The safety of our creators, viewers, and partners is our highest priority. We look to each of you to help us protect this unique and vibrant community. It’s important you understand our Community Guidelines, and the role they play in our shared responsibility to keep YouTube safe. Take the time to carefully read the policy below. You can also check out
this pagefor a full list of our guidelines.
Violent or gory content intended to shock or disgust viewers, or content encouraging others to commit violent acts, are not allowed on YouTube.
If you believe anyone is in imminent danger, you should get in touch with your local law enforcement agency to report the situation immediately.
If you find content that violates this policy, report it. Instructions for reporting violations of our Community Guidelines are available here. If you've found a few videos or comments that you would like to report, you can report the channel.
What this policy means for you If you're posting contentDon’t post content on YouTube if it fits any of the descriptions noted below.
Violent or graphic content:
Animal abuse content:
Dramatized or fictional content:
Note that we may not allow the following kinds of content even if there's educational, documentary, scientific, or artistic context provided:
Please note that this is not a complete list.
Keep in mind that this policy also applies to videos, video descriptions, thumbnails, comments, live streams, and any other YouTube product or feature. Please note these policies also apply to external links in your content. This can include clickable URLs, verbally directing users to other sites in video, as well as other forms.
Educational contentWe may allow the kinds of violent or graphic content noted above in some cases in educational, documentary, scientific, or artistic content. This is not a pass to upload content meant to shock or disgust, or encourage others to commit violent acts, and we may not make these exceptions for certain kinds of content, like footage of violent physical sexual assault. For educational content containing the kinds of violent or graphic content noted above, this context must appear in the images or audio of the video itself. Providing it in the title or description is insufficient.
For educational, documentary, scientific, or artistic content that has adult material or graphic violence, we may take into account official third-party industry ratings to decide whether the content may remain on YouTube. Content that follows our policies but isn’t appropriate for all audiences is age-restricted. Age-restricted content isn’t viewable to anyone who’s under 18 years of age or signed out.
Age-restricted content and EDSA exceptionsWe may apply an age-restriction rather than remove violent or graphic content if that content provides enough context to understand it. For example, content showing victims’ injuries in a road accident may be removed, but we may age-restrict that same content if presented with news coverage that explains the situation and context. For educational use of violent or graphic content, this context must appear in the images or audio of the video itself. You can learn more about the importance of context here.
We also consider public interest when deciding whether content should be allowed, age-restricted, or removed. For example, we may allow or age-restrict graphic or violent content documenting warzones, civil unrest, humanitarian crises, or natural disasters with adequate educational, documentary, scientific or artistic context in the images or audio of the video, the video title, or the video description.
We may age-restrict dramatized violence when it contains graphic scenes, such as people being tortured, dismembered, or decapitated. We may also age-restrict content that focuses on human corpses with these severe injuries or violent deaths of a person that show blood. We make a distinction between dramatized violence featuring real human actors and content featuring animations or video games. Dramatized violence featuring real human actors may be more likely to face age-restrictions, especially if the content is particularly graphic or realistic. Generally, we do not remove dramatized violence when the content or metadata lets us know that the content is fictional, or when it’s apparent from the content itself, such as with animated content or video games.
We consider the following when deciding whether to allow, age-restrict or remove content. Note that this isn’t a complete list:
This policy applies to videos, video descriptions, comments, live streams, and any other YouTube product or feature.
ExamplesHere are some examples of content that’s not allowed on YouTube.
The following types of content are not allowed on YouTube. This is not a complete list.
Animal abuse refers to content that shows the malicious infliction of serious physical or psychological harm that causes an animal to suffer. We may make exceptions for content that shows widely accepted practices, like hunting, trapping, pest abatement, food preparation, medical treatment, or animal slaughter that shows harm to an animal or group of animals.
Here are more examples of content that’s not allowed on YouTube:
The above list isn’t complete.
Remember these examples are just some examples, and don’t post content if you think it might violate this policy.
What happens if content violates this policyIf your content violates this policy, we will remove the content and send you an email to let you know. If we can’t verify that a link you post is safe, we may remove the link. Note that violative URLs posted within the video itself or in the video’s metadata may result in the video being removed.
If this is your first time violating our Community Guidelines, you'll likely get a warning with no penalty to your channel. You will have the option to take a policy training to allow the warning to expire after 90 days. The 90 day period starts from when the training is completed, not when the warning is issued. However, if the same policy is violated within that 90 day window, the warning may not expire and your channel may be given a strike. If you violate a different policy after completing the training, you will get another warning.
If you get 3 strikes within 90 days, your channel may be terminated. Learn more about our strikes system.
We may terminate your channel or account for repeated violations of the Community Guidelines or Terms of Service. We may also terminate your channel or account after a single case of severe abuse, or when the channel is dedicated to a policy violation. We may prevent repeat offenders from taking policy trainings in the future. Learn more about channel or account terminations.
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