 or local authorities. It does not cover sharing in group chats, posting in servers, or public callout posts no matter the stated intent.
Contaminating investigations
When content spreads widely before law enforcement can act, it becomes harder to trace back to the source. Metadata gets stripped as files are re-uploaded. The chain of evidence degrades. Investigators who might have been able to identify an abuser from original file data are now working with a copy of a copy shared through five different platforms. Mass distribution actively undermines the ability to prosecute.
Mass Reporting Does Not Work the Way People Think
A common belief is that more reports equals faster action from platforms. This is only partially true. Platforms process abuse reports through dedicated trust and safety pipelines. What actually accelerates action is a clear, specific, single report that identifies the content, the account, and the nature of the material.
What does not help is flooding reports from hundreds of accounts, many of whom may have viewed, saved, or forwarded the content themselves in the process of organizing the report. This creates noise. Now the platform has to assess a much wider web of accounts interacting with harmful material. It can also alert the original poster that they have been identified, giving them time to delete content, change accounts, or move platforms before authorities can act.
A quiet, immediate, single report from the first person who found it is far more likely to catch an account before it disappears.
What You Should Do Instead
If you encounter zoosadist content online, the correct course of action is straightforward.
Do not screenshot or save it. The moment it is on your device, you are in possession of it. Do not forward it, quote it, or include it in any post.
Report it directly to the platform. Use the platform’s native reporting tools. Identify the account, the post or message, and what the content depicts. One clear report is more useful than one hundred vague ones.
Report it to the relevant authorities. This material constitutes evidence of a crime. Use the dedicated reporting resources listed below.
If you are a moderator or server admin. Remove the content immediately, ban the account, and report through platform tools. Where the content constitutes evidence of an active crime, preserve account information for law enforcement.
Zoosadism Reporting Resources
Nexus Intel
A nonprofit group tracking zoosadist and cat torture networks globally. Submit leads, profiles, screenshots, or videos securely.
SMACC
A nonprofit coalition tracking zoosadist and monkey torture networks globally. Submit leads, profiles, screenshots, or videos securely.
🔗 endcrueltyonline.com/report-a-concern
IC3 (US)
For U.S.-based cases or platforms. Use for distribution of illegal animal abuse content and online exploitation using U.S. platforms.
🔗 ic3.gov
RSPCA (UK)
RSPCA (Australia)
🔗 rspca.org.au/report-animal-cruelty
CyberTipline (NCMEC)
If the abuse content involves children or minors, or child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is present.
Local Law Enforcement
If you know the location of an abuser or abused animal, contact local police, animal control, or humane societies directly.