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Within the past two decades the invention we've come to know intimately the Internet
has almost become an integral part of our life. It has given us the opportunity
to explore the unexplored from the tap or a click of a button at virtually any
moment of the day. With the Internet's very obvious success many companies have
risen and become money-making conglomerates. Ones like Facebook that
has ownership over things like Instagram or Whatsapp or Google that owns the
biggest media sharing platform to date YouTube. Being around since 2005 YouTube
was not immediately recognized. After a slow start NBC's SNL began posting skits
on the site and started what we know today as viral video making. Now to get
into the topic of today's video, viral videos have evolved since then often
relating to drama or controversy so where you're going to discuss some of
the most viral scandals that have hit YouTube to date. But before we get into this
very juicy list be sure that if at any point in the video to drop a like and
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Save Marina Joyce
Back in around July of 2016 the internet blew up when there were rumors of a
youtuber named Marina Joyce who was supposedly kidnapped to give a little
context, the people who watched Marina saw her as this fun likeable girl who just
enjoyed making skits and makeup videos. After some time of watching her a lot of
her followers felt like they might have come to know her as a person which is
largely what fueled these rumors. As Marina's character and her videos and her
environment she filmed in began to change people started to speculate that
something was wrong. They've thought of things like her being forced to make
videos at gunpoint or that she was being held captive and abused physically which
got people so worried to the point that it was trending worldwide on Twitter and
got the police to go visit her house. In the end the police concluded that
nothing was wrong and just goes to show how out of hand things can get on the Internet
Japanese Forest
I've made a severe and continuous lapse in my judgement.
The youtuber who started as a vine star
that is loved and hated by many in the community Logan Paul is undoubtedly one
of the most controversial creators to hit the platform to date. In December of
2017 two years and a couple million
subscribers after his debut Logan was certainly a star but no one would have
expected what he was going to post while on a trip to Japan. Aside from his very
disrespectful actions towards the citizens of Japan while roaming the
streets, Logan's vlogs while in the Aokigahara
forest was colossally worse. Centering the vlog around trying to find the ghost
in a forest which is a hotspot for people who end their own lives, he
actually came across a body. Rather than ending it there, he disrespectfully
filmed the body only partially blurring it and made some really insensitive
jokes. Not only did he keep this in the video but after apologizing for the
situation he monetized this video to profit off the outrage. Pretty scummy
Dark Pranks
Many years ago YouTube had this wave of
extremely viral videos that involved in one way or another some sort of prank
After the constant push of pranks things began to get stale and not as many
people were doing these types of videos. Well money and views needed to be made
for a youtuber named Sam Pepper who was ready to go as far as possible to get
that. For his first attempt he made a video where he just walks around in
public and sneakily gropes women without them noticing which is not only
creepy but literal sexual harassment. Approximately a year later he got into
even more controversy for pranking his best friend by kidnapping him and
pretending to kill someone in front of him to make him fear for his life.
You could imagine that this sparked so much outrage to the point that people made
petitions to ban him from the platform
CSGO Lotto
It's totally fine when youtubers use their influence to make clear advertisements and suggestions as
to what their viewers should buy. There's no legal or moral reason not to as long
as you are clear that you are advertising and that it's a paid
promotion or something that you own. Well for the csgo youtubers tmartn and
syndicate they were promoting a website called CSGO Lotto very frequently.
The site is essentially a virtual gambling place to win tons of money from in-game
items. What the issue is though was when they went about promoting the site they
talked about it as if it was something they found on a whim when they really
just owned that website. When this all came out their fans were not happy at
all and this opened up an investigation with the Federal Trade Commission
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