YouTube strengthens community guidelines to crack down dangerous 'blindfold challenges'

by BRICK 101

On YouTube, many YouTubers perform movies by executing various projects and challenges every day in order to attract viewers' interest. YouTube has strengthened its community guidelines to crack down dangerous challenges as its content tends to be extreme to attract viewers' attention.

FAQ: Dangerous Challenges and Pranks Enforcement Update - YouTube Help
https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/1063345

YouTube bans dangerous pranks following Bird Box, Tide Pod challenges - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/15/18184382/bird-box-challenge-youtube-policies-tide-pods-thumbnails-external-links

In the current situation where many YouTubers are sharpening the pace, there are not many YouTubers that suffer from difficulty in increasing the number of viewers even if new channels are opened. There is also YouTuber who goes into extreme means in some way to attract attention, and in the past a woman of a couple who tried to take a movie of "It's okay to shoot a gun with an encyclopedia in my heart" There are also incidents involving accidentally shooting dead men.

Recently, "Tide Pod Challenge" such as "Try eating" Tide Pods "with a colorful liquid detergent in capsule" has become popular among teenagers and experts ring a warning bell It was.

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In addition, it is influenced by the Netflix movie " Bird Box " that carries out escape of the life as "keep blindfolded" in the world where human race is about to fall, and content of "doing various challenges while blindfolded" Challenge "appeared. A movie playing a dangerous challenge is being uploaded, as many YouTubers and others blindfolded walking and dancing outside.

Under such circumstances, YouTube revised guidelines that users should follow when uploading content, and added a new policy. According to the policy announced on January 15, 2019, it is stated that banning genre-accompanying genres such as bird box challenge and Tide Pods challenge among items prohibiting "dangerous mischief".

"Many challenges and naughty movies are gaining popularity on YouTube, but we need to ensure that interesting content is not disturbed by dangerous or harmful content," YouTube asserts, serious injury and It states that it prohibits mischief including danger. Among the forbidden mischiefs are sneakers into a man's house, including a mischief that others feel dangerous, such as embarking on a gun toy with a gun toy and pretending to be an indiscriminate shooter It was. We also prohibited children 's parents' abandonment of childcare and parents 'deaths,' which also inflicts severe damage to their hearts.

Furthermore, it is announced that YouTube regards movies using pornography and violent thumbnails as a violation of guidelines. While the main movie and the thumbnail may not be related to each other, it is said that YouTube receives a strike warning only by using extreme thumbnails to attract viewers.

by Ryan McGuire

The channel which received the warning of the community guideline strikes is not immediately BANed, but it is given a 90 day grace period. The first strike warning may limit live streaming and if you receive a second strike within 90 days of the first strike, next time you are not allowed to post new content for two weeks . And if you receive a third strike in 90 days, YouTube explains that the channel will be BAN.

In addition, YouTube stated that if you think that "this content does not violate the guidelines", you can appeal YouTube to cancel the strikes.