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YouTube has given birth to many famous faces, and some of the biggest creators are now as
well-known as the world’s biggest movie and TV celebrities.
But, there’s a darker side to this video sharing platform, and some disturbed individuals
use it to share their warped views and sinister ideology.
In today’s archive, we’re looking at both sides to uncover the top ten YouTubers who
went to jail.
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10.
Austin Jones In 2017 Austin Jones was arrested in Chicago’s
O’Hare airport while returning from a concert in Poland.
Jones was best known for his covers of songs by the likes of Justin Bieber and Fall Out
Boy and had over 500,000 subscribers.
What most of his fans didn’t know, though, is that Jones was secretly soliciting sexually
explicit videos from underage fans.
Two victims came forward with claims that Jones had asked them to send videos even though
he knew they were only 14 and 15 years old.
Jones himself was 24 at the time.
This wasn’t the first time Jones had found himself in hot water for his troubling behavior.
In 2015 allegations surfaced that he had lied about his age to get twerking videos from
underage girls.
He issued a lengthy apology which seemed to get him off the hook.
This time, an apology alone won’t get him out of trouble.
Jones was sentenced to ten years in prison for his crimes.
9.
Vitaly Zdorovetskiy Vitaly Zdorovetskiy’s YouTube channel has
almost 10 million subscribers and he posts prank videos every week.
His craziest stunts so far have included the video “Miami Zombie Attack Prank” where
Zdoroveskiy dressed up as a zombie to frighten people in Miami, and his “Gold Digger Prank”
where a woman ignores him until she starts to believe that he has a Lamborghini sports
car.
As popular as his pranks may be, the cops certainly aren’t laughing and Zdorovetskiy
has been arrested on more than one occasion.
In 2016 he was arrested for climbing the Hollywood sign as part of a stunt, and in the same year,
he was arrested again for streaking during Game 4 of the NBA finals.
But the most serious arrest was in 2012 when Zdoroveskiy only had 100,000 subscribers.
It was the “Russian Hitman Prank” that got him into trouble.
In the prank, Zdoroveskiy approaches a man and tells him he has 60 seconds to get away
from a briefcase that he’s placing on the ground.
After revealing it was a prank the police were called and Zdoroveskiy was arrested,
facing a maximum of 15 years in prison for threatening to detonate a bomb.
8.
Logan Paul Everyone knows Logan Paul, right?
He’s one of YouTube’s best-known personalities and along with his brother Jake, he gets up
to lots of hilarious capers and then posts videos about them.
But Logan and Jake allegedly took their shenanigans too far in Italy in 2017, and Logan claims
he was actually arrested.
The brothers were flying drones close to Rome’s Colosseum when one of them malfunctioned and
landed close to the historical site.
Apparently, the Italian military and police were not happy and took Logan into custody.
In the video, it looks as though Logan is sitting in a police station, but the details
of the case are pretty vague and it’s never been confirmed by anyone else that the arrest
actually happened.
Do you believe Logan?
Let me know in the comments.
7.
Kandee Johnson Kandee Johnson is a hugely popular makeup
artist and YouTuber, with almost 4 million subscribers to her name.
But back in 2010, she found herself facing two criminal charges regarding her 13-year-old
son.
The first was for child endangerment when he was found home alone while Johnson was
out of town on a business trip.
The second was for not making her son attend middle school despite receiving dozens of
letters regarding his truancy.
Johnson pleaded guilty to the truancy charges in order for the endangerment charge to be
dropped, and she received a 90 day suspended sentence and a $130 fine.
Johnson provoked even more controversy when it was revealed that she’d asked her fans
for contributions to pay for her legal fees.
She received thousands of dollars, which many said was more than she actually needed.
6.
Brandon Carter Brandon Carter is a widely respected fitness
expert and his YouTube channel currently has close to 800,000 subscribers.
But he almost lost everything when he and fellow YouTuber Connor Murphy staged a prank
that quickly got way out of hand.
Carter and Murphy had planned to stage a fake fight on Sixth Street in Austin Texas.
The plan was to pretend to fight for a couple of minutes before breaking out into a dance.
But, that’s not how it went down.
Austin police saw the fight and tackled Carter and Murphy to the ground.
They were unaware that it was staged so they went at the YouTubers with their full force.
What happened next though, is pretty odd.
Murphy was let go but Carter was arrested for ‘resisting arrest’.
Take a look at the footage – he doesn’t seem to be resisting, does he?
Carter remained in jail for months for unknown reasons while Murphy went free.
5.
Mike Lombardo Mike Lombardo is another YouTube musician
who got caught in possession of child pornography.
Much like Austin Jones, who we’ve already mentioned, Lombardo was soliciting nude images
from underage fans.
Lombardo was well known for posting piano songs on his YouTube channel, and before his
conviction, he released an EP and an LP and gained over 20,000 subscribers.
He even landed a record deal with DFTBA Records.
Lombardo was arrested in July 2012 after a complaint was filed over four counts of child
pornography.
It was alleged that he had exchanged nude photos with underage fans, and in 2013 Lombardo
pleaded guilty to soliciting images from six minors.
He was sentenced to five years in federal prison for his crimes.
4.
Curtis Lepore Curtis Lepore is a well-known Viner and YouTuber
who dated fellow Viner Jessi Smiles for a few months in 2013.
Their fans were obsessed with their relationship and the pair gained even more success through
their well-documented love affair.
But their so-called fairytale romance abruptly ended when Lepore was charged with raping
Jessi.
Jessi said that she had hit her head in an accident while filming a Vine, and she felt
dizzy so she went to sleep.
When she woke up, Lepore was raping her.
Lepore pleaded guilty to the attack but only served 24 days of community service.
His YouTube channel is still up and running and he has a huge army of fans despite what
he did.
Jessi Smiles is also hugely successful and bravely uses her platform to support other
survivors of sexual assault.
3.
Trey Eric Sesler Trey Eric Sesler is the man behind LensCapProductions,
a channel with 14,000 subscribers.
In his videos, Sesler mainly reviews shows and shares opinions on various topics.
He also made a short horror film, which in hindsight might have been the first clue to
the murderous instincts he was hiding all along.
In March 2012, Sesler, who was 22 at the time, killed his mother, father, and brother in
his home in Texas.
All three of his family members had been shot multiple times and there was allegedly writing
on the wall saying things like “God forgive me, I cannot forgive myself”.
Sesler is said to have told police that he killed his family because he didn’t want
them to know about the Columbine-style attack that he was planning on a local school.
Sesler was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
2.
Jared Lee Loughner Before gaining infamy as a mass murderer,
Jared Lee Loughner was best known for his YouTube channel, Classitup10, where he posted
strange and disturbing videos about religion, mind tricks, and the government.
On January 8th, 2011, Loughner shot and killed six people in Arizona.
His original target was U.S Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who he severely injured.
Friends said that Loughner had harbored a long-standing dislike for Giffords because
he thought that she was fake and that women should not hold positions of power.
As well as the six fatalities, 13 other people were injured in the attack.
Loughner pleaded guilty to 19 separate counts, including the attempted assassination of a
member of Congress and was sentenced to seven consecutive life sentences plus 140 years
in prison without parole.
1.
Pekka-Eric Auvinen Pekka-Eric Auvinen is better known as the
‘Youtube Killer’, following a school shooting in which eight people died.
Auvinen had two Youtube accounts, Sturmgeist89 and NaturalSelector89, which he used to upload
videos about school shootings and other violent incidents.
18-year-old Auvinen entered Jokela High School in Finland on the morning of November 7th,
2007, armed with a semi-automatic pistol.
He shot nine people, including the head teacher who he murdered in full view of a group of
students.
Auvinen also tried to burn the school down by pouring a mixture of oil and gasoline on
corridor walls and floors, but thankfully he failed to ignite the mixture.
12 others were injured in the attack, which only ended when Auvinen turned the gun on
himself.
He later died of his injuries in a hospital, avoiding arrest, but paying the ultimate price
for his crimes.
This is Auvinen’s final video upload – it shows him holding a gun along with an image
of the school where he staged his brutal attack.