AEW Dark drops on YouTube on Tuesday nights, but if you go looking for it right now you'll come up empty.
AEW is quickly taking the WWE approach and attempting to have a show to air on every single night of the week. The first episode of AEW Dark: Elevation, complete with Paul Wight behind the announce desk, hit YouTube on Monday night. As for Tuesdays, that night is for AEW Dark. However, anyone looking to catch up on the show today won't currently be able to.
AEW Dark went live on YouTube as scheduled on Tuesday night. However, the show was quickly pulled without explanation. Fans who clicked the link were told the show was unavailable due to it being made private. At the time of typing this, the link has disappeared from AEW's YouTube channel entirely, and it's unclear why.
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Those who managed to watch the show before it was promptly taken down have speculated the ending of a particular match may have violated YouTube's terms of use. The Dark Order's 10 wrestled Jack Evans on the show and picked up what appears to be a minor but nasty-looking injury in the process. The injury resulted in blood coming out of his mouth and dripping down his mask, which was shown as his arm was raised by the referee after the match.
YouTube's terms on violent content prohibit "footage or imagery showing bodily fluids, such as blood or vomit, with the intent to shock or disgust viewers" from being shown. It could be argued that 10's face being shown on camera after the match was an intentional move in an attempt to convey the battle he had just been through to the viewers.
However, Dark has been airing on YouTube for more than a year, and while we haven't been back through every single episode and checked, it's hard to imagine this is the first time blood has ever been shown on the program. We might be wrong, or maybe it's the way in which it is being shown in this example that has irked YouTube. Or maybe there's something we're all missing pertaining to the show's removal.
