Top 10 YouTubers Who Lost Fame

Lucas Cruikshank

Lucas Alan Cruikshank is an American actor and YouTube personality. He created the character Fred Figglehorn and launched the Fred series on YouTube in late 2005. The series centers around Fred, a hyperactive six-year-old boy with a dysfunctional home life and frequent emotional outbursts. It became... 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

Ray William Johnson is an American actor, comedian, producer, director, writer, singer, and rapper. He is best known for his YouTube channel, Ray William Johnson, and for his web series on that channel, Equals Three.

He is also known for creating comedy music projects such as Fatty Spins and Your... 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.

iJustine

Justine Ezarik is an American YouTube personality, host, actress, and model. Known online as iJustine, she has amassed over one billion views across her YouTube channels. She initially gained attention as one of the Internet's most prominent lifecasters.

Jawz

He was famous for gaming until his channel's subscriber count dropped to 924,965. He later got arrested for drug-related charges.

MinnesotaBurns

He once had 2,039,731 subscribers, but after taking a break, he returned to find his videos were only getting 15,000 views.

Charlie McDonnell

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.

WoodysGamertag

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.

Philip DeFranco

MysteryGuitarMan

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.

LeafyIsHere

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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MattyB

Matthew David Morris, born on January 6, 2003, is better known by his stage names MattyB and MattyBRaps. He is an American singer, rapper, and dancer who rose to fame by posting remix videos of popular songs on YouTube. His early online success helped launch a broader entertainment career.

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Seth Everman

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.

SkyDoesMinecraft

Adam Dahlberg, born January 17, 1993, is better known online as Sky Does Everything or NetNobody and was formerly known as SkyDoesMinecraft. They are an American YouTuber and video game commentator who gained prominence for their early Minecraft content.... 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.

PewDiePie

Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg (born October 24, 1989), known online as PewDiePie, is a Swedish YouTube personality, comedian, and commentator. He gained fame for his Let's Play videos and vlogs and was the most subscribed YouTuber for nearly six years, after which he was surpassed by T-Series. As of March... 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

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 and was later joined by his friend Ian Hecox. The duo became one of the most popular creators on YouTube, and the channel has since expanded... read more

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.

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McJuggerNuggets

Jesse Tyler Ridgway, born September 29, 1992, is better known online as McJuggerNuggets and is associated with RiDGiD STUDiOS. He is an American YouTuber from Elmer and Pittsgrove Township, New Jersey. His main channel has over 4.3 million subscribers, and his video "Psycho Dad Shreds Video Games" has... 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.

GloZell Green

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

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. As of October 2024, Turner had a total of over 14.5 million subscribers and more than 3.9 billion... 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?

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Charles Trippy

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.

Hannah Stocking

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).

Durv

He had over 1 million subscribers until his channel was taken down on May 31, 2017, for violating YouTube's terms of service.