YouTube has updated its guidelines to notify users to stop uploading dangerous pranks or emotionally disturbing videos.
It comes in the wake of a series of disturbing so-called challenges, including #birdbox and Tide Pod, which have involved people filming themselves in risky situations and uploading the videos on the platform.
YouTube’s updated guidelines emphasise challenges like the Tide pod challenge or the fire challenge, that can cause death or have caused death in some instances, have no place on the platform. It has also reminded users they will receive a strike if the thumbnail violates policies