Top 10 YouTube Channels that Were Good but Went Downhill
We haven't had a title quite like this. This is about YouTube channels that were good but eventually went downhill. Yet YouTubers are people and channels are things. Some of them I subscribed to, but once their channels took a downward fall, I unsubscribed.
Logan Alexander Paul (born April 1, 1995) is an American YouTuber and social media personality. In addition to posting on his own YouTube channel, he has run the Impaulsive podcast since November 2018. As of January 2022, he has more than 23 million subscribers on YouTube... read more Logan Paul used to have a decent channel (though hard to watch due to the rather intense vlogging techniques), but on New Year's Eve 2017, during a trip to Japan, he captured a dead body on camera at a forest he called the "Suicide Forest", filmed it & laughed at it. He made fun of it too. He got so much hate & trouble for that. This was his absolute lowest point ever. His channel has never been viewed the same way since then. His "apology" video seemed pointless & he monetized it. YouTube has changed its guidelines in the wake of the 1 of a kind scandal. He committed among YouTube's biggest scandals of all time. Yet he even tased a dead rat & made fun of it even after the "apology" video. He eventually decided to quit daily vlogging for other projects. Like I said, his channel was fine but went downhill, WAY downhill & that's an understatement.
Smosh is an American sketch comedy YouTube channel created by Ian Andrew Hecox and Daniel Anthony Padilla. Anthony Padilla created a website called smosh.com in 2002. He was later joined by his friend Ian Hecox. Smosh used to have 1 of the best & funniest yet most popular YouTube channels for more than a decade, with countless & funny stunts. But eventually in June 14th. 2017, the founder Anthony Padilla announced he left the rest of Smosh & moved onto his own channel (which didn't even grow nearly as big, just ~4.8M subs compared to the whopping ~25.1M Smosh has) & the whole Smosh channel just collapsed into an absolute wreck. Now their videos aren't nearly as funny or entertaining anymore & they've gotten more random & are getting no more than a few thousand views (as opposed to the millions the ones with Anthony grew). Glad I unsubscribed to them knowing there's no more point watching this channel that went from a masterpiece into a disaster.
Fred Figglehorn is a fictional character created and portrayed by American actor Lucas Cruikshank. He rose to prominence in the early days of YouTube. In 2013, Cruikshank retired the character because he could no longer do the Fred voice. There was also a Fred movie trilogy that lasted from 2010 to... read more What was 1 of the most popular channels (yet 1st to ever hit & pass 1M subs), a skit channel about a character talking in a sped up voice with anger management issues in situations with crazy parents (an original storyline), didn't even make it into the 1st decade of use & Lucas Cruikshank (the real guy who played the Fred character) decided to sell the Fred channel to kids on August 28th, 2014, after less than 7 years (before he turned 21), putting his beloved & original fame to a permanent end. The Fred channel now has just ~2.93M subscribers since the beginning & is no longer active (not even by the kids he sold it to). Even I unsubscribed to it. He had mixed reviews as many loved him & many others hated him, but at least it was more original than many (if any) of the YouTube channels we have now.
George Kusunoki Miller (born September 18,1992), better known professionally as Joji and formerly known on YouTube as Filthy Frank and Pink Guy, is a Japanese American R&B singer, comedian, songwriter, rapper, and former YouTuber. Founded by Joji Miller, it became 1 of the most popular channels on YouTube & also relied on skits & stories. He grew 6.61M subscribers throughout his time in this channel. Eventually after growing into music (yet also developing a neurological condition that lead to periodic seizures), he quit Filthy Frank after just over 8 years, so it didn't even make it into 1 decade. He gave it up & it just died. Another channel I unsubscribed to.
Filthy Frank had a reason to quit, it's because of medical reasons.
What was 1 of the top comedy channels went downhill halfway through its current lifespan (in 2015) & the newer episodes aren't as good as the older ones.
I don't think Annoying Orange was ever good.
Though, I only know him due to the CN show about him. :/
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"... read more Adam Dahlberg (his real name) used to do Minecraft on this channel & it became the #1 channel about Minecraft (1 of the most popular games of all time), but then quit, putting this channel downhill to its death. I chose to unsubscribe since it's no longer being used & since he's no longer relevant.
Calvin Lee Vail (born August 18, 1995), known online as LeafyIsHere or simply Leafy, is an American former YouTuber and former Twitch streamer who, from the years 2011 to 2017, and 2020, made reaction, drama, and gaming videos, but is mostly known for commentary. Leafy was actually a good commentary YouTuber. It was his fanbase that took everything out of control, he was obviously satire about his roasting the internet. So it was his fans who ruined his career, not Leafy himself.
It's had better days before plummeting in a downward spiral with bad content that was rude & violating many rules. I unsubscribed once it went downhill. Later he quit due to burnout & the next year YouTube terminated his channel. He had over 5M subscribers.
It was a thing for years & what made Daniel Howell & Phil Lester incredibly popular. Dan was once named DanIsNotOnFire & Phil was named TheAmazingPhil all for 8 years (not even the 1st decade) & later on in 2019 they went on indefinite hiatus, putting the channel into a standstill & made them less relevant to this day. It was originally entertaining enough to subscribe to but it's impossible to know when they'll use it or if they ever will, so I decided to unsubscribe.
Daniel and Phil are the best but they should be in Locke and Key season 5
Jake Joseph Paul (born January 17, 1997) is an American social media personality and professional boxer. He initially rose to fame on Vine, before playing the role of Dirk Mann on the Disney Channel series Bizaardvark for two seasons. Throughout his career, Paul has become the subject of many controversies... read more His channel wasn't originally as bad as it's gotten (yet is now). It eventually became racist (with him eventually said the N word) & it all went totally downhill from there & he became creepier & had a worsening influence on people. Good thing he isn't growing very popular anymore. Glad I didn't even subscribe to him in the 1st place.
What was once 1 of the most popular comedy skit channels on YouTube took a sudden drop after TikTok star Ondreaz Lopez (from the Lopez Brothers) decided to date Hannah out of the blue. She does vlogs now & they're pretty generic to say the least & there's no more than 1, 2 or 3 things going on in them as opposed to her skits (which had a lot more going on) not to mention Hannah's 28 & Ondreaz's 23 even while engaged. Yet Ondreaz's the brother of Tony Lopez, who has a history of racism & sexual abuse. I originally subscribed to her channel in 2017 but she ruined it in September 2020, making me unsubscribe. Plus she grew subscribers really fast in the past (Now ~7.68M) but now she's losing many subscribers (like ~10K) & some of her videos used to get over 1M or more per day (including the lyric video of "Hard 2 Face Reality" by Poo Bear, Justin Bieber & Jay Electronica, which now has ~212M views) & now her latest videos (or vlogs) get much less than 1M views per day (even less than 100K views per day). Plus she's been giving friends tattoos the illegal way (without a license), which's dangerous & can cause harm & infections to others. She really went downhill in 2020.
Daniel Robert Middleton (born 8 November 1991), better known online as DanTDM (formerly TheDiamondMinecart), is a British YouTuber and gamer known for his video game commentaries. His online video channels have covered many video games including Minecraft, Roblox and Pokémon. Honestly, basically all people who got onto Minecraft circa 2012 and originally aimed at adults basically turned into manchildren.
He was once good, but doesn't post relevant content anymore.
His channel was 1 of the most successful channels & historic as he's done more daily vlogs than anyone else in history (from 2009 to 2019). A whopping 3,653 in 10 years. He decided to end his historic project to move onto other things & has been along with the stress he's been through in his daily vlogging days. His channel was the greatest vlog channel in history & now it's not even growing big anymore & now he's just somebody that we used to know.
Ian Carter, better known online as iDubbbz, is an American YouTube personality and comedian, most well known as the creator of YouTube channels iDubbbzTV, iDubbbzTV2, and iDubbbzgames, as well as comedy video series Content Cop, Bad Unboxing and Kickstarter Crap. He was known for doing content cop but lately he doesn't do that anymore.
This is kinda cheating, as the YouTube channel is merely another outlet for the website. But regardless, the downfall of Channel Awesome in 2018 was one of the biggest bombshells to hit YouTube. And even then, the quality of the videos from it's biggest content creator, Doug Walker, have been going downhill for quite some time now.
Formerly, he used to be a healthy vegan youtuber but later his content fell from grace when his mental and physical health started to decline - slowly transitioning to mukbangs which generally received positive reception. Starting on mid-2019 to the present, controversy started between other youtubers and celebrities which is probably caused by the decline of his mental health as drama ensued. To this day, he is eating more junk than he should, and thus that contributes more of the weight gain he is experiencing.
Logan Thrityacre, (born in Florida 1994-) also known as SuperMarioLogan, is an American YouTuber and puppeteer, who makes YouTube videos with puppets and plush dolls. Jeffy is a way problematic character, using autism as A JOKE. I mean, the fans like to pretend his just really really stupid, but several videos contradict it
Shane Lee Yaw (born July 19, 1988), known professionally as Shane Dawson, is an American YouTuber, writer, comedian, actor, director, musician, and media personality who began making Youtube videos in 2008. He became one of the first people to rise to fame on the video-sharing platform YouTube. His channel used to be good & took a different & still entertaining path with conspiracies & documentaries. He even invented the biggest makeup sale in history (with the Conspiracy palettes) Then after that the drama took a downward route & before that, his history involved sexual abuse on a cat. Yet he admitted doing the same to Lucas Cruikshank (who did Fred) & eventually this channel & his other channel shanedawsontv got demonetized. A true legend once talented now bad.
How is he not in the top 3? He went from being one of the most beloved youtubers to being the most hated youtubers for the creepy things he said about his cats and "joking" about pedophillia and making inappropriate comments to children. This dude is a pedo and a zoophile.
Zoe Elizabeth Sugg is an English YouTuber, vlogger, businesswoman and author. She is also known by her YouTube username, Zoella. Once the most popular YouTube beauty channel in the U.K. turn a dark turn when she sold her fans & eventually she lost some of her subscribers. She left her main channel Zoella without prior announcements. Her substitute channel (under her real name Zoe Sugg) only has ~4.88M subscribers compared the ~11.6M subscribers Zoella had. Yet her current videos aren't nearly as good either & she never gave Zoella a chance to hit 12M after all.
She always had some problems (such as being a con artist), but she really crossed the line when she launched TanaCon, an online fan conventions named after her & disorganized yet took place at the Anaheim Marriott Suites (which could only hold 1,018 people) & 5,018 tickets were sold to people too quickly in advance & security measures forced everyone torture such as waiting in line for 7 hours in hot weather with no food, water, or anything. This led to 2nd & 3rd degree sunburns (which indicate a severely increased risk of deadly skin cancers) & the people that went never got to meet their idols. Yet she apparently laughed at a dead body there too. A double whammy. It was the fan convention equivalent to the Fyre Festival disaster & are the reasons Tana Mongeau created a scandal like no other.
Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell, known professionally as Billie Eilish (born December 18, 2001) is an American singer and songwriter, best known for her songs "When the Party's Over", "Bury a Friend", "Everything I Wanted", "Happier Than Ever" and especially "Bad Guy".
He used to be a daily vlogger & took daily vlogging to a whole new level with detailed quality. He did it all until 2016 though he went back to it before moving away from New York after 18 years to go to L.A. Calfifornia & then quitting daily vlogging again & for good. Now he's not growing big anymore.
It was a good channel until she moved on from Wednesdays With Liza to Liza On Demand. She quit her original comedy in 2018 & is now a YouTube Premium star. Yet she isn't even posting frequently on her main channel anymore.
He used to post such epic content & now he doesn't post such anymore.