After the Netflix Original Bird Box became a viral hit, people around the world uploaded videos to YouTube showing them compete in the Bird Box challenge. While some of the clips showing people ...

Want to get your fix of silly stunts and pranks? Stay away from YouTube. That’s the message the platform has given out with the latest change to its community guidelines – the rules that creators have ...

The internet is blowing up over a bizarre YouTube prank gone wrong that ended in court after a delivery driver shot a YouTuber. In April, YouTube prankster, Tanner Cook, 21, who runs the Classified ...

Viral challenge and prank videos have been a staple of YouTube for years, but on the tail of the controversial “Bird Box challenge,” the platform announced that it will start to crack down on “harmful ...

YouTube has announced that it is banning videos depicting dangerous pranks, amid a flood of clips on the platform showing people inadvertently hurting themselves or others. YouTube removed 8.3 million ...

YouTube has unveiled updated community guidelines for creators, with a new section on dangerous challenges and pranks, clarifying its position on the behaviour: That is, don't do it. "YouTube is home ...

British YouTube star Sam Pepper has over 2 million subscribers, aqua hair, and, as of yesterday, the entire internet against him. On Sunday, Pepper uploaded a prank video (you’ll find many such videos ...

A father has been temporarily suspended from YouTube after videos of him playing cruel pranks on his children were labeled “child abuse” by a cyber-bullying expert. Cordero James Brady runs the ...

YouTube announced several policy updates today, including more stringent enforcement of its ban on videos of dangerous challenges and pranks. In a FAQ posted to its support site, YouTube wrote “We’ve ...

BALTIMORE -- The Maryland parents behind a controversial YouTube channel featuring videos of them playing pranks on their children were sentenced to five years of supervised probation, CBS station WJZ ...

YouTube has banned users from sharing videos of dangerous pranks on its platform because of concerns about challenges that put people’s lives in jeopardy. The US-based website, which is owned by ...