{"id":792138,"date":"2019-01-17T12:56:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T19:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=780470"},"modified":"2019-01-17T12:56:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T19:56:33","slug":"youtube-wont-allow-dangerous-stunt-videos-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/youtube-wont-allow-dangerous-stunt-videos-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Won\u2019t Allow \u2018Dangerous\u2019 Stunt Videos Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The viral Bird Box challenge,<\/a> in which people blindfold themselves in daily life in the style of characters from Netflix\u2019s cult-status sci-fi flick\u00a0Bird Box<\/em>,\u00a0will no longer have a home on YouTube<\/a>. Videos that \u201ccross the line\u201d between funny and harmful are prohibited from the platform from now on, the video-streaming giant said this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve updated our external guidelines to make it clear that challenges like the Tide pod challenge or the Fire challenge, that can cause death and\/or have caused death in some instances, have no place on YouTube,\u201d a community manager from YouTube, which is owned by Google, wrote in a blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve made it clear that our policies prohibiting harmful and dangerous content also extend to pranks with a perceived danger of serious physical injury. We don\u2019t allow pranks that make victims believe they\u2019re in serious physical danger \u2014 for example, a home invasion prank or a drive-by shooting prank. We also don\u2019t allow pranks that cause children to experience severe emotional distress, meaning something so bad that it could leave the child traumatized for life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Content policies (at YouTube and beyond, as many millennium-era tech and digital media companies mature) are not an aberration anymore \u2014 but their rollout has been shrouded by no small amount of controversy. Last May, YouTube removed 30 music videos in the drill music genre at the request of British police<\/a>\u00a0after they were deemed by authorities to play a role in a local increase in violent crime, but was chided by many in the music industry<\/a> for suppressing creative work. And the ambiguity of language in YouTube\u2019s new content policy against videos promoting \u201cdanger\u201d or \u201csevere emotional distress\u201d means the service will be on the hook for deciding, in every new case, what constitutes a violation.<\/p>\n

The Drake-inspired \u201cIn My Feelings\u201d challenge last summer, for instance, saw a number of teens diving out of moving cars \u2014 but the site has been mum on those videos, while it called out the Tide pod challenge in this week\u2019s blog post as an example of prohibited content.<\/p>\n

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The viral Bird Box challenge, in which people blindfold themselves in daily life in the style of characters from Netflix\u2019s cult-status sci-fi flick\u00a0Bird Box,\u00a0will no longer have a home on YouTube. Videos that \u201ccross the line\u201d between funny and harmful are prohibited from the platform from now on, the video-streaming giant said this week. \u201cWe\u2019ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 15:10:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}