Rise and fall of controversial YouTuber LeafyIsHere
Highly controversial YouTuber and Twitch streamer LeafyIsHere, whose real name is Calvin Lee Vail, is perhaps one of the most contentious people to grace the content creation community, having been banned from almost all websites, including Twitter.
Long-term YouTube users will remember the numerous dramas and scandals associated with LeafyIsHere, which gave him a meteoric boost in popularity in 2016 as allegations of cyberbullying and online harassment charges started gaining ground.
His content mostly featured voice-over commentary over his gameplay of certain games, such as CounterStrike Global Offensive. The videos initially involved rants and drama concerning smaller content creators before evolving into intense feuds with others such as iDubbbz, Keemstar, and Twitch star Pokimane. He was then indefinitely banned in 2020.
His ban was the subject of numerous discussions by content creators and streamers. Here is a brief overview of the rise and fall of LeafyIsHere.
Although Vail started his YouTube channel in 2013, he only gained popularity three years later after videos of him criticizing smaller creators for their appearance and content went viral. One of the major reasons why fans flocked to him was his nonchalant no-holds-bar criticism of a goth YouTuber named MrBlackDarkness666.
While videos of the incident have been deleted because of his channel wipe, here is another creator talking about the roast, which led to MrBlackDarkness666's breakup.
Distraught, there were many back-and-forth videos between the creators which ultimately gave them prominence, especially LeafyIsHere, as he began attracting more fans. He continued to ridicule more creators, reaching a million subscribers by February 2016. The beef was quashed
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