Game footage focused on torture or massacres
YouTube may show the video only to adults.
Age restrictionHow serious: Worth fixingYouTubeViolence and gore
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What triggers it
Video-game footage that focuses on torture of a person or mass violence against non-combatants.
What YouTube says
“age-restrict an additional small subset of video game content that focuses on scenes of torture of a person or scenes of mass violence against non-combatants”
We last checked this against YouTube's page on .
How to fix it
Cut or shorten torture and civilian-massacre segments and don't build the video around them.
Good to know
Look for gameplay where torturing a character or killing crowds of civilians is the focus. Normal combat gameplay is not this. The violence policy (2802008) weighs whether gore is the focus and whether it is realistic.
Can FYProof spot it?
A full check of your video looks for it in what's shown. What a check finds is an estimate, not a guarantee.
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