10 Biggest YouTubers Who Are Permanently Banned (& Why)

Summary

The video script details the permanent bans of 10 YouTube channels, highlighting their controversial actions. Channels like 'It's Owen' exploited sensitive events for views, while others like 'SteveWillDo' and 'Leafy' faced bans for content violations and harassment. The script also discusses impersonators, content theft, and channels involved in 'Elsagate', emphasizing YouTube's efforts to regulate harmful content and protect its community.

Takeaways

• 😡 The 'It's Owen' channel was infamous for its misleading intros and clickbait titles, culminating in a video exploiting Technoblade's passing, which led to severe backlash and the channel's termination.
• 📉 After 'Technoblade's passing', 'It's Owen' falsely claimed to have a final goodbye video with Mr. Beast, which was a fabricated scenario that garnered over 800,000 views and resulted in the channel's ban.
• 💔 'It's Owen' attempted to regain his terminated channel by claiming innocence and depression, but YouTube confirmed the suspension was due to explicit content violations.
• 🎲 'Steve Will Do It' faced channel deletion due to a rule violation involving the display of a gambling website URL in a video, despite having no prior strikes.
• 🚫 YouTube warned creators against collaborating with 'Steve Will Do It' after his channel was deleted for violating community guidelines.
• 🔥 'LeafyIsHere' returned from a hiatus with controversial content, leading to a permanent ban for harassment after repeatedly targeting 'Pokémon Man' in clickbait titles and thumbnails.
• 🤣 'Kab Lami' impersonators gained massive views and subscribers on YouTube by reposting his content, but were eventually banned for impersonation and copyright infringement.
• 🚫 'Jstation' faked his girlfriend's death to gain views, which led to his channel's termination after the ruse was exposed and his girlfriend confirmed the deception.
• 📉 'Seven Super Girls' was terminated due to the channel owner's inappropriate actions with one of the members, resulting in a legal ban from working on YouTube.
• 🤫 'Kalensaana' was the biggest Indonesian YouTube channel banned for stealing content and thumbnails from successful English videos and reposting them with their watermark.
• 📚 'Super JoJo' was banned and later ordered to pay $23.5 million in damages for copyright infringement after copying 'Cocomelon', indicating the consequences of unethical content practices.

Q & A

Who is the most unlikable channel in YouTube history according to the script?

It's Owen is considered the most unlikable channel in YouTube history according to the script.

What kind of content did It's Owen produce that led to negative reactions?

It's Owen produced content with shameless clickbait, fake scenarios involving popular YouTubers, and notably exploited Technoblade's death for views.

What specific incident involving Technoblade led to widespread backlash against It's Owen?

It's Owen uploaded a video titled 'Mr Beast final goodbye to Technoblade' after Technoblade's passing, which was entirely fabricated and misleading.

Why was SteveWillDoIt's channel permanently deleted by YouTube?

SteveWillDoIt's channel was permanently deleted because a gambling video he uploaded showed the URL of a gambling website, which violated YouTube's guidelines.

What type of content did LeafyIsHere produce that led to his channel being banned?

LeafyIsHere produced content that harassed and bullied other YouTubers, particularly targeting Pokimane with 12 different videos.

What was the reason for Kab Lami's impersonators getting banned on YouTube?

Kab Lami's impersonators were banned because they were reposting his content without permission, gaining millions of views and subscribers by impersonating him.

What controversial video did JStation produce that led to the termination of his channel?

JStation produced a video claiming his girlfriend Alexia died in a car crash, which was later revealed to be a hoax.

What led to the termination of the Seven Super Girls channel?

The owner of Seven Super Girls, Ian Rylett, was convicted of inappropriate conduct with a minor, leading to the termination of the channel.

What unethical strategy did the Indonesian channel Cal Shana employ to gain subscribers?

Cal Shana gained subscribers by stealing content from other YouTubers, copying thumbnails and adding their own watermark before re-uploading the videos.

Why was Turkey's biggest YouTube channel banned during the Elsagate controversy?

Turkey's biggest YouTube channel was banned because it was involved in the Elsagate controversy, producing inappropriate content featuring kid-friendly characters in unsuitable scenarios.

Outlines

00:00

🚫 YouTube Bans: Clickbait and Exploitation

The video script discusses the permanent banning of 10 YouTube channels. It begins with 'It's Owen', known for his infamous intros and clickbait titles, who exploited the death of popular YouTuber Technoblade. The channel was banned for its disrespectful and fabricated content. The script also mentions the controversial bans of 'Steve Will Do It' for a minor mistake involving a gambling website URL, and 'Leafy' for creating content that was deemed as harassment. The narrative highlights the consequences of violating YouTube's community guidelines and the backlash faced by these creators.

05:01

🎭 Impersonators and Deception: The Rise and Fall of Fake Channels

This paragraph covers the phenomenon of impersonation on YouTube, leading to the banning of channels that misrepresented themselves. It details the case of 'Kab Lami', a TikTok star whose impersonator gained massive views and subscribers on YouTube before being discovered and banned. The paragraph also discusses 'Jstation', who faked his girlfriend's death for views and was later exposed, resulting in his channel's termination. The narrative emphasizes the deceptive tactics used by these channels and the eventual actions taken by YouTube to address such behavior.

10:02

📚 Content Theft and Copyright Violations: The Plight of YouTube Channels

The final paragraph delves into the issue of content theft and copyright infringement on YouTube. It describes the case of 'Kal saana', an Indonesian channel that stole content and thumbnails from other creators, leading to its ban after being exposed by British YouTuber JT. The paragraph also touches on the 'Elsagate' controversy, where children's content was inappropriately mixed with adult themes, and the subsequent banning of channels involved in this practice. Additionally, it mentions the banning of channels in India and Turkey for similar reasons, highlighting the global impact of copyright violations on the platform.

Keywords

💡Permanently banned channels

Permanently banned channels refer to YouTube accounts that have been indefinitely suspended for violating the platform's guidelines. In the video's context, these channels are discussed due to their controversial actions and the subsequent ban, highlighting the consequences of unethical practices on the platform.

💡Clickbait

Clickbait is a sensationalized or misleading title and thumbnail used to attract clicks on a video. In the video, channels like 'it's Owen' are criticized for using clickbait, such as claiming a popular YouTuber's death, to gain views, which is a manipulative practice that violates YouTube's policies.

💡Impersonator

An impersonator is someone who falsely represents themselves as another person or entity. In the script, 'kabil Lami' impersonators are mentioned, who repost content on YouTube under a false identity, gaining views and subscribers through deception, which led to their ban.

💡Elsagate

Elsagate refers to inappropriate videos that feature children's characters in violent or sexual scenarios. The video discusses how certain channels were involved in creating and uploading such content, which is a severe violation of community standards and led to their termination.

💡Copyright infringement

Copyright infringement occurs when someone uses copyrighted material without permission. The video mentions channels like 'Kal saana' and 'Super JoJo' that were banned due to stealing content from other creators, which is a direct violation of copyright laws and YouTube's policies.

💡Harassment

Harassment involves creating a hostile environment for someone through repeated negative actions. The video describes how 'Leafy' was banned for harassment by repeatedly targeting an individual in his videos, which is against YouTube's community guidelines.

💡Scams and deception

Scams and deception involve tricking people for personal gain. The video mentions 'Jstation' faking his girlfriend's death to gain engagement, which is a form of deception that breaches YouTube's rules and resulted in his channel's termination.

💡Gambling content

Gambling content on YouTube is regulated to prevent promoting or facilitating gambling activities. 'Steve will Do' was banned for inadvertently showing a gambling website URL, which is against YouTube's rules, demonstrating the platform's strict stance on such content.

💡Inappropriate conduct

Inappropriate conduct includes actions that are not suitable for the platform or its audience. The video discusses 'Seven Super Girls' and its owner's inappropriate behavior, which led to the channel's termination, reflecting the consequences of unethical behavior by content creators.

💡Voiceover and re-uploading

Voiceover and re-uploading is the practice of adding a new audio track to existing content and reposting it as one's own. The video mentions Indian short channels that were banned for this practice, which is a form of content theft and copyright infringement.

💡Content theft

Content theft is the act of stealing and reposting someone else's content without permission. The video discusses how channels like 'Super JoJo' were involved in content theft, copying successful videos and adding their own voiceovers, which is a violation of copyright and led to their ban.

Highlights

Introduction of the permanently banned YouTube channel 'It's Owen', notorious for its terrible intros and clickbait tactics.

It's Owen exploited Technoblade's death with a fabricated video, leading to backlash and channel termination.

Steve Will Do's channel was banned for violating YouTube's gambling content rules.

LeafyisHere was banned for harassment after uploading clickbait videos targeting a specific individual.

Kab Lami impersonator accounts were banned for reposting content and faking identity on YouTube.

Jstation's channel was terminated for faking his girlfriend's death to gain engagement.

Seven Super Girls channel was banned due to inappropriate actions by its owner.

Kal saana, a major Indonesian YouTube channel, was banned for stealing content and copyright infringement.

Elsagate controversy led to the banning of numerous channels, including Turkey's biggest channel.

Minaj paraha was banned as part of a crackdown on Indian channels that copied and repurposed content.

Super JoJo Nursery Rhymes was banned and later sued for copyright infringement against Cocomelon.

The scale of YouTube's content moderation challenges highlighted by the banning of multiple high-subscriber channels.

The impact of community backlash and advertiser reactions on YouTube's content moderation policies.

The role of third-party copyright claims in the banning of channels like Super JoJo.

The aftermath of channel bans, including legal actions and the wiping of content by channels like Super JoJo.

Transcripts

we're going to list these 10 permanently

banned channels from smallest to largest

explaining what they did beginning with

the most unlikable channel in YouTube

history called it's Owen you might

recognize the channel from his

notoriously terrible intros like this

video And subscribe right now of this

spider AC your ear whilst you're asleep

tonight always placed after Shameless

clickbait like Charlie demilio is dying

today on top of this on relentlessly

click baited fake Mr Beast scenarios

however after technoblade's passing on

the 30th June

2022 it's Owen took his scumbaggery to a

point of no return he uploaded a video

titled Mr Beast final goodby to

technoblade with the introduction

stating this this is Mr BEAST's final

goodbye to technoblade and at the last

time playing Minecraft together although

the video showed nothing more than

technoblade playing Minecraft and a

completely fabricated Mr Beast tweet the

video received over 800,000 views in

under 24 hours yet with a top comment

reading the amount of disrespect this

guy has is unlike anything I've ever

seen before complete and utter shame he

was about to face some serious backlash

just awful garbage I have more respect

for stains in a gas station Ural

than I do for Owen YouTubers click

baiting technoblades death for views has

made me lose all faith in humanity it's

just so messed up which is followed by

another tweet from Owen himself at Team

YouTube my YouTube channel with 3.5

million Subs just got terminated please

help me get it back I'm so depressed

right now I don't know what to do after

YouTube then responded I went doubled

down by stating I never received any

Community guidelines strikes so I didn't

know what I was doing was violating the

guidelines if I received just one strike

that would have been enough for me to

realize what I did was wrong please give

me another chance I'm so depressed right

now it's my only income Owen then made

another two tweets displaying how

desperately he wanted his account back

although team YouTube concluded their

thread by stating update we've reviewed

your account and confirmed that your

channel was correctly suspended due to

EXP licit content note that you will not

be able to access or create any other

YouTube accounts although while

everybody was happy to witness Owen's

ban Steve will Do's termination was a

bit more controversial Steve had always

been on YouTube's radar for his

unconventional style of content eating

challenges prank videos and beginning in

2021 sponsored gambling uploads for

which he was being paid more than a

million dollar a month it's therefore no

surprised that Steve lent into this type

of content even picking up a sponsorship

from stake until he made one simple

error undoing everything that he'd

worked for YouTube has an extremely

strange rule where you're allowed to say

the name of any gambling website but you

can't show the URL of the website with

the dotom included well in June 2022

Steve uploaded a gambling video like any

other although the URL had been left in

as his editor forgot to blur it despite

Steve having no strikes on any of his

channels YouTube made the choice to

permanently delete all of them I'm

allowed to say I'm playing the website

but they would go to deleting my entire

main Channel because on my second

Channel it wasn't fully blurred after

which stve said this they called me the

day of deletion and it was a girl she

seemed pretty stoked I was getting

deleted and I was like seemed happy and

I was like I was with me and my editor

and like we're like bro like she's happy

as a result the nek boys were warned

about filming with him they basically

said like your Channel's going to be

deleted if Steve's in your videos which

might be harsher treatment than that

given to Leafy between 2013 and 2016 Le

built a reputation for uploading edgy

content which flowed well with YouTube

Zeitgeist at the time however between

2017 and 20120 leafy went on Hiatus

before returning with a pretty

controversial approach he'd uploaded a

video titled content nuke Pokemon man in

which you'd offer pretty reasonable

criticism 80% of Pokémon man streams is

just her watching videos adding actually

nothing to what she's watching

whatsoever however he'd then go on to

upload 12 different videos click baiting

Pokémon in the tit tit and thumbnail

while talking about unrelated topics in

the video itself such as finance and

investing of his last 15 videos 12 of

them were on Pokemon man having 12

videos all insulting Poké man in the

title and thumbnail that's viewed as

harassment by YouTube despite having no

PRI strikes on his channel leafy woke up

to a permanent ban for creating content

designed to harass bully or threaten he

take a Twitter stating morning at Team

YouTube my channel was suspended

yesterday curious if there's anything I

could do to get it reinstated or if

there's any statement on this you could

give on this however despite his tweet

leafy seemed pretty unconcerned about

having his channel deleted if I am going

to be banned like so be it the website

is what else is there need like there's

nothing else needed to be said Pokémon

took to Twitter stating I know I'm going

to get asked this so I'd like to clarify

I had nothing to do with leafy's ban

before adding don't want my silence to

leave room for assumptions leafy's ban

was bound to happen eventually however

someone whose termination was a little

more surprising was that of kab Lami he

again 100 million Tik Tok followers in

less than 5 months and with YouTube

launching their own shorts program kby

started posting across the two platforms

his notoriously funny skits exploded on

YouTube as they had on Tik Tok giving

him over 800 million views and 2 million

subscribers during his very first month

on the platform This Was Then followed

by another 800 million views in the next

month and after only 4 months of

uploading to YouTube kabil Lami had

racked up 2.4 billion views and 5.2

million subscribers he was then banned

permanently why well you see this wasn't

actually kby Lamy it was an impersonator

who was simply reposting his content to

YouTube he'd gained 2.4 billion views

before YouTube ever realized and this

wasn't the only account doing it only 5

days beforehand YouTube had banned

another kab Lami impersonator with 4.84

million subscribers after which YouTube

found a third impersonator who' gained

over a 100 million views in a matter of

days before they were also banned as as

a result kab began uploading content to

his own official Channel which remains

very much active unlike jstation his

termination began with a video titled my

girlfriend Alexia died Rest in paradise

in which he'd stay The Following last

night we lost Alexia to a drug driver

guys she was on the way to pick up

something for our video we were making

on our second Channel dream team she got

it guys as mentioned J station's

girlfriend had apparently died in a car

crash prompting him to upload another

video visiting the spot where it

supposedly happened it's okay man

everything's going to be okay however

only 3 Days Later jstation began using

his girlfriend's death to gain extra

engagement as you guys know my

girlfriend Alexia just passed away in a

tragic accident guys we're doing the

Ouija board Challenge on my dead

girlfriend let's smash the like button

right now guys one like equals one

prayer for Alexia guys rest in peace

prompting some ordinary gamers to

investigate if she'd even died at all no

no I don't have anything by that name on

the system Nobody by that name

specifically has suffered any form of

death right no as a result of the video

Alexia came forward confirming that she

hadn't actually died Jay faked my death

I felt sick to my stomach from the

minute that he posted it before going on

to add that the couple had since broken

up like the times he was mean to me it's

just like he was so mean and I just

don't know why despite having posted

years worth of unsavory content it

seemed faking his girlfriend death was a

step too far as YouTube would

permanently delete J station's channel

on the 12th of March 2021 J station

responded by stating I didn't even do

anything wrong and I made videos all

year getting no controversy however when

these delusions failed to bring back his

channel he concluded I'm going to sue

them crazy anyways I'm done nothing I

can do now which is the same conclusion

drawn by Seven Super Girls the channel

began in 2008 and featured seven girls

for the seven days of the week that

upload everything from skits today in

the lives amassing over 5.6 billion

views by 2018 when the channel took a

pretty dark turn the channel was owned

by a 55-year-old named Ian riet who on

the 17th of August 2018 was accused of

acting inappropriately with one of the

Seven Supergirls roughly 7 months later

aan pleaded guilty to the incident and

wasn't only sentenced to 3 months in

prison but was also legally banned from

working on YouTube as a result Seven

Supergirls was terminated on the 12th of

March 2019 at the time being the most

subscribed Channel ever to receive a

permanent ban that would be until 9

months later when YouTube's scummiest

copycat was banned for stealing content

the Indonesian Channel named Kal saana

had gained over 13 million subscribers

by employing a highly unethical strategy

that essentially find already successful

videos spoken in English before copying

the thumbnail in its entirety adding

their own Watermark and uploading it to

Indonesian YouTube where the original

Creator had no no way of finding it

however all of this changed in November

2019 when British YouTuber JT posted his

own upload titled YouTuber with 12

million Subs steals my video this

channel had the audacity to steal my

thumbnail put an emoji on it and then

put their watermark on it they put their

watermark on my thumbnail and claimed it

as theirs this YouTuber has stolen my

thumbnail stolen all the information

from my video they literally watched my

video and took everything they took the

screenshots they gave me no credit for

my own M this guy has literally just

ripped me off completely okay JT then

highlighted another crazy fact this guy

is the biggest YouTuber in Indonesia and

he's stealing my stuff he steals from

people so much okay that he's got in his

description for copyright matters please

contact us at this email he did this

because he knows he's stealing content

leading the Indonesian media to talk

about K's unethical practices a YouTube

account from an Indonesian with more

than 12 million subscribers has been

accused of stealing other people's

content with the article attached ing a

side by-side comparison of some of the

videos they'd stolen having been exposed

by his own country Ken wrote an apology

on Twitter translating to we from the

entire extended family of Kalen Shana

apologized to the YouTube channel JT for

using ideas thumbnails and video

prototyping without permission before

posting a second tweet reading thank you

for all your Corrections hopefully the

things that have happened will truly

become a lesson for us to not make any

mistake in the future however it was

already too late JT and two other

YouTubers who had their videos stolen

chose to simultaneously copyright strike

kenar J terminating the channel on the

grounds of multiple third-party claims

of copyright infringement regarding

material the user posted he was a fraud

he deserved it you steal content you pay

the price that's just how it is although

Indonesia wasn't the only country to

lose their most subscribed Channel as

turkey's biggest was also banned at

around the same time the channel began

with two kids in their father Muhammed

focusing on children's content before

they'd find themselves involved in

elsagate elate was the nickname for a

2016 genre of content where YouTubers

took kid-friendly characters like

Spider-Man and Elsa and mix them with

very unsavory themes inappropriate

videos have infiltrated YouTube kids

often showing popular children's

characters in violent and even sexual

scenarios the motive behind the videos

was pretty damn obvious here's one from

1 month ago 117 million views although

with so many people watching parents

began to talk about it there is a

terrifying new trend in middle schoolers

that I need to tell you about prompting

advertisers to pull their ads from the

site we are shocked and appalled to see

that our adverts have appeared alongside

such exploitive and inappropriate

content said of marburg's person in a

statement we've taken the decision to

immediately suspend all our online

advertising on YouTube and Google

globally therefore forcing YouTube to

take a stance against these sketchy

videos only 4 days after Mars and Adidas

pulled their ads YouTube you removed

over 150,000 elsagate videos turned off

comments on more than 625,000 videos and

terminated more than 270 accounts one of

which being turkey's biggest Channel

with over 15 million Subs although no

termination is Stranger Than That of

Minaj paraha the channel was included

amongst hundreds of banned multi-million

subscriber Indian shorts channels who

all employed the exact same strategy

they'd find Western videos that had been

successful in English cut them down into

shorts and provide a Hindi voice voice

over essentially re-uploading other

people's content with their language

being the only difference in an article

discussing these channels one owner

stated I would pick any video and do a

voice over I realized that if we do

voiceovers in a short story then we're

bound to get views so I just stuck to

that although this wasn't the end of the

article over the past few months he

claims eight such fact channels have

been banned the rate at which YouTube

grew their channels it's also taking

them away at the same rate many of these

fact channels add voiceovers to content

belonging to other creators and that

it's important for creators to only

upload videos that they have made or are

authorized to use the biggest of these

channels Minaj paraha was able to gain

20 million subscribers in just over a

year before YouTube also smashed it with

the banhammer however even then Super

JoJo Nursery rymes was banned with even

more Super JoJo caught copying Coco

melon this Reddit post referenced to

cartoon Brew article reading super JoJo

shamelessly free rides on Coco melon

success by closely cop and exploiting

every possible element of the Coco melon

Channel sometimes even frame by frame

which was displayed in the previously

mentioned Reddit post where user Billy

Disney showed just how badly the copying

really was as a result in August 2021

Coco melon launched a lawsuit against

super JoJo claiming that the defendant

has built its super JoJo Youtube

business by blatantly copying Coco melon

one month after this a new article is

published reading YouTube terminates

Coco melon rival super JoJo Channel with

22 million subscribers citing that they

had received multiple third-party claims

of copyright infringement super JoJo's

ban lasted for 2 months before the

channel was then restored however this

wasn't the end of the story The

Channel's growth took a nose dive

following their return to YouTube and in

July 2023 a jury has decided that baby

bus committed copyright infringement

with its animated series super Jojo and

as a result they were ordered to pay

Coco melon 23.5 million in that very

same month super JoJo wiped their

Channel clean deleting everything down

to their profile picture so while the

channel is still technically active

super JoJo could easily be considered

the largest YouTube channel that's

permanently banned