Systems and methods are disclosed for providing members of a user group with access to restricted media content items. In one implementation, a processing device receives selections of one or more substantially unrestricted media content items, the one or more substantially unrestricted media content items being associated with a media content provider and being accessible to one or more users of a media sharing service. The processing device processes the selections to identify one or more users with respect to which at least one of the one or more selections originated, generates one or more groups, each of the groups including at least one of the users, and provides, to at least one of the one or more groups, access to one or more restricted media content items, the one or more restricted media content items being inaccessible to one or more users of the media sharing service.