YouTube is to limit recommendations of certain health and fitness videos to European teenagers, including those which “idealise” certain body types

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1. I realise that they are doing this to avoid possible litigation from the EU courts, but they should limit *all* harmful content to teenagers *everywhere*. This demeonstrates that they are clearly capable (and likely have been for a while) to identify such content.

2. Shaming people for being ‘out of shape’ is a negative approach and obviously bad content. But almost any content aimed at improving your fitness is ultimately aimed at altering your shape and composition.

3. Dang, so are we banning the Kardashians too? No I dont think so, even though they are setting a sick example of body standards.

4. YouTube won’t rest until we are all fat.

5. I hope they also limit those who also support morbid obesity.

6. This just shows that in all these situations where the execs enshittfied the platform, and the community said “it could’ve been completely avoided if only you put the bare minimum effort and slightly changed the algorithm manually”, we were right and they consciously chose to ignore the end-user input.

7. They should limit the amount of right wing, conservative, Andrew Tate bullshit I get recommended. That is much more annoying to me.

8. Do they mean fat positive?

9. No more mewing gigachad transition videos?

10. What a stupid decision. As always, only in Eu you can have such bright ideas. Why does anyone care that someone watches fitness videos? It’s his/her problem to idealise or not what is shown in those videos

11. No more Sam Sulek for us boys

12. That’s putting a band aid on the problem.

13. Quite right. 
    That’s a good idea. Orthorexia is a disorder and should not be promoted to minors.

14. Ahahahahahah is this ” the gym is alt-right”?

15. That is a great idea. Buuut some kids YT acc do not provide there actual age. They will either set it to 18,20 or 65 and that way they will be able to have access to many videos spesificly for adults….

    TLDR: Kids are not that dumb, they will find a loop hole, meaning YT did noting.

16. So this is probably about some specific toxic youtube corner?
    Ive had my entire feed turn into fitness videos from time to time but nothing crazy.

    Does anyone know more?
    Is it about andrew tate like people?

17. There are a lot of videos categories to limit before you touch HEALTH AND FITNESS

18. And why doesn’t limit content from russian-paid channels? Fat is fat and that’s a real fact and can be proven in any court scientifically. On the other hand… russian propaganda cannot be proven.