What popular YouTubers have been cancelled by their viewers? (tell the story so we can decide if it was justified)

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

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.
IH didn't really get canceled by his viewers though. They still get plently of views and there was no real mass flaming in the comments from what I recall. The ones who canceled them was HbomberGuy and a small amount of his supporters.
IH played it smart by keeping their mouth shut, not giving the situation any more ammo with a shitty apology, just quietly swept it under the rug and everyone moved on after a week or two.
Oh darn, really?
- Great video by hbomberguy: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yDp3cB5fHXQ

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.
Oh god how could he top hogan. Literally getting cucked by a man named Bubba the love sponge.
That's horrible lmao

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.

I quit watching rooster teeth and achievement hunter around the same time they started putting Ryan in everything. I never liked the dude, something felt off. This 'splains that feeling.
- I was really into Rooster Teeth for a few years, including when Ryan was there. I liked Ryan for a while, but I slowly moved away from Rooster Teeth in general as I found more channels that I enjoyed watching. I eventually decided that I was going to give Rooster Teeth another try to see if I wanted to get back into their content, and it was like 2 days later when the news about Ryan and Adam dropped. I peaced out again after that. It seemed like any time I decided to take another look at Rooster Teeth, there was some new controversy.

SSSniperwolf. All I know is she steals people videos, does dumb reactions, and gets tons of views. She does not have the rights to use those videos, but profits so much off others work. I do not think she even links to the sources. (I could be wrong)

@brutallyhonestcritic@lemmy.world
jacksfilms provided evidence of Sssniperwolf doxing him by travelling to his house and showing live video footage of it to her millions of subscribers, her stealing author's content (and not crediting), muting their jokes and saying the jokes herself, reacting to the same clip more than once in a video, and cases of adding zero commentary (wasn't even on screen).
jacksfilms created a second channel (jjjacksfilms) where he would watch her videos, provide value (he'd critique them and his viewers would learn how to improve their own content by what not to do), AND he'd research and try to include credits to all the original authors that Sssniperwolf was stealing from and didn't credit herself. He has many videos showing more examples of Sssniperwolf's shady behaviour.
Despite it being fair use for jacksfilms to critique her videos, Sssniperwolf doxed him.
2023-07-26 Let's tttalk about Sssniperwolf. (jacksfilms)
2023-08-16 Sssniperwolf is getting worse. Here's proof. (jacksfilms)
2023-10-14 Sssniperwolf came to our home last night. It's time for YouTube to step in. (jacksfilms)
- sadly she came back online recently. not only dox, but also stalking behaviour where she was talking in such a cringey voice.

Gus Johnson is/was a short skit style comedian that was beloved by the community.
Turns out he's a shitbag.

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedrama/comments/1dq0cnw/what_happened_to_gus_johnson_since_the_controversy/

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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- I don't know anything about any of these people. The only thing I want to comment on here, was it an ectopic pregnancy, or was she forced by him to get an abortion? Because I'm not sure you can fault someone for not wanting their partner to die. If it was really ectopic, keeping it would be a death sentence.
  So is he an asshole who forced her to get an abortion? Or did he push her to not end her life for a pregnancy that could never be viable?

I ended up watching a AvE video after a long while (one where he’s making a socket for TTC) it was bittersweet, I used to love his content

Same, I'm pretty bitter about him. Like, I figured we'd have different political views but he didn't seem like a nutter beyond him being completely off his fucking rocker. He had interesting videos, he was quotable as hell, and some of his stuff was quite informative.
I'm quite sad that things turned out the way they did. I can't watch his stuff anymore because I don't want to get flashbanged by crazy.
- Same, loved a lot about the channel then a few years back it just became apparent he was dropping off the deep end and that was the end of that subscription.
  I've also tried to go back and watch stuff here and there and it's damn near impossible to suffer through.

Tobuscus

Elaborate, please.
- He used to make "literal movie trailers" and also branched out as a gaming YouTuber but then was 'exposed' by a former girlfriend who accused of him being on drugs, abusive, and a rapist. This was picked up by a lot of people and YouTubers who've associated with Toby gave their opinions on the matter. Which most gave the answer of "maybe". They essentially confirmed that tobuscus is not as good as a guy as they might think. That he may or may not be a rapist but is pretty sketchy otherwise. Killed his sponsors and viewers.
  (I stole most of this comment from https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/63gt4f/comment/dfu1ayq/ trying not to plagiarise but also I didn't remember well enough what happened lol)

I had no idea about the AvE thing. It's wild but not totally surprising. I used to be an avid watcher of his content but a couple of years ago I started getting bad vibes from and stopped consuming his content. The dirty jokes started to feel like they were more than just jokes and his sexism wasn't ironic. I also started to notice him making statements that felt dogwhistley.

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.
- Rick Beato: abusive to his kid
  I tried to find a source but it all seems to be memes in the music community because his videos are click baity and his books/lessons aren't good.
  Some of the abuse comments are obvious jokes, "He dyed his son's hair white and makes him play the oboe."
- Source on the 2nd statement?
- Are those barely related facts or are you convinced a kid being just forced to learn an instrument qualifies as child abuse?

Mangs - I can't remember why. Probably sexual abuse.
Shadiversity - went crazy right wing.
Brian Lunduke - went crazy right wing.
Sabine Hossenfelter - not "cancelled", but shedding her original viewers. Used to post science explainers. Now panders to the anti-intellectual / anti-science crowd.

Fuck youtube let's go back to radio shows.

Let me tell you the opie and Anthony fable.

Once upon a time there were a couple guys who wanted to be like stern. They had good connections in the new York comedy world via their co host Jim norton so their show became a haven for comedy. Early louie ck, Patrice o Neal, Colin quin, bill burr, all the guys that came up together.

Then... drama. Anthony cumia goes down the rabbit hole of his prexisting racism. Opie becomes somehow more insufferable and Jim Norton is there I guess because he loves a good coat tail.

Around when their show fell apart the fan subreddit turned completely to being nothing but hate and trolling of these b list former radio celebrities. I've never seen anything like it.

There were a lot of funny and talented people shitposting on there. They'd trick news outlets to saying terrorist attacks were made by "antwan kumia". Relentlessly troll their socials and brigade other communities until they got banned.

This is actually where Gavin put that stuff in his ass on cam. Compound media. Anthony cumias racist podcast network lmfao. I still subscribe because I don't think I'll find out anywhere else when he dies.

RIP funniest and most toxic place on internet. My life became better once I stopped reading and posting, but do miss it.

I used to listen to those guys in my car all the time. Sounds like shit fell apart hard!

All Gas No Brakes / Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan. Not sure if his viewers canceled him but there was some sexual harassment accusation from multiple women and he came out with a poorly received apology video.

beast wouldve been cancelled if there wernt so many hatewatchers wierdly defending and hating it at the same time, mr beast was definitely scared at the time with the KSI controversy/lunchly.

Youtube kids channels is a wierd one, i assume something like family vlogs? those always end with abuse and criminal neglect. and the other is some of the channels targeting kids was so bizarre youtube had to shut most of them down. not a large channel: a niche small one if anyone watched these asian yotubers, they are currently almost cancelled but is on life support by incels. basically they bullied a female employee and then terminating her, and she told her side of the story then people started to support her, then one of thier channels lackey" released his own video about her and would not correct the misinformation" more people turned against the channel and they lost a ton of revenue. for the past 2 years they have been living off of grifting from incels, because they turned right wing and they constantly thirsts for trump.

part 2: the channel owners decided to attack her character which caused some sides to believe in the lies. as another former fan uploaded thier shady behaviour of the previous employees they mistreated , made them look worst. thier msyogyny drove all the woman away from thier channel, except 1, and they brought in a eye candy just for the views. apparently also one of thier frequent guest a right wing peddler from the south who has been criticized as the sole reason for thier channels decline, and have been involved with racist videos with shane dawson and that drove all the AA guest away. they had a black guest/employee whom they bullied and treated as a token.

they started scouring social media to shut down any criticisms like they did before that would drive away more viewers, from showing the truth. they had take down 1-2 subreddits about thier channel, and the main sub is currently still be trolled by thier "fans". thier current audience is incels: mostly asian and middle eastern men, and parasocial female fans. it was so cringe because they were desperate enough to bring in a female fan from australia to the channel.(and they have 2 on thier channel brigading any comments). this all from the sub which reports the channels activities. also made worst the fact thier channel has been stagnant for like 10+years prior to this, and they were already declining for quite some time, but instead of trying amicably solve thier employee situation, they made it worst.

and they started shifted heavily to the right as a overcompensation to thier treatment against the female employees, by extension all the females that were ever on the channel had felt their wrath.

PEWPEWDIE allegedly left, because he retired from youtube, everyone know it was some controversy he had like 5+years ago, people think he retired on his own volition. but he recently came back, and trying to lowkey still try to get a following

Twitch streamer rather than Youtuber and not broadly popular either afaik (but was decently well known within the niche community), but Dode. Was also an SMWcentral mod. Kept platforming certain transphobes and eventually got kicked from his mod position and then banned and the community distanced themselves and he quit streaming. Seems like he also got banned on speedrun.com?

Probably not surprising that a community full of trans and other LGBT persons isn't decided they don't like transphobia?

He also abused MoniMendezJ and she quit when he came back. I remember that whole thing and also this one user who got away with targeted harassment at Shovda and other transgender streamers as they were subtle with the harassment and also paid a lot towards Mario Maker streamers.
Wow, was not expecting dode to show up on here (he rightfully deserves it, but didn't think it was big enough for anyone to bring em up)!

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.

MaximillianMus. While he is a troll who makes content revolving around being toxic; he definetly didn't deserve all the hate and pedophile accusations. Even now a lot of people mistakenly believe he is one.