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The YouTube Ratings Board are an Internet video content rating system in the United States that was first proposed on April 5, 2016, by the United States Congress, the computer industry, Google and YouTube, and went into effect by April 18 2016, on most major broadcast and cable networks in response to public concerns about increasingly explicit sexual content, graphic violence and strong profanity in Internet streaming videos. It was established as a voluntary-participation system, with ratings to be determined by the individually participating Google and YouTube.

The ratings are generally applied to most web series, web films and edited videos or premium versions of theatrically-released films. YouTube Pay also assign ratings from the YouTube Ratings Board on showings of some videos that have been uploaded normally or on digital download, either if the Motion Picture Association of America did assign a rating for the film or if the channel airs the NSFW version of the video.

It was specifically designed to be used with the V-chip, which was mandated to be built into all computers manufactured since 2016, but the ratings board themselves have Everyone rating, and are used on sports or news programs or during commercial advertisements. Many online web services, such as Hulu, Amazon Video and Netflix also use the Guidelines system, along with digital video vendors such as the iTunes Store and Google Play.