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I find it alarming that 75% of YouTube’s history in terms of drama are endless stories of creators grooming and sexually harassing kids. Seems like every year, at least one creator is caught for it.
Boy do i NOT miss 2016s. Never have i seen people be so overly narcissistic and desperate for attention it was pettiness at its finest
If I had a nickel for every time that a Youtuber was accused of grooming kids, I'd be a millionaire by now.
The story of the man who was bipolar and sung that “Come little rabbit” song actually made me heartbroken.He sounded so happy and hopeful in the song,that it tears me up thinking about how he was just wanting to make a song and become famous and have someone exploit that really makes me sad. May he rest in peace.
You know you're in deep when you know about every single one until deep into Tier 5.
The real youtube controversy was the friends we made along the way
not to mention, that vegan teacher also called the lgbtqia+ community"Selfish" for coming out as gay/ace/bi/pan/trans/etc. rather than coming out as vegan
The fact that keemstar still has a platform is disgusting *great all the keemstar stans are taking over the reply section*
1:33:22 I did not expect HIM to show up.. Absolutely disgusting individual, and I don't know who the "many people" is but he definitely hasn't been up to no good years later There's more behind the scenes but I'm definitely not allowed to share that unfortunately. That part may make me biased but he's absolutely not to be trusted ever again Nonetheless, took me a few days to have time to watch but great iceberg :)
Those animal abuse channels still make me cry. I had to skip over that part, as it genuinely made me start tearing up.
How it started: Dream was a popular Minecraft youtuber who was exposed for cheating in some Minecraft speedruns. How it ended: Look at this violent argument an unsuspecting guy had in the youtube comment section with a future mass killer.
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The four horsemen of YouTube controversies: Someone being a creepy pervert Someone being a jackass and harassing people A challenge that got people killed YouTube making a horrible update and not fixing anything ( bounce: apology videos )
YouTube is honestly such a disturbing platform and that needs to be discussed more . . .
It's sad how much good YouTubers were eventually found out to be a creep. Really great vid toasted
Tier 1 0:43 The Paul Brothers 2:21 Baby Shark, Baby, Friday, and Wrecking Ball. 2:49 Pewdiepie Bridge Incident 4:42 Prank YouTubers 5:44 Keemstar 8:28 Andrew Tate 8:36 CBMF NFT 8:53 Shane Dawson 9:45 Content Cop 10:36 Elsagate 11:01 Jellybean 11:29 Chris Chan 12:57 Dangerous challenges, stunts, etc. 14:35 Nikocado Avocado 15:24 Ricegum 17:49 Netnobody / SkyDoesMinecraft 18:26 That vegan teacher 19:41 EDP 20:35 Google+ 21:27 Adpocalypse 22:02 James Charles & The Dramageddon 23:55 Jeffrey Star 24:39 Callmecarson 25:38 Dream 27:00 Vlog Squad 27:43 Dislikes Removal 28:14 Leafyishere 29:15 YouTube Rewind 29:45 Jschlatt 30:54 KSI 31:50 Tanacon 32:19 Miranda Sings Tier 2 32:46 Hi Walter 33:33 1444 33:55 Twomad 35:53 KONY 2012 36:57 Tmartn 37:16 Imjaystation 38:13 H3H3 Productions 38:39 Jontron 39:04 Onision 41:36 Comment bots 41:48 N&A Productions 42:05 Save The Kids 42:27 YouTube HQ Shooting 42:50 Jenna Marbles 43:12 Viacom 43:30 Machinima and it’s deletion 44:05 Nicole Arbour 44:42 Sevensupergirls founder 45:15 Pyrocynical 45:54 Channel 5 46:30 Sub loss bug 46:47 Tobuscus 47:21 SML 48:20 Lionmaker 49:47 DaddyOFive 50:46 Squizzy 51:53 IIlluminaughtii 53:17 AnswerUsYoutube 54:26 Badabun speedrun 55:03 Marina Joyce 56:12 Austin Jones Tier 3 56:59 Brooke Houts 57:23 Established titles 57:52 112dirtbag 58:51 futuristichub 59:29 Cryaotic 59:51 Annotations removal 1:00:21 Elliot Rodger 1:00:56 Deleting a/h from watch 1:01:56 GEMA Video Block 1:02:11 Cash and NotNico Ripoffs 1:03:16 LensCapProductions 1:03:50 Creepshow Art 1:05:15 Sketchek 1:05:38 Mark Turpin 1:05:55 Peluchin Entertainment 1:06:28 Annoying Orange NFT 1:07:17 GhettoASMR 1:08:09 # ChangeTheChannel 1:08:33 Toy Freaks 1:08:56 Fake animal rescues Tier 4 1:09:32 Quantum TV 1:09:52 5 stars removal 1:10:18 MisterObvious 1:11:38 CarlH 1:12:16 TheBorderline 1:12:39 XtremeGamez 1:13:08 WingsofRedemption 1:13:47 PlasmaMasterDon 1:14:18 Lisa Gaming Roblox 1:14:38 Suzy Lu 1:14:56 YouTube Heroes 1:15:20 Amos Yee 1:16:29 Garcia V. Google 1:17:31 Patrice Wilson H3H3 Stream 1:18:30 OnlyUsMeBLADE Tier 5 1:19:23 Minecash 1:19:49 Come Little Rabbit 1:21:52 Syndicate Round 115 1:22:40 Markiplier shows gore in a video 1:23:27 Whitney Wisconsin 1:23:38 Cartoon Incorporated 1:24:00 Reply Girls 1:24:49 2006 Iran Youtube Block 1:25:17 Pruane2Forever 1:25:47 DollyFlesh 1:27:06 Wael Abbas Ban 1:27:42 Hypnotist Sappho 1:28:27 Kero The Wolf 1:30:18 Layout 2.0 1:30:55 You have 30 days to pay me $5M+ 1:31:43 Monkey Hate 1:32:08 Tony48219 1:33:22 Starman3 1:34:57 PioneersProductions Tier 6 1:37:00 2011 Slovenian Youtube Incident 1:37:23 UTubeDrama .com & McManGOS 1:38:56 MeiAIDS Hack 1:39:48 zb333 1:40:29 YouTube vs UTube 1:41:12 GodlyRecon 1:42:21 boots666 1:43:03 MrSleepyPeople 1:43:32 Alyssa Dayvault 1:44:22 NaturalSelector89 1:44:58 Lynn Ann 1:45:30 Classitup10 1:47:46 CulturalPhilistine 1:51:08 Removal of YouTube Snake Easter Egg
Also to note: Cory stated that Mark's video never got taken down or age restricted even though Mark's and Cory's videos went through the same game. From curiosity (i think), Mark then posted a letsplay of a *porn game* (which was censored), and the video *was never touched.* yea.
If you want to hear something positive that came out from this list, Nikocado Avocado is starting to lose weight and you can definitely see it in his videos, he doesn’t seem to be playing that much of a character anymore and is being genuine, and the comment section seem to be supportive of him, it’s really nice to see
Mutual friend of Brianna Ghey's family. The world has been uglier since she passed. It breaks my heart to know anyone would have it in them to mock that joyful, vibrant young girl as though the senseless robbing of her life wasn't enough. She was a child with hopes and dreams and a family who loved her desperately. She deserved to live, and if she can't she at least deserves to rest peacefully.
IMO the amount of hate Jellybean got was kinda uncalled for. sure, they mightve been a bit cringey but thats all they really were, cringey.