Hey r/Healthygamergg!! Announcing ICYMI in our Weekly Boost email (opt-in for your weekly boost here)..

Our Search feature on the HG Platform just received a major upgrade! 🎉

You can now search across all of our content—YouTube, Guides, and Membership lectures—to find the insights you need faster. Search for a concept you half-remember, or search for a word you’re never heard before, with timestamped results and embedded video play. 

😊 Inspired by the community

We’re really excited about this upgrade, mostly because it evolved from a free tool originally developed by a fan in the community: Ridhom’s search tool. His tool allowed you to search across all of HG’s public YouTube transcripts down to the second. Results showed timestamped matches with section labels, highlighted keywords, and included embedded video playback.

The community has loved using this tool, and many on our team used it almost daily. So we decided to hire Ridhom to help us upgrade our own search with the same features we all loved.

Now you can perform this type of title and transcript level search within all of HG’s free and premium content, right on our platform, where you can go straight from learning to action. 💚

Learn more at the walkthrough video here, or get started using search now at https://aoe.healthygamer.gg/search

And of course, I'll be in the comments below collecting feedback on our new search. Anything you want to share with us will help us make this tool even better!

With 💚,
the HG Team

Train one practitioner and you reach hundreds of people.

That's the whole idea behind AOE healing, and it's why we built HG Institute as the training arm of Healthy Gamer: to put the best possible tools in the hands of the clinicians, coaches, and other practitioners who are out there doing the hard work, and all of it built around the mental health challenges of the digital generation. (And we're just getting started, but we’re damn proud of what we built so far!) 

Algorithm-driven escalation, AI companions, and parasocial platforms are fundamentally changing how people engage with pornography online -- and the clinical picture has shifted with it.

So we're excited to announce our newest continuing education course for therapists (and other helping professions!) in our community:

Modern Clinician's Guide to P*rn: A Comprehensive Clinical Framework for Compulsive Online Sexual Behavior

This course is 4 CE credits, covering contemporary terminology, neurobiology, diagnostic considerations, and evidence-informed interventions so you can stay current and clinically-precise while supporting clients with compulsive online sexual behavior.

We love how the mental health professionals of our community show up for their clients. We are here to show up for you. Let's widen our AOE together. Come see what we're building at HG Institute. 💚

Hey community,

An email is going out to all platform members today to let you know about a security incident that affected our website on May 22, 2026, and to explain the steps you should take if you were affected. For a small number of visitors, action is needed to protect your computer and your accounts, and we are sharing the information here to make sure it reaches whoever it needs to. 💚

What happened

On May 22, 2026, our website was briefly compromised. For a limited period that day, visitors were shown a fake CAPTCHA ("verify you're human"). The prompt instructed visitors to copy a piece of text and run it on their own computer in order to "verify" themselves or "fix" a problem.

We identified the issue and removed it within about 90 minutes of it beginning, and our website is safe to use again. However, anyone who followed those instructions and ran the command before we fixed it should assume they had malicious software (malware) installed on their computer.

Does this affect me?

This affects you ONLY if--while on our site on May 22--you were shown one of these prompts and you followed its instructions to run a command on your own computer. For example, by copying some text and then pasting and running it (such as pressing the Windows key + R, pasting, and pressing Enter, or pasting it into a PowerShell or command window).

If you simply visited our site and did not copy and run any command, this incident did not affect your computer.

If you did run the command, please read the rest of this notice and take the steps below.

🛑 Important: a clean antivirus scan does not mean you are safe

This is the most important point in this notice. The malware used in this attack is specifically designed to hide from antivirus and security software. If you ran the command, you should assume your computer is affected even if your antivirus reports that nothing is wrong.

What the malware can do

Once installed, this malware gives the attackers a way into the affected computer, and it can quietly download and run additional hidden tools. Because of how it is built, we cannot determine from the outside exactly what was done on any individual computer. To stay safe, you should assume that information entered or stored on the affected computer, including passwords, could have been exposed.

What you should do

1. Clean the computer. The reliable fix is to either restore Windows to a restore point dated before May 22, 2026, or reinstall Windows. Trying to delete individual files by hand is not dependable here, because the malware can install other hidden components that are easy to miss.
2. Change your passwords from a different, clean device (not the affected computer). Start with your most important accounts: email, banking, and any work accounts.
3. Turn on two-factor / multi-factor authentication (MFA) wherever it is available.
4. Watch your accounts for anything unusual unexpected logins, password-reset messages you didn't request, or unfamiliar charges.
5. Until the computer has been restored or reinstalled, avoid using it for sensitive activities such as banking or logging into important accounts.

If you are not sure whether you were affected, or you would like help with any of these steps, please contact us at support.healthygamer.gg/portal or by emailing support@healthygamer.gg.

What we have done

• We removed the attackers' access and reversed the malicious changes within about 90 minutes of the attack beginning.
• We have secured the affected part of our systems against repeat access.
• We have reported this incident to law enforcement and are cooperating with their investigation.
• We are notifying everyone who may have been affected.

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We're sorry about this! We know how disruptive this is, and we're really sorry it happened. Protecting the people who use our site matters to us, and we are taking steps to prevent anything like this from happening again. If you have any questions or need help with the steps above, please reach out to us at support.healthygamer.gg/portal or by emailing support@healthygamer.gg.

— The Healthy Gamer Team