Top 15 Cases of YouTube Drama

Number 15. Pyrocynical, Leafy and h3h3 productions In March gamer and commentator Pyrocinical
found himself involved in a huge drama with h3h3 productions and fellow gaming Youtuber
Leafy. It all began with Leafy making a video where he made fun of, and basically roasted
TommyNC2010. From there Leafys fans headed to Tommys channel to leave threats for,
really no reason.

It came to light that Tommy actually had autism, so of course plenty of
people in the community became angry with Leafy. Tommy also posted a video of himself
crying over the threats he was receiving and he even said he was going to quit Youtube.
One of many that responded to the situation was Ethan Klein from h3h3 productions. He
made a video titled The Leafy Rant in which he called out Leafy for his video making
fun of Tommy, called out Leafys fans, and also criticized Leafys other videos. In
response to this Leafy uploaded an apology video where he said he didnt know of Tommys
mental illness.

However, a huge issue was that he did not urge his fans to no longer
go after the people he features in his videos. After this Pyrocynical made a video responding
to the entire situation, because although he had not been directly part of things many
viewers linked him with Leafy and were attacking him as well. In this video he brought viewers
up to date on the drama, as well as urged his own fans to not attack those he uses in
his videos, as it is all fun and games. He instead, encouraged them to send those people
love.

He also showed screenshots of h3h3 harassing him via twitter, calling him the true cancer
of YouTube. After this h3h3 made yet another response video, but posted it to reddit instead
of his main channel. He explained that the screenshots were not sent directly to pyro,
but were actually between Leafy and himself, because they had been bouncing around ideas
of a video making fun of pyro. After this came a video from Leafy calling out Ethan
from h3h3 for essentially being two faced and saying different things to Leafy and Pyro.
H3h3 makes a response video basically explaining that Ethan is upset with Leafy for sharing
private conversations, as it was something Ethan had not done to anyone involved.

From
here we get another video from Pyro, where he basically explains that he wants nothing
else to do with the drama. He also insists for Ethan and Leafy to also put the drama
aside because they were just helping Keemstar from Drama Alert to make money, and they were
supposed to be working together as members of similar content in the YouTube community.
To date, there has not been a for sure solution, however Pyro took down most of his videos
and Ethan has removed the related content from Reddit. Number 14. Angry Grandpa and DylanIsFTW.

This drama is fairly small scale compared
to others. Theres a channel called Angry Grandpa where an elderly man has outrages
and cusses out his son and granddaughter. The videos have millions of views because
people love to watch old people freak out, especially in a comedic way. The videos are
certainly fake, and anyone who watches more than one will know that right away.

If this
elderly man was really this out of control police or care takers would certainly be involved.
The little family are not the worst actors and the content is so high energy that it
just works out most the time. Chances are that the channel sparked on accident and the
family went with it. Angry Grandpa has had a history of getting threats as most YouTubers
do, however the family was very concerned and sought the help of a low level YouTuber
known as DylanIsFTW, a Canadian vlogger. Although, as of right now the only channel on his video
is Angry Grandpa is FAKE where he explains that the angry grandpa content is staged and
that he is upset the family lies to their viewers.

Angry Grandpa, known as AGP for short,
asked Dylan to help him curve threats and to protect his personal information. Dylan
did so and also appeared in several videos with AGP. It became clear that Dylan was a
huge fan and was happy to be a part of this. However, after some time AGP disabled his
Facebook because he didnt really know how to use it, and was getting into some trouble
with his comments.

Because of this Dylan assumed he was being ignored and became enraged, more
so than AGP in his staged videos. After this Dylan started trying to blackmail AGP threatening
to publish his personal address and phone number. Dylans goal was to gain the friendship
of AGP and to also acquire money and views. All of this came about in February of 2016.
Angry grandpas son reported that AGP is having severe chest pain as a result of anxiety,
but Dylan has since taken down his twitter and nearly all of his videos.

Number 13. TheFineBros A very recent and very large scale YouTuber
drama includes the channel known as the Fine Bros, which is a channel run by two brothers.
The channel has very diverse content, however their most popular videos involve reactions
of certain groups of people. Such as children react, elders react and YouTubers react where
they set up these groups to react to certain videos or objects and ask them several questions.
The reaction video is an archaic form of entertainment on YouTube, amateurs have been coming to the
platform for years for the sole person of reacting to random viral videos on the web.
Not to mention that several other users out there have channels pretty much dedicated
to reaction videos unique to each person and channel. Talk show host, actress and comedian
Ellen DeGeneres had a skit on her show where she had children react to old technology.
The Fine Bros claimed that she was basically copying their content without giving them
any credit.

However, her skit was set up very differently as she interacted with the children
more, and it wasnt just a camera set up. After this there was a snow ball effect that
led to the Fine Bros publishing a video where they announced they would be copywriting the
term react and would be creating an online community where people could upload
their reaction videos for the Fine Bros to use, for about 60% of the revenue. This sounded
pretty unreal to YouTube users of all kinds, trying to copy write a common term that you
didnt truly create is pretty crazy overall. But more importantly the YouTube community
was more upset about the idea of the Fine Bros taking a large percentage of revenue
from videos that they in no way created.

The community fought back and the Fine Bros lost
literally hundreds of thousands of subscribers over the course of only a few days. In the
end the Fine Bros decided to let the whole thing die and didnt make further effort
to copy write or take revenue. Number 12. LionMaker and PaigeThePanda In December 2015, an entire drama began with
Minecraft YouTuber LionMaker came under the spotlight for alleged pedophilia, and tweeting
child pornography.

Most of this ordeal began when a mother reported that the 27-year-older
YouTubers asked 13-year-old daughter for nude photos. LionMaker of course defending himself
by saying that the allegations were faked. However, not short after all of this, Leisure
Scary Gaming  a friend of LionMakers- admitted that he knew about LionMaker hitting
on 13 to 16-year-old girls and boys online in streams and through Skype. In response
to this KeemStar from Drama Alert send a video to LionMaker trying to call him out on the
situation.

To which Lion Maker tweeted that he and 15-year-old Paige the Panda had been
having a relationship for several months. Within a few hours he tweeted a photo of Paige
in her underwear, and even worse a fully nude photo. After news about all of this broke,
more and more teens came forward about LionMaker offering them money for nudes and even more
based communication. Number 11.

OpTic Scumpii and KenZ. In the YouTube community it is not uncommon
for people with common interests and similar channels to eventually begin dating, and the
drama of their breakups happens quite often. When YouTubers get into relationships their
fan bases sometimes merge and their viewers get meshed together, along with some new ones
that are just there for the cutesy or romantic aspect of the duo. So when these YouTube popular
couples break-up they are essientially breaking their new fan base back into two, which results
in people choosing sides and stirring up even more drama.

The gaming YouTubers Scumpii and
KenZ are perfect examples of this drama, though neither of them had a very huge following,
their fan base was a melting pot of viewers and through their on again off again relationship
it caused quite a stir in their community. People spread rumors about both of them, leaked
deleted text messages and tweets, and generally chose sides to throw fire against the other.
Most of this began in August 2014 when Scumpii was sent screenshots of her texting another
guy and exchanging nudes. Scumpii claimed that he was just happy this all came to light
before they got married, however others claim that the screenshots were faked, and the drama
took off from there. Now in 2016 Scumpii has reached over 1 million subscribers and is
more active than ever.

On the other hand KenZ. Is still quite active, but has a smaller following
and uploads less frequently. Number 10. KSI and Gudjondaniel In the FIFA community of YouTube, theres
been a drama that has been going on for years between user KSI and Gudjondaniel.

The two
users were initially friends that made videos together but had a very serious falling out
and went their own ways. Gudjon apparently left the channeling after using it to gain
subscribers on his own content, and during an interview said Who the fuck is KSI?
When asked about their relationship. This of course got a response from KSI calling
him out about how he basically built Gudjons channel. This is another instance where a
fan community got split into two and began throwing drama at the other side.

It became
a general rule of thumb that if you were a fan of one, you were expected to dislike the
others videos. In August 2015 Gudjon made a video saying that he was going to quit YouTube
and even made an apology to KSI, to which KSI responded That wasnt so hard now
was it? Dont know when you started talking like youre constantly constipated but apology
accepted Number 9. The Sam and Nia Miscarriage This Christian vlogging couple gained a huge
amount of views in a video which Sam took urine from the unflushed toilet in their home,
to use a pregnancy test. During the video he found out his wife was pregnant, he jumped
in joy and even teared up.

He then broke the news to his wife Nia, who also became very
happy and emotional. The video garnished millions of views and caught the hearts of people across
the web. Young women and trying couples alike shared the joy with the couple. A few months
later the couple shared another heart touching video, but this time it was heart breaking.
The pair shared a tragic story of a miscarriage as they both cried their eyes out.

Again,
the internet was deeply involved in this couples life. It was like viewers were holding their
hands through the entire ordeal. As time went on the couples popularity blew up and their
channel became so viewed that Sam made another video where he claimed he had quit his job
to pursue a full career as a Vlogger. However, the internet did what it does best and investigated
the situation, to find that Sam never quit his job.

After this, viewers began to question
the honesty of all the events that had occurred. In the end of it all, it had been found that
the couple was never pregnant and everything was staged for the case of views. If this
isnt bad enough Sam was found to have an Ashley Madison account during a hack. Ashley
Madison, is a site where men and even women can go to cheat on their spouses.

He made
a response video that admitted he had cheated on his wife, but that God had forgiven him.
Again, the community lashed out against the couple for blatant lying, and using a fake
miscarriage which is a very heavy tragedy, to get views. Sam was even kicked out of a
Vlogging event for YouTubers because he was confronted and reacted violently. Number 8. Sky Williams and BurtGasm These two YouTubers had a very short lived
drama when BurtGasm, a minecraft based YouTuber created a video game based on being a school
shooter.

Sky Williams was offended, as most were, with the games content because Minecraft
videos usually have a demographic of younger viewers, typically starting from age 8 and
up. Sky had concerns that young viewers would play BurtGasms game and either get the wrong
idea about the severity of school shootings, or would have traumatic memories of being
involved in one, as it is something that happens so often today. BurtGasm lashed back claiming
that he made the game to raise awareness not to desensitize players, however Sky didnt
buy it. The two had a debate on Drama Alert where BurtGasm claimed his demographic was
actually in the 25 and older range and that people should not be too sensitive to these
things and that talking about them makes it easier to deal with.

But Sky claimed that
he was just using sensitivity as an excuse for his pointlessly violent game. Many viewers
believe that BurtGasm actually made the game simply for the outrage he would receive because
he would eventually gain more views. Number 7. IDubbbz and Jinx This drama began when idubbbz called out Jinx
in a tweet where he claimed that Jinx just stole others content for views.

Jinx account
is based almost entirely on reaction videos so idubbbz was referring to Jinxs lack
of actual creative content. Jinx responded that he didnt know why idubbbz was so obsessed
with him. Idubbbz then suggested that they have a charity boxing match to settle the
feud. There were several attempts to set things up but Jinx never went through with the plans.
However, ever since this drama in December of 2015, more YouTubers have had similar drama
with Jinx as they feel his videos are just a more unique way of stealing content.

Number 6. Bashur and Clara Babylegs Bashur, the gaming YouTuber was dating a slightly
less popular female YouTuber by the username of Clara Babylegs. The two broke up for common
relationship issues, and Clara blocked Bashur on every platform and basically ignored him
as he tried his hardest to reach out. Keemstar from Drama Alert brought Bashur onto the show
in April 2015 and showed Bashur some evidence of Clara dating another YouTuber despite her
claiming to want to work it out with Bashur, in a text she sent that same day.

Keemstar,
as well as many other viewers have speculated that Clara was a gold digger and was only
with Bashur for potential views and money, then she left him for a more popular
YouTuber. Smile For YouTube Gaming also came forth and admitted that he was paying Clara
to keep in contact with Bashur to urge him to stay active on YouTube. Smile For YouTube
Gaming also claimed that he made an offer to Clara of $1000 to say she still loved Bashur.
He actually had Skype audio evidence of Clara admitting she would do this for the money.
This whole thing just continued out of control while Bashur basically lost his stability
and cried on camera several times. The whole ordeal is actually very sad and difficult
to keep up with, because despite all of this the two actually made a video explaining that
they got back together about a month later.

In this video Bashur actually tased Clara
as a joking way to release anger but also to earn money for a charity dedicated to disabled
gamers. The couple have been going strong ever since. Number 5. Nicole Arbor and Everyone Though it sounds strange, this YouTuber did
in fact stir up a huge controversy with almost the entire YouTube community.

Nicole made
a video filled purely with fat shaming, saying that fat people should be put in special camps
to lose weight, along with a lot of other very rude and unbelievable comments. YouTubers
pretty much split into three categories on this topic, those that supported her comments
or defended that she was just being satirical, those that were completely appalled at her
hatred, and those that just didnt care and tried to ignore the drama as much as they
could. Nicoles channel was actually very well known for racist, and offensive satire
videos. Which were apparently aimed to point out how ridiculous this hate can be.

However,
very often viewers are convinced that she actually feels this way. She had plenty of
back lash from other users and viewers alike. During some time, her channel was completely
shut down, due to too many reports on her videos. However, since this epic drama her
channel has returned and the only thing she has provided her is more gossip.

In fact you
hardly ever hear about her unless youre hearing something about her offending someone. Number 4. H3h3 productions and Soflo The Facebook famous SoFlo Antonio is mostly
known for stealing the content of others and claiming he is using them under fair use laws.
Most of his videos are just a short clip of him saying something like Not gonna lie,
this is so me when Im in traffic then he uses the funny and creative content of
another user without crediting them whatsoever. SoFlo has faced a lot of anger from the community
with this, but the most interesting drama involving him in recent months is between
him and h3h3 productions main man, Ethan Klein.

The whole ordeal started when Ethan created
a video making fun of SoFlos content and then created a parody fan page called
SoFloBro, which mimicked SoFlos videos in a satirical way. SoFlo had his alleged
lawyers threated to sue Ethan although its been theorized that the emails were from SoFlo
himself. The SoFloBro page also got taken down and SoFlo essentially stole the likes
of the parody page. In response to this Ethan contacted an actual lawyer that said there
was nothing SoFlo could do about the videos.

Shortly after this a tweet was directed toward
Ethan saying Just please dont try to sue us back, we will retract our claims
and so on. After Ethan made a video explaining the drama up to this point, SoFlo made his
first ever creative video, if you even want to call it that. Where he claimed that
Ethan was the one that stole content, which just wasnt true. H3h3 is a reaction based
channel but the content is majority Ethan or his wife, along with other creative videos
that are irrelevant to the content of others.

After this Ethan made one last fire back to
which SoFlo never responded. Number 3. Keemstar from Drama Alert and rsgloryandgold Although this drama wasnt directly between
two YouTubers, a huge part of the YouTube community became involved after shit hit the
fan. Keemstar got the tip about a Twitch streamer that had been arrested for having with a minor
that he met online.

Keemstar, before doing proper investigation made a video about this
alleged offender, which led to people going rsgloryandgolds twitch stream and sending
him very hateful messages. Viewers were telling him to himself, along with a lot of other
horrible things. The older man eventually began crying and the whole story is pretty
heartbreaking. It turns out that the actual offender, who does look similar to this twitch
user, is still in jail.

Therefore, it's clearly not the same person. Even depite that fact
they dont look that much alike. The sadness thing is that this man, rsgoldandglory is
a very sweet old man who probably doesnt have much else to do with his time besides
this. People that have viewed his streams before report that hes a very nice older
man who is very interactive and kind to his fans.

The fact that Keemstar didnt do his
proper research before making his video, which led to this man being basically attacked,
pretty much pissed off the community. Once people began to realize this wasnt the
same guy, Keemstar was the one being attacked. A great video on this particular topic will
be linked below, YouTuber Scarce made a video explaining the situation and also included
some video of the older man crying during his stream, which is pretty heartbreaking.
Keemstar made a twitter video explaining that it wasnt his mistake but was the fault
of a researcher on his team. Either way, this was a heartbreaking story and it shows that
you shouldnt throw people under the bus before you know all the facts.

This story
had an amazing ending though, thanks to Scarce and literally thousands of others in the gaming
and YouTube community, the rsgoldandglory, better known simply as Tony, cried tears of
joy. He gained about 70,000 twitch followers literally overnight. His reputation was cleared
and now he has plenty of followers to interact with. Number 2.

Nicole Arbor and Matthew Santoro This was another huge drama including Nicole
Arbor but this time the YouTube community became even more involved. Probably because
they were already fed up with here and just needed one more reason to let out their opinions.
In September 2015 Nicole and Matthew Santoro broke up because of alleged abuse going on
between the pair, mostly from Nicoles side of things. Later after the breakup, Matt accidentally
published a YouTube video that was apparently intended to be private, which explained his
relationship dealing with abuse. During the video he talked about a couple of different
occasions which he was verbally, emotionally, and even physically abused.

He broke into
tears as he explained the course of things. Nicole made a response video saying that everything
he claimed was a lie and that Matt was mentally unstable. However, because of her history
in the community no on really believed her. YouTube GradeAUnderA even made a video that
brought to light a previous video Nicole had on her channel, but later deleted.

In which
she basically admits to abusing him, apologizes that she wants to get back together. Everything
in the two videos made by Nicole are totally contradictory which can go to show that she
would be lying in the latter one. This is yet another drama with many layers and if
youd like more information you can watch GradeAUnderAs take on things, although
he asserts his personal opinion, the footage doesnt lie. Number 1.

Sam Pepper and Laci Green The very popular former reality star and now
YouTuber named Sam Pepper always had a bit of negative attention for his overly pranks
that were very few steps away from being flat out harassment. In late 2014 YouTuber and
feminist Laci Green made a video explaining that many people in the community were fed
up with Sam Peppers and even aggressive pranks. She also had a petition style letter
signed by over 100,000 people including several big YouTubers such as Tyler Oakley, Hank & John
Green, and Hannah Heart just to name a few. Sam Pepper had a video removed from YouTube
because of this nature and YouTubes apparently awareness of the outrage among other users.
Sam Pepper responded with a video that claimed his pranks were a social experiment to demonstrate
the issues with harassment against men.

Which is a very serious and real issue, however
theres no logical connection between Peppers videos and that particular issue. It was likely
just some excuse that he made to try and avoid the fire being thrown at him. When Laci made
this video she also mentioned that several girls had come forth and admitted to her that
they had been raped by Pepper. Several reports had been filed against him.

A couple of charges
were dropped because the girls were harassed by Peppers fans, and others were afraid
of Pepper himself. Ever since this drama came to the public, Sam Pepper has actually become
a very hated figure on YouTube, and despite all of this, he is still making videos. Therefore,
he is probably still making money, has a huge fan base, and there are several copycat channels
that are doing the same aggressive pranks that Pepper began..