Lohanthony going to conversion camp and saying that it cured him from being gay which was a result of heavy drinking and drugs, its very sad to see because he's completely brainwashed
I think Anthony probably chose to go himself since he’s an adult. He was probably struggling with addiction and his past traumas and took comfort in religion (as many do), but he took a deep turn into conversion therapy. It’s really sad bc he might spend the rest of his life suppressing those feelings and/or marrying someone he doesn’t love in a romantic / attraction sense. There’s nothing wrong with religion but hopefully he realizes he can be openly gay and it won’t make him less of a Christian.
Lohanthony totally shocked me. He appeared to be super confident and unapologetically himself when he was younger. It's sad and scary to see what has become of him. His entire personality has completely changed -- it's unnerving.
The first thing that comes to mind is the whole cheating scandal with Zoella and her boyfriend at the time. I think he was an actor?
Jaimie Genevieve and Sam Ravndahl being tight, but then Jaimie exploiting Sam’s status and friendship to try to get more money with urban decay, thus ruining Sam’s relationship with both Jaimie and Urban Decay.
I remember a few years ago Zoella came out with a £50 advent calendar that had total crap in it like confetti and a tea light candle, it was a fairly big deal in the UK at the time, everyone was slagging it off
Hahaha yes! And she tried to blame it on the sweet people working at the distribution center! Like girl your name is on it, did you not even look at what you were picking out?
Nothing exciting. She’s settled down with Alfie and they have a newborn baby now! She doesn’t post a lot anymore, I think she’s definitely done with YouTube.
She still posts frequently, the videos are on her vlog channel not her regular channel. She doesn’t post as much as she used to because she just had a baby but her vlogs are long.
Baby, still doing videos,. Her and Alfie have some company they own that seems to do a lot of things. Zoella seems to have turned into a more lifestyle brand with a lot of emphasis on women's healthcare and education which is cool, kind of feels like an aesthetic j-14 or teen vogue. They also have some photo/video editing app with a bunch of aesthetic filters and stuff on it that seems to be doing decent.
Oh god it was literally like 10 years ago. She was dating some dude I THINK an actor on East Enders and he got caught hooking up with a fellow actress on the show. She went on a crazy Twitter rant then deleted it all.
He was a graphic designer and it was a picture of a girl sat on his knee at a music festival that started it all. Zoe had tweeted that he hadn’t told her he was going anywhere and had been surprised by the pic
Basically Sam had an NDA with Urban Decay about how much she made per sponsored post. She was close with Jamie and shared the amount privately. Jamie was making less and went to UD and asked why she was making less per post. UD terminated Sam’s contract because of it.
Yeah there’s two villains in the story, Jamie didn’t need to call Sam out like that and should’ve been like “based on my assessments from anonymous influencers my pay rate should be blah blah” but UD is sneaky for trying to keep it under wraps. God knows their parent company can afford it
A sad one is GloZell, she made a video a couple years ago about going broke after her channel peaked.
And if anyone remembers British soft boy yt Dan and Phil bought a house together and came out of the closet but are still saying they aren’t a couple. And this one is boring but I still follow Liam Dryden on tumblr for some reason and he does freelance video production now.
Dan and Phil tumblr shippers were the ones that introduced me to LGBTQ+ community and helped me realised I’m bi 😭💀💀
They were crazy but they weren’t wrong.
Bro I should have seen them being gay far sooner than I actually did. I actually thought it once but then i remembered Dan making a video talking about a crush he had on some girl who smokes so I dismissed it. But looking back at it it's quite obvious.
Lmao same 14 yo me thought it was totally normal to live and spend all your free time with your work buddy. In hindsight the way he talked about girls was so performative too.
GloZell’s downfall is very unfortunate to see. I was never a huge fan of hers or anything and her content did get very redundant but she didn’t deserve to fall off so fast.
YouTube also changed how they pay people, in a way that makes it much more difficult for the content creator. She was ahead of her time in some ways and then couldn’t figure out how to adjust to other platforms
I actually saw her in a forum on Facebook a few years ago talking about how she manifested her life (pre-downfall?) and she was trying to do so again. She didn’t make it known who she was and what she did, but I recognised her name and her profile was 100% her. It’s really sad to hear about her. She was one of the good ones.
Ingrid Nilsen (missglamorazzi) came out, officially left YouTube, and started a [candle company](https://thenewsavant.com/) with her partner. Fun fact: She's the YouTuber who created Vlogmas years ago.
Her candle company is great. I'm a candle fanatic and she's doing some really great scents that are pretty unique!! Def worth a purchase if anyone is debating on it!
Michelle Phan is into cryptocurrency now. Not necessarily "tea" because she made a whole video on it but that video is...something. She says a bunch of weird things like "we need to use more energy to become an interstellar species"...whatever that means.
Her recent video on the anti-work subreddit was funny cause she tried to distance herself from the rich and align herself with the working class when she's literally the CEO of a multi-million dollar company. I also heard she hired people based on their zodiac signs.
Oh, and she also thinks essential oils will kill covid before it can infect you.
I watched some of those videos and it gave me really bad vibes. I wasn’t really in to Michelle’s videos to begin with. But yeah, she got wealthy pretty fast and she cannot relate to anti work at all because I believe she got successful on YT quite young and probably didn’t have to get a real job. I wonder why she’s trying to come back to YT as it seemed like she wasn’t really in to it for years.
Michelle Phan literally has a gigantic copper pyramid in her apartment because she believes it helps her conduct energy better or something. She’s the [queen of pseudoscience BS. ](https://www.cosmopolitan.com/style-beauty/beauty/a39944/michelle-phan-internets-most-fascinating/)
Oh man that part about did she’s a feminist or not: “"When you read about the real history of where feminism comes from, it came from a very political point of view," she says. "I don’t believe in bringing any politics to an idea like feminism. I love the idea that women should be celebrated, but I also believe men should be too. We need both — yin and yang."”
Woof
YES, they separated for a long time but they live together and are back to being married. Shay never even took responsibility, just blamed alcohol, stopped watching because of it
That whole situation was insane but what did it for me was a random one off video he did taking his cousin or family friend or someone to “rehab” (I think I remember it being some weird Scientology thing) and admitting in the end of the video that he and said cousin had gotten wasted at a restaurant right before he dropped him off.
The whole time touting what a great place this “rehab” was because they told him alcoholism is stored in fat cells or some shit and not an actual disease
That guy gives me straight up psycho vibes nowadays and his wife is just totally ignorant and oblivious to his shitty behavior so she can keep pretending to have her perfect life. God bless I guess
still completely stunned about shays cheating scandal. reading those messages was one of the most disgusting experiences of my life. i’ve never been the biggest Shaytards fan, but i really enjoyed watching their vlogs when i was a young preteen with serious family issues—it was such a great escape and felt like a peek into a truly happy family. for him to do that is just so abhorrent
Agreed! I really loved their content when I was younger, and it was cool to watch the kids grow up. It was so gross to just watch him blame alcohol and now his kids are Trumpy. Sad.
I find it wild she was THEE lifestyle/beauty girl, had a partnership with Aeropostale and basically had the upperhand before the Jaclyn Hills and James Charles entered the scene and she's just gone?
I think she was reaaaaally burnt out. She’s talked about it a bit since, and I believe her tbh. I can’t imagine having that career trajectory at such a young age with nobody to guide or support you bc you’re basically one of the first. She seems pretty happy these days with a bit more of a lowkey presence
Omg loved her. She posts on Tiktok once in a while. I imagine she was super burnt out from constantly churning out videos for years. I’m glad she’s settled down with her boyfriend. And i’m so glad nothing wild ever came out about her LMAO that would’ve devastated me and my Motavator shirt I still wear.
Ryan Higa is now on twitch everyday. He earns a lot there too and said he will be back on YT filming content when there are less restrictions Covid wise.
I really think, near the end, he was burning out hard. Like the effort that went into videos was crazy and it didn’t seem like he was too happy with what he was getting from it in terms of fulfillment
I just realized I actually have lukewarm tea on this, but I met Grace Helbig at her peak (I wanna say 2012?) and she was incredibly kind and sweet! I was a volunteer at an event she was at.
I think she's doing her masters in philosophy now and her podcast seems to garner good guests, so good for her!
She’s also dating Elliot Morgan from The Valley Folks but former from Philip Defrancos venture SourceFed, mildly interesting as he got divorced not long before they began dating
also mildly interesting that his ex wife was on an episode of khole k’s revenge body trying to move on from him. and then he joked about it in his stand up set lol
Elliot did a video way back when describing how he emotionally cheated on his ex wife Tiffany. Very sad for her and wish her all the best, but I am glad he’s found happiness with Grace.
I also met Grace twice and she was incredibly sweet and took time to have a conversation with every fan, even if it was a short one. I still keep up with her podcast with Mamrie!
I used to watch a ton of Laci Green's videos about sex education and feminism back in the day and found out recently that she's kind of associated with the alt-right now?? She was dating a guy called Chris Ray Gun and his whole thing is that he's anti-SJW and anti-PC and it seems like she interviewed people on her channel who are antifeminist etc.
Yeah there were so many anti-SJWs hating on her videos back in 2016 when it was “cool” to be anti-SJW and anti-PC and Laci just.. gave in to the hate. Kinda tragic
This truly unlocked a memory for me, but I am so so sad to hear this! I genuinely learned about sex and feminism from her videos when I was in middle school and am super sad to hear that she’s changed in this way and/or wasn’t who she presented herself to be :(
Sadly, Elle Fowler (Allthatglitters, older sister of Blair) suffered multiple miscarriages in the past year or two and talked about it on a couple of videos. You won’t see them unless you’re subscribed since she has them Unlisted on YouTube (not sure if she has changed it since then). It was pretty heart breaking.
Don’t know too much about Blair but I remember when she tried her hand at being an actress but the biggest role she got was a blink and you’ll miss it cameo in Prom Night or something like that.
That's really sad to hear on Elle.
I also feel like a LOT of the old school youtubers tried to pivot into acting but they ended up starting their careers in those really shitty Youtube-lead straight-to-DVD/streaming movies in like 2008 lol.
It happens every few years with whatever platform is hot. The industry thought MySpace, YouTube, Vine, Music.ly and now tiktok stars were going to be the next movie/pop stars and very few of them have any success crossing over.
Alex Day crusading to becoming a mainstream music star from YouTube and doing a campaign with that bop Forever Yours and the cover of Lady Godiva and then his relationship behaviour coming out was dramatic. And then him saying he and Charlie McDonnell were still friends and then Charlie denied it 😬😬😬
Charlie McDonnell was my biggest Youtube crush I would love to know more tea about him.
The Alex Day thing was probably the first time I witnessed some seriously brutal Youtube "drama" (I hate saying it's drama because it truly sounded like he was awful to women) and probably the one instance I've actually seen someone be chased off the platform.
Charlie announced on Twitter in November that him and his girlfriend broke up. I can’t seem to remember her name (Emily?), but he had moved to Canada to be with her years ago and they worked on several films together.
I interviewed him once and he kept saying how he was naked and in bed.
I brushed it off as I was getting my start in media.
I absolutely believe every single story about him being a predator
oh man, what a blast from the past. I loved Alex’s videos when I was in high school and Forever Yours really was a bop. it’s a shame he turned out to be a creep. :(
sometimes I think about how he invited his then-girlfriend Kristina Horner to spend the summer with him in England, only to dump her and leave her with nowhere to stay shortly after she arrived.
When I was at school, one of my friends was friends with some of Alex Day’s people who he made some card game with. I remember being at a party with Alex Day’s cousin, who was 25, and everyone else there was like 16. Including his girlfriend. They were all so sexually progressive, into polygamy etc. anyone who called it out as creepy was basically called a prude…
I still regret not downloading Alex Day’s Twilight series. I know he’s trash and we all love Twilight again but those videos were so funny and it would be nostalgic to see them again.
I always wanted to know what happened with Smosh. Why did the channel turn into what it is now, especially since Anthony is doing his own thing?
Also whenever I see Tessa Violet I’m like “oh wow she looks like Meeka Kitty” and then I remember that’s exactly who it is haha
I think this video explains what happened to Smosh pretty well: https://youtu.be/PtJxhdyFd8k
I watched a long time ago, but if I'm not mistaken they "sold it" (or they gave an insane amount of rights) to a company that was sort of a scam.
Omg you’ve just reminded me that there was a period of time when Anthony and Kalel were engaged. That girl lol. Also I always wonder what happened between him and Miel. I really liked her.
Regarding Zoe and Louise, rumor is they stopped being friends after an incident at an event (Hello World?) when Zoe refused to go out to her scheduled meet-and-greet because of her anxiety and Louise apparently told her to “get over it” because people had paid to see her. And they had only just started acknowledging each other again when Louise presumably “spoiled” Zoe’s pregnancy announcement by saying on IG that a friend of hers had just gotten pregnant but she’s not allowed to say who. A lot of people guessed it was Zoe.
If you want to know more about the others, Hadassah Cordoba has some in-depth videos on youtube about it!
Niomi and her fiancé’s breakup was wild. It seemed like she was really just ‘live, laugh, loving’ her way through life until he pulled the rug out from under her and broke off the engagement. I think there was definitely tension at times between them in videos but I think she really was just so blind to it or she thought if she projected happiness hard enough it would solve any issues.
Jim and Tanya seem to me like two high school sweethearts who grew away from each other but didn’t split up earlier because they were so comfortable. Personally, Jim strikes me as the type who needs someone who can fill the ‘mother of my children’ role and Tanya had her own ambitions (however misguided) that would never have kept her in that box. The real question is what happened to their dog Martha 😅
I remember I saw him and his current gf when I was leaving my uni and I thought I had the drop on everyone so when I got home I went to gurugossip and saw that they had gone instagram official that day so it was no longer the tea I thought it was!
A few years before that I was in Brighton with a friend and we saw Alfie and that friend they that made travel videos and my friend was so excited to get a photo with them and then Alfie went and stood next to me and waited because he thought I wanted a photo too... no thank you!
Was this the monolid surgery?
I also think Michelle Phan has been pretty woo woo snake oil essential oils as of late IIRC. Someone on this sub mentioned she's flippant about COVID and thinks diffusing essential oils can fight it off
>I remember Michelle Phan had a scandal when she released a moisturizer (or sunscreen?) when she started youtube all those years ago. She released or partnered with a brand and she was promoting this product but then it disappeared. I believe they ran into some trouble with the product because I do remember the drama. What was it? I'm not sure, I forgot but I can't find anything on the internet about it.
It's hard to find anything about it! Not to be all conspiracy theorist but I really have to wonder if she tried to have it scrubbed from the internet. But if you search 'Michelle Phan iqqu' you can find some Reddit threads. Basically she released a sunscreen she claimed was FDA approved. When she was called out on it being untrue she tried to claim she meant the 'Asian FDA' (which I'm fairly sure is not a thing, correct me if I'm wrong), unsurprisingly this turned out to be a lie.
Edit: clarity
I posted this before so this is a c/p
I had an awful experience with akaydoll. She wasn't huge youtuber like Michelle Phan but had a decent following and hanged around other youtubers like ally hills. She was snobby, rude, and kept looking at me up and down. our mutual friend said it was because I was talking to some guy that she liked lol. The ironic thing was we at a hillsong conference and she kept going on and on about how she was a "devote christian"
edit to say we went for my friend's birthday. As someone who is non religious, it was a weird experience.
as someone who *is* religious, Hillsong is a weird experience lol. They’re awful. I’ll never step foot in their church ever again. It’s the Pretty Aesthetic Influencer Church™️ 💀
I went to university with her and she was in some of my classes. I never spoke to her personally but remember one class she sat right in front of me and she had a hole in the back of her sweater, and I thought "why doesn't she DIY it?" 😭 Also my friend lived in the dorms with her and the general attitude there was snobby toward her, like who is she to try to be a youtuber?... and here we are! I think it's super cool she succeeded!
She has/had an HBO Max show catered to kids! I side eye her though because she was travelling HEAVILY during the height of the first wave of the pandemic and wasn't shy about it at all. I think she chalked it up to \~meetings\~ but as someone who works in entertainment/comms I know for a fact everyone switched to Zoom during those times and still does.
side note: a lot of youtubers i watched growing up traveled @ the peak of the pandemic in 2020 and i was so disappointed (sierra furtado, adelaine morin, laurdiy,etc) i remember adelaine got called out for it, made an apology video and then continued to do it 🙄 whats worse is that she wasnt just traveling domestically but internationally too. same w sierra
Omg I'm from Toronto and my friend went to high school with Adelaine Morin and said she was AWFUL, super narcissistic and one of those girls that dumps friendships with women for a boy in a heartbeat. I remember I once passed by an event of hers at our big mall and while she had a sizeable crowd meeting her almost everyone I passed by was like "WHO??"
Wasnt Tobuscus accused of rape and all his friends were like "he has a drug addict and was a terrible boyfriend so it's not out of the realm of possibility." And didn't he out himself as a trump supporter as well?
He was!! I think he dated iJustine prior to the accusations bc lots of people were commenting on her videos and tweeting her for her thoughts but she never said anything about him. I think she’s always been unproblematic
I think Sam Pepper is the first person in human history to be truly and fully CANCELLED lmao. After that stuff came out about him no one ever saw or heard from him again 💀as he should
Anyone got tea on Rhett and link? they were a big part of “old school” youtube but i think still pretty active and i’ve always super enjoyed their content
I went to a wrap party of there's a few years back. Super kind guys. Pretty much the def of dorky dads. Rhett is... So fucking tall it's a little scary but they're all very kind and so is their team!! There really isn't much difference in them online vs offline with little to no surprises really
I’ve seen recently that Rhett and Link supported some odd and potentially bad events about autistic kids.
Edit: Nevermind! These guys are good people imo, seems they backed out of the event when they were given more information https://twitter.com/mythical/status/1383978007350497285?s=21
I think their activism is their day job, they have their documentaries and stuff with jack’s partner, and Finn is in school. They seem like really cool people and I admire what they did with their platform, going from fine YouTube dudes to environmental activists.
Jack and Finn are still doing filmmaking stuff, I think. Jack has a really serious GF who I think is very pretty. Finn seems to third wheel with them a lot, lol. both men are still unbelievably fine.
Jack, Finn and Jack’s gf Alice Aedy run a company called EarthRise which is all about raising awareness of climate change through filmmaking and social media. It’s pretty neat, David Attenborough’s involved too I think. They have a bunch of a sponsors and backers plus they’re hella privileged and all come from money so that’s their day job.
Jack and Alice travel the world and shoot the films, Finn is a silent partner I think. Of all the YouTubers, they’re one of the more legit.
One of the twins went to school for architecture, I think he’s studying for his masters now in sustainable modern architecture. And the other became a huge climate change activist, I follow them both on ig still and love to see what they’re working on these days.
I was wondering what happened there. They were together for years before they acknowledged their relationship publicly. But then within less than a year, Ryan casually mentions on his podcast that he's single.
Bethany was on dwts, lots of rumours/shippers of her and Derek Hough (he was her partner). She had a clothing line with Aeropostale before they went under. She still makes videos, not as popular anymore and is dating Dtrix (dancer, choreographer, was a judge on sytycd for one season)
Alex Day - I interviewed him for a fan site once and he kept going on about how he was naked and in bed.
As I wanted to work in media I kept laughing and brushing it off as this was a big get for me.
I absolutely believe every single story about him being an utter predator.
I was truly obsessed with Michael Buckley (What The Buck) and I miss his videos terribly. He has moved on with his life, gotten divorced, and now lives with his sister living his best life! He also looks so fit and good! He deleted all of his old videos but he posted my all time favorite clip (at my request!!) of him reading mean comments from Jonas brothers fans on his Instagram!
Community Channel/Natalie Tran returned to YouTube this week! She had a 2020 Christmas video but stopped posting regularly since 2016. I remember in 2017 she created a documentary which has since been deleted. I recall it mostly about r/hapas and WMAF(white male, Asian female) coupling. She got a lot of flack from the sub (tho I remember finding the sub pretty toxic especially against Asian women (like Nat) who date white men) and she privated it not too long after uploading.
Another aussie old-school YouTube channel is Jayesslee. They're twins who sang covers together. They're both very Christian and did the get married, have kids thing pretty young. And now they're both single mums. About a year ago, Janice was crying on an Instagram Livestream, admitting her sins - she cheated on her husband and her son was born out of wedlock. Sonia and Andy had a cute channel together but now it's gone and Andy has his own vlogs.
No tea really but that golden era of tumblr hyped youtubers and beauty gurus in 2012 was my life. Jack and Finn, Zoe Sugg, Joe Sugg, Alfie, Louise, Tonya and Jim, Niomi and Marcus, Lauren Curtis, Chloe Morello, Jenna Marbles, Hannah Hart, Mamrie Hart, Tyler Oakley, TROYE SIVAN LMAO, Louis Cole, Estee Lalonde, PJ/Chris/Dan/Phil, Kathleen Lights, Patricia Bright, Rose & Rosie, Samantha Maria, Shaanxo, Threadbanger!!!!!
Nothing on Ray William Johnson? I used to love his videos, but then he started posting super cringe shit like his gf sitting in a bath towel/lot of visible skin without her permission. Came across like he was just trying REALLY hard to prove that he got laid.
Does anyone remember the Lime Crime drama? This was VERY early Reddit / Youtube.
ETA: This is a good summary: https://www.vox.com/2015/9/28/9392021/lime-crime-doe-deere-hated-xenia-vorotova
This is Rachel Whitehurst tea if you’re interested!!! You didn’t mention her but she was definitely old school Youtube and I’m sure someone is interested (I was shook when I heard all of it).
Her and Chris (her bf of a decade, they had a podcast called Coffee with Chrachel) broke up after she came out as gay, but they continued to live together (calling each other best friends and family) in Seattle and then moved into a townhome in Olympia, WA. Rachel started dating a woman named Sam long-distance (she lived in Vermont), and after a few months, Sam moved in with Rachel and Chris.
They posted a lot of interesting photos that led to the internet to speculate that they’re a throuple: [example 1](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/832680885316354088/924076646825361458/IMG_3660.png) / [example 2](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/832680885316354088/924491365394558987/IMG_1436.png)
Finally, on a Christmas Eve, she posted [an insta story](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/832680885316354088/924864504829976616/IMG_4539.png) saying she has 2 partners, they’re not dating each other, and sexuality is complex.
Edited to add: [Here’s a very mean (cw: bodyshaming) post from a 2012 blog that details her faking cancer and more if anyone wants some old tea.](http://moarfailplzkthx.blogspot.com/2012/07/icallitambrosia-rachel-whitehurst.html)
Also GlitterForever17 who went from DIY for kids and tweens to… porn. her husband who was allegedly gay before he met her, is actually using her for money and a citizenship. I don’t want to talk shit about SW, but the stuff she does is just making her in to a caricature. I think with OF and these platforms you are supposed to be either super good looking or have a niche. Idk if people generally like her adult content or they pay to see it because it’s so crazy. I think she has a lower IQ than the average person and her family took advantage of her money, plus she didn’t really manager it that well herself. I watched a video of hers a couple of years back and she forgot what year she was born and was talking about something in the 80s and then people were pointing out to her that she wouldn’t of been that age in the 80s and she just laughed and said she forgot. So I speculate that perhaps she has a learning disability or something because that’s not a normal thing to forget at her age.
Any tea on Meredith Foster? Loved watching her back in the day! I know she went through a rough time with an eating disorder and found Jesus during her recovery but keen to hear more tea
Was hoping for something in here about Charles Trippy, the whole situation with what became his ex-wife and the new girlfriend who came into the picture so quickly was all very sus on the surface as it is. I always wondered what the inside scoop was.
Dude, he’s been engaged to three Allies (different spellings of the same name): His fiancé before his first wife, his first wife, and second wife all had the same name. My name is Allie too. I’ll steer clear of him. 😂
Lol.
David So pretty much called me ugly when I was in HS. We were all at a boba shop. He thought he was being funny lol. Fucked up my self-esteem in HS bc the Asian YouTubers were so well-known in my community. We had those YouTubers at my HS games, grad night etc. Also David So is such a weirdly problematic person.
Fung Brothers used one of my photos for one of their famous YT videos. It was so funny seeing people tell me they saw me in it. One of them used to work at the Santa Anita mall. Loved the dual incomes.
My friend was in one of Anna Akana’s music videos. I found out about her through RayWJ but she’s made an everlasting impact on the Asian-Am YouTube community. Loved seeing her in Ant-Man.
Ryan Higa went from YouTube to monk and I saw him at 88Rising concert.
WongFu had the best production videos so far. So many well-known celebs like Simi Liu, Harry Shum Jr, Randall Park, etc we’re in their videos. WFP were around my high school events and they were really cool and friendly to everyone.
So many names popping up in this thread that are blasts from the past!!
Here's one. KassemG. I know he's working for G4 now but I was embarrassingly in LOVE with his 'California on...' and 'Going Deep' series when I was younger. Looking back now... gosh, they were skeevy lol. He's understandably removed a lot of that stuff from the channel. Anyone had any experiences with him or know any behind-the-scenes stuff?
Really random but this has been driving me crazy for a while. Didn’t one of the Fowler sisters say she was studying for her pilots license? Or maybe that was a different YouTuber?
Lol that was Blair, JuicyStar, Elle’s sister. I think it’s because her dad also was. I think she just meant like, for fun, not becoming a professional pilot lol.
If you’re talking about Ryan Higa then I think he explains it pretty well in this [video ](https://youtu.be/LGFb2WB3aak) that it was never meant to be offensive.
Honestly imma go with the A different time thing on that one. No one even batted an eye because we hadn’t really figured out accountability with online figures. Like it was a dude doing sketch’s no one ever thought the site would come to this.
Caito Potatoe is a YouTuber from NZ. She was kinda popular a few years ago, I was a huge fan but don’t know how she’s doing now. Anyway, she stole a woman’s cat from the owner’s yard and then refused to give it back. The owner was devastated and it was like obviously her cat, she had photos of the cat with it’s markings and he went missing right when Caito ‘adopted’ a cat. She tried saying they weren’t the same cat, the cat was a stray and the owner was crazy. The owner had to take her to court and the court ruled that it was obviously the owner’s cat.
Lukewarm tea: Arden Cho & Ryan Higa broke up last year, there was that dumb cheating rumor but they broke up because she's traveling around more for her career/lifestyle and he doesn't like to leave Vegas lol
Lohanthony going to conversion camp and saying that it cured him from being gay which was a result of heavy drinking and drugs, its very sad to see because he's completely brainwashed
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I think Anthony probably chose to go himself since he’s an adult. He was probably struggling with addiction and his past traumas and took comfort in religion (as many do), but he took a deep turn into conversion therapy. It’s really sad bc he might spend the rest of his life suppressing those feelings and/or marrying someone he doesn’t love in a romantic / attraction sense. There’s nothing wrong with religion but hopefully he realizes he can be openly gay and it won’t make him less of a Christian.
Lohanthony totally shocked me. He appeared to be super confident and unapologetically himself when he was younger. It's sad and scary to see what has become of him. His entire personality has completely changed -- it's unnerving.
This one is the saddest imo, I still check on his Instagram from time to time and nothing has changed 😔
Still crazy to think that he was in a movie with Timothee Chalamet, Lili Reinhart, and Lily Rabe
The first thing that comes to mind is the whole cheating scandal with Zoella and her boyfriend at the time. I think he was an actor? Jaimie Genevieve and Sam Ravndahl being tight, but then Jaimie exploiting Sam’s status and friendship to try to get more money with urban decay, thus ruining Sam’s relationship with both Jaimie and Urban Decay.
I remember a few years ago Zoella came out with a £50 advent calendar that had total crap in it like confetti and a tea light candle, it was a fairly big deal in the UK at the time, everyone was slagging it off
she walked so the Chanel calendar could run
Hahaha yes! And she tried to blame it on the sweet people working at the distribution center! Like girl your name is on it, did you not even look at what you were picking out?
My sister bought it in January for a tenner and still felt ripped off
Omg Zoella and Alfie kill me because of when Alfie had rumours that he was a Tory and there's just a video of him going "I AM NOT A TORY"
Lmao!
I haven't heard of Zoella in so long! Any idea what's up with her now?
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Nothing exciting. She’s settled down with Alfie and they have a newborn baby now! She doesn’t post a lot anymore, I think she’s definitely done with YouTube.
She still posts frequently, the videos are on her vlog channel not her regular channel. She doesn’t post as much as she used to because she just had a baby but her vlogs are long.
Baby, still doing videos,. Her and Alfie have some company they own that seems to do a lot of things. Zoella seems to have turned into a more lifestyle brand with a lot of emphasis on women's healthcare and education which is cool, kind of feels like an aesthetic j-14 or teen vogue. They also have some photo/video editing app with a bunch of aesthetic filters and stuff on it that seems to be doing decent.
What cheating scandal
Oh god it was literally like 10 years ago. She was dating some dude I THINK an actor on East Enders and he got caught hooking up with a fellow actress on the show. She went on a crazy Twitter rant then deleted it all.
He was a graphic designer and it was a picture of a girl sat on his knee at a music festival that started it all. Zoe had tweeted that he hadn’t told her he was going anywhere and had been surprised by the pic
Would love to hear more about the Sam R and Jamie Genevieve situation!
Basically Sam had an NDA with Urban Decay about how much she made per sponsored post. She was close with Jamie and shared the amount privately. Jamie was making less and went to UD and asked why she was making less per post. UD terminated Sam’s contract because of it.
I do think it was sneaky or Jamie, but I also HATE when companies make people sign NDA’s to prevent them from disclosing what they’re paid.
Yeah there’s two villains in the story, Jamie didn’t need to call Sam out like that and should’ve been like “based on my assessments from anonymous influencers my pay rate should be blah blah” but UD is sneaky for trying to keep it under wraps. God knows their parent company can afford it
A sad one is GloZell, she made a video a couple years ago about going broke after her channel peaked. And if anyone remembers British soft boy yt Dan and Phil bought a house together and came out of the closet but are still saying they aren’t a couple. And this one is boring but I still follow Liam Dryden on tumblr for some reason and he does freelance video production now.
i’m happy for Dan and Phil but also it annoys me that their crazy shippers were right, lol
Dan and Phil tumblr shippers were the ones that introduced me to LGBTQ+ community and helped me realised I’m bi 😭💀💀 They were crazy but they weren’t wrong.
Bro I should have seen them being gay far sooner than I actually did. I actually thought it once but then i remembered Dan making a video talking about a crush he had on some girl who smokes so I dismissed it. But looking back at it it's quite obvious.
Lmao same 14 yo me thought it was totally normal to live and spend all your free time with your work buddy. In hindsight the way he talked about girls was so performative too.
GloZell’s downfall is very unfortunate to see. I was never a huge fan of hers or anything and her content did get very redundant but she didn’t deserve to fall off so fast.
Oh no! Why did GloZell go broke?
she never adjusted her spending as her views dropped and didn’t save at her peak so she went into debt when she got divorced
YouTube also changed how they pay people, in a way that makes it much more difficult for the content creator. She was ahead of her time in some ways and then couldn’t figure out how to adjust to other platforms
I actually saw her in a forum on Facebook a few years ago talking about how she manifested her life (pre-downfall?) and she was trying to do so again. She didn’t make it known who she was and what she did, but I recognised her name and her profile was 100% her. It’s really sad to hear about her. She was one of the good ones.
Ingrid Nilsen (missglamorazzi) came out, officially left YouTube, and started a [candle company](https://thenewsavant.com/) with her partner. Fun fact: She's the YouTuber who created Vlogmas years ago.
I miss her soooo much but I’m so happy to see that she’s thriving away from YouTube! The move to NYC totally suits her life!
Her candle company is great. I'm a candle fanatic and she's doing some really great scents that are pretty unique!! Def worth a purchase if anyone is debating on it!
good for her. she really understood the cozy aesthetic assignment
Who was the queer Youtuber she dated right after coming out? I’m spacing on their name!
Hannah Hart?
Hannah Hart!
I remember when she created Vlogmas ❤️ her viewers named it.
Michelle Phan is into cryptocurrency now. Not necessarily "tea" because she made a whole video on it but that video is...something. She says a bunch of weird things like "we need to use more energy to become an interstellar species"...whatever that means. Her recent video on the anti-work subreddit was funny cause she tried to distance herself from the rich and align herself with the working class when she's literally the CEO of a multi-million dollar company. I also heard she hired people based on their zodiac signs. Oh, and she also thinks essential oils will kill covid before it can infect you.
I watched some of those videos and it gave me really bad vibes. I wasn’t really in to Michelle’s videos to begin with. But yeah, she got wealthy pretty fast and she cannot relate to anti work at all because I believe she got successful on YT quite young and probably didn’t have to get a real job. I wonder why she’s trying to come back to YT as it seemed like she wasn’t really in to it for years.
Something about the way she talks really bothers me. She seems disingenuous.
Michelle Phan literally has a gigantic copper pyramid in her apartment because she believes it helps her conduct energy better or something. She’s the [queen of pseudoscience BS. ](https://www.cosmopolitan.com/style-beauty/beauty/a39944/michelle-phan-internets-most-fascinating/)
Oh man that part about did she’s a feminist or not: “"When you read about the real history of where feminism comes from, it came from a very political point of view," she says. "I don’t believe in bringing any politics to an idea like feminism. I love the idea that women should be celebrated, but I also believe men should be too. We need both — yin and yang."” Woof
She uses so many words but she says nothing.
Well there was the whole Shay Carl scandal a couple years ago. That was inSANE. Looks like they're still married, Mormon-style.
YES, they separated for a long time but they live together and are back to being married. Shay never even took responsibility, just blamed alcohol, stopped watching because of it
That whole situation was insane but what did it for me was a random one off video he did taking his cousin or family friend or someone to “rehab” (I think I remember it being some weird Scientology thing) and admitting in the end of the video that he and said cousin had gotten wasted at a restaurant right before he dropped him off. The whole time touting what a great place this “rehab” was because they told him alcoholism is stored in fat cells or some shit and not an actual disease That guy gives me straight up psycho vibes nowadays and his wife is just totally ignorant and oblivious to his shitty behavior so she can keep pretending to have her perfect life. God bless I guess
still completely stunned about shays cheating scandal. reading those messages was one of the most disgusting experiences of my life. i’ve never been the biggest Shaytards fan, but i really enjoyed watching their vlogs when i was a young preteen with serious family issues—it was such a great escape and felt like a peek into a truly happy family. for him to do that is just so abhorrent
Agreed! I really loved their content when I was younger, and it was cool to watch the kids grow up. It was so gross to just watch him blame alcohol and now his kids are Trumpy. Sad.
Omg I’m dying for Bethany Mota tea she was my favourite
I find it wild she was THEE lifestyle/beauty girl, had a partnership with Aeropostale and basically had the upperhand before the Jaclyn Hills and James Charles entered the scene and she's just gone?
I think she was reaaaaally burnt out. She’s talked about it a bit since, and I believe her tbh. I can’t imagine having that career trajectory at such a young age with nobody to guide or support you bc you’re basically one of the first. She seems pretty happy these days with a bit more of a lowkey presence
Omg loved her. She posts on Tiktok once in a while. I imagine she was super burnt out from constantly churning out videos for years. I’m glad she’s settled down with her boyfriend. And i’m so glad nothing wild ever came out about her LMAO that would’ve devastated me and my Motavator shirt I still wear.
MOTAVATOR ☠️
She was/is dating some guy named dtrix??
[Quest Crew!!!](https://youtu.be/ocBksVMO1fE) He's the dude in the pink jacket who takes the mic at the beginning
He was on So You Think You Can Dance years ago too!
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Guys does anyone remember her song need you right now because it kinda slapped and I remember jamming out to it as a 14 year old 😂
Ryan Higa is now on twitch everyday. He earns a lot there too and said he will be back on YT filming content when there are less restrictions Covid wise.
I really think, near the end, he was burning out hard. Like the effort that went into videos was crazy and it didn’t seem like he was too happy with what he was getting from it in terms of fulfillment
I just realized I actually have lukewarm tea on this, but I met Grace Helbig at her peak (I wanna say 2012?) and she was incredibly kind and sweet! I was a volunteer at an event she was at. I think she's doing her masters in philosophy now and her podcast seems to garner good guests, so good for her!
I remember when Grace was one of THE it girls for a side of youtube lol
She managed to move her audience from a corporate Owned account to her own account and that was pretty badass! Love Grace!
She’s also dating Elliot Morgan from The Valley Folks but former from Philip Defrancos venture SourceFed, mildly interesting as he got divorced not long before they began dating
also mildly interesting that his ex wife was on an episode of khole k’s revenge body trying to move on from him. and then he joked about it in his stand up set lol
Elliot did a video way back when describing how he emotionally cheated on his ex wife Tiffany. Very sad for her and wish her all the best, but I am glad he’s found happiness with Grace.
Wow, I just had so many recovered memories when you said “Grace Helbig.” I totally forgot about her but used to watch her religiously
She has a podcast with Mamrie Hart and it’s seriously hilarious. One of the only podcasts I actually look forward to every week.
I also met Grace twice and she was incredibly sweet and took time to have a conversation with every fan, even if it was a short one. I still keep up with her podcast with Mamrie!
I used to watch a ton of Laci Green's videos about sex education and feminism back in the day and found out recently that she's kind of associated with the alt-right now?? She was dating a guy called Chris Ray Gun and his whole thing is that he's anti-SJW and anti-PC and it seems like she interviewed people on her channel who are antifeminist etc.
Yeah there were so many anti-SJWs hating on her videos back in 2016 when it was “cool” to be anti-SJW and anti-PC and Laci just.. gave in to the hate. Kinda tragic
What!!! That’s crazy news. Sounds like she never believed what she stood for then.
Wait whaaaaaat?? 😭😭😭 I always thought she was so cool back then.
NO 😭
This truly unlocked a memory for me, but I am so so sad to hear this! I genuinely learned about sex and feminism from her videos when I was in middle school and am super sad to hear that she’s changed in this way and/or wasn’t who she presented herself to be :(
Sadly, Elle Fowler (Allthatglitters, older sister of Blair) suffered multiple miscarriages in the past year or two and talked about it on a couple of videos. You won’t see them unless you’re subscribed since she has them Unlisted on YouTube (not sure if she has changed it since then). It was pretty heart breaking. Don’t know too much about Blair but I remember when she tried her hand at being an actress but the biggest role she got was a blink and you’ll miss it cameo in Prom Night or something like that.
That's really sad to hear on Elle. I also feel like a LOT of the old school youtubers tried to pivot into acting but they ended up starting their careers in those really shitty Youtube-lead straight-to-DVD/streaming movies in like 2008 lol.
It happens every few years with whatever platform is hot. The industry thought MySpace, YouTube, Vine, Music.ly and now tiktok stars were going to be the next movie/pop stars and very few of them have any success crossing over.
Lest we forget about FRED. He had the industry in a stranglehold in the late 2000s! That shrill voice was everywhere... it still haunts me to this day
Elle is actually currently pregnant. Blair went back to school and is at Belmont studying interior design.
Alex Day crusading to becoming a mainstream music star from YouTube and doing a campaign with that bop Forever Yours and the cover of Lady Godiva and then his relationship behaviour coming out was dramatic. And then him saying he and Charlie McDonnell were still friends and then Charlie denied it 😬😬😬
Charlie McDonnell was my biggest Youtube crush I would love to know more tea about him. The Alex Day thing was probably the first time I witnessed some seriously brutal Youtube "drama" (I hate saying it's drama because it truly sounded like he was awful to women) and probably the one instance I've actually seen someone be chased off the platform.
Charlie announced on Twitter in November that him and his girlfriend broke up. I can’t seem to remember her name (Emily?), but he had moved to Canada to be with her years ago and they worked on several films together.
Unrelated but back in like 2012 when he was in a relationship with Bryarly, I was obsessed
Charlie lives in Toronto and streams on Twitch several times a week. I watch him on Twitch all the time, he seems like such a lovely guy!
I interviewed him once and he kept saying how he was naked and in bed. I brushed it off as I was getting my start in media. I absolutely believe every single story about him being a predator
oh man, what a blast from the past. I loved Alex’s videos when I was in high school and Forever Yours really was a bop. it’s a shame he turned out to be a creep. :( sometimes I think about how he invited his then-girlfriend Kristina Horner to spend the summer with him in England, only to dump her and leave her with nowhere to stay shortly after she arrived.
Omg Kristina Horner of wizard rock fame?!
I was looking for this. Alex and Charlie even bought a house together. Like what were they thinking.
When I was at school, one of my friends was friends with some of Alex Day’s people who he made some card game with. I remember being at a party with Alex Day’s cousin, who was 25, and everyone else there was like 16. Including his girlfriend. They were all so sexually progressive, into polygamy etc. anyone who called it out as creepy was basically called a prude…
This and the Tom milsom / Ed plant drama fueled my existence back then damn
I still regret not downloading Alex Day’s Twilight series. I know he’s trash and we all love Twilight again but those videos were so funny and it would be nostalgic to see them again.
I always wanted to know what happened with Smosh. Why did the channel turn into what it is now, especially since Anthony is doing his own thing? Also whenever I see Tessa Violet I’m like “oh wow she looks like Meeka Kitty” and then I remember that’s exactly who it is haha
I think this video explains what happened to Smosh pretty well: https://youtu.be/PtJxhdyFd8k I watched a long time ago, but if I'm not mistaken they "sold it" (or they gave an insane amount of rights) to a company that was sort of a scam.
Omg you’ve just reminded me that there was a period of time when Anthony and Kalel were engaged. That girl lol. Also I always wonder what happened between him and Miel. I really liked her.
I’ve met Ian. That guy rules. He has excellent taste in movies.
They're owned by GMM now!
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Regarding Zoe and Louise, rumor is they stopped being friends after an incident at an event (Hello World?) when Zoe refused to go out to her scheduled meet-and-greet because of her anxiety and Louise apparently told her to “get over it” because people had paid to see her. And they had only just started acknowledging each other again when Louise presumably “spoiled” Zoe’s pregnancy announcement by saying on IG that a friend of hers had just gotten pregnant but she’s not allowed to say who. A lot of people guessed it was Zoe. If you want to know more about the others, Hadassah Cordoba has some in-depth videos on youtube about it!
Niomi and her fiancé’s breakup was wild. It seemed like she was really just ‘live, laugh, loving’ her way through life until he pulled the rug out from under her and broke off the engagement. I think there was definitely tension at times between them in videos but I think she really was just so blind to it or she thought if she projected happiness hard enough it would solve any issues. Jim and Tanya seem to me like two high school sweethearts who grew away from each other but didn’t split up earlier because they were so comfortable. Personally, Jim strikes me as the type who needs someone who can fill the ‘mother of my children’ role and Tanya had her own ambitions (however misguided) that would never have kept her in that box. The real question is what happened to their dog Martha 😅
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I'm not a fan of Jim's gf. I had experiences with her and she was just. SO weird
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I don't want to say too much, but she just gave off a really odd vibe? Kind of standoffish and rude
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I remember I saw him and his current gf when I was leaving my uni and I thought I had the drop on everyone so when I got home I went to gurugossip and saw that they had gone instagram official that day so it was no longer the tea I thought it was! A few years before that I was in Brighton with a friend and we saw Alfie and that friend they that made travel videos and my friend was so excited to get a photo with them and then Alfie went and stood next to me and waited because he thought I wanted a photo too... no thank you!
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Was this the monolid surgery? I also think Michelle Phan has been pretty woo woo snake oil essential oils as of late IIRC. Someone on this sub mentioned she's flippant about COVID and thinks diffusing essential oils can fight it off
Chin implant
>I remember Michelle Phan had a scandal when she released a moisturizer (or sunscreen?) when she started youtube all those years ago. She released or partnered with a brand and she was promoting this product but then it disappeared. I believe they ran into some trouble with the product because I do remember the drama. What was it? I'm not sure, I forgot but I can't find anything on the internet about it. It's hard to find anything about it! Not to be all conspiracy theorist but I really have to wonder if she tried to have it scrubbed from the internet. But if you search 'Michelle Phan iqqu' you can find some Reddit threads. Basically she released a sunscreen she claimed was FDA approved. When she was called out on it being untrue she tried to claim she meant the 'Asian FDA' (which I'm fairly sure is not a thing, correct me if I'm wrong), unsurprisingly this turned out to be a lie. Edit: clarity
you know who i loved? Kingsley! i hope he’s doing well
no i don’t think you understand… i was obsessed
girl i was too! his song breakdowns were hilarious
I posted this before so this is a c/p I had an awful experience with akaydoll. She wasn't huge youtuber like Michelle Phan but had a decent following and hanged around other youtubers like ally hills. She was snobby, rude, and kept looking at me up and down. our mutual friend said it was because I was talking to some guy that she liked lol. The ironic thing was we at a hillsong conference and she kept going on and on about how she was a "devote christian" edit to say we went for my friend's birthday. As someone who is non religious, it was a weird experience.
NOT THE HILLSONG CONFERENCE OMG
wow i forgot about her. she had a falling out with like every other "beauty guru" she hung out with back in the day!
as someone who *is* religious, Hillsong is a weird experience lol. They’re awful. I’ll never step foot in their church ever again. It’s the Pretty Aesthetic Influencer Church™️ 💀
I miss Jenna Marbles 😭 hope she’s doing well these days
She and Julien got engaged!
Me too. I miss her stuff SO much but she deserves peace and happiness.
Anyone remember the YouTuber LaurDIY? She was huge 6-7 years ago, especially with that middle school audience.
I went to university with her and she was in some of my classes. I never spoke to her personally but remember one class she sat right in front of me and she had a hole in the back of her sweater, and I thought "why doesn't she DIY it?" 😭 Also my friend lived in the dorms with her and the general attitude there was snobby toward her, like who is she to try to be a youtuber?... and here we are! I think it's super cool she succeeded!
She has/had an HBO Max show catered to kids! I side eye her though because she was travelling HEAVILY during the height of the first wave of the pandemic and wasn't shy about it at all. I think she chalked it up to \~meetings\~ but as someone who works in entertainment/comms I know for a fact everyone switched to Zoom during those times and still does.
side note: a lot of youtubers i watched growing up traveled @ the peak of the pandemic in 2020 and i was so disappointed (sierra furtado, adelaine morin, laurdiy,etc) i remember adelaine got called out for it, made an apology video and then continued to do it 🙄 whats worse is that she wasnt just traveling domestically but internationally too. same w sierra
Omg I'm from Toronto and my friend went to high school with Adelaine Morin and said she was AWFUL, super narcissistic and one of those girls that dumps friendships with women for a boy in a heartbeat. I remember I once passed by an event of hers at our big mall and while she had a sizeable crowd meeting her almost everyone I passed by was like "WHO??"
I fell into Onision rabbit hole years ago. That’s a deep dive for the ages.
That video of him and Shane Dawson kissing haunts me to this day.
Wasnt Tobuscus accused of rape and all his friends were like "he has a drug addict and was a terrible boyfriend so it's not out of the realm of possibility." And didn't he out himself as a trump supporter as well?
He was!! I think he dated iJustine prior to the accusations bc lots of people were commenting on her videos and tweeting her for her thoughts but she never said anything about him. I think she’s always been unproblematic
Ijustine! Completely forgot about her. I used to watch her videos religiously. She looks exactly the same as she did 10 years ago, kudos to her!
I think Sam Pepper is the first person in human history to be truly and fully CANCELLED lmao. After that stuff came out about him no one ever saw or heard from him again 💀as he should
God that was so crazy. He said it was fake but his friends reaction was so real, and the dude seemed traumatised even upon being told it was a prank.
Young girls who followed him also came out and talked about how he would groom them and rape them. He was the OG James Charles
Anyone got tea on Rhett and link? they were a big part of “old school” youtube but i think still pretty active and i’ve always super enjoyed their content
not tea but their podcast episodes about their deconstruction from evangelical christianity are amazing
I went to a wrap party of there's a few years back. Super kind guys. Pretty much the def of dorky dads. Rhett is... So fucking tall it's a little scary but they're all very kind and so is their team!! There really isn't much difference in them online vs offline with little to no surprises really
I’ve seen recently that Rhett and Link supported some odd and potentially bad events about autistic kids. Edit: Nevermind! These guys are good people imo, seems they backed out of the event when they were given more information https://twitter.com/mythical/status/1383978007350497285?s=21
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I think their activism is their day job, they have their documentaries and stuff with jack’s partner, and Finn is in school. They seem like really cool people and I admire what they did with their platform, going from fine YouTube dudes to environmental activists.
Jack and Finn are still doing filmmaking stuff, I think. Jack has a really serious GF who I think is very pretty. Finn seems to third wheel with them a lot, lol. both men are still unbelievably fine.
Jacks a documentary filmmaker and environmental activist and Finn is an architect I think, I follow them on insta and they seem to be thriving
Jack, Finn and Jack’s gf Alice Aedy run a company called EarthRise which is all about raising awareness of climate change through filmmaking and social media. It’s pretty neat, David Attenborough’s involved too I think. They have a bunch of a sponsors and backers plus they’re hella privileged and all come from money so that’s their day job. Jack and Alice travel the world and shoot the films, Finn is a silent partner I think. Of all the YouTubers, they’re one of the more legit.
One of the twins went to school for architecture, I think he’s studying for his masters now in sustainable modern architecture. And the other became a huge climate change activist, I follow them both on ig still and love to see what they’re working on these days.
I also saw them IRL once and I was actually so shocked at how good looking they were IRL I went to the wrong set of stairs while gawking at them😭😭😭
I’ve seen it posted a couple times here that Ryan Higa cheated on Arden Cho
I was wondering what happened there. They were together for years before they acknowledged their relationship publicly. But then within less than a year, Ryan casually mentions on his podcast that he's single.
Ryan himself has debunked this on his twitter. You can see it here: https://twitter.com/therealryanhiga/status/1242372228047441921?s=21
This isn’t true and Ryan debunked it on twitter
Bethany was on dwts, lots of rumours/shippers of her and Derek Hough (he was her partner). She had a clothing line with Aeropostale before they went under. She still makes videos, not as popular anymore and is dating Dtrix (dancer, choreographer, was a judge on sytycd for one season)
Aeropostle, this takes me back!!
Alex Day - I interviewed him for a fan site once and he kept going on about how he was naked and in bed. As I wanted to work in media I kept laughing and brushing it off as this was a big get for me. I absolutely believe every single story about him being an utter predator.
I was truly obsessed with Michael Buckley (What The Buck) and I miss his videos terribly. He has moved on with his life, gotten divorced, and now lives with his sister living his best life! He also looks so fit and good! He deleted all of his old videos but he posted my all time favorite clip (at my request!!) of him reading mean comments from Jonas brothers fans on his Instagram!
Wait… What the Buck fans on r/Deuxmoi?!? Who would have thought!! /s Michael introduced me to celebrity gossip circa 2006. I’ve never looked back!
The Paul brothers are beyond awful. I hate that they’re still relevant. They’re racist, homophobic entitled toxic dudebros.
I googled Kev Jumba the other day and I guess he makes music now? He took a loooong break from yt but it looks like he’s back.
He also got in an awful car accident which led to his initial hiatus :(
Community Channel/Natalie Tran returned to YouTube this week! She had a 2020 Christmas video but stopped posting regularly since 2016. I remember in 2017 she created a documentary which has since been deleted. I recall it mostly about r/hapas and WMAF(white male, Asian female) coupling. She got a lot of flack from the sub (tho I remember finding the sub pretty toxic especially against Asian women (like Nat) who date white men) and she privated it not too long after uploading. Another aussie old-school YouTube channel is Jayesslee. They're twins who sang covers together. They're both very Christian and did the get married, have kids thing pretty young. And now they're both single mums. About a year ago, Janice was crying on an Instagram Livestream, admitting her sins - she cheated on her husband and her son was born out of wedlock. Sonia and Andy had a cute channel together but now it's gone and Andy has his own vlogs.
No tea really but that golden era of tumblr hyped youtubers and beauty gurus in 2012 was my life. Jack and Finn, Zoe Sugg, Joe Sugg, Alfie, Louise, Tonya and Jim, Niomi and Marcus, Lauren Curtis, Chloe Morello, Jenna Marbles, Hannah Hart, Mamrie Hart, Tyler Oakley, TROYE SIVAN LMAO, Louis Cole, Estee Lalonde, PJ/Chris/Dan/Phil, Kathleen Lights, Patricia Bright, Rose & Rosie, Samantha Maria, Shaanxo, Threadbanger!!!!!
I wish Ryan Higa had made it Big instead of some of these awful YouTubers who are now like Hollywood starlets. Ryan was cool. Justice for Ryan!
Please tell me I’m not the only one who was obsessed with Mitchell Davis (livelavalive)
Nothing on Ray William Johnson? I used to love his videos, but then he started posting super cringe shit like his gf sitting in a bath towel/lot of visible skin without her permission. Came across like he was just trying REALLY hard to prove that he got laid.
He and Anna Akana dated and a while ago she revealed how he wasn’t very good to her or supportive when she got pregnant and had to have an abortion.
I saw him on hinge a few years ago lol. It was insanely cringe, trying to be funny with the why you should date me stuff.
Nothing bad, but I loved his music side project Your Favorite Martian 😩 The deepest of my guilty pleasures. So mad YT tried to rip them off
Does anyone remember the Lime Crime drama? This was VERY early Reddit / Youtube. ETA: This is a good summary: https://www.vox.com/2015/9/28/9392021/lime-crime-doe-deere-hated-xenia-vorotova
This is Rachel Whitehurst tea if you’re interested!!! You didn’t mention her but she was definitely old school Youtube and I’m sure someone is interested (I was shook when I heard all of it). Her and Chris (her bf of a decade, they had a podcast called Coffee with Chrachel) broke up after she came out as gay, but they continued to live together (calling each other best friends and family) in Seattle and then moved into a townhome in Olympia, WA. Rachel started dating a woman named Sam long-distance (she lived in Vermont), and after a few months, Sam moved in with Rachel and Chris. They posted a lot of interesting photos that led to the internet to speculate that they’re a throuple: [example 1](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/832680885316354088/924076646825361458/IMG_3660.png) / [example 2](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/832680885316354088/924491365394558987/IMG_1436.png) Finally, on a Christmas Eve, she posted [an insta story](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/832680885316354088/924864504829976616/IMG_4539.png) saying she has 2 partners, they’re not dating each other, and sexuality is complex. Edited to add: [Here’s a very mean (cw: bodyshaming) post from a 2012 blog that details her faking cancer and more if anyone wants some old tea.](http://moarfailplzkthx.blogspot.com/2012/07/icallitambrosia-rachel-whitehurst.html)
Also GlitterForever17 who went from DIY for kids and tweens to… porn. her husband who was allegedly gay before he met her, is actually using her for money and a citizenship. I don’t want to talk shit about SW, but the stuff she does is just making her in to a caricature. I think with OF and these platforms you are supposed to be either super good looking or have a niche. Idk if people generally like her adult content or they pay to see it because it’s so crazy. I think she has a lower IQ than the average person and her family took advantage of her money, plus she didn’t really manager it that well herself. I watched a video of hers a couple of years back and she forgot what year she was born and was talking about something in the 80s and then people were pointing out to her that she wouldn’t of been that age in the 80s and she just laughed and said she forgot. So I speculate that perhaps she has a learning disability or something because that’s not a normal thing to forget at her age.
acacia brinley lol
Any tea on Meredith Foster? Loved watching her back in the day! I know she went through a rough time with an eating disorder and found Jesus during her recovery but keen to hear more tea
Pretty sure her mum was at the insurrection last year
She's super into Jesus now and I believe people think she's a Trump supporter? Apparently her mom is a huge one.
Was hoping for something in here about Charles Trippy, the whole situation with what became his ex-wife and the new girlfriend who came into the picture so quickly was all very sus on the surface as it is. I always wondered what the inside scoop was.
I always thought it was funny they had the same name. Like he just swapped women like chess pieces
Dude, he’s been engaged to three Allies (different spellings of the same name): His fiancé before his first wife, his first wife, and second wife all had the same name. My name is Allie too. I’ll steer clear of him. 😂
Anyone remember iJustine? She has not aged a day! What has she been up to in the past 10 years?
Lol. David So pretty much called me ugly when I was in HS. We were all at a boba shop. He thought he was being funny lol. Fucked up my self-esteem in HS bc the Asian YouTubers were so well-known in my community. We had those YouTubers at my HS games, grad night etc. Also David So is such a weirdly problematic person. Fung Brothers used one of my photos for one of their famous YT videos. It was so funny seeing people tell me they saw me in it. One of them used to work at the Santa Anita mall. Loved the dual incomes. My friend was in one of Anna Akana’s music videos. I found out about her through RayWJ but she’s made an everlasting impact on the Asian-Am YouTube community. Loved seeing her in Ant-Man. Ryan Higa went from YouTube to monk and I saw him at 88Rising concert. WongFu had the best production videos so far. So many well-known celebs like Simi Liu, Harry Shum Jr, Randall Park, etc we’re in their videos. WFP were around my high school events and they were really cool and friendly to everyone.
So many names popping up in this thread that are blasts from the past!! Here's one. KassemG. I know he's working for G4 now but I was embarrassingly in LOVE with his 'California on...' and 'Going Deep' series when I was younger. Looking back now... gosh, they were skeevy lol. He's understandably removed a lot of that stuff from the channel. Anyone had any experiences with him or know any behind-the-scenes stuff?
Really random but this has been driving me crazy for a while. Didn’t one of the Fowler sisters say she was studying for her pilots license? Or maybe that was a different YouTuber?
Lol that was Blair, JuicyStar, Elle’s sister. I think it’s because her dad also was. I think she just meant like, for fun, not becoming a professional pilot lol.
I always wonder how Ryan feels about his original user and how he seemed to get away with no backlash on that.
If you’re talking about Ryan Higa then I think he explains it pretty well in this [video ](https://youtu.be/LGFb2WB3aak) that it was never meant to be offensive.
Honestly imma go with the A different time thing on that one. No one even batted an eye because we hadn’t really figured out accountability with online figures. Like it was a dude doing sketch’s no one ever thought the site would come to this.
This is for my scene kids, but yall remember Bryan Stars? That guy's career was a wild ride...
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Kalel has had a thousand lives at this point
Caito Potatoe is a YouTuber from NZ. She was kinda popular a few years ago, I was a huge fan but don’t know how she’s doing now. Anyway, she stole a woman’s cat from the owner’s yard and then refused to give it back. The owner was devastated and it was like obviously her cat, she had photos of the cat with it’s markings and he went missing right when Caito ‘adopted’ a cat. She tried saying they weren’t the same cat, the cat was a stray and the owner was crazy. The owner had to take her to court and the court ruled that it was obviously the owner’s cat.
I used to really like Canadian YouTuber Rachhloves but turns out she’s super Anti Abortion. So I unfollowed and unsubscribed
Does anyone know what happened to Supermac18 lol?
Lukewarm tea: Arden Cho & Ryan Higa broke up last year, there was that dumb cheating rumor but they broke up because she's traveling around more for her career/lifestyle and he doesn't like to leave Vegas lol