The increasing perception of beauty in recent years brings with it some psychological disorders. Especially with the increasing use of social media, many women agree that being thinner is better. Many social media platforms are also working on refusing to mold their perceptions of beauty, which can vary for everyone.
In a statement the company made today; It announced that YouTube will remove additional videos about “eating disorders”, including content that demonstrates or discusses “imitative behavior.”
Existing policy on eating disorders will expand
Videos promoting or glorifying eating disorders have already been banned on YouTube. However, this policy update has been expanded to include any content that depicts or describes eating disorder behaviors that viewers may imitate.
According to the statement made; All videos that show or describe “weight-based bullying in the context of eating disorders” will be banned under the new policy.
In this context, the “healing journeys” of not only those who describe an eating disorder, but also those who have experienced this disorder before and later recovered, will be prevented. “A video about a creator’s eating disorder recovery journey can help start an important conversation that makes them feel less alone for some, but can be a trigger for others,” the company says. explains it in sentences.
“The National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA) and the Asociación de Lucha contra la Bulimia y la Anorexia (ALUBA) are working together to develop a comprehensive framework that includes expanding the scope of our Community Guidelines, age-restricting certain videos, and placing crisis resource panels under videos discussing eating disorders,” the platform said in a statement. We worked with experts such as used the phrases.
Videos will be age restricted.
Youtube will block some videos and leave a note for a few to seek help from experts. In addition, some of the videos containing eating disorders will be subject to age restrictions.
In this case, some videos; Viewers under the age of 18 will not be able to view if the account is logged out and the video is embedded on another website.