Adults risking serious injury or death
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What triggers it
Adults doing acts with risk of serious harm or death that viewers could copy, or praising them; extremely dangerous driving (into oncoming traffic, on sidewalks).
What YouTube says
“Acts performed by adults that have a risk of serious harm or death.”
We last checked this against YouTube's page on .
How to fix it
Remove encouragement and praise, add safety context, or cut the dangerous footage.
Good to know
Check whether the act is imitable and whether the narration praises it. Professional, controlled stunts with safety context are more likely to be age-restricted than removed.
Can FYProof spot it?
A full check of your video looks for it in what's shown and what's said. What a check finds is an estimate, not a guarantee.
- Video: looked at for this rule
- Speech: looked at for this rule
- On-screen text: not for this rule
- Caption: not for this rule
- Hashtags: not for this rule
Sounds other than speech, such as music, aren't checked.
Related YouTube rules
Platforms change their rules often. This page sums up what YouTube publishes; it isn't legal advice.