YouTube has decided to limit recommendations of fitness videos for teenagers
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YouTube will not recommend videos about ideal fitness and weight to teenagers aged 13-17. The platform will also restrict access to content with “social aggression,” including fights and intimidation.
YouTube will not recommend videos to teenagers that promote a certain ideal of physical fitness, body type, and body weight. This was reported by TechCrunch, UNN.
Details
The platform will not restrict access to users aged 13 to 17 to watch fitness and diet videos, but will not recommend viewing similar content.
The platform introduced the restrictions after years of criticism of videos with idealized beauty standards that could potentially harm teenagers who often compare themselves to others.
As an adolescent develops thoughts about who they are and their own standards, repeated exposure to content with idealized standards that begins to form an unrealistic internal standard can lead some adolescents to form negative beliefs about themselves
Separately, YouTube will also restrict access to videos that demonstrate "social aggression," including fights and intimidation.
Recall
The YouTube app may soon get a sleep timer feature to automatically stop video playback after a set time has passed.
