---
title: "Twitter Accidentally Trends Horrifyingly Explicit Sexual Terms"
description: "The top trends on Twitter included X-rated terms and references to sexual violence that somehow got past its content moderation tools."
date: "2019-11-08"
modified: "2019-11-08"
authors:
  - name: "Dan Robitzski"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/danrobitzski"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/twitter-trends-explicit-sexual-terms"
categories:
  - "Robots and Machines"
tags:
  - "content moderation"
  - "the digest"
  - "twitter"
---

# Twitter Accidentally Trends Horrifyingly Explicit Sexual Terms

![The top trends on Twitter included X-rated terms and references to sexual violence that somehow got past its content moderation tools.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/twitter-accidentally-trends-extremelyt-explicit-sexual-terms.jpg>)
*Victor Tangermann \<em\>Image: Victor Tangermann\</em\>*

## Not Safe For Twitter

On Thursday morning, Twitter's top trending hashtags included some extremely sexually charged words and phrases.

These hashtags included "#creampie" and "#forcedanal," *[Motherboard ](<https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvg5qw/twitters-current-top-trending-hashtags-forcedanal-and-creampie>)*[reports](<https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvg5qw/twitters-current-top-trending-hashtags-forcedanal-and-creampie>). While the social media platform says it's investigating what went wrong, the X-rated trends are a particularly damning indictment against [putting content moderation](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/youtube-demonetizing-videos-lgbtq>) in the [hands of algorithms](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/mark-zuckerberg-refuses-facebook>) and machines.

## Damage Control

A Twitter spokesperson told *Motherboard* that the explicit hashtags "should not have appeared in trends" then shared a link to Twitter's policy of preventing "adult/graphic references" from trending.

Also banned from trends, *Motherboard* reports, are posts that contain profanity, a broad spectrum of hate speech, and anything that violates other Twitter rules.

But apparently, somehow, literal sex terms and a reference to apparent sexual assault managed to slip past moderation.

**READ MORE:** [Twitter's Current Top Trending Hashtags: #forcedanal and #creampie](<https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvg5qw/twitters-current-top-trending-hashtags-forcedanal-and-creampie>) \[*Motherboard*\]

**More on social media:** *[Breaking: Twitter CEO Announces Total Political Ads Ban](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/twitter-ceo-announces-total-political-ads-ban>)*

## Author
Dan Robitzki is a senior reporter for Futurism, where he likes to cover AI, tech ethics, and medicine. He spends his extra time fencing and streaming games from Los Angeles, California.

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