You know, every now and then I come across people on the internet that I really . . . wish
I hadn't.
But, you know what, if I had to see them, so did you.
So today we’re going to talk about a YouTuber named Madame.
Madame is a proud “Leafy Clone”, which is kind of like being a proud C student.
She got her channel description, channel banner, content style, and dare I say, personality,
or lack thereof, from the former YouTuber LeafyIsHere, someone who peaked in 2016 and
managed to make an entire career out of bullying actual children on the internet.
But what Madame doesn’t remember is that in 2016 we also had content cop, in which
YouTuber iDubbbz dressed up like a cop and systematically ended Leafy’s career by pointing
out his hypocrisy and terrible content.
And you know what, if Madame wants to be Leafy in current-year so badly, then that’s absolutely
fantastic for her.
But it was bold of her to assume that nobody was going to be the content cop.
911, what’s your emergency?
Sir, you think you’re being attacked . . . by evil clowns?
Then stop using Twitter.
Texas man becomes latest victim of . . . clown-related attacks.
Oh—he meant actual clowns . . . sounds like a personal problem.
911, who are you and what do you want?
Oh, oh I see.
Something that actually matters.
Thank you for alerting me.
Someone did something bad on the internet.
So Madame’s channel was largely unsuccessful until she unfortunately started gaining traction
around April 2019, during which she switched over from disorganized commentary videos,
to other disorganized commentary videos but about the YouTuber Onision.
She made one, two, three, four, five videos about Onision, four of which were back to
back.
Now there’s nothing inherently wrong with those videos, in fact Onision himself is known
to be very antagonistic, doing things like falsely copyright striking people’s videos,
and getting them taken down because he doesn’t agree with what’s in them, and he did that
to her.
But the way she responded, I have to admit, was something no one saw coming and was actually
really cool.
And yeah, I have the King County papers ready to sue him in small claims, and its’ going
to be a long process and I am willing to go through it because you will not get away with
this, period.
Madame was in a position to stand up for all YouTubers in a new way, and kind of break
down that power imbalance between YouTubers and people who falsely copyright claim them.
People were subscribing to her just to root for her to support her lawsuit.
And everyone wanted to see somebody like Onision get taken down a couple thousand pegs.
Her subscriber count nearly doubled and she was given support by much larger channels,
and honestly it all seemed well and good.
But, she placed herself on a pedestal so that was so high, if she ever fell down there was
no way she would survive the fall.
And then she tripped over her own shoelaces.
Well fast forward to Madame passing 50,000 subscribers, she gets into some scuffle with
an artist over the internet, and at this point, there is nothing is more predictable to me
than art community drama, so I didn’t even bother to make a video, and most of the videos
I did see could have been summed in around 30 seconds.
An artist named Slimurz offered to create Madame some artwork for free, in exchange
for credit.
Madame used the artwork, and slimurz made a post and a omment pointing out that madame
hadn’t credited her.
Madame was upset for some reason that slimurz handled it publicly, and even more upset that
people were rightfully calling her out and asking her to credit the artist, so instead
of doing that, she just starts ranting about it on Instagra, givming out the artist’s
personal phone number, and making a YouTube video claiming that slimurz quote-unquote
“lies about everything”.
The artwork is still up, Madame hasn’t apologized, and there have been no further updates.
That 30 seconds of information is why the majority of people who know about her are
angry right now.
Doxing a minor by giving out her phone number, refusing to give credit, accusing her of lying
about things that she has evidence for . . . is bad.
And that’s what everyone is talking about.
But after doing some deeper research, I realized that as bad those things are, those barely
scratch the surface of the awful things that Madame does on the internet.
One chronic habit that Madame has is deleting things.
Now I’m not going to sit here and say that deleting things is bad, in fact I’ve gotten
rid of so many of my own tweets that my Twitter analytics look like they’re flatlining.
But the things Madame deletes are usually lies that she gets caught in.
She tried to get her audience to believe that Slazo was an abuser, when she herself wasn’t
even the victim and she offered absolutely no evidence.
Slazo has merch on the same website that I have merch on, so let’s like compete with
him because he doesn’t deserve a following.
It’s impossible to get a full extent of the lies and damage she’s on the internet,
because she has no problem with deleting it.
So that’s something to keep in mind.
But it’s also impossible to keep track of the extent I will go to to find information
on the internet, so that wasn’t really a problem for me.
Another thing is, apparently she has a habit of telling people to off themselves.
I've seen her say this once, twice, three times.
No wait, this third time is not her telling someone to “off yourself”, this is her
mocking someone’s who’s friend.
Another thing is the extreme manipulation tactics she uses, and you can see it in small
cases like her trying to use the Slazo situation to get some more merch sales, or in giant
situations , like her threatening to sue smaller YouTubers for making what she’s calls “slander”.
None of it is true, and you go around slandering me.
I have YouTube agents, and I can pursue legal action against you.
I’m going to be honest, the way this guy was laughing while reading that paragraph,
was my exact same reaction while reading that paragraph.
Madame apparently has YouTube agents?
What is that, like the secret service?
How am I supposed to believe you have YouTube agents when you don’t even have a YouTube
Play Button?
Like, try passing 100,000 subscribers.
Then again, that would mean you would have to pass 50,000 subscribers . . . [INSERT SOCIALBLADE]
again.
It’s worth noting that the kid she was threatening to sue was also 15-years-old, just like the
kid who’s art she used without credit.
I’d love to take you to court.
I hope your legal guardians have a lot of money.
We don’t.
That’s sick.
I'm also going to put out a general warning to everyone who sees this video: don’t work
with Madame, even if she does offer to pay you.
She doesn’t value artwork or the people who use it.
One of her previous profile pictures was artwork from another artist that she used without
credit, her channel banner is literally screenshotted from Leafy’s, and here we have one of her
former editors claiming that they some sort of disagreement, and then she allegedly refused
to pay him the agreed amount, and instead started ranting about it on the internet.
As you can see, there’s repeat behavior.
She has a habit of doing the same things, over and over with different people, and it’s
completely hypocritical.
She lords her slightly larger audience over people, the exact same way Onision does.
So.
You might be thinking, wow D’Angelo.
This has been awful.
But don’t worry, I’m going to wrap it all up, by explaining how it’s actually
so much worse than I could have possible imagined.
So at the heart of this, Madame being a mass manipulator, using power imbalance to threaten
people, and refusing to budge on any issue that anyone has with her, as toxic as these
traits are, they’re not inherently dangerous, and unfortunately, they’re not that uncommon
when it comes certain people on the internet.
So the real issues I want you to remember in this video are two things.
Madame does illegal things, and targets children.
The kid she threatened to sue, as I said, was 15 years old.
And what he was calling her out for in that video was posting a pictuere of someone house
on her Instagram.
Doxxing people by giving out their personal information is illegal.
The one artist Madame ripped off?
She doxxed her too and she was also 15 years old.
Targeting children on the internet, doing illegal things.
In fact, this girl that Madame told to off herself, incidentally was 15 years old too.
Madame is 19 years old, going on 20.
So this isn’t a case of some kid being mean to some other kid on the internet.
This is repeated behavior of an adult doing illegal things and targeting children.
This is the kind of person we’re dealing with here.
So she lies about me, she lies about her age, she lies about her occupation, and I’m suspecting
it is a possibility that she lies about getting assaulted.
Going public with someone assault story that they shared with you privately can ruin their
life.
And then to go a step further and accuse them of lying?
As far as I’m concerned, that’s the main issue and the art theft is secondary.
I’m really tired of hearing her voice, so I’m only going to play one more clip from
her.
And my friends were snapchatting this, like they were drawing over it, nothing.
So these Snapchats kind of went around, as it was all over people’s Snapchat.
Now I didn’t snapchat it myself, because I don’t want to show that on my screen,
but it was—other people did and it was hilarious, I’m not going to lie.
In conclusion, Madame, I’m talking directly to you.
I really hope you are the female Leafy.
Because Leafy stopped uploading in 2017 and I would really love for you to join him.
Anyway, looks like I’ve gotten ten minutes of content out of this, so leave a like, tell
me what you think, and subscribe if you haven’t already.
Thank you for watching, and a big thank you to my 205,000 subscribers.
Okay bye.