Depending on the study, it’s estimated that between 14%-24% of high school and college students have engaged in some form of self-harm behavior. The most common behavior is cutting.
A study found that 100 YouTube videos on self-harm were viewed by over 2 million times. Some of the videos were documentaries and others were “how-to” videos. YouTube has a team of reviewers that are supposed to remove videos with “graphic content that encourage dangerous activities.” If these reviewers are monitoring videos, they may be catching just the tip of the iceberg.