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YouTube Is Changing Its Guidelines For "Graphic Violence" In Gaming (www.gamespot.com)
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[–] SuperDuperKitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 day 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