Content policy

Every example on this site uses a face that is yours, or one that belongs to an adult who agreed. This page is dated 2026-10-21 and is a drafted policy; legal review is pending. It covers every page we publish, including our test images and the prompts we print.

Your own photo, or a consenting adult

Our how-to steps, as of 2026-10-21, assume your own photo or a photo of an adult who agreed to the edit. Our own examples use one fictional, AI-generated test character (how we built it), never a real person. Every image we generate carries an “AI-generated” caption with the model, date, credits charged and tries. The site takes no uploads at launch, so no reader photo passes through us. This policy will add upload rules before any such feature ships.

Couple, kiss and hug effects need more. Both people in the photo must be adults, and both must agree to the edit. Every kiss or couple page carries this fixed line: “Both people in the photo are adults and both agreed.” We publish no kiss, couple or hug example that involves a minor, in any form. We also leave out “French kiss” variants of these effects for brand-safety reasons (decision of 2026-10-21).

Having the file is not the same as having consent. A photo from a group chat or a social profile does not carry its subject’s permission to be edited and posted. A school page does not either.

Real people and celebrities: we explain trends, we don’t give instructions

A trend built on a public figure gets an explanation here, not a recipe (policy as of 2026-10-21). We describe what the trend is and why people post it. We give no steps, prompts or tool settings for recreating anyone else’s face. Celebrity names stay out of our slugs, titles and H1 headings.

Readers also ask about account risk. Under a r/GoogleGeminiAI how-to for the Polaroid trend, one user wrote: “This is the trend that got my account disabled” (I#372, 2025-10-01). The thread’s example used celebrity photos. The user did not say what triggered it, and we have not verified the report with Google. We draw no conclusion about the cause or how often it happens. Working from your own photo keeps another person’s likeness out of the edit, whatever the tool decides.

What we never publish

The categories below get no guide on this site (list as of 2026-10-21), and we do not describe how they are done.

• “No restrictions”, “uncensored” or “unfiltered” generators. These searches signal demand, and demand is not a reason to write the guide. The terms themselves promise fewer safeguards for the people in the photos.
• Ways around a tool’s refusal. If a model declines a photo or prompt, we report the refusal. We publish no rewording trick whose purpose is to get past the filter.
• Watermark removal. A watermark marks who made a clip and, often, that it is AI-generated. Removing it hides both.
• Other people’s or celebrities' faces in any how-to, as above.
• VPN or regional tricks to pay for a service. These can breach a vendor’s terms and put your account and payment at risk.
• “French kiss” variants and any sexualized use of a real person’s photo.
• Minors in any kiss, couple or hug example.

If a search brought you here instead of to a tutorial, this list is the reason.

Why tools refuse photos, and what we do instead

Refusals on a user’s own photo recur in the threads we crawled on 2026-10-20. A r/ChatGPT poster asked why they could not join the Studio Ghibli trend with “the same prompt and photo my friend used” while “ChatGPT keeps refusing” (I#20, 2025-03-27). In the same thread, the poster added that it was “refusing to alter images with real people in them due to 'content policy'” (I#23). A r/GeminiAI user wrote that Gemini “says it’s not allowed to edit an image of a real person even though that’s my own photo” (I#189, 2025-10-05). On r/HiggsfieldAI, a user said every prompt was “flagged as 'sensitive'” (A#102, 2025-10-30). These are four community reports; we have not reproduced them.

A refusal on your own photo is frustrating, and the tool’s rule still applies. Our response has two parts.

First, we test the wording and log the result. The Ghostface costume wording came from a tool. A r/GeminiAI user reported that Gemini itself suggested “a person dressed as Ghostface from the Scream movie franchise” (I#173, 2025-10-13). The phrase describes a costume and asks for the same picture, so it is not a bypass. We printed it only after our own run. On 2026-10-21 it was accepted on the first try on Nano Banana Pro via Higgsfield, with no refusal. The run charged 2 credits; the job record labels the model nano_banana_2.

Second, we do not teach bypasses. A r/GeminiAI comment advised dropping “Me” or “I” and calling yourself “woman” or “man”, so the filter does not read the request as a self-portrait (I#186, 2025-10-06). The poster meant their own photo, but the trick exists to sidestep a safety rule. We do not publish it as a tip (owner decision L, 2026-10-21). Where a tool declines, we point to tools that officially accept own-photo edits instead.

We also stopped one of our own runs. On 2026-10-21 we considered a Higgsfield Genjutsu preset, Chandelier Lounge Performance. Which social trend it reproduces is not verified as of 2026-10-21. We did not run it because its driving video shows real people: our output would carry their likenesses and a music video we hold no rights to.

The same rules bind our own tests. Our 2026-10-21 test log has 16 entries. The first, G0, created the fictional test character: four variants from one prompt on Soul 2.0, 0.48 credits charged. The other 15 entries used that character as the reference image, and none used a third-party face.

Music in trend videos

We supply no tracks for trend videos and, as of 2026-10-21, claim no track is cleared. Most trend videos ship with a popular song. A track picked from a platform’s sound library is licensed for use on that platform, under its terms. Posted elsewhere, the same file can be muted or blocked, or claimed by the rights holder.

Every video trend page carries a music-rights line. It tells you to check the track’s license before posting outside the platform that offers it. The other route is a track you are allowed to use. We do not describe how to rip audio from other people’s videos.

Trademarks: named, not imitated

A product’s name appears here only to say what it is, for example “how to do it in Higgsfield” (rule as of 2026-10-21). We do not use a vendor’s logo as our own or copy its page design. No link is phrased to look like the vendor’s official page, and no vendor endorses this site. Partner links are labeled “(commission link)” and explained on the affiliate disclosure page. Vendor claims are attributed to the vendor and dated; anything we could not confirm reads “not verified as of 2026-10-21”.

Report a problem

Reports go to info@copythetrend.com, with the page URL. Write if an image here shows a real person who did not agree, or if a page breaks this policy. On a credible request, we remove content that shows a real person without consent. Breaches of this policy on our own pages are corrected. See also the editorial policy and the contact page.

Policy status: drafted 2026-10-21, legal review pending. This page is not legal advice.