Website Claiming to Track Women's 'Body Count' Draws Backlash From Thousands; Calls it 'Misogynistic'

A new website uses artificial intelligence to scan women's Instagram profiles and generate an estimate of their sexual history, and the internet is not happy about it.

Checkhercount.com, which operates under the title 'Check Her Bodycount!', allows users to submit a woman's Instagram handle. The site's AI then allegedly scans her photos, checks her tagged images, and analyses her follower network to produce an estimated 'body count,' slang for the number of people someone has had sex with.

The tool has no opt-in mechanism for the women being searched, and the creator has not been publicly identified. Within days of the site gaining wider attention in late February 2025, condemnation flooded social media platforms X and Threads.

What the Website Claims to Do

The site itself offers little explanation beyond its name. Its publicly facing content consists almost entirely of a submission field for Instagram handles and a 'Check Her Bodycount!' prompt. According to the site's infrastructure records analysed by web security firm Gridinsoft, the domain was registered recently and is hosted through Cloudflare, with servers linked to a Polish-based IP address.

The anonymous nature of the site's ownership makes it difficult to determine who built it or where it operates from.

'What is wrong with men?' Reactions poured in across platforms. On Threads, one user wrote: 'Idk who invented this app but I know they've never felt the touch of a woman.' Another user responded that she had tested the site and it had 'lowballed' her, sarcastically dismissing its supposed accuracy. The posts surfaced alongside viral reels on Instagram, drawing thousands of comments.

The site makes no claim to accuracy and offers no methodology. Its output is not a verified figure but an AI-generated estimate based on visual and social data, meaning it is, in effect, a fabrication dressed up as analysis.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary notes that 'body count', in this context, 'is often used with judgement', particularly against women, and that its popularity has grown significantly within 'the manosphere,' a term used to describe a collection of online communities broadly united by anti-feminist ideology.

The Misogyny Behind the Metric

The concept of a woman's 'body count' has long been used as a tool for sexual shaming, and researchers who study online misogyny say checkhercount.com represents its most technologically aggressive form yet.

Callum Hood, head of research at the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), has stated that 'misogynist influencers are using 'body counts' as a new way of shaming women who have had multiple sexual partners.' He links the trend directly to the wider influence of manosphere content creators, figures who, according to Hood, 'boosted by social media algorithms,' have introduced these ideas to a younger and broader audience than ever before.

The gendered double standard at the heart of body count discourse is well documented. A peer-reviewed study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Review, titled 'He is a Stud, She is a Slut!', found that women are slut-shamed 30 per cent more than men, and that casual sexual activity is 'more expected and rewarded in men than in women.'

Researchers found that highly sexually active men are viewed more positively than women with a comparable history. That double standard, critics argue, is precisely what a site like checkhercount.com is designed to reinforce.

Louise Firth, of leading UK domestic abuse charity Refuge, has noted that while consensual conversations about sexual history can be healthy, obsessive questioning about a partner's past, with the intent to shame, 'could be a warning sign for coercive control.' Firth has said directly that this kind of trend 'exists purely to shame women.' The site takes that logic further: it removes the woman from the conversation entirely, allowing men to generate a shaming verdict about her without her knowledge or consent.

The Privacy and Legal Dimension

Beyond the social harm, legal experts have raised concerns about whether checkhercount.com may violate data protection law. The site's alleged mechanism, scraping a person's public Instagram content, analysing metadata from tagged photos, and processing it through AI to make inferences about their private life, closely mirrors the business model of Clearview AI, the American facial recognition company.

In 2022, Dutch regulators fined Clearview €7.5 million (approximately $8.2 million) for harvesting biometric data from public websites without consent, a decision that established a key precedent: data being technically 'public' does not make its automated collection and processing lawful under the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Under Article 9 of the GDPR, inferences about a person's sexual life or sexual orientation constitute 'special category' data, the most protected class of personal information under European law, and processing it requires explicit consent from the data subject. A tool that algorithmically estimates a woman's sexual history from her social media activity, without her knowledge, would appear to fall squarely within that category.

What makes checkhercount.com distinct from previous iterations of body count discourse is the deployment of AI as an authority, lending a veneer of technological objectivity to what is, in reality, an exercise in targeted harassment.

The site does not ask whether the women being searched have consented to having their social lives analysed. It does not offer any mechanism to contest or remove an estimate. It simply produces a number, and relies on the men who use it to do the rest.

As of publication, checkhercount.com remains online.