YouTube Adds, Then Removes, Warning From Joker 2 Trailer
At CinemaCon, Warner Bros. Pictures debuted the first trailer for Joker: Folie à Deux, which arrived online shortly thereafter. Although the video was initially posted without a content warning on YouTube, the platform subsequently added one before deleting the warning a few hours later.
Via Variety, the warning said that the trailer “may contain suicide or self-harm topics.” Presumably this was in response to a scene where Lady Gaga’s Harley Quinn pantomimes shooting herself. That was an action that Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck performed a few times in the original Joker movie.
In the following statement, a spokesperson for YouTube blamed the warning on an automated system that mistakenly applied it to the video: “We determined that our systems applied the warning interstitial incorrectly. The trailer remains available on YouTube without a warning.”