Epilepsy trolling
In this section:
| 1. What is epilepsy trolling? |
| 2. What you can do: reporting it to us |
| 3. Reporting it to social media companies if it happened online |
| 4. Help and support |
Epilepsy trolling is when someone knows, or thinks, that you have epilepsy and they deliberately send you an image designed to cause a seizure.
The flashing image could be sent online or offline:
- it could be sent online as part of a TikTok video, on WhatsApp, or a message on a dating app
- it could be shown to you in person on a mobile phone or a laptop
A flashing image could also be sent to a group of people by someone who thinks a member of the group has epilepsy.
Even if the image does not affect you, or anyone in a group, it's still a crime if it was sent to cause harm.
You might not be sure who sent the image or what they intended when they sent it. That doesn’t matter, you can still report it to us and we’ll decide how to follow up on the details you give us.