6d ago

YouTube Is Changing Its Guidelines For "Graphic Violence" In Gaming

www.gamespot.com

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Dampyr 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @piefed.social 6d ago
YouTube will expand its enforcement on gambling-related material to include digital goods with monetary value--such as in-game skins, cosmetics, and NFTs--if they are linked to non-Google-certified gambling sites or apps.
I may be ignorant on this, but what are Google-certified gambling sites or apps? Does it mean that if I pay money to Google I will be able to have violent/gambling content on the platform?
- C8r9VwDUTeY3ZufQRYvq @sopuli.xyz 5d ago
  Maybe they are sites or apps that pay for Google ads?
- Holytimes @sh.itjust.works 5d ago
  It means if it's a professional poker tournament, or horse betting stream. From a properly regulated and sanctioned sourced then your fine.
  If your gambling fucking counter strike skins. Your not fine.
  Which is exactly in line with what the law is. Vegas casinos are fine, illegal underaged child gambling is not.
SuperDuperKitten @lemmy.blahaj.zone 6d ago
For people who want to read YouTube's statement about updating the guidelines
Graphic gaming content. In addition to our existing guidelines around graphic gaming content, we will age-restrict an additional small subset of video game content featuring realistic human characters that focuses on scenes of torture or scenes of mass violence against non-combatants. We’ll consider several factors when reviewing this type of content such as:
Duration - If the graphic scene is sustained (rather than fleeting). For compilation videos, we’ll now consider the cumulative duration of all of the graphic clips combined.
Prominence - If the violent imagery is zoomed-in or the main focus of the scene
Realistic human characters - If the violence is happening to a character that looks like a real human
I just know that age-restricted videos don't usually perform well and I have a bad feeling that we will see more censoring to make the video "monetizable". I watched some gameplay or even review which has gameplay footage in the background so I'm concerned if that would affect review as well as I like knowing roughly what the gameplay would be like
TheObviousSolution @lemmy.ca 6d ago
Whew, sounds like ripping off the head and spine out of the body of the milk dispensers is still fine.