(relaxing bass-heavy music)
- I don't understand why I'm still getting hate.
- [Voiceover] Number five is DramaAlert.
DramaAlert's inclusion on this list
should come as a surprise to absolutely no one.
Despite the channel's gossip-as-news formula
having a universal appeal,
DramaAlert is hemorrhaging subscribers
at an astounding rate.
The reason for this sustained loss of subscribers
is because the host of DramaAlert, Keemstar,
was recently the target of a coordinated and massive
expose campaign from some of the biggest stars on YouTube.
Even though the Keemstar controversy is now many weeks old,
Keemstar has still disabled ratings on his videos,
and he is still losing subscribers.
Ironically, however, it's likely
that when this controversy finally blows over,
Keemstar and DramaAlert will be better off because of it.
More people have heard of DramaAlert now than ever before,
and it appears that hordes of people
tuning in to DramaAlert to leave hate comments
has actually helped Keemstar rather than hurt him.
In fact, the channel's view counts
are now hitting all-time highs.
It's likely that DramaAlert isn't going anywhere,
despite the channel's massive losses in subscribers.
Once the Keemstar controversy inevitably blows over,
DramaAlert will probably rally around
its more hardened support base
and start to gain subscribers again.
Number four is Ray William Johnson.
If you were around on YouTube in 2011,
chances are you've heard of Ray William Johnson
and the show Equals Three.
But if you haven't seen Equals Three before,
the show typically involved viral clips from around the web
with Ray William Johnson's jokes and commentary
interspersed between them.
As everyone likely already knows,
Ray's show was a huge success,
and at one point he was the most-subscribed channel
on all of YouTube.
But today, Ray is losing
more and more subscribers every day.
In fact, Ray's channel has stagnated so much
that he barely gets any more views per day than our channel,
and we're only a fraction of his size.
What happened was that Ray's view counts began to stagnate,
and in 2014, he stepped down
as the host of his Equals Three show,
and vowed to move on to bigger projects.
- I'm the kind of person who has to keep moving forward
and has to keep being creative,
or I get depressed.
I'm just being 100% honest here.
Like, this show isn't fulfilling me creatively any more,
and I have to move on.
- [Voiceover] In the wake of Ray's departure,
Equals Three struggled to find a replacement host
that could live up to his legacy,
with each successive host only receiving
massive backlash from Ray's fans,
only to be replaced again and again.
Today, Ray's videos struggle to reach
the view counts they once did,
and it's likely that the sun has finally set
on the once-great Equals Three empire.
KevJumba became extremely popular
during the early days of YouTube,
but has been gradually forgotten over the years.
However, unlike the other channels on this list,
Kevin didn't run his channel into the ground.
Instead, he disappeared around 2013
without a word as to why.
Eventually, it was discovered that Kevin had decided
to leave social media and his fame all behind,
and elected to take a more spiritual path in his life.
But his departure hasn't been all bad.
Kevin's charity work in Africa has resulted in the creation
of a school for children in Kenya.
This is good to hear,
as his quest for spirituality
has really done good in the world.
Unfortunately, though, no good deed goes unpunished,
and slowly but surely,
his former viewers have begun
to unsubscribe from his channel
and move on with their lives.
In contrast to KevJumba,
some YouTubers can destroy their careers
through acts of greed and malice
rather than acts of kindness and charity.
While the jury is still quite literally out
on whether TmarTn is necessarily a bad person,
what cannot be denied
is that his channel is in deep trouble.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with TmarTn,
he is a very successful YouTuber
who built his channel
off of CS:GO and Call of Duty gameplay.
The trouble all started when TmarTn
founded a website called CSGOLotto,
where players could bet
their counter-strike weapon skins against each other,
and potentially win huge jackpots.
TmarTn then went out to use his channel and audience
to promote his new website.
The only problem was that he allegedly failed
to disclose his material connection to CSGOLotto,
which is something the FTC takes very seriously.
In fact, some have said that he outright mislead his viewers
when he acted as if he had stumbled across CSGOLotto,
even though he was one of the website's founders.
- And we found this new site called CSGOLotto,
so I'll link it down in the description
if you guys want to check it out, but we--
- [Voiceover] Things only got worse for TmarTn
when he uploaded an apology video,
only to quickly take it down.
Apparently something about the backdrop
of his apology video being a mansion and expensive trucks
rubbed his viewers the wrong way.
As of this video's release,
there is a very real possibility
that TmarTn could face fines or even jail time
for violating Federal Trade Commission rules.
The funny thing is that,
if TmarTn had just been more upfront
about his ownership of CSGOLotto,
it's likely that no one would've even cared.
Either way, the viewers have clearly
made up their mind on TmarTn,
with them unsubscribing in record numbers.
And number one is Top Media.
For those of you who just can't stand list channels,
this entry on our list is just for you.
Though if you hate list channels so much,
why are you even watching this video?
Anyways, what ever happened to Top Media
is still really a mystery.
The channel has over two million subscribers,
yet it just doesn't upload videos any more.
The few times it has uploaded during the past few months,
many people have commented that they had forgotten
that they had even subscribed in the first place,
with others lamenting that the channel
has taken a sudden dip in quality.
And in some ways, they're right.
For whatever reason, the list videos on Top Media
don't even have music,
and often the narration can be described
as depressing at best.
But the real question is,
what is going on with this list channel
that by all appearances should be
at the height of its popularity?
The best answer we could find
lies in the channel's viewership statistics.
On a few key dates before the channel became inactive,
there are massive negative spikes in views.
This could mean a few things.
Maybe the owner of the channel was deleting videos
and is no longer interested in making list videos.
It's also possible that the channel
had some videos taken down for copyright infringement.
Either way, there's really no way to tell,
as whoever runs the channel
has clearly decided to keep their fans in the dark.
Anyways, if you want to catch more of our videos
before our channel inevitably becomes mired in controversy,
be sure to leave a like
and subscribe if you haven't already.
Don't forget to check out our other videos,
and thanks for watching,
and thanks for learning.