Warning signs detected
Long-running anime hentai gallery with repeated user reports of illegal content and weak moderation. Several risk indicators suggest caution. This site might be legitimate — but treat it as unverified until you can independently confirm.
Is gelbooru.com legit or a scam?
Long-running anime hentai gallery with repeated user reports of illegal content and weak moderation.
These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The domain is nearly 19 years old with clean antivirus results and no malware detections. The page itself functions as a tagged imageboard for anime and explicit hentai art. Evidence from multiple review platforms shows repeated complaints about pedophilic and child abuse imagery that is not filtered. No business registration or contact details appear on the site. These content-related red flags outweigh the clean technical signals and produce a suspicious classification.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for gelbooru.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered May 25, 2007; expires 2031; WHOIS privacy via Proxy Protection LLC, DreamHost registrar
- Owner publicly identifies as 'lozertuser' in 2024 Reddit AMA (r/anime)
- Scamadviser trust score indicates 'very likely not a scam' with Tranco rank ~500
- Multiple user reviews cite issues with moderation, loli/beastiality content violating stated TOS, and ads
- Site hosts explicit hentai/anime art; known for popunder ads and adult content warnings on WOT/MyWOT
- No malware/phishing detections in multiple scanner reports; occasional false positives from adblockers
- Reddit discussions reference it as established booru-style image host, sometimes compared to Danbooru
- Trustpilotopen
"There are many pedophiles on this site and, no, the content isn't locked behind any filter, block, or paywall."
- SmartCustomeropen
"Besides terrible mods and low quality, a lot of the images on that site needs to get looked into by the FBI, as most of the content on there is child abuse content."
- Scamadviseropen
"In summary, gelbooru.com is very likely not a scam but legit and reliable."
independent review aggregator and SmartCustomer both contain user reports accusing the site of hosting child abuse imagery with no effective filters. Reddit threads describe it as an established booru-style host but note ongoing issues with loli and bestiality content that violates its own terms. One review aggregator gave a positive trust assessment citing the site's age and traffic rank, while eight complaints overall focus on moderation failures and ads rather than outright fraud.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://gelbooru.com/
- 2200https://gelbooru.com/
Server Reputation
Proceed with caution
Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.
- Treat gelbooru.com as unverified
Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.
- Verify the business through independent channels
Check the company's social profiles, registry records, and search for recent news or reviews that are not hosted on the site itself.
- Never use irreversible payment methods
Crypto, gift cards, wire transfers, and cash apps offer zero buyer protection. Use a credit card or PayPal if you must pay.
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
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Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review marked gelbooru.com as suspicious. Several warning signs were detected; it may still turn out legitimate, but you should verify it through independent channels before trusting it with money or credentials.
- gelbooru.com currently scores 55/100 on our trust scale. We found enough warning signals to recommend caution. Verify the site through independent channels before entering credentials or money.
- Yes. gelbooru.com presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 54 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- gelbooru.com is 19.0 years old, registered on 5/25/2007 through DreamHost, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report gelbooru.com as clean.
- No. gelbooru.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- gelbooru.com resolves to an IP operated by BlueType LLC in US (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
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