Instructions to kill, harm or make explosives
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RemovalHow serious: SeriousYouTubeWeapons
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What triggers it
Showing or telling viewers how to kill or seriously harm others, or how to make explosive devices or compounds meant to injure.
What YouTube says
“Instructions that show or tell viewers how to perform activities that are meant to kill or severely harm others.”
We last checked this against YouTube's page on .
How to fix it
Remove the instructional part.
Good to know
Look for step-by-step harm or bomb-making content. Fireworks safety, chemistry education without weaponisation, and fiction are not this.
Can FYProof spot it?
A full check of your video looks for it in what's shown, what's said and the words on screen. 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: looked at for this rule
- Caption: not for this rule
- Hashtags: not for this rule
Related YouTube rules
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