Over the last four days, nearly 100 current and former gymnasts have testified against their former team doctor, Lawrence Nassar, detailing years of abuse he inflicted on them. Nassar, who pleaded guilty to multiple sexual assault charges, had already been sentenced to 60 years in prison. But up until Friday evening, his YouTube channel was still operating freely. Following a call from The Hollywood Reporter during the afternoon of Jan. 19, YouTube removed Nassar's Gymnastics Doctor channel, which depicted videos of young women performing strength and training exercises. A spokeswoman for YouTube sent THR a statement that reads, "Given Nassar's conviction, sentencing hearings and the fact that his videos show him in physical contact with young women in his capacity as a USA Gymnastics doctor, we've decided to remove his channel."

A YouTube search for the Gymnastics Doctor channel now yields no results. A person who finds their way to the page will be met with a red banner that reads, "This account has been terminated for violating YouTube's Community Guidelines." All the videos have been removed. Before its removal, the channel had around 2,000 subscribers but had not posted a new video in a year. There were no advertisements running on the channel. YouTube has increasingly come under fire for its inability to monitor inappropriate, violent or exploitative content on its platform. In a pair of blog posts late last year, CEO Susan Wojcicki acknowledged that the Google-owned platform had work to do to protect its community. "I've seen how some bad actors are exploiting our openness to mislead, manipulate, harass or even harm," she wrote, before pledging to grow the company's trust and safety teams to over 10,000 people in 2018.