There seem to be so many high-profile vegan YouTubers dropping the diet at the moment, and I thought it would be constructive to create a page to list the most-followed folks and track which of them fall off the wagon (either honestly or by being busted and outed). My reason for making this chart is not to disparage, embarrass, or criticise these people or any of their choices, but to collate the information with the goal of being able to share the facts about how many vegans are forced either to abandon the diet or to cheat - even those whose livelihoods and public identities are so firmly based on their veganism!

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Criteria: I have excluded those who have under around 100,000 followers. Numbers are rounded down to two significant figures. They do not have to have a channel dedicated to vegan lifestyle. I will include anyone who happened to have a large following and who, at some point, clearly identified as vegan.

If you know any other high-profile channels that should be on this list, or if you hear of personalities abandoning strict veganism, please let me know, thanks. Note: I may also count premature death (before age 60) as failure. My conclusion: From what I can see, high-profile vegan celebrities are dropping like flies! As the list stands, 45% of these online celebrities have abandoned veganism. How many more will follow?