I don't know a single one of the YouTubers being mentioned here.
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It's so crazy that 10 million subscribers is huge by YouTube standards but practically meaningless in the larger context.
Oh thank goodness. Thought it was just me.
Youtube is pretty horrid now so I tend to stay away. Seems like its mostly made for ipad babies and boomers now.
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Charlie Kirk?
I didn't make it, and also do not use AI, but this is one I had to save.
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James Somerton.
Basically got massively called out by Hbomberguy for plagiarism on every single video and I am pretty sure James just nuked the account and restarted his grift under an alt.
He did a lot in the aftermath. It's worth reading basically the whole "rebranding and fake death" section:
Illuminaughtii was pretty wild.
JonTron said all that Great Replacement Theory racist shit but collab'd with Internet Historian on his B channel some time after. Haven't followed him in a long time so I donno if his career suffered.
Onision is nuts in so many dark and strange ways that were completely predictable.
Among them all I'm so glad that Internet Comment Etiquette has always been my favorite. Eric is a good boy.
Edit: Erik with a K is a good boy.
thereΒ΄s plenty of leads that make people think internet historian is not clean either. putting "1488" and "88" dogwhistles in his videos aswell as crudely drawn swastikas or stars of david in inconvenient places. he follows questionable far-right people on twitter and in the "bikelock fugitive" video he just goes with the 4chan story.
And not to mention they were one of the other receivers of Hbomberguy's famous plagarism video.
that's just a judgement on his content and doesn't give insight on his probably far right political stance
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Who the hell is Eric? Did Erik get replaced for what he did to Narfy?
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Pirate software
What was he supposed to do? He was out of mana!
I know there was something fishy about that guy when I first saw him popping up in my shorts (that's what she said), but I didn't know it was as bad as it was.
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Onision had a pretty spectacular implosion, but he was always a pretty wild and controversial figure. Shane Dawson was another pretty massive one. Miranda Sings was also huge, then all the weird and creepy chats and stage moments came out, sank her whole brand.
takes out the ukalele Now friends, let's sing a little song...
I love how she starts off by saying her legal team recommended she not do that...then proceeds to do it anyways lol.
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Boogie2988
I was never a fan, but I did a search in him about a year lord and good lord he's a mess.
Without looking it up: did he become his stereotype shitty gamer character?
Arguably worse. Tl;dw he chooses to live like he'll die at any moment, i.e. spends all his money on dumb things, but then complains about not having money and his audience not giving him enough. He also abused his wife until she left him, then started dating a 20 year old (hes in his mid 50s as a reminder). Oh he also completely reversed course on his nice moderate guy persona.
I used to watch him because he made wholesome videos. Then the mask started slipping around the time he bought a Tesla. The documentary about him is pretty rough.
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The Completionist. Socials went private and any videos finished but unreleased had the artwork changed so it wasn't obviously from the channel.
Some others that came to mind is ProJared with the sexts, but he eventually defended his side and continues to post new videos, and the controversy from the Nostalgia Critic group during the ChangeTheChannel campaign
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Not a vlogger, but CarlH was a respected reddit user who had a long and successful series of C programming lessons on youtube. I remember going through some of his videos back in the day.
He was arrested for abusing and exploiting his own son for child pornography, and later commited suicide in jail. I guess you can't fall much harder.
One of the many reddit posts about the story: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/upkjb7/carl_h_once_made_a_following_for_himself_online/
It's pretty niche, but Mike Israetel of Renaissance Periodization is one of the biggest fitness youtubers who for years has thrown his phd around to become an authority on sports science. A critical review of his joke of a phd thesis was recently published and now it's pure chaos in this sphere
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Probably pewdiepie. He was very popular before the incident, after which noone wanted to touch him. His Scare Pewdiepie show also got canceled. He has regained popularity again though.
What incident? People started sharing his videos because he's cool now, I guess, I can't even listen to his voice
In September 2017, while PewDiePie was live-streaming gameplay of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds to his YouTube channel, he used the racial N-word towards another player in the game.
As a fellow swede, I can understand why this was particularly rough for him, as he most likely used it just like many of us used English curse words and slurs very casually when we were young. They weren't words we understood, or knew the history of, and parents/teachers didn't really stop us or teach us when we heard them. We knew they were said in media, on TV and in movies, so we picked it up without much regard for meaning.
So for him to slip out an N-word is unfortunate, but definitely doesn't make me think he's racist or anything. Just like my friends and I who grew up using bad words like this, but we all grew up to be progressive and accepting of everyone. It doesn't have to reflect anything within PDP himself, even though it's highly offensive to the audience hearing it.
Just very unfortunate for everyone involved.
I mean you could see him recognize that he fucked up in real time. He definitely knew better. It was the ensuing "heated gamer moment" excuse which really made it a meme. He should have just immediately and unambiguously acknowledged that he fucked up and taken real action to show remorse. This is a pretty common pattern with this kind of thing. You can't do the whole "soft apology with a side of justification" and expect things to go back to normal. And this is just a life lesson in general - when you fuck up, you need to really lean into making a change.
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Now he's a complete self hosted and Linux nerd, and it's awsome!
Ummm Pewds is doing just fine.
Not really "a" youtuber, but i thoroughly enjoyed watching roosterteeth crash and burn. I loved their goofy shit maybe 10 or 15 years ago, but goddamn the fame really went to their heads fast. Ray and Mikey and Jack were all mostly cool, but Geoff had this really toxic "failed jock" vibe that really put down everyone else for very little reason. Then you had straight up toxic narcissists join up over the years, then Ryan shitting the bed by trying to hook up with (possibly underage) fans. It all came crashing down hard. It started out as a fun group of gamers and quickly turned into this weird hazing/bullying/im more famous than you circlejerk.
Probably not the "biggest", but remember Gus Johnson? Looked like a promising up-and-comer in the Internet comedy space, and then he got cancelled and effectively disappeared over night.
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It's a tie between EDP445 and Onision.
Honorable mention goes to Illuminaughtii.
Canβt mention illuminaughty or whatever without mentioning James Somerton.
My more bespoke pick would be Tobuscus
i mean colleen ballinger/miranda sings
I don't really keep up, but is that Dr. Disrespect guy still considered a pedo pariah?
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Toby Turner was pretty big in my eyes, but then there was some controversy of abuse or minors or something, I can't remember. But he made me laugh so hard like not many YouTubers could, dude. His gameplay of that game with the dad on his bike with his kid in the back of the bike, my god. Those were the days.
Laci green used to be a women's health feminist youtuber. Made a video titled "i took the red pill" and immediately lost 90% of her views followed by the channel dying within 10 videos.
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