Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. YouTube has updated its rules to explicitly ban dangerous pranks and challenges after a Bird Box blindfold challenge went viral.

YouTube is banning content that promotes dangerous pranks or challenges, following a blindfold challenge inspired by hit Netflix movie "Bird Box." The Google-owned company previously had a policy ...

Birds Aren’t Real is an elaborate and successful prank. Everyone is in character, from McIndoe and Gaydos down to the TikTokers going off on Thanksgiving (a suspiciously bird-centric holiday) in the ...

YouTube has announced that it will be cracking down on viral challenge and prank videos that show "harmful or dangerous content" and warned content creators they have two months to clean up their ...

YouTube has updated its community guidelines to explicitly ban dangerous prank videos after a string of incidents that resulted in injuries, such as videos produced for the recent “‘Bird Box’ ...

A little more than two weeks after YouTube confirmed it was pulling some “Bird Box Challenge” videos from the site over worries viewers could harm themselves making the videos or recreating what they ...

Jake Paul was likely already violating YouTube’s community guidelines when he filmed himself driving blindfolded and doing the “Bird Box challenge” in a busy Los Angeles street earlier this month. But ...

YouTube has announced that it will be cracking down on viral challenge and prank videos that show "harmful or dangerous content" and warned content creators they have two months to clean up their ...