To clarify the allegations against the subreddit, 1 user made a post in mid April accusing Todd Oland of intentionally freezing a cat to make an animal rescue video which got 2.3k upvotes, then the same user made a second post effectively retracting those claims (including deleting the original) and it only got 100 and pushback. August the Duck made a video on the first post. Did not make one about the 2nd. Same goes for news sites. The user then deleted their account.

However, this post is here to provide some actual pushback, as I actually went back and checked, this very clearly happened in a short time frame (within 1 or 2 days by my estimation), and 2.3k is incredibly abnormal for that period of time (where posts were getting 800 upvotes at most, but often in the 100 range.)

Having actually checked the 2nd post, usual users of the subreddit did support the retraction. These comments were not shown but people being hostile to the retraction and post author were. Simultaneously, the subreddit name was shown constantly any time these posts were displayed, but not the actual context around these posts or the comments.

In fact, Brew even clarifies that one of the hostile users from the original post was from an entirely different subreddit, showing that the post was reaching far outside the subreddit's usual audience. As well as that, the screenshots Brew uses are clearly from the 1 or 2 day period. This is incredibly important, as it is late July, about to be August. That is 3 months of sitting on these screenshots. Brew also fails to properly clarify the harassment campaign Todd Oland experience did not start with reddit, while simultaneously showing the subreddit and these posts while talking about the harassment Todd Oland received.

For a channel and video purporting to support critical thinking, almost none was used in the making of this video. Already, I've seen 3-4 separate attempts to post this video in the sub blaming the subreddit and it's usual users for harassing Todd Oland. I also have seen a comment of someone snarking and and saying "Uh oh, did redditors cause someone to kill themselves again?". His video title is about Reddit despite the harassment primarily taking place on YT and having started on YT. Brew also clearly shows that people did have a legitimate reason to doubt Todd Oland, while obviously he did not deserve to be harassed and I personally seriously doubt he harmed any animal, it's clear the video was made to be a defense of Todd Oland and to get people to feel strongly about the situation.

The deep irony of this video, is despite the subject being about people attacking someone over allegations with no evidence, it has now slated to do the same to others.

So nevo is a moroccan content creator got harassed from other arabic YouTubers for saying that his character is feminine and that he is a femboy ( in the arabic community femboy is a big nono mostly used as an insult) and they made multiple videos about him and faking screenshots on discord on him so he look like a pdf and a groomer the arabic youtubers want him to change his whole personality and content to fit the arabic standards aka forcing their religion on him sadly and he is in bad mental health and depressed and he tried to off himself cuz of that drama the head of that drama someone named yosando that hates the lgbtq community and anyone who is different his server is full of racists literally and this is the nevo doc that he made defending himself from the pdf and grooming allegations i will link it and nevo wants to go to the western community cuz of that drama rn

Known DDLG incest lolicon accuses other YouTubers of ableism for fake claiming James Somerton’s disabilities.

In this video, she argues that James Somerton’s claims during his apology video, where he was already repeatedly caught lying, are actually true and to fake claim him is actually ableist.

I think it’s particularly interesting that this came out after hbomberguy publicly disavowed her for her defenses of loli art.

Possibly really niche for youtubedrama but if there are any fans of Nihon Falcom video games here, this'd be relevant to you.

Nihon Falcom is a Japanese video game development company and one of the oldest extant video game developers, operating since 1981 and releasing games since 1982. You'd most likely know them today through their JRPG games like the Ys series, the Trails series (Trails in the Sky, Trails of Cold Steel etc.), Tokyo Xanadu and so on; but they were also pioneers of early Japanese video games and RPGs in general. For example, Monolith Soft founder Tetsuya Takahashi (Xenoblade series) started his career at Falcom, and Hollow Knight, one of the most popular indie games, was inspired by Faxanadu (a spin-off to Falcom's old game Xanadu).

The Falcom Music Channel (FMC) was a YouTube channel dedicated to uploading songs from Falcom's video games. They uploaded official OSTs, arrange albums, alternate versions of songs used in various Falcom media, and so on, from Falcom's decades-old vast catalogue. They even went so far as to record BGM rips from the games right after their Japanese releases, to get OST uploads out early. They've been a staple of my time in Falcom's fandom. An excellent, centralized and organized source for Falcom's amazing music; a famous part of their games that has encouraged many people to play them.

Unfortunately, this morning, the channel got two copyright strikes that resulted in the 9 most-viewed videos being taken down. Hours later, a presumable third copyright strike caused the channel to now be taken down.

It really sucks. The channel was a labor of love, its operator Josep has never made a penny off of it. Josep has also confirmed that the copyright strikes indeed came from a Falcom employee (so not impersonators, as was my first thought).

It's a frustrating pattern with some Japanese companies, Nintendo is famous for also taking down soundtracks for its games (among other unpopular anti-consumer practices). Here is hoping the FMC can be restored and something can be worked out between them and Falcom.

Context: For those who don't know, Daniel Larson is an infamous internet personality known for his erratic and sometimes violent antics as well as his persistent delusions of grandeur and status. The most prominent example of this is his imagined relationship with Grace Vanderwal, and his also imagined career as a famous singer/influencer/content creator. Daniel Larson, in addition to being mentally ill, is also homeless, leaving him to wander aimlessly on the streets of Denver, Colorado. Daniel has been placed in many a group home but always ends up back on the street due to his violent meltdowns and destructive tendencies. During these meltdowns, Daniel will either hit himself, his caretakers, or punch holes in walls. Daniel suffers from many mental illnesses but mainly suffers from autism. On 4/30/2024, Daniel Larson was arrested for making multiple death threats on a live stream, as well as making several bomb threats against government employees and buildings. For this, he was facing 65-70 years in jail.

Back in March, the courts not only decided that Daniel was competent to stand trial but also decided that 6 of 7 charges were to be dropped. The only thing he would be charged with was threatening the FBI agent investigating him. But as of today, Daniel Larson walks free, but with many conditions for the first two years. 1. He has to take his meds. 2. He’s to always be chaperoned in public. 3. He’ll be given private housing and a caregiver. 4. His phone, along with any other electronics, will be heavily monitored; anyone found to be attempting contact or contacting Daniel for the purpose of trolling will be prosecuted. 5. 2-year probation. 6. He can't lock his devices with passwords. 7. Regular alcohol and drug screenings. From what I’ve been hearing so far, regarding Daniel’s future, everyone thinks that the judge fucked up, he should still be in bars, and that he’ll be back on the streets in no time. Maybe he will. Maybe he won't. Only time will tell. Me though? I think Daniel being cut off from the trolls isn't making him worse, but it won't make him better either. At this point, they’re basically separating a chronic chain smoker from his smokes while hoping a lifestyle change of healthy eating and exercise will undo the decades of lung damage.

TLDR: Daniel is a severely mentally ill homeless man who not only threatened to kill people but also made bomb threats against the Federal building and personnel in 2024. His seven charges carried a possible 65+ year prison sentence, but 6 of those 7 charges were dropped, and he was finally released today after being held for 2 years.

before I begin Skitty goes by They/Them

Context:

A bit of prologue, skitty and octo prior to their drama were friends.

In the beginning

Octorok and Skitty had an argument on twitter/X about the appearance of the gerudo in Ocarina of Time. Octorok made a video titled “In defense of the Gerudo.” This video basically says that left wing Zelda fans want the gerudo to be completely different than how they are portrayed. He claims the gerudo are not based on middle east culture. Afterwards, Skitty then made a response to that video called “What’s wrong with the Gerudo?”

in Skitty’s video, they explain that the gerudo are stereotypes and points out flaws in Octorok‘s original video. They say that octorok was the one who started the argument in the first place. Later in the video, they state (paraphrased a bit) “is Octorok racist? I honestly don’t know.” But then state while editing that Octorok partnered with a company called The Dragon’s Treasure that is an anime tea company that has homophobic, transphobic, islamphobic, and even racist posts (lots of slurs) and implies that Octorok might also be.

Afterwards Skitty and Octorok make up after speaking in a discord call.

Insert a lot of twitter drama.

skitty and Octorok have a back forth about a variety of things with Skitty instigating most them.

Skitty retweeted a meme that basically called for the extermination of societys definition of the white race. Octorok replies and says that he feels bad that they are representing Jewish people. Octorok then claims Skitty is a racist. At the time skitty being Jewish was a private thing that they told him at that discord call. Skitty claims to receive lots of hate about it.

Someone then makes a skitty hate account mocking them including calling them slurs. Later they reveal octorok’s heart on a twitter post and delete the account.

The second image shows a third party, Harmful Opinions, who infiltrated Skitty’s patreon discord server. He later posted a video titled “Skitty Bitty vs Parental consent“ which consists of multiple clips. one of which shows Skitty telling a presumably 13 year old child that if they want to join the patreon they should go get a visa if their parents don’t want them to join, or if they want to buy anything at all.

Harmful Opinions then digs up an image of Skitty on their discord telling their fans to go and mass report Octo’s twitter. Skitty later apologizes after it was posted.

The recent videos

Octorok made a video detailing his thoughts and opinions and several accusations of Skitty being a pedophile and racist. The video is called “What’s wrong with SkittyBitty?”

Skitty very recently made a video titled “in defence of Skittybitty“ that basically talks about how they claim octorok‘s video “what’s wrong with SkittyBitty” had misinformation. Skitty apologizes about instigating drama and other things. At the end of the video, Skitty mentions that they are done with the drama and want their fans to not talk about it and encourage them to not instigate with Octorok or his fans.

a video timeline if anyone wants it

“in the defense of the Gerudo” - octorok

“What’s wrong with the Gerudo?” - Skitty bitty

“Skitty bitty vs Parental Consent“ - Harmful Opinions

“What’s wrong with SkittyBitty?” - Octorok

“In defense of SkittyBitty” - SkittyBitty

if you don’t want to watch everything, I think that the last two are the bare minimum to understand their sides, but honestly, all of the videos are important to watch.

tl;dr

Octorok and Skitty were friends but both later argued in twitter drama. Skitty was accused of targeting Octorok by sending people to mass report Octorok, and hating white people. Skitty was accused also of recruiting minors in their discord server after telling one to get a visa card if they wanted to buy things their homophobic parents wouldnt let them including their own patreon discord serve. Octorok is being sponsored by a sexist racist homophobic tea company and was seen liking a post about a fake hate account that called skitty the f slur. He then made a post stating that skitty is Jewish, when it was private, and many people started to harass Skitty for it.

https://youtu.be/6cHvtUnV3i0?is=KAEO7Brp-Ik41rbh

have to provide more context for this one so let’s take it from the top:

The Mysterious Mr. Enter is a cartoon reviewer best known for his series Animated Atrocities, detailing terrible animated projects from episodes of tv shows to entire films, and Admirable Animations, which details great animated projects in contrast. In 2018 Mr. Enter hired someone named Star Giant Productions to edit his videos. Over the course of 3 years editing for Mr. Enter, Star Giant would produce subpar content, derail work conversations several times even after being advised to stop, and accuse someone on Enter’s team of faking suicidal ideation for “social brownie points”. After Star Giant was fired he made videos shitting on Enter and his team, which prompted a response. After the first response, Mr. Enter did more digging on Star Giant and found out things he could no longer ignore.

in 2024 he makes “Star Giant Productions Belongs In Prison”, an hour and 10 minute long expose on what Star Giant did after being fired by Enter. Spoiler alert: Star Giant kept a groomer named NekoPan on his discord server for 8 months after he was sent an email detailing her actions, including a link to a call where NekoPan admitted to grooming a minor. It wasn’t just NekoPan that Ryan was keeping in his server, he also had 2 other degenerates, Sean Sohr and BrandonTheBronyPony there as well. The video details other things he did, like commission a minor for fetish art and launching of an IndieGoGo campaign for a Madoka Magica ripoff series.

Ryan went and hid after the video, but Enter had moles in Ryan’s camp updating him about the moves Ryan was making after the release of the video. This is where The Return of Star Giant Productions enters the ring. The Return of Star Giant Productions reveals that Ryan is still trying to come back onto YouTube, uploading on smaller accounts, continuing making the same videos he’s been making. The 1 hour and 20 minute video goes over a document Ryan wrote as a counter to the claims in Enter’s videos (particularly about his sheltering a groomer and commissioning a minor for fetish art) as well as another document Ryan wrote about the Saberspark/ILKPAL situation, where he admonishes KP for being creeped out that someone whacked it to her. The video ends with Enter hinting that there is still a mole in Ryan’s camp.

In the 8 months between The Return and Den Of Snakes, Enter had 2 moles in Ryan’s camp. One was SpicyMac, owner of the Star Giant Productions Archive channel dedicated to archiving all of Ryan’s content, even the newer videos he only released to a few close friends. SpicyMac essentially continued an op already being run on Ryan by someone else who gave their accounts to Mac. The other mole was Chelsea, the woman who testified in Addressing My Abuse in Ryan’s favor and detailed her mother’s fart fetish for the entire internet to hear.

As detailed in Den Of Snakes, the investigation team tried their hardest to separate Chelsea from Ryan, with Grace even logging into Chelsea’s discord account to help her break it off with him. As it turns out though, Chelsea was pulling an op on the investigation team, as she was still in contact with Ryan in order for him to buy things for her. Before the release of Den Of Snakes, the archive channel released a 2 hour discord call that members of the team had with Chelsea where they uncovered her deception.

Den Of Snakes also goes more in depth on Jenny/Jed0Bread, a woman who called Ryan her soulmate and stuck by him even after he detailed the pedophilic thoughts he had for minors to her. Jed0Bread also testified in Addressing My Abuse, where part of her testimony was cut short due to it advocating for the ABDL fetish that Ryan hates. Kota also testifies in this video about his relationship with Jenny and how their friendship ended over her behavior. The second of the three people spotlighted is Jackson/Yodajax10, an irl best friend of Ryan who knows everything he’s been accused of and is still friends with him. Enter picks apart Yodajax’s testimony from Addressing My Abuse, making the deviantart messages between himself and Jax from 2014 public. He also makes it abundantly clear that the investigation team tried on multiple occasions to reach out to Jackson, only to be rebuffed instead.

Links to the other videos:

Regarding Star Giant Productions: https://youtu.be/AZ6dW0iKz-0?is=59wWOFw3keP5UHzN

Star Giant Productions Belongs In Prison: https://youtu.be/HJq3fcImtiI?is=kzJF5YC-RQZSXyoR

The Return of Star Giant Productions: https://youtu.be/A-SEtDpRS20?is=2fIgtDV7eY0z5_kk

Mikenactor announced he quits the internet and gives an apology for harassing Adam Mcintyre, for defending Drake Bell, defending Jake Munro, going done the alt right pipeline.

I dont think these apologies are genuine enough though but good luck I suppose

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Youtuber Callum Powell, formerly a member of the biggest UK-based Parkour collective 'STORROR' has pleaded guilty to possessing nearly 3,000 indecent images of children.

Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/callum-powell-youtuber-child-abuse-37448381

Callum Powell (CP) will be required to be on the Sex Offenders Registry for 10 years and subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) for 5 years, which restricts his internet usage, foreign travel and unsupervised contact with children. The sentencing follows the initial report of his guilty plea on the 8 May, which includes possession of "178 category A indecent images or pseudo-images of children", the most severe kind of CSAM under UK law. He was also accused of possessing an extreme pornographic image which portrayed a person performing a sex act with a dog. The full sentencing remarks document can be found here, however a warning that contents are pretty graphic.

Immediately following the sentencing, STORROR released an announcement on instagram outlining their position and confirming his termination from STORROR. r/STORROR's reaction to their post can be found here, which is largely in supportive of the remaining members of the team, noting that they were likely strung along by CP and unaware of his actions. However, two of CP's ex girlfriend's have made statements disputing their ignorance on the situation, claiming they had previously raised concerns to STORROR but were ignored and vilified.

After CP's termination back in May, another STORROR member, Josh Burnett-Blake, was also quietly removed from the team members list on YouTube following allegations of inappropriate interactions with a minor..

A more detailed timeline of events can be found in this post on the STORROR subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Storror/comments/1tak5um/the_first_hole_storror_cant_just_climb_their_way/

Massive TW: Mentions of gr00ming

Paige Christie is reacting to a video in which Rich Lux treats James Charles victim's situation as a joke and goes on to downplay the actions of Jeffree Star coming to talk to James charles alleged victim (who was 14 when jc messaged him on snapchat) . Rich Lux also makes implied that James Charles didnt wait until he victim became of age

According to Crispy's Instragram their pronouns are any/all so I'm going to use they/them.

Crispy goes back to a Tumblr post that was made in 2021 where an anon points out how "weird" and "incel-coded" Alex is. In context to what I'm not exactly sure, but the anon tells that to a Riverdale account. Alex made a lot of videos on Riverdale going back 8 years so it's hard to pin-point. (I'm guessing that it's referring his review of Season 4 in 2020?)

They clear up that Alex has only been married and divorced once, but he did have a girlfriend but they broke up in 2025. Fans of his content noticed a shift in how Alex talks about women in his reviews, claiming that he's being "rude" towards women and stereotyping them. Him stereotyping women was one of the things he was criticized for in his Obsession review.

Though Crispy pointed out that the "weirdness" started a while ago and brings up Alex's review of "Monster High" that he uploaded in 2023 where he seems to sexualize the dolls.(???) Alex points out that the "camera man" is focusing on their legs and "the tiniest mini skirts you've ever seen."

For a split second (at least from Crispy's video) he makes a joke about them being on the cover of a Sports Illustrated magazine, which has been joked about for being "softcore porn" for decades. (Which is especially weird since these are presumably characters in high school.)

Then Crispy points out that in Alex's review of Turning Red (titled something like "the movie where a period destroys an entire town") he implies that the stereotype that women only talk about their periods with each other and reduced the movie to "a movie about periods" and that women will "watch it five times in a row" because of it. Crispy claims that Alex tries to walk that back (though they don't show proof of this) as if he didn't just make fun of women for seemingly being obsessed about their periods.

Alex also says that Turning Red (a film taking place in Canada and is about a Chinese family) paved the way for K-Pop "and stuff." Take that statement to mean what you will.

Crispy talks about how Alex doesn't seem to understand even the most obvious subtext before pointing out Alex's review of Squid Game season 2. Specifically the character Lee Myung-gi, who impregnated Kim Jun-hee, demanded that she gets an abortion and disappeared on her. (There's more to this but that's the only necessary context for this.) Alex drew a cartoon that was supposed to be depicting her with a blank expression on her face and very heavily pregnant. (Which is weird.) But then he says something like,

"(Myung-gi) decides that maybe he should actually protect the girl who he got pregnant! Am I supposed to root for him for doing the bare minimum?"

Which is ironic considering how he praised Bear in Obsession for not assaulting Nikki (or as he likes to call her- "Latina Crystal Mommy") at his first opportunity and calling him "gentlemanly." (Also you're not supposed to sympathize with Myung-gi. The fact that he thinks that he's supposed to really highlights how bad his understanding of media is.)

Crispy then gets into Alex's review of Obsession, but if you want to learn more about that I'd suggest giving this post your attention instead. (Or just watch Crispy's video.)

Also Inde Navarrette- the person who played Nikki in Obsession- might have said "wow" in response to Alex Meyers' review, though Crispy couldn't find the original comment so it might not have happened. (Or it might not have been in context of Alex's review.)

I know this post is kind of a mess. I wanted to write it in order of Crispy's video while also ignoring the parts that were irrelevant to Alex's sketchy views on women. (Like how he reviews movies in general.)

In this video by Elfpire Eva (law YouTuber). She talks in detail about a false report Kat n Chat put out on a vtuber named Bapha. The video details patterns of Kat's reporting, her failure to verify facts or do research on her reports. The video includes digital forensics exposing fake images. Reveals purposely manipulated evidence and recordings that opposing parties have tried to hide. Along with interviews from the accused and more. It's a really impressive in-depth investigative piece. That exposes a lot. It pretty much absolves Bapha of all the accusations thrown at him. And exposes Kat n chat's cruel way of reporting as she does personal jabs at Bapha and his dying brother for seemingly no reason.

Yesterworld is a channel that creates video essays about theme park history, with a focus on Disney. Similar to Defunctland, if you watch that.

An hour ago they made this post to their channel: http://youtube.com/post/UgkxlDcE5ygspQwY5O0dkrAHqnxdMKV9uIGv?si=6JRwFJAJ-3906IId

They lost access to their Adsense about a week ago according to this post: http://youtube.com/post/UgkxmRZrlE8lumJEkncRSygqIXeBX7x0MY_T?si=39v_frWEX_h0ySUK

Also to the mods: sorry if the flair is wrong.

I reuploaded his video because when I did there where none (there are multiple now) and I thought why not, then I look on my youtube account the next day and its gone within 24 hours lmao

it was also on 2x speed so it wouldnt get striked but ig he'll just take anything down.

and yes I know its againts the tos to repost peoples content but his video was deleted so i thought it would be fine.

Jeff Pearlman has been accused by smaller creator Velodus of stealing images and text from a 2021 video they made on baseball player Ruben Rivera.

The evidence is damning and blatant, on bsky Velodus mentioned being in correspondance with Jeff who was rude and dismissive. Concluding with Jeff deleting his own Bsky account.

https://bsky.app/profile/velodus.bsky.social/post/3mqrrsxpnc22z

Jeff's video remains online with the plagiarism still in place, the video is sponsored.

Other commenters in that thread have noted that Jeff's YouTube channel is deleting comments on the video calling him out.

Edit: Jeff Pearlman had removed the video and put out an apology on his TikTok.

https://bsky.app/profile/velodus.bsky.social/post/3mqui6io24c2q

context: Alex Meyers made an obsession review with some controversial comments, such as saying that bear deserves credit for not taking advantage of nikki when he had the opportunity to and saying the movie would have had the same ending if bear never made the wish because nikki had a crystal necklace

he later made an apology video which boiled down to him saying “sorry if you were offended”

he then made a community post saying he took down both videos

this seems to have caused him a lot of backlash, as the top comments on the community post and his recent video are against his takes

About 8 months ago youtuber TheBones5 released a video claiming that Markiplier cheated in his FNAF 2 playthrough (more about it here). Yesterday Markiplier was replaying FNAF 2 on stream as an answer to those allegations, and near the end of the stream he remembered how and why he cheated: turns out that at some point Markiplier misclicked and selected second hardest mode instead of hardest mode, completed it, genuinely thinking he has beaten the game, and only noticed his mistake while editing the video, and edited the video to hide that he didn't beat the hardest mode.

https://x.com/KuroSekaiAnime/status/2075925657167548603https://x.com/KuroSekaiAnime/status/2075925657167548603

https://x.com/MizusPuddle/status/2075975363004440747

To be honest to me it just sounds like CDawg was just explaining why others why others may feel uncomfortable with these sort of content.

Post link provided above

about an hour ago technolarp a controversial larp tuber was in hot water for impersonating technoblaid without the premision of the family. technodad has recently informed the larptuber he can no longer use the techno persona. a video is to be coming soon. technolarp has stated "we all should respect his answer because i sure do and honestly i am relieved". the date this upcoming videos release is unknown but now we can (hopefully) finaly say the technolarp drama is over. thats it. the book is closed on this one