Top 10 YouTubers Who Lost Fame
When a YouTuber gets views, they gain fame, but when they lose viewers, they lose their fame.They never make it.
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 started Fred, he gained fame for his Fred videos and the Fred voice, but then in 2014, he grew out of it and sold his Fred channel to kids. He bought a Range Rover Evoque with the money.
Since then, the Fred channel, which is now dead, has only 2.93 million subscribers. All he has now is his Lucas channel, with just over 2 million subscribers, and trust me, it sucks.
He's already listed here as Lucas Cruikshank. He lost fame after quitting his Fred character.
Ray William Johnson is an American actor, comedian, producer, director, writer, singer, and rapper. He is perhaps best known for his YouTube channel, Ray William Johnson, and his web series on that channel, Equals Three... read more His channel was the most popular on YouTube in 2010, but after a few years, he left, and it was taken over by a new host named Robbie Motz.
Justine Ezarik is an American YouTube personality, host, actress, and model. She is best known as iJustine and has over a billion views across her YouTube channels. She gained attention as one of the Internet's most popular lifecasters.
He was famous for gaming until his channel's subscriber count dropped to 924,965. He later got arrested for drug-related charges.
He once had 2,039,731 subscribers, but after taking a break, he returned to find his videos were only getting 15,000 views.
He was a vlogger and had a collaboration channel, but then his fame died, and his subscribers dropped from 2,397,914 to just over 250,000.
On March 6th, 2019, he quit YouTube to pursue a career as a screenwriter.
He was a popular gamer whose channel thrived until he shifted to podcasts. His fame then declined, with subscribers dropping from 1,189,423 to 150,000.
In 2006, he became famous with his musical covers, which he often created with household items. He gained even more popularity in 2008 with his messages to subscribers, and his videos were often featured on the front page.
But then, he lost 2,851,604 subscribers, and now only gets around 300,000 views per video.
Calvin Lee Vail (born August 18, 1995), known online as LeafyIsHere or simply Leafy, is an American former YouTuber and Twitch streamer. From 2011 to 2017, and briefly in 2020, he created reaction, drama, and gaming videos but was primarily known for his commentary content... read more He didn't post videos for much of the year, and eventually quit YouTube due to burnout. Later, YouTube terminated his channel in 2020.
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Matthew David Morris (born January 6, 2003), better known as MattyB or MattyBRaps, is an American singer, rapper, and dancer who launched his career by gaining notoriety from YouTube, posting remix videos of popular music.
Now that his comment "I'm the bald guy" from Billie Eilish's "Bad Guy" has been deleted, he's facing a permanent decline in popularity.
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 He quit his original YouTube channel to focus on music videos. His channel had around 10.57 million subscribers. He's definitely not as famous anymore.
Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg (born October 24, 1989), better known by his online alias PewDiePie, is a Swedish web-based comedian video producer, and commentary channel. He is best known for his Let's Play commentaries and Vlogs on YouTube. He is known for being the most subscribed-to YouTuber on the website... read more PewDiePie is still extremely famous and near the top, though he is no longer the most subscribed YouTube channel, as channels like Music and T-Series have surpassed him. He did, however, become the first individual creator to pass 100 million subscribers, which was a historic milestone for the YouTube community.
On December 8, 2016, Felix Kjellberg joked that he would delete his channel and quit YouTube. He was the most popular single YouTuber of all time, having just reached 50 million subscribers. The world was shocked when PewDiePie talked about quitting YouTube. It turned out to be a joke, but it made a number of people unsubscribe from him.
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. After Anthony left, it went downhill. Not only are the videos stupid and of very bad quality, but they also get almost no views. I miss the days when this channel was #1. R.I.P. Smosh.
Jesse Tyler Ridgway (born September 29, 1992), better known online as McJuggerNuggets or RiDGiD STUDiOS, is an American YouTuber who grew up and lived in Elmer, New Jersey. He has over 4 million subscribers on YouTube and his video "Psycho Dad Shreds Video Games" has garnered more than 30 million views... read more He gained fame with his PsychoKid skits, but later left to join Red Sun Entertainment, which turned out to be a greedy, money-driven workplace.
In her early days, her challenge videos had millions and millions of views. Some of her recent videos haven't even made it over 10,000 views.
Toby Turner (born March 3, 1985), also known by his stage name Tobuscus, is an American Internet personality, actor, and musician. Originally from Niceville, Florida, he is best known for his YouTube videos... read more I voted for Toby Turner because when I heard about the rape allegations in 2016, it made me question a lot of things, even now in 2022-2023.
1. When will he be back on YouTube after the allegations are resolved?
2. Will he ever get a new job?
3. What will happen if he stays at home all the time without trying to find a solution to get a new job?
4. Will he ever post new videos, or will he continue seeking help to regain his fame?
After quitting a record-breaking 3,653 daily consecutive vlogs (the most ever done by anyone) over 10 years, he stopped gaining subscribers as quickly and lost numerous followers. He's no longer who he used to be.
Remember when she did skits? Back then, she gained hundreds of thousands to millions of views per day and climbed quickly in subscribers. Yet the lyric video she made for Justin Bieber, Pooh Bear, and Jay Electronica's "Hard to Face Reality" (which Lele Pons was featured in) has over 208 million views! She's now past 7.65 million subscribers but isn't growing as quickly anymore, and her latest videos don't even get hundreds of thousands or millions of views on their first day.
Why? Because after she dated TikTok star Ondreaz Lopez (the brother of Tony Lopez, who has a history of sexual and racist behavior), she suddenly decided to vlog weekly with him. Her vlogs are harder to keep up with and more generic. Plus, she isn't collaborating with Lele Pons anymore. Lele, meanwhile, is busy with a boyfriend and doing her own online docuseries ("The Secret Life of Lele Pons") as well as music.
Hannah was more original and funny back then (even more so than other comedy YouTubers like Lilly Singh), but not anymore. R.I.P. OG Hannah Stocking 2013 (Vine) - 2017-2020 (YouTube).
He had over 1 million subscribers until his channel was taken down on May 31, 2017, for violating YouTube's terms of service.