Pranksters can't have it easy anymore, at least on YouTube 

YouTube has revised its community guidelines following which it can take action against videos that encour dangerous challenges and pranks. Although YouTube ackwledges it has become home to many viral challenges and pranks over last few years, YouTube wants to ensure se acts don't turn out to be harmful or dangerous. With an aim to strengn its community guidelines, YouTube has taken a stand against challenges and prank videos like never before.

"We’ve updated our external guidelines to make it clear that we prohibit challenges presenting a risk of serious danger or death, and pranks that make victims believe y’re in serious physical danger, or cause children to experience severe emotional distress," res YouTube's updated support p.

According to YouTube, dely challenges like Tide pod challenge or Fire challenge are longer allowed on platform. ditionally, pranks posing a physical danger, for example, home invasion prank or a drive-by shooting prank, are longer allowed. In dition to pranks involving physical danger, YouTube's ban hammer will also start falling on videos that cause children severe emotional distress.

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"We also don’t allow pranks that cause children to experience severe emotional distress, meaning something so b that it could leave child traumatized for life."

YouTube worked with child psychologists to introduce se new community guidelines and put an end to challenges and pranks that cross line, including fake death of a parent, abandonment, shaming for mistakes etc.

During next two months, YouTube will remove prank and challenge videos that violate new community guidelines but channels won't receive a strike. However, content creators can appeal strike if y feel ir video comply with community guidelines. It may still remove videos uploed prior to se enforcement updates.