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 Leafy’s fans headed to Tommy’s
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 Leafy’s
fans, and also criticized Leafy’s other
videos.
In response to this Leafy uploaded an apology
video where he said he didn’t know of Tommy’s
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.
There’s 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 didn’t 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.
Dylan’s 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 grandpa’s 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 wasn’t 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 didn’t 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 didn’t 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, there’s
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 wasn’t so hard now was it?
Don’t know when you started talking like
you’re 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 couple’s life.
It was like viewers were holding their hands
through the entire ordeal.
As time went on the couple’s 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 isn’t 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 didn’t 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 Jinx’s
lack of actual creative content.
Jinx responded that he didn’t 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 didn’t care
and tried to ignore the drama as much as they
could.
Nicole’s 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
you’re 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 I’m 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 SoFlo’s “content”
and then created a parody fan page called
SoFloBro, which mimicked SoFlo’s videos
in a satirical way.
SoFlo had his alleged lawyers threated to
sue Ethan although it’s 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 don’t 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 wasn’t 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 wasn’t 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 rsgloryandgold’s
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 don’t look that
much alike.
The sadness thing is that this man, rsgoldandglory
is a very sweet old man who probably doesn’t
have much else to do with his time besides
this.
People that have viewed his streams before
report that he’s a very nice older man who
is very interactive and kind to his fans.
The fact that Keemstar didn’t 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 wasn’t
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 wasn’t his mistake but was the fault
of a researcher on his team.
Either way, this was a heartbreaking story
and it shows that you shouldn’t 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 Nicole’s 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 you’d like more information you can
watch GradeAUnderA’s take on things, although
he asserts his personal opinion, the footage
doesn’t 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 Pepper’s
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 YouTube’s 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
there’s no logical connection between Pepper’s
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 Pepper’s 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.
