So far, here’s my list:
- Brad the Guitologist: went crazy
- Rick Beato: abusive to his kid
- AvE: Canadian Trumper
- Gavin McInnes: leader of the Proud Boys
Others I found that I’d like some backstory on:
- boogie2988
- Jack Doherty
- All the Paul’s (Jake, Logan etc…) no backstory needed here. Fuck Jake Paul!
- SSSniperwolf
- masteroogway
- YouTube kids channels
- Cody Kos
- Lankybox
- Speed mcqueen
- Linwei Ding AKA Tech Lead, the biggest douchebag in the world. Was such a piece of shit that he was fired from Google then went to jail for corruption
- I Show Speed
- Meet Kevin
- Andrew Tate
- Dr. Disrespect
Honorable Mention:
- Jamie Mantzel wasn’t necessarily cancelled but his decades long YouTube journey has certainly had its share of drama, controversy, and intrigue.
I would say Internet Historian, after his plagiarism debacle.
There’s also the Nazi of it all.
Such a shame. Dude makes funny content, too bad he’s a horrible person.
JonTron got too big for his britches, fucked off of GameGrumps and then on a podcast popped off the “50% of crimes are committed by 13% of the population” horseshit and then kept doubling down on it, now he makes just garbage tier reaction videos like once every 6 months
Similarly RubberRoss’ cosplayer wife cheated on him with ProJared in what may have been the most pathetic public cuckoldry since Hogan famously belched “I can’t fuck brother! I ate too much sushi” so Holly and Jared both fell apart after that
I don’t know if he counts as a YouTuber because he got canceled on twitch and moved to YouTube but Dr Disrespect live streamed himself at TwitchCon including going into the public restroom where there were minors present. Which is a bad look but could maybe be seen as an accident if it didn’t also come out that he was actively cheating on his wife, whom he had a child with, with women he was meeting with from Twitch. It was all a bit too much and his platform collapsed while he also started firing off lawsuits in multiple directions
I think shit went down with h3h3 around that same time. I gave up on them after they started making irritating anti-feminist content. I’ve avoided them like the plague, but I think they had uh, a definite shift rightwards.
edit: all of the above is rampant speculation btw. Like I said, I’ve avoided them like the plague since then.
Ryan Haywood from Rooster Teeth was fired after a number of allegations that he was cheating on his wife with fans. These allegations also included statutory rape and sexual assault. Some evidence was provided to corroborate the allegations. Rooster Teeth removed some videos involving him and publicly distanced themselves from him. He tried to make a comeback on Twitch and got a ton of pushback from it. I believe he ended up getting banned shortly after.
Fuck I’m old.
Alternate take: You’ve filtered out the obvious garbage and/or don’t care about YouTube drama!
I am old and I want YouTube Drama to distract me from real life drama
Me too!
Tobuscus
Elaborate, please.
Gus Johnson is/was a short skit style comedian that was beloved by the community.
Turns out he’s a shitbag.To prevent others from visiting that shithole website:
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I think we all know at this point what happened to Gus. To summarize, Gus Johnson was at one point like the golden boy of YouTube, as a comedian who made short form skits which often would break into tens of millions of views per video. If you weren’t there for his prime, it was insane. Him and his best friend Eddy Burback, who moved from Chicago specifically to live with him, and their podcast, were also defining periods of the commentary craze of the late 2010s.
In August/September 2021, Gus Johnson broke up with his girlfriend Abelina Sabrina, with both sides stating on twitter that it was mutual. In October 2021 however, shortly after the breakup, Sabrina made a video on her channel alleging emotional abuse from an ex boyfriend years prior who had taken advantage of a near fatal ectopic pregnancy she had underwent to manipulate her. These included tidbits such as the ex arguing with doctors and medical professionals to not provide her medical service, forcing her to get an abortion in the earlier stages even though she had wanted to keep the baby, and probably most famously and disgustingly, going to drink and get wasted at a bar with friends while Sabrina had a life threatening medical operation to remove the fetus. Right after the videos release, many speculated on the identity of the aforementioned ex-boyfriend, universally settling on Gus Johnson. While initially ignored by Sabrina, she would end up liking tweets accusing him, and eventually came out and confirmed that Gus was the boyfriend. As a result, Eddy Burback publicly distanced himself from Gus, and the podcast was cancelled. Gus would release an apology video that was widely panned, and then go into hiding for a few months, before resurfacing in his first public appearance of 2022 on the stream of the controversial PaymoneyWubby. In contrast, Gus was much more defensive, retracting his apology and sharing his side of the story. While this was initially seen as controversial, spawning from a video response from Nickisnotgreen, the whole dispute eventually died down. Now, Gus is really struggling popularity wise, with constant viewer decline, and a polarizing image that he has not escaped from.
So, what has happened since the PaymoneyWubby stream? It’s so bizarre that a figure of Gus’ size (4 million subscribers at his prime), who had such a meteoric downfall, just got forgotten about like that. In contrast, his former collaborator Eddy Burback has garnered pretty impressive popularity after leaving the podcast. I remember when he had like twenty thousand subscribers. I just have not heard about Gus in a hot minute. That was the most painful online controversy I can remember. “Boys support boys” was always a very wholesome brand he created, and it seemed like his actions had just betrayed everything he stood for.
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Did you link the wrong video about Rick Beato? The video (I only watched part of it) was an overview of his videos being taken down by YouTube; sometimes against the wishes of the artists themselves.
I don’t think Rick Beato’s constant rants about YouTube’s takedown policy make him a bad person.
I posted the wrong vid. I stopped watching him because
- he’s an out of touch old dude
- he is an absuive Dad, forcing his kid to play an instrument that he isn’t interested in.