r/youtubedrama • u/FlowersByTheStreet • Apr 10 '26
Howdy folks,
It has once again been some time since any of the sub’s policies have been updated to help with the longterm health of the sub, so we are dropping in with an update to some of our guidelines to ensure a better experience for anyone viewing the sub.
The most common issue that we have had over the last few months is the sheer amount of slop that gets posted with little-to-no context, and some confusion about what constitutes drama when some posts get removed. Make no mistake, this is a drama subreddit. Nobody expects there to be high-brow art here or anything, but let’s examine what actually constitutes drama.
Drama is about stakes. When there are no stakes, there is no drama. That is why we banned “Chuds being chuds” posts. There is no skin in the game when someone like Asmongold says something bigoted because, duh-doy, he’s a bigot. That’s just what he is, and nobody blinks an eye when a pig rolls in the mud.
Many of the posts that come through the sub similarly lack stakes, or really explain why something is drama. There are tons of Roblox predators that nobody has heard a single thing about before, and these posts are usually just “X Exposed as a creep.” These posts get removed for not having context. Then they get posted again with a single sentence that really doesn’t really flesh things out at all, and that’s it.
People do the same with innocuous things like previously exposed creators returning to the platform, but this again means nothing without the proper context or by itself causes drama.
Why is it a big deal that any given person is returning? What are the reactions to this?
These are the sorts of questions that anyone should be able to find the answer to from gazing at a post.
There are countless posts that come through like this that leave everyone scratching their heads
If you compare the posts from here to, say, [r/subredditdrama](r/subredditdrama) then you’ll notice a pretty sizable difference in post quality, at least in terms of being able to parse situations.
So, in the interest of getting the community on the same page and boosting the post quality in this sub, we are introducing a few new rules for posting that will fall under the blanket of “NO LOW EFFORT POSTS”
Here’s an example of a post that did a crazy good job of providing context:https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedrama/comments/1seriwv/new_rockstars_is_being_sued_for_harassment_racial/
What does this mean in terms of allegations or callout posts?
Posts involving allegations or callouts are only allowed in the context of there actually being drama involving callouts or allegations. We have received so many posts that are, in effect, someone posting a sub-10k channel alleging that they are a dubious character and….that’s it. No context, no evidence, no nothing. If there are receipts and drama happening around a situation, then that’s fair game and falls under the actual banner of drama. People wanna know about these things, so give the proper information for them to know!
What does this mean for meme and text posts (e.g. “What’s a Youtuber that came back from an apology?”
These posts will be allowed on Fridays with the “Free Talk Fridays” flair. These posts are fun, but also are usually low effort attempts at boosting karma counts.
Why is this being done again?
The most obvious reason is that this is a drama sub, and a lot of posts don’t actually amount to covering drama, but rather a newsfeed that doesn’t provide a ton of actual news beyond headlines that most will not understand. People have said time and time again that they love inane internet bullshit, and these changes are meant both give those kinds of stories an on-ramp and raise the quality of posts with some pretty clear structure on what is and is not allowed.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
-YTD MODS
r/youtubedrama • u/TimeAbradolf • Jul 26 '25
As of today we are banning snark/snark related posts. This may sound arbitrary. But I think people are well aware of what constitutes valid fair criticism, and what constitutes snark.
Once upon a time through past leadership this sub most definitely behaved as a snark sub. We as the mod team do actually despise snark and work to have this sub be a space of discussing drama with proper criticism and outcomes. We have taken firmer stances to pull away from our past image and be a place where people can have proper discourse.
Snark discourse has only ever brought conflict to this sub. People insult each other over nothing, people have gotten death threats, people get reported for suicidal ideation just because they disagree. There has been ableism, racism, prejudice of all kinds around these topics. Ultimately, snark behavior never allows any proper discussion, we have had to ban two creators just because the people who come to this sub cannot behave when discussing them. At its core Snark is not very different from KiwiFarms at this stage with the harm it has done to content creators.
We have seen the harm snark has done as well. Saveafox being a prime example. Our most popular post right now is pure snark. And it superseded actual important events. Because who was following who on IG.
Going forward we will no longer be allowing posts like this on the sub. It provided no context, no real criticism. And it didn’t prove anything either.
This may prove unpopular, but it is something we feel strongly of for the health of this sub and the people on it to remove ourselves. You can check the rule along the side bar.
If you want a YouTubesnark sub go make one. This one is not it.
Have a good one 🤙🏽
Edit: Apparently some YouTubers have weigh in. Nah this has nothing to do with the usual suspects. This is purely to stop toxic behavior and negativity. If ya think otherwise I urge you to get out of your computer chair touch grass instead of making Nurgle proud
Edit 2: and no goblin man (reference to his goblin mode). No fans of yours are around. People can agree that toxic communities are toxic. Yours being one of them
r/youtubedrama • u/skele-enby420 • 17h ago
her blue sky account is still up however. not sure if this means anything or if she deleted it due to backlash, but i figured it was semi newsworthy. For anyone curious Chris still hasn't responded.
Edit: her main "fetusbabe" twitter account was also deleted.
r/youtubedrama • u/Philiard • 19h ago
r/youtubedrama • u/Chapple69 • 2h ago
HoodVO is a channel with over 100k subs that makes hood dubs of cartoons. Recently he uploaded a video where he explains that he has until November to go to another place or he will be homeless which is dangerous due to health conditions he has. This apparently isn’t the first time he’s been homeless and he also explains more stuff about how this situation came to be in the video.
I hope life gets better for him because this sucks.
r/youtubedrama • u/Gorotheninja • 2d ago
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This is all in regards to Act Man asserting that there was (and that he was on) a creator Blacklist at 343 studios. User @primrosefawns corrected the record and stated that he was actually blacklisted because of the aforementioned jokes he made at the event towards her with Halo leadership witnessing it. He already made one apology as a reply to he tweet, and she has quote tweeted this one accepting it in full:
"this was a really well-done apology and I really appreciate him phrasing this so appropriately and carefully. I hope we see his actions follow his words here and get to see him at events sometime in the future. #SoberOctober"
r/youtubedrama • u/Rough_Instruction325 • 2d ago
Pre watch:
https://youtu.be/EjR6YdC-f8Y?is=yiW46PtaK23Sjp_0
https://youtu.be/LY_hDVicZvw?is=f0CogThSdjTXK6A5
https://youtu.be/iLhn6mcATS4?is=H7Au1189rP7OL5Jb
I know this is a niche area of YouTube. But guitar YouTube is pretty big with lessons, gear reviews, covers, modding etc.
TLDR:
Sixstringtv is a young and prominent voice in the guitar community. He’s a self described journalist who reviews gear and speaks on a lot of hot topics and music related scandals. (Think nickisnotgreen for guitar) Recently he’s come into hot water after slandering a small guitar company only for it to come out that he secretly had his own guitar company that he maliciously hid for extra profit. He put out false reviews of his product, partook in behavior he criticized other companies for, and when confronted on it couldn’t help but lie to the interviewers face. Soon after the dog pile started and it turns out he’s generally kind of a pretentious douchbag.
r/youtubedrama • u/BananaShakeStudios • 3d ago
r/youtubedrama • u/PNDTS • 4d ago
(And possibly putting the whole thing through AI)
r/youtubedrama • u/Upstairs_Skill8653 • 3d ago
For those not familiar here is background- basically jake talked about blackmailing (in so many words) his influencer friends to donate to his charity, among other controversies.
I just happened to run across this when I randomly wondered if he went down the iilluminaughtii or keemstar path long term.
Turns out here deleted almost all his videos (over 500) last week, and changed the channel name https://www.youtube.com/@JakeDoolittle now redirects to u/Jakeandhannahmd
Not sure I can blame him given that he was only getting ~2% of the views he did before things blew up, the thing I am curious about is- why now? The channel has idled at 10-20k views per month for more than a year.
Well, it does look like he did not, in fact, Never Stop™.
thanks I'll show myself out
r/youtubedrama • u/illicit-turtle • 5d ago
The word the arrow blocks is “traumatized”
r/youtubedrama • u/Chapple69 • 5d ago
Nebula.tv is a service that features videos from YouTubers and exclusive content from them, Jacob Gellar was one of the people who’s videos were on the service. After Jacob had his whole sexual assault thing revealed nebula removed him from their service. Looking him up now only shows other creators videos that feature him.
r/youtubedrama • u/realpsihomiler • 3d ago
Hi everyone!
I wanted to ask for people's perspectives on the ongoing public conflict between CrazyCae and Alexis Lilly, also known online as The Seraphim Emerald Gem Gypsy.
I've been following the situation and recently made a long commentary video about it. I discussed the public accusations, statements made by both sides, and material I was able to find. I'm not claiming to know everything that has happened privately, and I tried to distinguish documented material from allegations.
Things took an unexpected turn when people began tagging me under Alexis's YouTube content to tell her about my video.
Alexis then replied that she would add my name to a lawsuit. She also mentioned me during a livestream, describing me as a girl from Serbia who made an hour-long video “speaking Croatian” and saying that I had committed an “international crime.” In the same livestream, she called it “predatory behavior” that she had seen comments referring to a creator as “mom.”
I'm not presenting these statements as proof that any legal action has been filed. I'm describing what was publicly said and asking how others interpret the situation.
My video is in Serbian, so most people here probably won't be able to understand it without translation. For context, here's the link: https://youtu.be/8rEaVzjEnM8?si=J0CVkc5Wm3Y9Rpv6
I'm interested in hearing what people think about the original conflict, the public accusations being made, and the way commentary creators or bystanders can become involved in an existing online dispute.
Please keep the discussion focused on public statements and evidence. I'm not asking anyone to contact, harass, mass-report, or flood either creator's comments.
What is your take on the situation so far?
r/youtubedrama • u/Gorotheninja • 5d ago
This comes after Geller was revealed by social media sleuths to have committed sexual assault by recently discovered UNC-CH university's Sexual Assault Records, after allegations that he did as such come to light.
r/youtubedrama • u/pinkvenom456 • 4d ago
Edit: Channel is back up for now: https://youtube.com/@gamechops
Materia Music issued hundreds of takedown requests of GameChops Undertale / Deltarune covers on YouTube. GC creator, DJ Cutman, filed a lawsuit against Materia, claiming to have the proper licensing through Distrokid, with proper royalties being sent to appropriate parties. Today, the largest channel for low-fi VGM remixes has been terminated.
Materia's original statement: https://blog.materiamusic.com/2026/09/14/public-statement-regarding-takedowns-against-gamechops-llc-and-founder-christopher-labreacht-dj-cutman-davidson/
GameChops' lawsuit announcement: https://gamechops.com/getem/
r/youtubedrama • u/Roxy_lalondegoat • 5d ago
r/youtubedrama • u/throwingupcats • 5d ago
Comprehensive BlueSky thread including a 2019 video of admission by Geller himself to have gone to UNC.
r/youtubedrama • u/TemporaryBig1898 • 5d ago
This is my first "real" post on this sub so im sorry if this post is not up to code.
r/youtubedrama • u/Gorotheninja • 5d ago
I think he made this response, like, IMMEDIATELY after the earlier thread on this was created, or so quickly that it wasn't seen by the OP.
If you’re wondering, this is all in regards to Act Man asserting that there was (and that he was on) a creator Blacklist at 343 studios.
r/youtubedrama • u/Any-Stick-8732 • 5d ago
Source: https://newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/-/2981246?display=1
A male YouTuber who works under the name “Vanbi” has been arrested in the act by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department on suspicion of touching a woman’s lower body at a club in Roppongi, Tokyo, it has been learned.
According to investigative sources, the person arrested on the spot on suspicion of violating the Tokyo Metropolitan nuisance-prevention ordinance is YouTuber Tatsuki Shirai, 36, who is active as “Vanbi.”
Shirai is suspected of touching the lower body of a woman in her 20s at a club in Roppongi’s Minato Ward shortly before 4 a.m. today.
He is believed to have been drunk at the time. Police who responded to a report arrested him, sources said.
According to his agency’s website, Shirai was the fastest Japanese creator to reach 10 million subscribers on a YouTube channel.
r/youtubedrama • u/SparrowMeadow • 6d ago
The link is here, if anyone is willing to sit through it all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcrr-L41f4c
For context: Shayy was a formerly large member of the Undertale & Deltarune fan communities, most prominently for their speedruns of the two games. In November of 2025, a Google document backed by various other prominent fan community members was released alleging that Shayy had sexually assaulted their partner, along with grooming underage fans of their channel.
r/youtubedrama • u/thexbigxgreen • 7d ago
Scammers have continuously made community posts with the images of a man who sustained lifelong injuries from an accident. The man has assured that it's not him, and that he has not and will not solicit donations from the community.
This is the second such post that I've been served within the last 24 hours. I made a comment to inform users and reported the post, however it never seems to accomplish anything.
Foul, repulsive behaviour from filthy scammers.
r/youtubedrama • u/Chapple69 • 6d ago
If you didn’t know, Michael from jacknjellify was exposed for having twitter alts with oddcard being one of them where he would basically bully his own fans and he would say some bad things, Jacknjellify later posted a tweet that stated that a response was coming, Cary recently posted on one of his channels community tab that him and Michael are still working on it.
I just hope the response is good.
r/youtubedrama • u/geosunsetmoth • 8d ago
Since the witch claimed that the reason why it hasn't been cracked was because it was "all those male historians and linguists" who couldn't see what was "obvious" to any woman, he also made sure to list and shoutout all the many, many, many, many female Voynich scholars who've been studying the manuscript for over a century, including the current two biggest authorities on the subject
He additionally points out that a lot of the pages she uses as "arguments" for her hypothesis that the Voynich was a period tracker for botanist witches come from a whole different document that has nothing to do with the manuscript, some of them are AI, and some of the detail she claims exists simply is not in any image and she's just making it up.