{"id":73669,"date":"2019-12-03T03:08:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T10:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/youtubes-new-gaming-policy-will-allow-creators-to-produce-more-violent-footage\/"},"modified":"2019-12-03T03:08:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T10:08:15","slug":"youtubes-new-gaming-policy-will-allow-creators-to-produce-more-violent-footage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/youtubes-new-gaming-policy-will-allow-creators-to-produce-more-violent-footage\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube\u2019s new gaming policy will allow creators to produce more violent footage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A new YouTube policy taking effect today, December 2nd, will allow creators with a focus on gaming to upload videos that contain simulated violence without worrying about being automatically hit by age-restriction gates. <\/p>\n

The company\u2019s new policy for gaming is already how YouTube treats other scripted entertainment formats, like television and movies. It will allow future gaming videos that include scripted or simulated violence to possibly be approved directly without an age-gate. That means those videos will be open to everyone, not just those with an account stating they\u2019re over the age of 18. If the violence is extreme and the sole focus of a video, like a finishing move in Mortal Kombat<\/em>, the video may still be age-gated. <\/p>\n

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Robin L Marshall\/Getty Images A new YouTube policy taking effect today, December 2nd, will allow creators with a focus on gaming to upload videos that contain simulated violence without worrying about being automatically hit by age-restriction gates. The company\u2019s new policy for gaming is already how YouTube treats other scripted entertainment formats, like television and… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":73670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t