YouTube has long been criticized for the content it has allowed unchallenged on its🐼 platform. Controversial footage has often been ignored and has even been promoted in the trending topics section of the site, as we saw with . Now it seems the platform may finally be taking some action and handing out bans, including a permanent one to Calvin Lee "Leafy" Vail, who has had his cha🌌nnel terminated.
Leafy's channel is known for its drama-fueled videos, in particular a recent campaign to "expose" Twitch star Imane "Pokimane" Anys, something that's being stated as the for the channel's ban. While Pokimane herself was that she "had nothing to do with" YouTube's decision, Leafy's see🦩ming obsession with her stands out as the obvious c𓆏ause.
His campaign against Pokimane began at the end of July when he posted a video titled "Content nuke - Pokimane." While the video itself is no longer visible, it's easy to see the aggression behind it base🔯d on his social media feed. The ꦫtweet below is just one of several in a similar style, posted to hype up the content.
The𝔉 video centered around Leafy 'exposing' Pokimane by🐻 telling her audience she has a boyfriend. After Drama Alert host Keemstar reposted the tweet and joined in the debate with a drama alert video on the topic, Leafy's rumors began to affect Pokimane.
Despite the fact that she has always kept her per🀅sonal life private, her subscriber count after Leafy's video, something he cl𒊎early enjoyed. While we cannot verify the content of his now removed videos on the subject, we can see his pleasure in the backlash against her.
Amongst other comments, he says "CYA LOOOOOOL💙" about anꦬ article regarding her losing Twitch subs over the boyfriend controversy, as well as "Pokimane Cancelled looooooooool."
For her part, Pokim♏ane made a addressing this issue, amongst others. During it, she states "I personally made the decision seven years ago or whenever I got into streaming that I don't want my personal life to be a part of my content... That's just what I'm going to stick by until I and whoever I'm dating at whatever t🎐ime decide otherwise."
Despite th🧔is long-standing stance Lea♔fy seemed obsessed with Pokimane, continually tweeting about her and continuing to make videos about her channel, right up until his ban.
YouTube's use of a permanent ban is presumably a message that harassment cam🥃paigns, which this has all the hallmarks off, will not be tolerated on its platform. It remains to be seen if any other similar content creators will suffer the same consequences if this is the beginning of a clampdown on toxic content.
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