Understanding YouTube Community Guidelines
You’ll find a full list of our Community Guidelines below:
- Fake Practices
- Sensitive Content
- Dangerous Content
- Regulated Goods
- Misinformation
“Creators should only upload videos that they have made or that they’re authorized to use. Users should not upload videos that they didn’t make or use content in videos that someone else owns without necessary authorizations. – Youtube video policy”
Fake Practices
- Fake Engagement
- Artificially increases the number of views, likes, comments, subscribers
- A video that shows/promote purchasing artificial page traffic, views or Subscribers from a third party
- Impersonation
- Channel / Personal impersonation: A channel that copies another channel’s profile, background, or overall look
- External links
- Links to Pornography, Malware, Pishing Website, Unauthorized Apps/Software, Child abuse etc.
- Spam, deceptive practices
- Spam Video promising for views/subscriber, Misleading Metadata or Thumbnails, Repetitive videos and comments, Live Stream Abuse
- Scams
- Scams: Content offering cash gifts, “get rich quick” schemes.
- Playlists
- Playlists with wrong thumbnails, titles or descriptions that mislead viewers, It will remove that playlist (All Videos)
- Additional policies
- Not logging for at least six months
- Not uploading video content
- Posting previously removed content, or content from terminated or restricted creators.
- Age restriction
Sensitive Content
- Child safety
- Sexualization of minors, Harmful or dangerous acts involving minors, Infliction of emotional distress on minors, Misleading family content
- A video with tags like “for children”, or whose audience is set to “Yes, it’s made for kids”, featuring family friendly cartoons engaging in inappropriate acts like injecting needles.
- Thumbnail
- Don’t post a thumbnail on Pornographic, Sexual acts, the use of sex toys, fetishes, or other sexually gratifying imagery
- Nudity, Vulgarity and Sexual content
- The depiction of Breasts, Hips, Naked body, that are meant for sexual Pornography.
- Suicide and self-harm
- Don’t post the content promoting suicide or self-harm that is targeted at minors, harmful Graphic images or Killing or Beating Minors/Animals
Dangerous Content
- Harassment ,Harmful or dangerous content
- Hate speech, Violent Criminal Organizations
- Violent or graphic content
- i.e shameful or insult a minor, Discrimination, threatening pranks, drug use, Eating Disorders, Violent Events, theft or cheating, Terrorist Org in songs, celebrating terrorist Leader or Fighting etc.
Regulated Goods
- Sale of illegal or regulated goods or services policies or Firearms
- i.e a video that show selling or buying of pistols, refills, guns, Firearms, Ammunition, High capacity magazines, silencers/suppressors, Explosives, Alcohol, Bank account passwords, stolen credit cards, or other financial information, Unlicensed medical services and other arms OR any other link that directs to selling or buying of all these arms or its accessories.
Misinformation
- Election, Medical, Heath Misinformation
- i.e. Telling viewers incorrect method to vote, wrong info about candidate victor/selection, telling wrong election rule, spreading wrong rumors about election/results, misleading votes/viewers to create violation,
- Wrong information about Treatment and Prevention of disease. Providing wrong home remedies or any other misleading content about any disease like COVID-19
- Misinformation about census or any other Govt service/process.
