There was a time when you couldn’t go on youtube without hearing about leafyishere.
I remember when I first started at IO, we would make a video on him every other week.
But things started to change for leafyishere.
He pretty much disappeared.
Off youtube, off social media, everything.
But in a recent interview with drama alert, leafy reveals why he left youtube and its
not the reason that you think.
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Before I get into this video, tell me in those comments, do you miss leafyishere.
If you’re kinda new to this whole youtube thing, here’s the deal.
Before December of 2017, leafyishere was one of the most popular youtubers.
Leafyishere, real name Calvin lee Vall has 4.3 youtube susbcribers and has racked up
1 billion views.
When he was active, He was EXTREMELY active, way more active than other youtuber.
Even more active than IO which is saying a lot.
Leafy would upload 5 to 6 satirical videos per day where he would react to other youtubers
and poke fun at them.
Im not gonna lie, lots of his videos were pretty funny, but there were a few that crossed
the line.
Leafy was also in the drama spotlight almost constantly.
Criticism started to pour in after he made a video where he bullied a man with learning
disabilities, youtuber wemovie1, as well as an autistic youtuber who vlogs under the name
TommyNC2010.
He had huge fueds with youtubers like Drama Alert, TommyNC2010.
And then, the content cop.
Oh man do you remember that content cop?
That was bad.
No chin?
I mean, damn.
Like I would not get out of bed if someone made a video like that about me.
If you guys dont know what content cop is, its this series of videos Idubbz has made
where he criticises other youtubers.
They take a long time to make because they take a lot of research, but whenever a content
cop goes up, I cancel my plans for that hour.
So yeah, idubbs made a content cop on leafy in September of 2016 and his fans started
to turn on him.
Suddenly the bully became the bullied.
But even though the content cop might have been enough to make anyone quit youtube, it
wasn’t the real reason why calvin stopped making videos.
In fact, he continued to post videos for at least another year, but his channel slowly
started to get less and less views.
For the most part Calvin had a loyal following, his subscribers would always get involved
in fueds and were known for harassing anyone who either disagreed with leafy, or anyone
leafy made fun of in his videos.
But after December of 2017, he pretty much dropped off the face of the earth.
conspiracy theories about what happened to leafyishere are all over the place.
Fans were wondering if he died because he wasn’t even posting on social media.
I love this generation, if you’re not on social media, you must be dead.
But drama alert, even though keemstar had a very public fued with leafy, reached out
to him for an interview.
In the interview, leafy told drama alert that he left youtube because he felt like it was
getting worse and worse, and making videos every day can burn you out.
Well I can definitely understand that, especially when it comes to someone like leafyishere.
A lot of what he used to upload was really controversial.
He was basically youtube’s biggest troll.
I feel like that’s an accurate label.
And A lot of the time, leafy would make fun of underage kids, which would be a huge issue
when it comes to monetization.
I know that we have to be very careful about the stories we post about anyone that’s
underage because youtube is cracking down on content that puts underage kids at risk.
And a lot of what leafy was posting also goes against youtube’s policy on harassment and
cyberbullying.
Basically, Monetizing videos was becoming a problem for leafy, so he just quit, even
without saying goodbye.
Evidently he did film a goodbye video but he never uploaded it.
Another reason for his disappeareance is that leafy said that he was in a treatment home
at some point, but didn’t really give any details Lately, leafy has been spending his
time focusing on the stock market.
That’s right, leafy the stock trader.
Anyways guys, that’s all I have for you on this, im going to respond to some comments
from our video Cash Me Outside Girl Will become a professional UFC Fighter.
Babel – this is totally not the news I want to hear but at least its not politics.
Hamitesh prahalad – next thing you now she’ll be joining the fbi.
Fbi me outside how about that.
COD fanatic – ha I wanna see her and logan paul fight in the ufc.
Unknown one – charlotte you don’t need to be fighting anybody that’s what you have
potato troops for.
Potato troops assemble.
Jerry the gnome – umm can you switch gnomes and potatoes?
We need representation in the media too.
Gnomes have keemstar as representation.
Oh yeah I went there.
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