YouTube is preparing to enforce stricter guidelines concerning online gambling and graphic video game content. The platform is expanding its existing gambling policies to now include digital goods that hold monetary value, specifically citing items such as NFTs and video game skins.

Starting November 17, creators will no longer be allowed to upload content that promotes online gambling involving real money unless the specific gambling sites are formally certified by Google. Furthermore, content that features casino-style games will be automatically age-restricted, even in situations where participants are not wagering real money.

YouTube has stated that these revisions are necessary to keep pace with evolving trends in the digital landscape and to ensure its community guidelines remain consistent with broader industry standards.

From the YouTube announcement:

Online gambling content. Our current policy prohibits content that directs viewers to online gambling sites or applications that are not certified by Google. We’re expanding our enforcement to now cover online gambling with additional items that have monetary value, including digital goods (e.g. video game skins, cosmetics and NFTs).

Social casino content. We’re updating our approach to casino-style games where nothing of real-world monetary value is wagered or cashed out. Content that depicts, promotes, or facilitates social casino sites will now be age-restricted.

Graphic gaming content. In addition to our existing guidelines around graphic gaming content, we will age-restrict an additional small subset of video game content featuring realistic human characters that focuses on scenes of torture or scenes of mass violence against non-combatants. We’ll consider several factors when reviewing this type of content such as:

Duration - If the graphic scene is sustained (rather than fleeting). For compilation videos, we’ll now consider the cumulative duration of all of the graphic clips combined.

Prominence - If the violent imagery is zoomed-in or the main focus of the scene

Realistic human characters - If the violence is happening to a character that looks like a real human
Read more here: https://support.google.com/youtube/t...n-gaming?hl=en