YouTube Cuts Larian's Baldur's Gate 3 Stream Over Sex Scene, Pulling August 5 VOD
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Updated · Kotaku · Aug 5
YouTube Cuts Larian's Baldur's Gate 3 Stream Over Sex Scene, Pulling August 5 VOD
1 articles · Updated · Kotaku · Aug 5
Summary
YouTube ended Larian Studios’ August 5 Baldur’s Gate 3 livestream early and removed the VOD from the studio’s Channel From Hell account.
The takedown cited “Body Exposure and Sexualized Behaviors” after the stream showed the player character’s explicit sex scene with Haarlep, an incubus tied to Raphael.
Larian had tried to obscure nudity with a D20 graphic, but the scene still remained visibly explicit; the full stream was still available on the studio’s Twitch channel.
The incident echoes Baldur’s Gate 3’s pre-launch platform troubles, when Larian was banned from TikTok over another sexual scene involving Halsin.