Overview
- Enforcement begins November 17 following YouTube’s October 28 announcement of Community Guidelines updates.
- Creators may not direct viewers to online gambling that uses digital goods with monetary value—such as skins, cosmetics, or NFTs—except for sites certified by Google.
- Videos depicting or promoting social casino games will be age-restricted even when no real money is exchanged.
- A narrow slice of game footage featuring realistic human characters in torture or mass violence against non‑combatants will be age-restricted based on scene length, focus, and realism.
- Pre‑November 17 uploads that violate the new rules may be removed or age‑restricted without strikes, with notifications, editing tools, and appeal rights, and YouTube says it expects minimal channel impact; coverage notes potential effects for Counter‑Strike 2 skin‑gambling content and possibly some GTA 6 videos.