YouTubers Who Quit What They Were Most Famous For

Smosh has one of the most famous channels, with past 24 million subscribers on their single channel and approximately 43.8 million combining all their channels together. Smosh was known for having the lead member Anthony Padilla. Eventually, after approximately 12 years, Anthony decided to leave, putting their channel downhill. They don't make good videos anymore. A huge era of goodness was put to a sudden end after approximately 12 years.

Lucas was known most for creating Fred Figglehorn and became the first to get over 1 million subscribers on YouTube. For approximately 7 to 8 years, he created episodes as Fred, who was hyperactive and had anger issues dealing with messed-up parents and a messed-up life. Eventually, on August 20th, 2014, he decided to quit Fred. He sold his channel to kids who eventually left as well, selling his fame to rock bottom.

Lucas Cruikshank had created the Fred Figglehorn channel. He is #1 to reach a million subscribers but quit forever since 2014.

Best known for his character Filthy Frank, he had approximately 6.61 million subscribers. Over the years, his character traits made him famous. He turned the Harlem Shake into a meme and was the anti-vlogger. It was a unique story for YouTube entertainment. Eventually, he decided to quit his channel after suffering a neurological condition that gave him seizures. At the same time, he decided to move on to being a rapper.

Doing Filthy Frank was actually killing him. So yeah, he had to stop, otherwise he could've died.

They had a YouTube channel that relied on gaming and lasted for many years until 2019, when they left it dark and quit. They had around 12.2 million subscribers for their work.

Zoe Sugg was known most famously for her Zoella channel, which gained approximately 11.6 million subscribers in more than a decade. She became the queen of YouTube in the U.K. and the U.K.'s greatest beauty YouTuber. Eventually, she quit without telling anyone beforehand and moved on to a smaller channel which has only approximately 4.85 million subscribers instead of continuing her original channel and passing 12 million.

Casey was known best for his daily vlogging, done in a one-of-a-kind way unlike anyone else. He made daily vlogs that impressed even big-budget movie crews and went from being a typical amateur vlogger into a professional, magical vlogger. Eventually, in 2016, he decided to quit daily vlogging, shocking the world. He made a return in 2017 before leaving his hometown, New York City, after approximately 18 years and eventually spreading his vlogs apart. An important era came to an end, and he will never be replaced.

The king of daily vlogging, Charles Trippy, was known for making the highest number of daily vlogs. That means he vlogged every day without missing a day for the longest time. He made a whopping 3,653 vlogs! Each one every single day for the last 10 years. Eventually, he decided to quit daily vlogging, putting a huge era and the main thing that made him famous to an end.

Bart Baker was the king of parodies and made parodies of many popular songs from singers, past to present. Eventually, on September 6th, 2019, he quit YouTube after reaching approximately 10.1 million subscribers. He pursued his career as a Chinese music artist after gaining more fame than Justin Bieber did in China in the last 6 months.

Himiwako joined YouTube in 2015, where she posted videos of herself playing video games. She was known for having macromastia, a condition where her breasts grew to an enormous size. Her last video was posted in May 2017, just two years after joining. According to reports, someone was stalking her, and she has since disappeared from the internet altogether.

Mark Rober makes quality content on YouTube, and we want him to stay there. Videos can never get any cooler or more entertaining to watch.

NASA was just his undercover disguise. YouTube is Mark's thing.

They were on YouTube for around seven years and gained about 2.7 million subscribers before quitting.

Coyote Peterson was not only famous for his channel Brave Wilderness, but especially his videos centered on getting bitten and stung by creatures including alligators, turtles, ants, wasps, bees, centipedes, etc. He became viral especially after getting stung by harvester ants, a giant velvet ant (an ant-looking ground wasp), a tarantula hawk, and a bullet ant (which lives up to its name). It was dedicated to Justin O. Schmidt, the man of 1,000 stings.

His worst bite was from a giant desert centipede and the only one where he sought medical attention. His worst sting, he claimed, was from an executioner wasp, which he claimed was far more painful than that of a bullet ant or Japanese giant hornet (which he also claimed was worse than a bullet ant for pain). With his bite/sting episodes, he gained approximately 14.5 million subscribers to this day and 10 million in just ~23 months, slightly faster than Liza Koshy. This made Brave Wilderness one of the fastest-growing channels on YouTube.

The closest the internet and YouTube have ever gotten to replicating Steve Irwin, who was killed by a stingray to the heart in the most shocking wildlife explorer death in history. Though Coyote did make a new such video in September. R.I.P. Steve Irwin.

He had been vlogging daily for three years, which is 1,095 days, and decided to quit vlogging on Sundays. This ended a three-year era that made him famous. He was like the greatest daily vlogger after Charles Trippy.

They were around for approximately 11 years and known for their out-of-control antics and sassy behavior. They had the humor of family vlogs and had the potential of being amongst the best family vloggers of all time, until their father sexually harassed and eventually decided to delete their channel.

Dan & Phil gained fame for many reasons. Aside from starting on YouTube, they were especially known for having really cool channel usernames: DanIsNotOnFire and AmazingPhil.

For eight years, Dan Howell's username was DanIsNotOnFire on YouTube until he decided to quit using it, and Phil Lester is now just Phil Lester. Furthermore, they left their gaming channel and went on an indefinite hiatus, meaning no one knows when - or if - they'll return. It's rumored they may never use it again, so that's why it's mentioned here.

Logan Paul gained fame for daily vlogging and eventually gained millions of subscribers from it. At one time, he gained 10 million plus in 333 days, making his channel the fastest to gain 10M+ subs on YouTube until PewDiePie and T-Series (which got more than 45M in the same rate). He made monumental history for having one of the fastest-growing YouTube channels but unfortunately filmed a dead body in a Japanese forest, made fun of it, and posted it. This led to a historic scandal, and later on, he decided to quit daily vlogging, putting an end to the seed of his YouTube fame. Good thing he's forgotten now even after making epic YouTube history.

He spent over eight years and four months creating gaming content on his channel, TheSmithPlays. On December 29th, 2020, he decided to leave to become a rock and roll music artist.

After 11.5 years and 11.5 million subscribers, Alex Wassabi announced on YouTube on New Year's Eve 2020 that he would take a break to focus on his health and other things. 2020 is seriously the biggest year our most favorite YouTubers quit.