sometimes going viral isn’t all it’s
cracked up to be
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
YouTube scandals
before we begin we publish new videos
every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re taking a
look at drama bombs on the popular video
sharing site whether it’s copyright
infringement or unethical prank videos
they’re all fair game here
number 10 YouTube heroes and subscriber
bugs
2016 will go down as a write-off for
just about everybody especially YouTube
throughout the year many youtubers saw a
hefty dip in their subscribers and were
understandably a bit miffed in response
to the outcry YouTube’s kind of admitted
they didn’t know what was happening
later saying it was above to add fuel to
the rage fire YouTube then came out with
YouTube heroes in September 2016 a
program that would allow users to flag
videos report users and assist in closed
captioning basically they wanted people
to work for YouTube for free in a sad
twist of irony the community backlash
was so brutal that YouTube disabled the
comment section on the video talk about
a down vote number 9 Hossein say david
cline you may know these parties better
as YouTube personalities bold guy and
h3h3 productions for those unfamiliar
with the works of Ethan and Ella Klein
there are two channels h3h3 and even an
ela boast comedy skits reaction videos
and YouTube criticisms when they reacted
to a video uploaded by Matt hast owned
the channels owner Matthew Hossein Zadeh
didn’t take too kindly to the slamming
or their use of his content you know
when you watch a porn you endure this
shit because you know going somewhere
but where it’s like there’s no cat his
lawyer demanded the video be taken down
never spoken of again
and wanted four thousand dollars in
compensation
the lawsuit continued causing big names
like philip defranco and defined
brothers to band together to help fund
h3h3 defense in the name of fair use
number eight marina joyce fake
kidnapping in july 2016
this young beauty blogger came under
serious scrutiny in a video about date
outfits marina joyce seem to be behaving
strangely click the link i’ll kick this
right now if you would like to buy that
card her fans immediately noticed she
wasn’t her normal energetic self and
some even thought they could see bruises
on her body then he took these assigns
joyce was in danger with some even
speculating she was kidnapped by isis
the hashtag saved marina joyce quickly
spread online with fears escalating to
the point that authorities visited her
home in reality the video was just an
awkward advertisement and her bruises a
result of a tumble in the woods prior to
shooting the video whether this was a
stunt joyce pulled the real deal or just
a lot of jumping to conclusions it’s
still quite something
number 7 toby Turner’s rape allegations
famous for his literal trailers and
humorous music videos didn’t man watch
the drama
toby turner also known as Tobuscus came
under fire in spring 2016 for
accusations of rape and sexual assault
from ex-girlfriend and youtube
personality April app soon after another
of Turner’s ex-girlfriends Amelia Cowan
came forward saying that Turner had
pressured her into using drugs and had
also abused her Jacqueline Glenn another
ex did speak out in support of Turner
though she also claimed that she often
felt pressured but not forced to do
things during their relationship in
November she posted again saying that
Turner was incessantly messaging her and
that she just wanted the whole ordeal to
stop number 6 ray william johnson sued
over fair use in a similar fashion to
h3h3 and matt hot zone long time
youtuber ray william johnson went
through a couple of legal disputes with
jookin media johnson’s videos on equal
three often feature commentary on
content from other creators and it was
this format that got him in trouble
jookin media claimed that up to 48
videos violated the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act or DMCA and should be
deleted the issue eventually made its
way
court with Johnson arguing that his
videos were transformative and made new
content out of the original videos like
I’ve written more jokes about viral
videos than any one human should ever
have to write while the initial
judgments ruled in Johnson’s favor the
case was resolved in a seemingly
positive manner for all parties involved
number five Nicole Arbour and Matthew
Santoro youtuber Nicole Arbour is best
known for her infamous dear fat people
video in which she harshly criticized
obese people dear fat people ah
people are already really nice video she
made more than a few enemies with her
comments all the while gaining a lot of
publicity did you expect to offend
people are you surprised I’ve won more
than her side 100% however she came into
the news again for another YouTube
related fiasco Matthew Santoro who’s
best known for his factual list videos
posted a video revealing that he had an
emotionally and physically abusive
relationship
this person prevented me from leaving
their home I was hit in the face in a
video from January 2016 titled my abuse
story he talked about the relationship
and the ensuing drama it wasn’t
confirmed that he was referring to arbor
until she posted calling him a little
bitch and stated that he was using her
for attention I just lost my shit number
4 drama alert and the runescape
pedophile no one can stir up the drama
quite like teen star of the
controversial drama alert channel
however sometimes he and the channel
jumped the gun and in this case someone
got hurt drama alert found a new story
about a gamer named John Phillips using
runescape to lure young women and
singled out twitch streamer Tony as the
pedophile except he was not the guy Tony
soon received death threats and hateful
messages reducing him to tears youtuber
scarce entered the scene and called out
teen stars lack of fact-checking stating
that the actual molester was still in
prison and the Tony was an innocent man
teen star issued an apology video and
offered the men money in damages but
many thoughts sorry wasn’t nearly enough
I know the responsible thing is to
acknowledge that we got this wrong
takedown in video
number three csgo lotto team Martin and
The Syndicate project in 2013 Counter
Strike global Offensive became more
customizable for users giving them the
option of skins soon sites popped up
giving users no matter how old they were
the chance to trade and gamble these
coveted items on counter-strike games on
Steam youtuber honor the call started
noticing that Trevor Martin known as T
Martin and tom cassell of The Syndicate
project both won a lot of money on csgo
lotto comm which was used to win the
in-game items oh my god he then
uncovered that Martin and Cassell were
csgo lottos president and vice president
respectively which they had not
mentioned apparently these two have been
allegedly faking gambling and also
faking rimming what started as a mother
suing the games developer for allowing
her young son to gamble soon resulted in
a class action lawsuit against Martin
and Cassell who had broken the Federal
Trade Commission rules number two Sam
peppers killing best friend prank former
Big Brother housemates Sam pepper is now
most known for prank videos in 2014 one
of his videos featured him touching
women without their consent but a year
later he went to a whole new level the
video depicts pepper in disguise
kidnapping online personality Sam
Goldbach and Colby Brock then forcing
Goldbach to watch Brock get shot pepper
was shocked by the horrified response
and Goldbach expressed the videos point
was about quote living life to the full
when you actually went editions called
for pepper to be banned from YouTube he
responded with a GoFundMe page promising
to delete his YouTube account if pledges
hit one and a half million dollars by
February 2016
pepper began privatizing his videos and
purging his Twitter account before
re-emerging as a vlogger before we
expose our top pick here are some
dishonorable mentions no way
yeah there was anything he wanted to say
or do I was so open about everything
[Music]
number one the fine brothers react world
that’s known for their reaction videos
the fine brothers announced plans in
2016 to license their format to creators
and trademark the term react we are
excited to announce react world many saw
this as a move to capitalize on what is
a very common format and the fine
brothers were met with heavy criticism
from both viewers and fellow content
creators youtubers with reaction videos
were slammed with copyright strikes or
requests for compensation and the fine
brothers suffered a loss of around six
hundred and seventy five thousand
subscribers On February 1st 2016 Rafi
and Benny fine halted the react world
program and decided to face the music
but it’s going to be hard to ever forget
this bad business move we were never
trying to save it every video or someone
reacts to something else is something we
would try to control do you agree with
our picks check out these other great
clips from watch mojo and subscribe for
new videos every day
cracked up to be
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
YouTube scandals
before we begin we publish new videos
every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re taking a
look at drama bombs on the popular video
sharing site whether it’s copyright
infringement or unethical prank videos
they’re all fair game here
number 10 YouTube heroes and subscriber
bugs
2016 will go down as a write-off for
just about everybody especially YouTube
throughout the year many youtubers saw a
hefty dip in their subscribers and were
understandably a bit miffed in response
to the outcry YouTube’s kind of admitted
they didn’t know what was happening
later saying it was above to add fuel to
the rage fire YouTube then came out with
YouTube heroes in September 2016 a
program that would allow users to flag
videos report users and assist in closed
captioning basically they wanted people
to work for YouTube for free in a sad
twist of irony the community backlash
was so brutal that YouTube disabled the
comment section on the video talk about
a down vote number 9 Hossein say david
cline you may know these parties better
as YouTube personalities bold guy and
h3h3 productions for those unfamiliar
with the works of Ethan and Ella Klein
there are two channels h3h3 and even an
ela boast comedy skits reaction videos
and YouTube criticisms when they reacted
to a video uploaded by Matt hast owned
the channels owner Matthew Hossein Zadeh
didn’t take too kindly to the slamming
or their use of his content you know
when you watch a porn you endure this
shit because you know going somewhere
but where it’s like there’s no cat his
lawyer demanded the video be taken down
never spoken of again
and wanted four thousand dollars in
compensation
the lawsuit continued causing big names
like philip defranco and defined
brothers to band together to help fund
h3h3 defense in the name of fair use
number eight marina joyce fake
kidnapping in july 2016
this young beauty blogger came under
serious scrutiny in a video about date
outfits marina joyce seem to be behaving
strangely click the link i’ll kick this
right now if you would like to buy that
card her fans immediately noticed she
wasn’t her normal energetic self and
some even thought they could see bruises
on her body then he took these assigns
joyce was in danger with some even
speculating she was kidnapped by isis
the hashtag saved marina joyce quickly
spread online with fears escalating to
the point that authorities visited her
home in reality the video was just an
awkward advertisement and her bruises a
result of a tumble in the woods prior to
shooting the video whether this was a
stunt joyce pulled the real deal or just
a lot of jumping to conclusions it’s
still quite something
number 7 toby Turner’s rape allegations
famous for his literal trailers and
humorous music videos didn’t man watch
the drama
toby turner also known as Tobuscus came
under fire in spring 2016 for
accusations of rape and sexual assault
from ex-girlfriend and youtube
personality April app soon after another
of Turner’s ex-girlfriends Amelia Cowan
came forward saying that Turner had
pressured her into using drugs and had
also abused her Jacqueline Glenn another
ex did speak out in support of Turner
though she also claimed that she often
felt pressured but not forced to do
things during their relationship in
November she posted again saying that
Turner was incessantly messaging her and
that she just wanted the whole ordeal to
stop number 6 ray william johnson sued
over fair use in a similar fashion to
h3h3 and matt hot zone long time
youtuber ray william johnson went
through a couple of legal disputes with
jookin media johnson’s videos on equal
three often feature commentary on
content from other creators and it was
this format that got him in trouble
jookin media claimed that up to 48
videos violated the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act or DMCA and should be
deleted the issue eventually made its
way
court with Johnson arguing that his
videos were transformative and made new
content out of the original videos like
I’ve written more jokes about viral
videos than any one human should ever
have to write while the initial
judgments ruled in Johnson’s favor the
case was resolved in a seemingly
positive manner for all parties involved
number five Nicole Arbour and Matthew
Santoro youtuber Nicole Arbour is best
known for her infamous dear fat people
video in which she harshly criticized
obese people dear fat people ah
people are already really nice video she
made more than a few enemies with her
comments all the while gaining a lot of
publicity did you expect to offend
people are you surprised I’ve won more
than her side 100% however she came into
the news again for another YouTube
related fiasco Matthew Santoro who’s
best known for his factual list videos
posted a video revealing that he had an
emotionally and physically abusive
relationship
this person prevented me from leaving
their home I was hit in the face in a
video from January 2016 titled my abuse
story he talked about the relationship
and the ensuing drama it wasn’t
confirmed that he was referring to arbor
until she posted calling him a little
bitch and stated that he was using her
for attention I just lost my shit number
4 drama alert and the runescape
pedophile no one can stir up the drama
quite like teen star of the
controversial drama alert channel
however sometimes he and the channel
jumped the gun and in this case someone
got hurt drama alert found a new story
about a gamer named John Phillips using
runescape to lure young women and
singled out twitch streamer Tony as the
pedophile except he was not the guy Tony
soon received death threats and hateful
messages reducing him to tears youtuber
scarce entered the scene and called out
teen stars lack of fact-checking stating
that the actual molester was still in
prison and the Tony was an innocent man
teen star issued an apology video and
offered the men money in damages but
many thoughts sorry wasn’t nearly enough
I know the responsible thing is to
acknowledge that we got this wrong
takedown in video
number three csgo lotto team Martin and
The Syndicate project in 2013 Counter
Strike global Offensive became more
customizable for users giving them the
option of skins soon sites popped up
giving users no matter how old they were
the chance to trade and gamble these
coveted items on counter-strike games on
Steam youtuber honor the call started
noticing that Trevor Martin known as T
Martin and tom cassell of The Syndicate
project both won a lot of money on csgo
lotto comm which was used to win the
in-game items oh my god he then
uncovered that Martin and Cassell were
csgo lottos president and vice president
respectively which they had not
mentioned apparently these two have been
allegedly faking gambling and also
faking rimming what started as a mother
suing the games developer for allowing
her young son to gamble soon resulted in
a class action lawsuit against Martin
and Cassell who had broken the Federal
Trade Commission rules number two Sam
peppers killing best friend prank former
Big Brother housemates Sam pepper is now
most known for prank videos in 2014 one
of his videos featured him touching
women without their consent but a year
later he went to a whole new level the
video depicts pepper in disguise
kidnapping online personality Sam
Goldbach and Colby Brock then forcing
Goldbach to watch Brock get shot pepper
was shocked by the horrified response
and Goldbach expressed the videos point
was about quote living life to the full
when you actually went editions called
for pepper to be banned from YouTube he
responded with a GoFundMe page promising
to delete his YouTube account if pledges
hit one and a half million dollars by
February 2016
pepper began privatizing his videos and
purging his Twitter account before
re-emerging as a vlogger before we
expose our top pick here are some
dishonorable mentions no way
yeah there was anything he wanted to say
or do I was so open about everything
[Music]
number one the fine brothers react world
that’s known for their reaction videos
the fine brothers announced plans in
2016 to license their format to creators
and trademark the term react we are
excited to announce react world many saw
this as a move to capitalize on what is
a very common format and the fine
brothers were met with heavy criticism
from both viewers and fellow content
creators youtubers with reaction videos
were slammed with copyright strikes or
requests for compensation and the fine
brothers suffered a loss of around six
hundred and seventy five thousand
subscribers On February 1st 2016 Rafi
and Benny fine halted the react world
program and decided to face the music
but it’s going to be hard to ever forget
this bad business move we were never
trying to save it every video or someone
reacts to something else is something we
would try to control do you agree with
our picks check out these other great
clips from watch mojo and subscribe for
new videos every day
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