CBC, CTV.ca, et al. - Self-harm videos a worrying trend

The YouTube videos that kids post about injuring themselves are graphic and disturbing… Researchers have analyzed YouTube videos about self-harm in a study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics…

YouTube offers more than 5,000 self-harm videos. For the study, researchers at Guelph and McGill University examined 100 of the most popular. They found that these videos, which had been viewed more than 2 million times, tended to be factual or melancholic in tone and most presented explicit imagery…