Men are paying to have negative posts removed from Tea app

As reported by 404 Media, online service Tea App Green Flags will remove negative posts from anonymous gossip app Tea and similar online forums where women post about negative experiences they’ve had with men they’ve dated.

According to 404 Media’s interview with Tea App Green Flags founder, identified simply as Jay, the company was launched two years ago to tackle posts on the numerous Are We Dating the Same Guy Facebook groups. His attention has turned to tea over the past year.

“We just want to remove posts about people being defamed,” Jay told 404 Media. “And when I say defamed, I mean ‘this guy has a small penis’ or ‘this guy smells.’ This does not align with the Tea app’s mission statement, which is to warn women about harmful, abusive, and cheating people. »

The Tea App site Green Flags claims to have removed more than 2,500 posts from Tea App for more than 759 customers. Most of the service’s customers are men, although Jay noted that from time to time, the wives and girlfriends of men posted on the app contact us.

Potential Green Flags customers of the Tea app must provide their name, age, location and photo to the service, along with links to specific posts targeting them. According to the Tea App Green Flags FAQ, they can only remove posts that contain direct references to a customer. On average, the site says, a Tea App “takedown campaign” will take 21 to 30 days. The duration of other withdrawals depends on the platform.

In terms of pricing, it costs $1.99 to declare one Tea account and up to $79.99 to declare 25. The company also offers “24/7 reputation monitoring,” which costs $19.99 per month and alerts customers when they appear on Tea or Facebook.

Jay did not want to share details of the withdrawal process with 404 Media. Tea has a free form for withdrawal requests on its website and says it will “only respond to withdrawal requests submitted through the withdrawal portal.”

Jay emphasized to 404 Media that Tea App Green Flags does not extend its services to people who have been accused of sexual assault multiple times on Tea, or who have been accused by someone using their real name and photo in a Facebook group.

“Sometimes we find out through the process that there are pedophiles or people who actually did what they did, and they are very bad,” Jay told 404 Media. “So we say, ‘We don’t do that.’ We can’t blame ourselves for that. We are ethical. We just want to bring down the people who are being defamed. »

Tea bills itself as introducing “dating safety tools that protect women.” In July 2025, it was the target of a large-scale cyberattack that exposed thousands of user images, including driver’s licenses, leaving users vulnerable to doxxing and harassment. These images were provided for account verification purposes, although the app itself is otherwise anonymous.

Jay told 404 Media that Tea’s anonymity “causes a cesspool of smear” and that he would prefer women share their faces, even if they speak out against the dangerous men who harmed them.

While Tea is supposed to be a women-only app, Tea App Green Flags is proof of the infiltration of men into these online dating spaces. (The tea itself was founded by a man: Sean Cook.)

“I have an account on the Tea app. I’m a guy,” Jay told 404 Media. “All my salespeople have accounts on the Tea app. They are men.”

Mashable has contacted Tea for further comment.