YouTube is cracking down on \u201cdangerous\u201d Bird Box challenge YouTube have updated their community guidelines to prohibit videos that depict \u201cdangerous or emotionally distressing pranks or challenges\u201d from the site. The changes come in the wake of the \u2018Bird Box challenge\u2019, which is named after the Netflix movie of the same name, which sees the protagonists use blindfolds as they attempt to avoid looking at the supernatural entities who kill those that see them. The film sparked the challenge on YouTube and other social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram, where people put on blindfolds and attempt to complete everyday tasks without the use of their sight. The challenges quickly took a dangerous turn, with controversial YouTuber Jake Paul uploading a video that showed him driving a car and walking across a busy street while blindfolded, while a teenager in Utah crashed her car into another vehicle while attempting the stunt. In a statement, YouTube said it was \u201chome to many beloved viral challenges and pranks, like Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s Terrible Christmas Presents prank or the water bottle flip challenge. That said, we\u2019ve always had policies to make sure what\u2019s funny doesn\u2019t cross the linto into being harmful or dangerous. \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 The Google-owned site\u2019s new guidelines also extend to pranks, with Youtube stating that they were banning \u201cpranks with a perceived danger or serious physical injury. \u201cWe don\u2019t allow pranks that make victims believe they\u2019re in serious physical danger \u2013 for example, a home invasion prank or a drive-by shooting prank.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
YouTube is cracking down on \u201cdangerous\u201d Bird Box challenge YouTube have updated their community guidelines to prohibit videos that depict \u201cdangerous or emotionally distressing pranks or challenges\u201d from the site. The changes come in the wake of the \u2018Bird Box challenge\u2019, which is named after the Netflix movie of the same name, which sees the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}