YouTube Videos Discovered With Suicide Instructions Spliced In

YouTube hasn’t had it easy, especially of late. After discovering alleged pedophilic circles around videos on YouTube, several major companies started pulling pre-roll ads. Now, things for YouTube just got worse with kids-centered content, but for a very different reason.

The Washington Post reported that the content had been discovered on YouTube aimed at children that offered instructions on how to commit suicide. The videos were discovered by pediatrician and mother Free Hess while her child was surfing around YouTube.

In several of the videos in question, instructions had been spliced into gameplay videos of Nintendo’s third-person shooter “Splatoon.” An example of what was spliced in is described as a man upholding an imaginary blade. He then looks at the camera and says, “Remember, kids - Sideways for attention. Longways for results.”

Several more of these videos had also been found on YouTube Kids, a version of the video platform for children. Hess said she also found videos glorifying sexual exploitation and abuse, human trafficking, gun violence, and domestic violence, according to CNN.

Coming on the heels of the pedophilic rings that were discovered, this discovery couldn’t have come at a worse time for the video-sharing giant. There have already been questions about how well YouTube monitors content going back to the original “ad-pocalypse,” and this is the second problem to crop up for YouTube in less than a month.