Bashurverse was a kid-friendly YouTuber with over 1.8 million subscribers in his prime. During his rise he was attracting around 20 million views per month. Bashurverse was involved in a serious controversy that killed his channel to the point of no return.
It all started when he uploaded a video talking about a previous relationship with a 15-year-old girl when he was 18. Once social media picked up the story, it became massive and the entire community called him out for his inappropriate relationship. He did try to bring his channel back to life by re-branding himself but it failed.
Toby Turner
Toby Turner was a massive YouTuber, he had multiple channels with millions of subscribers, attracting tens of millions of views every month until he was hit with a controversy that derailed his success. Toby’s ex-girlfriend accused him of drug addiction and that he abused her. In 2016, this was a big story and Toby refuted the claims. He was found innocent but the controversy was so overwhelming that Toby’s channel never made a comeback.
Ray William Johnson
At one point in time Ray William Johnson ran the biggest channel on YouTube. He was dominating the game with his Equals Three show, making funny music videos with Your Favorite Martian and had a vlogging channel. After years of success it came to a point where he had pretty much done everything he wanted to accomplish.
He decided it was time to move on with his life and tried out a few different hosts for Equals Three, but he ultimately opted to end the show. Ray didn’t suffer from any serious controversy or anything like that but he took it into his own hands to end the channel.
Fred
Fred is another popular YouTuber that was on top of the YouTube game, at one point being the most popular channel on the platform. He made videos as the character Fred with his signature high-pitched voice and this channel led him to a lot of crazy opportunities. He got his own movie on Nickelodeon and a TV show on Nickelodeon.
As Fred was finding success in these other areas, his YouTube channel started to suffer. Fred wasn’t posting as much and then out of nowhere new videos started coming out from different people on his channel. It was like a kid series, and it went on for a while but it seems like most people weren’t feeling it and the channel started to slowly deteriorate.
SourceFed
SourceFed was a well-known channel on YouTube, they had over 1.7 million subscribers and had a few different channels branched off from SourceFed as well. It seems like people really enjoyed SourceFed not necessarily because of the videos but the people that featured in the videos. They had engaging personalities on the channel that people could relate to.
The channel was later sold and transformed into a whole new brand ‘Now This’. SourceFed had to say goodbye and of course fans were really upset. ‘Now This’ began uploading their own videos, killing the channel almost instantly.
Sam Pepper
Sam Pepper was an infamous YouTube prankster with over 2 million subscribers. The controversy that surrounded Sam was when he filmed a prank video pinching random girls on the butt. He uploaded the video and people started freaking out saying that Sam was harassing these girls.
He was called out by big YouTubers but like most prank videos on YouTube, it was fake. He planned it out beforehand and faked the prank. Sam put himself into another dilemma when he didn’t want to admit that it was fake. This entire controversy had a massive effect on his channel that never recovered from and he’s still losing subscribers.
Shay Carl
Shay Carl is considered to be one of the OG YouTubers as he was one of the first people to kickstart the family vlogging trend. He’s been around on YouTube for over 10 years but Shay was involved in a controversy that led him to abandon the internet for a while.
Shay was exposed on Twitter by a cam girl when she posted DM’s between the two, revealing that he was using some pretty vulgar stuff to her even though he has a wife and a family.
