To ensure your content follows our Community Policy and Uploading Guidelines, here are some friendly reminders and recommendations.
If you are still unsure whether your content follows our guidelines then you can request a Content Review by getting in touch with our Creator Support team. Please make sure to mention your series title and include any applicable panel(s) as an attachment.
Content Age Rating Standards
Before publishing your episode, please make sure your episode is suitable under your series’s Content Rating. The Community Policy and Uploading Guidelines will remain the same as our Content Age Rating definitions are intended to adhere to industry standards.
You can reference our Content Age Rating Standards below.
- All Ages: Appropriate for readers of all ages. Series may contain mild depictions of cartoon blood.
- Teen: Appropriate for readers age 13 or older. Series may contain mild fantasy violence, blood, or gore. May contain minor themes related to mental health topics, but no graphic depiction. Series may contain mild profanity.
- Young Adult: Appropriate for readers age 16 or older. Series may contain moderate violence, uncensored profanity, sexual themes, mild nudity, and consumption of alcohol or drugs. May contain themes of self-harm, bullying and abuse.
- Mature: Appropriate for readers age 18 or older. Series contains graphic imagery, violence, uncensored profanity, nudity, or sexual themes. Although series may not contain explicit sexual content, it is recommended for older/mature readers only.
Portraying Sensitive Themes and or Topics
It is important that sensitive and mature topics are treated with the care and seriousness that they deserve. When depicting sensitive themes or topics, we would recommend to not include a graphic depiction(s) and to not romanticize, glorify, or promote said theme.
We would recommend to include a Trigger Warning at the beginning of an episode, when your episode mentions and explores a sensitive theme or topic.
Please keep in mind that having a “Mature” Content Rating does not mean that explicit content that violates our guidelines are permitted.
Censoring Inappropriate Content
In the event that your episode is removed, our team may ask you to censor the inappropriate content with either a cropping tool or an element in the panel’s environment as we generally do not allow non-natural forms of censorship on the platform, including box, blurred, or mosaic censoring.
In order to properly understand our censorship guidelines, please reference the example below:
Violence censorship:
If your episode is removed due to containing an excessive amount of violence, we generally recommend lessening the overall amount of detail in the offending panels, and ensuring that there is not an excessive amount of blood or gore.
The following image is a panel that is inappropriate for the WEBTOON platform, due to the excessive and detailed amount of blood.
The following image is a revised version of the inappropriate panel, with a lesser amount of blood and overall detail:
Nudity guidelines:
If your episode is removed due to containing nudity, we generally recommend strategically censoring the nudity with a natural part of the episodes environment. We generally do not allow box, blurred, or mosaic censorship.
The following images are panels that would constitute inappropriate censoring of nudity. This type of censoring is not allowed.
The following image is a revised version of the inappropriate panel, with steam strategically covering up the nudity: