Aurelian
my friends call me "Cunty"
So do video games incite violence or not? YouTube's reason is that it "incites violence". A wealth of peer reviewed studios for the past 20+ years, even from liberal academia cite otherwise (hint: no correlation of real world violence).
So which is it?
And if so... then all violent videos must be removed on their platform, eh?
You're going through semantic gymnastics here. Those studies talked about the mere act of playing violent games. This is about conveying a more explicit message, even if it's not an intentional one.
Think of it this way: imagine if the Columbine shooters had been YouTubers in the modern era. If they'd just posted let's-play videos of Doom, that would have been fine. But if they'd posted Doom videos titled "watch us kill students at Columbine High School" and played a mod designed to look like the school, damn straight modern YouTube would take that down. You cross the line when you go from merely playing a game to sending messages of targeted violence against real groups, even if it's a 'joke.'