Sharing a streaming account with family can be mildly annoying under the best circumstances. You open Netflix and discover your recommendations have been overtaken by preschool cartoons. Someone watches 14 seasons of a police procedural under your profile. Suddenly the algorithm you’ve spent years carefully training has absolutely no idea who you are anymore.

For one teenager, however, the unwanted recommendations were the least important part of the problem.

After moving out of their mother’s home and in with their grandparents, they realized their old Roku TV was apparently still connected to their personal account. Family members were using their streaming services, filling their viewing history with everything from children’s shows to true crime—and potentially gaining access to some much more private content in the process.

The teen asked Mom to sign out. That request didn’t exactly go over well, so they disconnected the old TV themselves.

Then, somehow, the family got back into the account.

So on a later visit, the teen decided there would be no third round. They wiped the Roku clean in the early hours of the morning—and woke up to a family that was absolutely furious about losing access.

AITA for wiping my old roku TV so my family can’t use my account anymore?

Hey, so i’m a teenager and I’ve recently moved away from my mother’s house because of her abusive, toxic nature, and now I live with my grandparents.

Recently, I noticed on my new roku TV at my grandparents’ house, I was seeing weird recommendations that were absolutely not my interests (Baby shows, black dramas, true crime slop, and police shows). And when i signed into my Tubi and Fandango accounts, I saw that they had been watching the same sh*t on my own personal tubi!!!

I was angry and I called my mother to tell her to sign out of my accounts.

IMMEDIATELY.

Being the person that she is, she began to get mad at me and act like I was being some sort of b*tch because I just didn’t want to see crap like Bluey, Paw Patrol, Law and Order, and Tyler Perry movies on my roku.

I decided to unlink the roku from my account anyways whether they liked or not, but I guess they found some way to sign back in, because when I came back to her house a month later for a few days stay–it was on my account again!

The reason why I’m so peeved about my family using my roku account so much is because I have some rather personal stuff on there.

Fair.

My family is black conservative, very anti-LGBT. And my roku save list along with my personal streaming accounts and some art in my photos stream contains queer content that they would ABSOLUTELY not approve of me watching.

Besides that, many of the movies on my Tubi account are horror movies, and adult animation, many of which may contain nudity, sex scenes, drugs, and foul language.

I do not want my little brother (1yo) potentially seeing this on accident because my mother decided to turn on some random cartoon in my list!

Noooo thank you.

So, a month later, when I got the chance to be at their house again for a few days, in the early morning, I went over, took control of the old TV, and removed my account from the device again, wiping it clean.

Everything was moved back to default settings and apps were removed.

When they woke up and flipped on the old TV, they were PISSED. My mother screamed at me, she called me a “greedy a** dog” who only cared about myself and didn’t love my family at all because i was such an ungrateful, rude little spoiled b*tch. :p

Oh man.

She’s also banned me from ever using the old TV again (not like I even wanted to) and forced me to say sorry to my stepdad who would watch movies and shows on there at night (loud enough that I could hear the crap on a completely different side of the house).

I know it was shitty to do this at the asscrack of dawn, but i feel like in any other scenario my mother would’ve just gotten mad at me once again.

AITA for doing all of this without my family’s permission?

Commenters largely sided with the teenager, calling them NTA and emphasizing the simplest part of this whole dispute: it’s their account. They don’t need permission from other people to sign their own account out of a television they no longer use.

And this wasn’t even the teen’s first attempt to resolve the situation. They initially asked their mother to stop using the accounts, then remotely unlinked the Roku. Discovering later that the TV had somehow been connected again makes the decision to wipe it considerably more understandable. At some point, “please stop using my account” shouldn’t require multiple rounds of negotiation.

The privacy issue makes the situation more serious than an argument over ruined recommendations, too. The teen says their watchlists, streaming services, and photo content contain material they specifically don’t want their conservative family seeing. Whatever that content happens to be, they’re entitled to keep personal information private—particularly when they believe discovering it could create problems for them.

Their concern about a 1-year-old potentially accessing adult content is another perfectly reasonable reason not to leave their personal profile available on a shared family television. Mom and Stepdad can still watch whatever they’d like; they simply need to do it using their own accounts.

Was resetting everything at dawn a little dramatic? Sure. But after asking directly, disconnecting the device and then discovering the family had regained access anyway, commenters didn’t think the teenager owed everyone unlimited attempts to ignore the boundary.

If anything, the next move should probably be changing passwords, enabling any available account security features and making sure unfamiliar devices are signed out. A personal streaming account isn’t a family heirloom just because everyone got used to using it.

This person makes a good point.

This person also does.

And this person says just get rid of these people…

Mom can ban them from the old TV all she wants—the whole point was getting off it in the first place.