Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor YouTube is advising viewer discretion with the newly dropped trailer for Warner Bros.’ “Joker: Folie à Deux” — warning users that it “may contain suicide or self-harm topics.” As of Wednesday morning, a new message appeared before the trailer is playable on YouTube: “The following content may contain suicide or self-harm topics.
Viewer discretion is advised.” Before they can watch the “Joker 2” trailer, users must click on a button that says, “I understand and wish to proceed.” The warning label did not initially appear on the trailer when it was released Tuesday evening.
Variety has reached out to YouTube and Warner Bros. for comment. The scene that may have triggered the content warning: Harley Quinn (played by Lady Gaga) makes a finger-gun gesture then holds it to her head before pulling the “trigger.” “I’m nobody.
I haven’t done anything with my life like you have,” Harley Quinn tells Joker as she mimes shooting herself in the head. Under YouTube’s Community Guidelines policy covering suicide and self-harm content, the video platform says, it may add “a warning on your video before it starts playing, indicating that it contains content relating to suicide and self-harm” in addition to a panel under the video with “supportive resources such as phone numbers of suicide prevention organizations.” The 2 minute and 24 second teaser trailer shows Joaquin Phoenix reprising his Oscar-winning role as Arthur Fleck (who later becomes the Joker) first meeting Lady Gaga’s Harley Quinn when they’re both inmates at Gotham’s notorious Arkham Asylum.
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