So, it’s come to my attention that some people are unaware how to do this, so I wanted to share my approach, given it’s crucial to effective moderation of potential loli/shota content under the current rules.

First, look up the image with Saucenao, and that failing, Google reverse image search. (TinEye doesn’t really work in my experience so not much point trying.) Generally, once the original image is found, it’s fairly easy to find a list of characters. At that point some Googling can find the ages of the characters. I will be looking to making a tool to make this easier and less of a manual process, however, that’ll take time.

Edit: Also, any other software guys interested in discussing the technical details behind automating this process are welcome to message me so we can coordinate, it’d be ideal to get this done as soon as possible, but I don’t really have any knowledge of the Lemmy API. Gelbooru is the easiest site to use for determining characters off Saucenao, so I’m thinking we get a database of known underage characters going and bot a Saucenao -> Gelbooru scrape before running a quick lookup.