



The Leafyishere's Downfall





Once revered as one of the fastest growing channels on YouTube, and one of the most popular channels back in 2016 at the height of so-called YouTube drama and commentary channels, nowadays

Calvin Lee Vail,

the YouTuber Leayishere is now nothing more than a fallen YouTuber who with a weak chin that iDubbbz's Content Cop sold to the masses.





Most viewers attribute Leafyishere's fall from grace to

released back on September 16th, 2016, which was a scathing commentary that made Leafyishere the butt of the joke for once, as opposed to how Leafyishere would ridicule and put down obscure YouTubers he deemed as great targets to satirize, due to their off putting content.









The Most Likely Cause of Leafy's Decline





The YouTuber

EmpLemon

has suggested that Leafyishere was more likely caused by YouTube itself. YouTube pushed iDubbbz's Content Cop through the algorithm to change the perception of Leafyishere, which YouTube and other YouTubers labeled as offensive content which incited the masses to harass whatever YouTubers Leafy had made videos on.





While not all of Leafy's fan base was toxic, many YouTubers often would be harassed to a severe degree, and to make matters worse, many of Leafy's targets were kid YouTubers. While the quality of these type of YouTubers was severely lacking, they should not have been subjected to the level of ridicule and harassment Leafy's fans would unleash.





Leafyishere didn't directly tell his fans to harass these YouTubers. However, he did not discourage their behavior and based on how he framed the subjects of his videos, it incited a negative out lash to these content creators.





So finally, YouTube decided that they had had enough of this type of content on their platform. There is evidence that EmpLemon presents that YouTube executives meet back in 2016, in which they discussed how to deal with "unwanted" channels. I even remember myself back in 2016 when this was going down trying to search for Leafy's videos in YouTube's search bar, but strangely enough, I only found videos like iDubbbz's Content Cop in the search results, or other videos criticizing him.





Demonetization was also introduced in addition to the algorithm working against Leafyishere, which worked hand and hand to put a stop to Leafy and other content creators like him from rising any further. While Leafy didn't necessarily make the best content, all of these events coinciding together are highly suspect.













Closing Thoughts





YouTube does have the right to decide what content they want on their platform, but going out of there way to destroy a channel in such an underhanded way seems unfair, but it's better than them outright deleting his videos or channel, which seems to be more the case nowadays for some YouTubers that don't adhere to YouTube's current guidelines for content.





2016 seems to be the year in which YouTube implemented a lot of new ways to control the type of content uploaded on their website. Whether these changes were for the better is up for debate, but the amount of diverse content has drastically declined as a result of these new policy measures, and we are more likely to only see even more changes implemented until YouTube is completely devoid of anything inoffensive to them. When that is the case, what will separate YouTube from traditional media?

YouTube might just become the very thing it sought to rebel against in the first place.