An account on reddit.com using your name and photos to sell content is impersonation, and it goes through a different report from a copyright claim. The impersonation route asks about identity rather than ownership, which means it works even when the images being used are not yours.
Left up, 40 exposed copies work out to an estimated $234 a month in diverted subscriptions. Estimate, not a measurement: it assumes 0.45 diverted subscribers per exposed post at an average subscription price of $12.99. Your number depends on your pricing and audience.
Removal route for reddit.com
Resolved live · no account · nothing uploaded
A notice for reddit.com goes to a curated route openDMCA already holds.
2 · RDAP abuse contact— resolves.abusecomplaints@markmonitor.com — the registrar's abuse desk, not reddit.com itself. Probed 2026-09-04.
3 · Fallback address— not needed.Not needed — an earlier rung resolved.
4 · Network and search— runs next.Cloudflare detection over DNS-over-HTTPS, then Google and Bing delisting of every indexed reddit.com URL.
What happens to what you type: nothing. The domain is matched against openDMCA's routing table in your browser. No request is made to reddit.com, no page is fetched, and the text is not stored or sent anywhere.
Removal route demo for reddit.com, impersonation job.
Step by step
Capture the account, not just one post. Record the reddit.com account name, its profile URL and several posts, with dates. An impersonation report is about a pattern of identity use rather than about one item.
Note where the account is sending people. Impersonating accounts on reddit.com usually funnel to a paid link somewhere else. Recording that destination strengthens the report and identifies the actual commercial harm.
File the impersonation report. Use the reddit.com impersonation report route, which openDMCA holds as a curated form in its routing table. It asks for the impersonating URL and a contact address rather than for copyright ownership.
File copyright separately where your images are used. If the account is using photos you made, the copyright route applies in addition. They are separate reports with separate outcomes and both are worth filing.
Delist the profile URL once the account is gone. A reddit.com profile URL can stay indexed after the account is removed. Where it returns for your name, submit it for delisting as its own request.
Why impersonation is a different route on reddit.com
Copyright asks whether you own the work. Impersonation asks whether someone is presenting themselves as you. A creator whose face is used with someone else's photos fails the first question entirely and passes the second, which is why routing matters more than persistence here.
openDMCA stores the reddit.com impersonation route as a form with a defined field list rather than as an email address, so an impersonation case is dispatched to something that can act on it rather than to a copyright queue that cannot.
openDMCA gives the first two hops away: you can open which route your case belongs in and run it on a URL of your own, with no account and nothing uploaded.
One thing that catches people out on reddit.com
The reddit.com impersonation route in openDMCA's routing table asks for the impersonating URL and a contact address and does not ask for proof of copyright ownership, which is precisely why it works for the most common creator case: an account using her name and face to sell content she never made and does not own.
Frequently asked questions
The account uses my name but not my photos.
That is impersonation rather than copyright, and the impersonation route is the one that applies. A copyright notice would fail because there is no work of yours being copied.
Do I have to prove who I am?
An impersonation report asks for enough to establish that the account is presenting as you. What that requires varies, and openDMCA does not give legal advice about it.
Will the impersonator know I reported them?
The report goes to the platform. Filed through openDMCA as your agent, the agent's contact details appear rather than your own address.
Work out which route your case belongs in — free, no account.