Most Famous YouTubers that Quit Their YouTube Channels
Many YouTubers quit & some that quit had huge channels with many subscribers.
Zoe Elizabeth Sugg is an English YouTuber, vlogger, businesswoman and author. She is also known by her YouTube username, Zoella. She once had a channel that reached nearly 12 million subscribers & she became the most famous YouTuber in the history of the U.K. Eventually she quit her main channel after reaching nearly 12 million, making her the 3rd most famous individual YouTuber anywhere to quit a channel (only behind Jenna Marbles & Anthony Padilla, the lead member of Smosh). She still has a channel but in the name Zoe Sugg & has only ~4.81 million subscribers, so she's nowhere near as popular as she used to be.
Like Lucas Cruikshank creating Fred, Joji Miller created a character (Filthy Frank) & became popular, with 6.61 million subscribers, which was more popular than Lucas/Fred. He invented the Harlem Shake meme which became his most popular video ever. He gained a lot of hate though & all the complaints led him to quitting vlogging & staying just in his character Filthy Frank. Eventually he grew out of his character & quit his channel but also all of YouTube (whereas Lucas still does YouTube in his own channel called Lucas) but also he suffered a neurological disorder that led to him getting seizures, which also led to him quitting.
My boi Filthy Frank made amazing mixtapes. He the king of dank you tubers because screw you and he had some seizures and stuff and turned into an R&B artist called Joji.
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RIP Papa Franku. =(
I miss Filthy Frank.
Machinima, Inc. was a U.S.-based multiplatform online entertainment network owned by WarnerMedia. The company was founded in January 2000 by Hugh Hancock and was headquartered in Los Angeles, California.It originated as a hub for its namesake, machinima, which uses and manipulates video-game technology to create animation, as well as featuring articles on machinima and content about film and technology. After reaching ~12 million subs, the group Machinima quit their channel in 2019 & it was a historic loss of a channel for the YouTube community. However Machinima was a group & many other channels were from individuals.
Too bad, but too good.
Lucas Alan Cruikshank is an American actor and YouTube personality who created the character Fred Figglehorn and the associated Fred series for his channel on the video-sharing website YouTube in late 2005. These videos are centered on Fred Figglehorn, a fictional six-year-old who has a dysfunctional ...read more. When he did Fred, he was the 1st to get a million subscribers & over on YouTube. After nearly 8 years of doing Fred, he eventually grew out of his channel & sold it to kids, putting a sudden end to a historic (though annoying to some) era on YouTube.
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Known for the channel FPSRussia, after reaching more than 6 million subscribers, he was arrested & forced to quit his YouTube channel & his departure impacted the YouTube community in historic levels. Eventually he died from murder after reaching 6.5 million subs.
Lil Tay is an American rapper and internet personality who gained fame from the age of 9. She is the sister of Jason Tian. She was a satirical girl who ranted in satirical manners & became popular in 2018. She eventually got stressed about social media & bullying & eventually left the spotlight & quit YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram & all other platforms, therefore she's no longer famous.
This was the real deal. This was what led to Smosh going downhill. They used to have an awesome channel until Anthony Left. His departure KILLED Smosh. There will never be another channel like it or a guy like him. R.I.P. SMOSH 2006-2017.
Worst thing to happen to Smosh. And YouTube. They were among the greatest channels and now it's dead.
The lead member of Smosh, who has over 24 million subscribers. He’s been with the group for the last 11 years. Eventually he decided to leave Smosh to focus on other works. The most shocking & saddest departure of a creator in YouTube history. ~24 million subscribers & leaving. He has his current channel, at ~2.8 million subscribers. The end of such an era.
Smosh can't survive without Anthony. He started it. It's the end of an era. A sad day for youTube.
Adam Dahlberg (born: January 17, 1993), better known online as Sky Does Everything or NetNobody (formerly SkyDoesMinecraft), is an American YouTuber, video game commentator, and former animator who gained prominence for their precursory Minecraft appeal, referring the Minecraft gold ingot item as "budder" and hating squids in the game. They also sang the song "New World" as a Minecraft parody at Minecon... read more
Jenna Nicole Mourey, better known by her pseudonym Jenna Marbles, is an American former YouTube personality, vlogger, comedian, and actress. She’s been on YouTube for under 11 years & was once the most subscribed female there, at (~20.1M subscribers) until 2 others took her over. She was known for a variety of videos including sketches & makeup. Then during the protests & riots in the wake of George Floyd’s death, old videos of resurfaced that included racial controversy. She quit YouTube for that reason. She quit her podcast channel with Julien Solomita the next month.
She's the fiance of PewDiePie & eventually after reaching 7 million subscribers, she quit YouTube after admitting it "took over her life". Apparently she deserves 4th place on this list as far as known.
He had almost 5 million subscribers & eventually quit due to burnout, which he admitted. Yet he was once tracked by Keemstar (DramaAlert). In 2020 his channel got terminated by YouTube.
She had ~1.3 million subscribers & ~942 thousand followers on Instagram & announced on September 6th, 2019 she's quitting YouTube & the rest of social media & the internet for good after admitting she was stressed with all the hate drama & her mental health, yet said they were trivial. JUST after reaching more than a million subscribers she quit. A sudden loss.
Michelle Phan is an American-Vietnamese make-up artist, entrepreneur and voice actress who became notable as a YouTube personality. She invented the beauty genre for YouTube & expanded it leading to more including James Charles, Jefree Star, Tati Westbrook & such to continue with their channels. Now aside from the constant shaky camera work of her vlogs, musical sequences & photoshoots, she's become a YouTube legend with ~8.91 million subscribers, putting her really high on the list and amongst the most famous YouTubers to leave the whole YouTube platform. Thankfully she returned to YouTube after ~2 years, though she eventually stated she quit vlogging to pursue her career on Bitcoin.
Bart Baker is an American entertainer, web-based comedian, video producer, singer and parody artist. He is best known for making parody videos of notable songs, which he posts on his YouTube channel. He quit YouTube on September 6th, 2019. He was known for making parodies of songs from popular music artists. He had over 10.1 million subscribers making him the most famous individual to quit the entire YouTube platform, though Machinima & Zoella had ~12 million & but Machinima was a group & Zoella only quit her main channel but still runs YouTube on her smaller channel, though Anthony Padilla was the lead member of Smosh, who has ~43 million subscribers, so Bart Baker really deserves high spot for solo creator to leave all of YouTube. He decided to move onto being a Chinese music artist after being more famous than Justin Bieber in China after just 6 MONTHS. SUCH a sad tragedy for ALL of YouTube.
He was known for his channel " charlieissocoollike" which had clean detailed vlogs & storytelling. He told stories that were bright. He was talented. On March 6th, 2019, he announced he was quitting YouTube to move onto screenwriting & this was after he reached ~2.22 million subscribers.
They reached ~9.5 million subscribers after more than a decade & the director got arrested for sexual harassment, in what was one of the most famous YouTube scandals ever & eventually deleted their channel. It was the most subscribed YouTube channel to get deleted until Calon Sarjana (who had 13 million subscribers) yet lasted ~11 years, making it the longest running YouTube channel that ever got deleted.
Quit her original series This Might Get after 9 months, while that has ~182K subscribers, her main channel has ~2.82M subscribers.
Known for her You Deserve A Drink & This Might Get, she quit those & moved onto her original channel, though she's still doing This Might Get in the form of a new series This Might Get Weird. That has ~182K subscribers while her main channel has ~1.15M subscribers.