A family has lost custody of two children featured in a series of "prank" videos, which some said actually showed child abuse.
The YouTube account "DaddyOFive" became wildly popular in recent weeks after posting videos where two parents played "pranks" on their children.
Now Rose Hall, the biological mother of 9-year-old Cody and his sister Emma, says that she has obtained emergency custody of her children.
But they also attracted detractors, including YouTube star Philip DeFranco, who released a video editing some of the more horrifying clips together.
That video was viewed more than three million times and brought widespread condemnation of the DaddyOFive channel.
They said that they were unaware of the effect the videos would have on their children and apologised for them getting out of hand.
The rest of the videos have now been removed from the channel and the apology has been viewed almost two million times. »