• saigot@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • Bonifratz@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    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/

  • MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Braille Skateboarding used to be so cool. They even made it to the news in Australia with the first glass skateboard video.

    Last I heard was the park was destroyed WITHOUT telling the rest of crew it was happening, so they all missed out on a final session.

  • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Jenna marbles was cool and then some asshole canceled her and now she’s gone how about that fuck you all

    • manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      Jenna marbles

      On June 25, 2020, Marbles uploaded an apology video to her YouTube channel following accusations of blackface and racism.[1][18] In the video, she addressed content in YouTube videos that she originally published in 2011 and 2012. This included an impersonation of Nicki Minaj, using offensive language and costuming towards Asians, and using derogatory language towards sexually promiscuous women

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenna_Marbles

      huh

      • ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        derogatory language towards sexually promiscuous women

        So… She called (an imaginary?) slut “slut” and had to apologize for it?

  • Victor@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      He’s back streaming in YouTube, but I guess he’s not as popular anymore.

  • dantheclamman@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Not really a YouTuber but I’ve always been curious what happened about a decade ago with Chris Ziegler from The Verge, who was an editor but then accepted a job at Apple on the side, and was then fired by both companies. He then disappeared entirely from the record and everyone got real quiet about it.

        • superniceperson@sh.itjust.works
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          2 months ago

          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.

          • UnculturedSwine@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            2 months ago

            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.

  • KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      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.

      • titanicx@lemmy.zip
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        2 months ago

        I mean I’m in the same boat as this guy that I’ve never heard of these YouTubers and I’m on YouTube a decent amount. And the reason we think that we would hear about them is the question is who do you think have the largest downfall and you would imagine if somebody was YouTube famous that they would be known by quite a few people on here. Just goes to show you the amount of people that are subscribed doesn’t always reflect the actual number of people on YouTube. Pretty amazing

        • darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          2 months ago

          There are more than 50 million YouTube channels that upload new content each month and there are nearly 3 billion YouTube users, so the likelihood that you’ll intersect with any of them is rather slim.

    • warbond@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      It’s so crazy that 10 million subscribers is huge by YouTube standards but practically meaningless in the larger context.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    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 strange moments came out, sank her whole brand.

  • darvit@lemmy.darvit.nl
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • Goun@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      What incident? People started sharing his videos because he’s cool now, I guess, I can’t even listen to his voice

        • Victor@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          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.

          • overload@sopuli.xyz
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            2 months ago

            He’s also a product of toxic gamer culture, the N word is almost like teenagers calling things gay… doesn’t mean they hate homosexuals.

            This is not to advocate for what he said at all.

            • Victor@lemmy.world
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              2 months ago

              Exactly. Exactly my sentiment. It was really inappropriate, but was not produced from malintent or anything like that, just an expletive, any expletive, and that happened to come out because it was the most edgy bad word that just popped up. Super bad, but, you know. 🤦‍♂️

          • tias@discuss.tchncs.de
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            2 months ago

            I agree, when I was younger we would use worse words and, although I understand better now how they will be received, I could swear there was never any value associated with them back then. They were just descriptive words in the same way one would call a spade a spade - whether the spade is good or bad depends on the spade.

            • Victor@lemmy.world
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              2 months ago

              Right. It’s just kids being kids. Imitating adults.

              And I’m betting him playing games would jolt him back to his child brain in some way, too. Making it even more likely to have something like that slip out, when I’m normal conversation you would obviously never hear him (or us) say something like that (I’d have to assume).

              I sometimes let out some sexual organ slurs, which are pretty bad in my language, when I’m playing games, but it’s just because playing games is something I’ve done since childhood, and it can bring those words out, from those times. It’s more controlled now, since I’m well into adulthood now and I only let out those words to friends who can tolerate them. Not to my family.

              So yeah. I know why something like this can happen. It shouldn’t be career-ending from his perspective (and to some degree it wasn’t), but from the audience’s perspective, it was a whole different thing.

          • SunSunFuego@lemmy.ml
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            2 months ago

            i generally agree, as a european i also said dumb shit because i lack the cultural knowledge WHY certain words are problematic. but pewdiepie was always kind of close to some weird folk. we all probably forgot about the meme review with ben shapiro and elon musk - that was before the “bridge incident” - there was also the t-series stuff which started out as a funny thing in good faith but it normalized racism. his song “removed lasagna” starts with “bobs or vegana, whatever will it be?” and includes lines like “hold your defecation”

          • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
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            2 months ago

            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.

            • Victor@lemmy.world
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              2 months ago

              you could see him recognize that he fucked up in real time.

              He knew it was a bad word though. That’s to his credit given the circumstances, IMO.

              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.

              Maybe it’s a common pattern because people go into shock after they realize they fucked up? Not everyone is calm, cool, and collected when they realize they made a mistake.

              I lived with an embarrassment for two decades before I apologized to a mate of mine. And that wasn’t even my fault. I was set up into embarrassing myself (by proxy of embarrassing my mate). Either way, being embarrassed can definitely put you in a sort of deer in headlights mode and continue like nothing happened while you try to assess.

      • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I have seen this cycle three times already. PewdiePie basically loses popularity for a few years when his audience ages out, and then he does some reboot or marketing push or something and a new generation or children start watching again.

    • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Iilluminaughtii is a strong contender. Karl Jobst didn’t really do anything though, he lost a lawsuit and then kept streaming. Was there something else I didn’t know about?

      • DFX4509B@lemmy.orgEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I only counted Jobst for how quickly everyone turned on him after the lawsuit loss, so it’s purely for being a rapid downfall, Iiiluminaughtii is way worse.

          • MotoAsh@piefed.socialEnglish
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            2 months ago

            It was because he framed the lawsuit leading up to it as if it was over Dumbass’s (I forgot his name) fraudulent records and not over defammatory statements about Dumbass’s response to some other gamer offing themselves or some such similar tangential issue.

            I’ve forgotten all the details because I don’t care and I’m also drunk, but hopefully someone can clarify without making shit up. Though the core of it was that he was being sued over far more legitimate grounds than Dumbass’s provably false records. Hence why Karl lost.

            • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialEnglish
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              2 months ago

              I mean I didn’t think it was really legitimate grounds. This is just from memory, but I think the issue was that he called out Billy Mitchell for cheating being the foundation of basically his whole career, and then Billy sued him for some minor tangential bullshit mostly just totally unrelated to that. I think you are correct, Jobst accused Billy of laughing and being cheerful about some other streamer killing himself (which he definitely did) but also made some kind of minor factual error while talking about it, and Billy convinced a judge that that was worth multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damages. That was my understanding of it.

              Edit: Mostly I think it’s weird to include him in this list because even by the most anti-Jobst reading all he did was slander Billy Mitchell. That seems kind of out of place on a list which currently includes people guilty of pedophilia (Miranda), mass plagiarism (Illuminaughti), and some sort of unholy systematic turbo-pedophilia which is hard to even summarize (Onision).

              Also, I’m a little disturbed that I know the details of all of this weird pop-culture drama bullshit. Maybe the real streamer slop was inside us all the time.

            • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialEnglish
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              2 months ago

              Did they? I didn’t. IDK, I just looked at view counts on his recent videos and they’ve definitely gone down pretty substantially (which sure isn’t ideal) but it’s not a full cratering and then a year of silence like Illuminaughti.