YouTube Cracks Down On Disturbing Content Accessible To Children

YouTube is turning off 50 channels in an effort to clean up programming kids can see.  

The video platform owned by Google said in a blog post earlier this week that it's toughening guidelines for acceptable content.  

One of the deleted channels, Toy Freak, featured a single dad and his two daughters has been deleted for disturbing children's content.

Founded two years ago by landscaper Greg Chism of Illinois, Toy Freak had 8.53 million subscribers and was among the 100 most-viewed YouTube channels before it was shutdown on Friday. 

Though it's unclear what exact policy the channel violated, the videos showed the girls in unusual situations that often involved gross-out food play and simulated vomiting. The channel invented the 'bad baby' genre, and some videos showed the girls pretending to urinate on each other or fishing pacifiers out of the toilet.

Another series of videos showed the younger daughter, Annabelle, wiggling her loose teeth out while shrieking and spitting blood. 

As part of the crackdown, YouTube says it threw out 50 channels and pulled thousands of videos in the past week.


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