Overview
- On Wednesday, August 5, 2026, YouTube cut a Larian Studios livestream early and removed the channel VOD for a scene the platform flagged for “Body Exposure and Sexualized Behaviors.”
- TikTok removed Larian’s stream shortly after YouTube’s action, while the same full session remains available on the studio’s Twitch channel and on X.
- Larian senior communications developer Aoife Wilson confirmed the bans publicly and framed the removals as part of a recurring pattern of platform enforcement against the studio’s explicit in-game scenes.
- The flagged footage included an explicit encounter with the incubus character Harleep/Haarlep in the House of Hope, a scene Larian has said was staged with intimacy coordinators and closed-set motion capture during production.
- The takedowns expose uneven moderation across services and could push developers to alter how they stream or where they post highlights, increasing fragmentation of where players can watch the same game footage.