Joji was the only one to stop being edgy and not lose the respect of his fanbase

I miss Frank so much. It's awesome that George got to achieve his dream of making music, though. That man was uncannily capable of viral success.

I had no idea what was going on with Corpse. I followed him way back when he made horror story videos and creepypasta content. I still looove the little nod to Donnie Darko in his icon. I unfollowed him when he primarily started making Among Us content and I had no idea the stress he was going through. All of this unnecessary stress and anguish he goes through amongst a crowd of obsessive fans is terrifying for sure and not to mention embarrassing. It also makes people who "Kin" him (fucking bonkers) that much more offensive imo.

“Not mentally fit” is the quality most needed by social media creators specifically the tik tok influencers

It is unreal that George was able to make a separate career from filthyfrank

Joji survived because he was HONEST with his viewers/fanbase. He told us: This character is effecting my health. And he wanted to be a musician. And He's an amazing artist- musician! Joji wasnt lying, he had to start taking his health seriously. he worked hard & built his amazing music career. I respect him for that. I love his music so much.

What Corpse went through was just downright sad man. Fuck those haters, seriously. Jealously and hate and a lack of talent can really lead you to do some repulsive shit.

I'm one of those OG corpse husband fans, and while I was happy to see his stuff pop off thanks to his music and among us, I can't help but feel saddened seeing the lack of horror content. Now it looks like he hasn't uploaded in a year or more. Praying the guy is doing okay.

I wasn't a Filthy Frank watcher, but man, what a baller. Dude had an exceptional youtube career, and quit it like a champion. No drama, no resentment.

The way Joji handled his fame/infamy as Filthy Frank is commendable and I wish more people could follow in his footsteps.

George went from a guy who sings about how someone adored Nickelodeon's child actresses in a different way to have a top 10 Billboard Hot 100 song. Just pure incredible

'Throat tissue damage'. Firstly, great Grindr profile name. The FF voice was something that always struck me as super hard to do and now I know it was. Also the 'you're people of culture' when people who loved his FF stuff even when he's said he doesn't enjoy it anymore is a touch of class and a sign of a great entertainer. It's remarkable to see someone that acknowledges where he came from very tastefully no matter how offensive it may have been received.

George absolutely deserves the acclaim and success his music career has brought him, even if it meant putting an end to such an influential and popular online character. It also shows his integrity and appreciation for the fanbase he accrued that he gave Frank an actual sendoff instead of just dumping the project and acting bitter and resentful towards old fans.

As an severe epileptic myself, there's no bigger betrayal than your brain suddenly clotheslining you with absolutely no reason or forewarning.

Frank definitely wasn’t destroyed, he took the fame he had from a character slowly changed to who he truly is as a person

In stark contrast to all these lads in this video, there is Guru Larry, who never gave up, never sold out, never stopped fighting for what's right, always spoke up when something needed to be said, and has learned to evolve and adapt with the times.

I feel really bad for corpse. The intense sexualization of him and insane obsession with his life was really weird. I miss when he was just a horror story youtuber I would watch in middle school. Some of you need to learn some real empathy Jesus Christ.

Joji is a genius no matter what he does. As long as he puts care into it, it shows his last album nectar while it was a departure from his old style. It really slapped.

Idubbbz is just a classic example of 'I will take the piss out of you' but the second someone turned the tables on him it was 'unacceptable behaviour'. There couldn't have been a less graceful transition to other content than his history of the last 3 years. Not to mention him pulling up the ladder behind him when he reached the top and scolded those below him for being wrong.

I think what most people had a problem with idubz was how disingenuous he would seem. It's fine if you don't like making edgy content anymore, but to try and smugly tell others they couldn't do it. While that's how you became famous. Then everything with Sam Hyde just appeared to be petty and childish.

I think covid really ramped up the obsession with corpse because people were stuck at home and those parasocial relationships were intense!

I like to imagine Ian waking up in the middle of the night, horrified that Sam Hyde’s career comeback was caused by Mr. Jomha

I think George was able to look at himself and realize that he didn't like what he was doing, like the rest of them, but George actually took a look at HOW his life was being impacted by his fanbase and chose to use that as his reasoning, rather than preform mental gymnastics to justify why he didn't like his audience / his content.

making your face secret always backfires Unless you change your name to James Augustine and pay to have your past mugshots erased from public sites.

I actually met Corpse back when he was a narrator. I work for MrCreepyPasta and was invited to his wedding along with other creepypasta narrators. He was very quiet, but really sweet. I apologize when he revealed that he had a medical condition. He seemed surprised and said thank you. I felt so bad that he deals with stalkers and creeps.

I've always been glad that George decided to end Frank the way he did. If he didn't, he would have been fighting constantly against being deplatformed and hated, and it certainly would have haunted his career forever. His music isn't my taste, but I'll always consider myself a fan.

god i love filthy frank.... his content in a way was so helpful during such a depressing and lonely period of my life. Even now i rewatch some of his stuff and it entertains me a lot. Miss him to this day. One of the best

Ian was so powerful that the only one to bring idubbz down was idubbz himself. And his TikTok loving girlfriend. What’s even funnier is he made Sam mainstream popular and killed off his own career. I love Sam Hyde now, when I was afraid of him before. And Sam seems to genuinely want to help idubbz but Anissa constantly gets in the way of that.

Tom: “It’s interesting how a creator can create a fan base they don’t like” Also Tom: “Leave me alone”

Joji is a great example of how to leave behind your past gracefully.

The thing so many people fail to comment about iddubbbz's demeanor is that its also telling "anisa is forcing me into all of this" its not such a tinfoil theory either as she is overpowering him, talking over him whenever they are interviewed together

I mean for idubbz, he's getting older and who you are as a person can change when you experience things. I mean I don't know a single person who can look at even a social media post from 7 years ago and not cringe. We as people are always experiencing things and it's not uncommon for something you experience to change your world view. Does he actually have new opinions and thought processes? It's very possible. Is he back pedaling on his old stuff a bit too hard? It's very possible, but we don't and probably won't really know

Filthy Frank, Idubbbz, Maxmoefoe, and h3 were honestly such a huge part of youtube experience in high school. Im glad Max and Joji are at least still doing well

I feel so horrible for Corpse, so much so that I wouldn’t care if he disappeared from the public forever for the sake of his health and safety. My only hope is that he is surrounded by people who love and support him, and that the crazed “fans” and anti-fans are kept far, FAR away from him.

Love your stuff! I love the runtime, it's almost like a quality crafted documentary on internet topics!

George did the near impossible. Despite how insanely offensive his Frank persona was, he was able to greatly succeed as a musician, even when people tried cancelling him over his Frank work. I don't think we'll ever get another person like him.

No worries. We've got Filthy Frank's channel downloaded *somewhere* and KZfaq won't get rid of everything. My little brother was a hater comment in one of those series videos, I remember calling him around 3am when it uploaded and I watched it to tell him. Frank was (and is) our guy. I massively appreciated Filthy Frank as a character.

I'm not surprised George had tissue damage to his throat. Maintaining that Filthy Frank voice must have absolutely shredded his vocal cords. Also lol at the idea of anyone taking kpop stans seriously. They think they're so powerful, but they're just unusually loud clowns.

It's weird, I grew up watching Spoony, FilthyFrank, and iDubbbz (for a time). Of them Spoony is still the saddest story to me. It's hard to explain but at the time, I genuinely thought he'd be huge. I thought this guy is going to go somewhere. So much potential ruined by mental health issues. He should've sought help, but then again, most of us back then (and still, tbf) use the internet to escape that responsibilty. Sucks to hear Oreo passed. The guy really has lost everything at this point.

being a fan as a teenager of filthyfrank, idubz, maxmoefoe, etc it feels good to see joji and the cold ones boys thriving. the only bad ending was for idubz but although i really dislike his way of handling things rn i hope he gets a good ending to

I have huge respect for George. Not a fan of the Joji stuff, but can somewhat appreciate it cause he is good, and the fact he departed from his old content without shunning his old content/fans. He achieved something that most content creators wish they could achieve, being able to adapt and change with alienating their previous audience and even bringing a lot of them along for the ride

Who could've guessed that Idubbbz final Content Cop would be about himself 🤣💀

This channel seriously be on the come up this year. Keep it up Tom ❤

Man frank was such a legend, its crazy to think about how many viral memes this guy created and I'm not just talking about the Harlem shake

Spoony's fall is shocking if you were around during the wild west of late 2000s KZfaq. He started on KZfaq as an AVGN inspiration (by his own admission) before getting a fame boost from Channel Awesome, and at that time Spoony was a prince of KZfaq. He'd appear on the front page basically every single time he uploaded. In fairness KZfaq was a much smaller place and his content would be demonetized in a heartbeat today because of how sweary it was but he gained a lot of fame through his irreverence and passion for media. Around 2013 was when his uploads mostly just...stopped. It was definitely a result of his mental issues but he basically stopped working and didn't seem to have any motivation to continue even as his financial situation got worse and worse until he lost his house. He only recently resurfaced in those interviews Tom mentioned and seems to be trying to pick up the pieces. It's never too late. Also to be completely fair to Spoony's trash talking of Channel Awesome, their website was and mostly still is abysmal. The copyright notice is still dated to 2020 and there's a broken Google+ link because they don't have anybody to remove it from the theme (or they don't care).

George was always making music as “joji”. He just kept it more lowkey. Look up the “Chloe Burbank” ep by joji. Nobody ever mentions it. He was doing that type of music before, and well into the filthyfrank era.

I'm suprised Cryaotic didn't make it onto this list. I absolutely LOVED his content. It's a shame controversy destroyed him

Timestamp 0:27 Filthyfrank/Joji 8:26 Corpse Husband 16:19 SkyDoesMinecraft 23:43 Noah Antwiler 31:36 Idubbbz

i remember watching jojivlogs back in the day, and relating to the realness he displayed. frank is the epitome of transcending the past in the best way. although it sucked to see him go, the fact that his health was declining due to his commitment was something so admirable it would be wrong to go against. i would listen to his non pink guy music prior to his departure, and it was genuinely so good. the talent he had for music often bled into the pink guy character. im happy for joji, he deserves all the success in the world.

I hope Corpse is okay. I hope he can get help. I think he should stop and take a two year break. Get him around people who help him.

Never heard of corpse before but his story is actually so sad and it also makes me very angry of the people stalking him and shaming him... what a bunch of destructive useless people they are

Idubbsz did a complete 180 of his personality and beliefs. It's crazy

For all of us that grew up on the internet, there comes a time when we realized that almost all the people we enjoyed watching when we were young are hack frauds.

Seems like there's only so many places content creators can go. - They can be like Joji and come to peace with it, and revel in the fact that they were who they were. - They can be like Corpse and be consumed entirely by their audience - They can be like Skye and just have their actual personality catch up with them - And they can be like H3H3/iDubbbz and throw their old fanbase under the bus, or use them as a step ladder, to score points with a community that feeds into their egos and holds them aloft, and claims them to be "Reborn" or having "ascended" above what they once were, when in reality they're the same, maybe worse because at least before they seemed self aware. I mean we've known about Ethan for a while, but more recently with Ian, claiming none of the people he content copped deserved it... And then saying he was just sitting on a pedestal/grandstanding... Like that's not what he's doing by claiming all his old fans are basement dwelling neckbeards. It's so frustrating.

I became a big fan of Spoony very early into his fame on KZfaq. I first watched his review on The Thing video game in late 2007 and, even though I liked that game, the video had me in tears. I later watched more of his videos and stuff like Bayou Billy, Heroes of the Lance, Samurai Zombie Nation, and E.T. had me rolling when I watched them (I almost laughed myself into a seizure the first time I saw "Naked Zombie Sean Connery," especially with Thriller playing in the background). I continued to enjoy his work long after he enjoyed Channel Awesome, with great stuff like Phantasmagoria, his reviewing those awful Ultimate Warrior comics (the first video he did on that is still one of the funniest things I've ever seen on the internet), and even his vlogs. I even liked his Wrestle! Wrestle! videos, and I don't care about wrestling. But, yeah, it was clear over time that, not only did he have emotional issues, but he didn't deal well with any sort of criticism, even if it was constructive. I stopped watching him when, during his video on The Dark Knight Rises, he went on to insult people who liked Batman Returns and yelled, "Fuck you!", as well as said he would fight anybody who came on his website and tried to defend it. That, coupled with the stupid tweet he made about Jesu Otaku (although, I think Obscuras Lupa had a lot to do with the fallout from that) and never really apologizing for it, made it clear he made a massive attitude problem and mental issues. It was really sad when it got to the point where he was doing those Live Wire streams and was just horribly attacking people for the slightest thing and screaming like a lunatic. What Tom didn't mention is that, in January of 2019, when he was living in Illinois, Spoony caused a bad car accident by running a red light. And yet, despite badly injuring somebody, and with multiple witnesses saying it was his fault, he tried to blame it on the other driver. From what I also understand, he failed to show up in court, possibly moved back to Arizona as a way of avoiding it, and, to this day, refuses to take responsibility for it. That right there is a sign of how narcissistic he can be. While I would love to see him make a comeback, he can't just act like that and his basically stealing money from people on Patreon never happened, which he seems to be doing. He really needs to answer for all the awful things he's done, as he'll never be able to move on otherwise.

Just what I needed to help get through work. Thanks, love ur content!

Always a pleasure to see TT pop up in the feed during lunch.

Joji left Frank behind with grace and thanked us all. Ian called us all basement dwelling incels...

Idk why but my very first experience of FilthyFrank was the cake video and I instantly subscribed. It was just so absurd and unlike anything I had seen from KZfaq that I found it both entertaining and hilarious. And then upon first hearing the pink guy raps, I just knew Joji was actually really talented with making music. I started listening to his music outside of Filthy Frank, and it just confirmed that even more. It was pretty much foreshadowing to his future success as a full fledged musician. It got me looking into his account on soundcloud and I added a good number of his favorites into my own playlist. That playlist would get me through all the rough times of working on numerous assignments in college. Really glad he's been able to make an amazing transition despite the huge risks it took. He deserves the success. Hope he's doing well these days.

It always hurts a little to hear about Sky. Used to watch him all the time and looked up to him, and even when I got older I still remembered him fondly. Now there's always that pang of pain when I think about him knowing what I know now.

I hope that corpse is doing better. Its sad that people have this dispicable need to out people and doxx them to this point.

Damn. After all these years, Sky must've heard of the genocide route and said "fuck it, we ballin!" 💀

Bro I have listened to Corpse Husband for years. He made my night shifts pass and rounds on the psych ward exciting. I didn't know any of this nonsense where people were so disrespectful of him and he was so pained by the things he did for us online. I feel so horrible for him. I have body dysmorphia and have done things to change my appearances that were extreme (including self-harm) I want to just send love for him into the universe rn.

I'm convinced that people gain amnesia when it comes to being told not to go poking into people's personal lives, as well as not constantly setting high bars and then proceeding to gaslight themselves over it.

I love how the title is "KZfaqrs Destroyed By Their Fame" when the first youtuber you show is fine and just quit

It’s still crazy that lots of people don’t know how joji started

There's Joji, a successful artist. Chad and Max just Chilling with their own content and then there's Ethan and Ian.

Sam Hyde played Idubbbz. The whole thing is a stunt. Oh how the great have fallen. I miss the old idubbbz ;)

reminder that going from edgy narcissistic internet persona to insufferable narcissistic moral preaching far liberal internet persona is not "growing and changing" as a person.

I still can not believe the AUDACITY of that person to say "he shouldve listened" about a supposed picture of corpse, as if they didnt stare at their computer for an unreasonable amount of time searching for it.

Whenever I hear about Corpse, I feel so bad for him. I visibly cringe out of my skin whenever someone follows me somewhere and I find out they’re a high school classmate that recalled my old email; I can’t imagine millions of people trying to dig through your stuff *on purpose* to find out about you irl and dox you for their own sick fantasies. Hope he’s okay and in peace, left to his own devices.

Wow this hit close to home. My whole life I have joked with people about seizures when there was flashing lights or other stupid shit like that. Till one day at the age of 28 I was cooking dinner and woke up on the floor with a busted face and a whole through my lip. We were hopefully that it was a once off and never again. Unfortunately 2 years later I had three in a week. One at the gym, where I busted my entire face open, had to have a surgeon stitch it back up. Finally after many more I have been seizure free for 7 months now. Seizures are something that unless you have experienced them, it's hard to wrap your head around them. It's unreal to just lose control of your body and there is nothing you can do about it. Sending love and light to all my epileptics out there. You are not alone.

The "betrayal" thing wasn't actually that big of a blow against Spoony. I'll admit it was unprofessional, but Blistered Thumbs, the video game subsidiary of Channel Awesome, died a slow and painful death because the CA management didn't give it enough support. LordKat not getting the Notch interview is probably more the result of him being a nobody than anything, honestly. He was always a tiny and insignificant member of CA. His podcast This Week in Games barely used to crack more than 30 views and even fewer live viewers at any given time. As to Spoony's tweet, it did drum up a lot of ill will toward him from other CA members. JesuOtaku forgave him, but then ObscurasLupa drudged the situation back up a month later in the middle of an argument with him, leading to a total meltdown on Twitter largely fueled by an at-the-time undiagnosed bipolar disorder. Spoony always sucked at taking criticism and it just got worse and worse over the years. (The two of them later privately settled their beef, and Lupa has a whole shady history of her own which I won't get into here.) But whether he got fired from CA or quit doesn't really matter. It IS true he was big enough to strike out on his own, making thousands of dollars on Patreon and through ad revenue on visits to his personal website The Spoony Experiment. No idea why Tom's applying a tone which isn't there when Spoony criticized CA after the fact. He's pretty nice in that clip Tom plays in this video and they remained on good terms, with Spoony even appearing in a few Nostalgia Critic videos after the final (proper) anniversary film To Boldly Flee. Spoony stated he'd start work on a movie after reaching $5000 on his Patreon, and of course this is where things fell apart. He cracked under the pressure and stopped making regular videos outside of the very infrequent Live Wire streams, where he'd spend half the time sitting in silence and the other half screaming at his own fans. Over the past few years, his marriage fell apart, his dog passed away, he got into a car accident and failed to show up to the court date, then finally lost his house and moved back in with his parents in his 40s. Things have very slightly been looking up for him, since he got interviewed by the guy from Phantasmagoria 2 and Live Wires have been more frequent, but he still owes his former fans sooooooo much that I doubt there will ever be a complete redemption arc.

The only person who destroyed Idubbz reputation was………himself.

Man I loved corpsehusband as a horror narrator, he was excellent. Really sad he abandoned it to become a generic streamer, thankfully new ones like Whispered Diaries are popping up left and right these days

George always had my respect. He was VERY funny, and I watched him a ton. But I also only listened to his music because of FF, so I hope that he doesn't regret any of it because he was pretty amazing through all projects.

I feel so bad for corpse… Man just wants to live his life. And I know the feeling of hating your face. Having weirdos obsess over you because of your voice, doxx you and then have the audacity to play into your complexes by calling what may or may not be you ugly is just horrifically crooked and fucked up. This is a big reason why I dont want to become too famous… People scare me. The calling ugly part is like bullying back in school. People seriously dont grow up online, thinking their own anonymity shields them from all. Nobody deserves something like that and while I know it’s impossible, I wish something could be done about cases like Corpse to protect the victims

I feel like what is happening to Idubbbz, happened to H3H3. They both made content that attracted offensive and crude humor fans, but both wanted to cut away from them and it almost seemed like a complete 180

Anissa's husband sure is whipped. Wonder how her boyfriend feels about it.

people are obsessed with ian not being relevant anymore when in reality he is still very relevant, he just doesnt want anything to do with bums much

The difference between FF and Idubz is that FF appreciated his audience and was capable of producing something. So when he switched his content his fans were willing to stand up for him. He didn't need to apologize he just needed to keep being himself. Idubz on the other hand basically said to his audience "I hate you and everything you stand for" and went on to produce nothing of value. He tried to broaden his audience by cutting off what he saw as cancer. But here's the thing, while a ton of Idubz's audience was pretty mean spirited a ton of them, much like Ian himself, have by now either matured or were only into that kind of stuff purely for laughs and not being seriously problematic. So when he basically told his old fans that he hated them he was throwing out the baby with the bath water.

All Ian had to do was say "I dont want to make that content anymore" and nobody would have cared.

thanks idubbz for introducing me to sam hyde 🙏🏻

It's not just KZfaq, internet fame in general ruins a lot of people.

R.I.P, the Filthy Frank Show. Maybe some day you'll return, but I doubt it.

This video wasn't really what I thought it was. There were more people who, figuratively, shot themselves in the foot while embarrassing themselves, than most in this video. Bad coverage, there's just other people who did way more self-damage than these. Some of these are just people who fell off, not imploding as the title makes it seem.

Our son LOVES Joji. Was interesting to see his backstory.

When I found out Tom didn’t look like his femboy pngs irl I cried, had a mental breakdown, destroyed my house, and drove my car off a bridge.

Ian was always a façade. He couldn't take what he dished out. Sam was the boy who called out the emperor wasn't wearing clothes

Keep Pumping out the good content Tom!

Filthy Frank was and still is a legend, even now as Joji.

I don't really know what people expect of idubbz anymore, he's 33, let the man weigh out peanuts if he wants.

Not defending spoony at all but I will say as a channel awesome watcher in the late 2000s spoony was 100 percent right about the website being poorly designed

LordKat placing the blame on Spoony for Kat not becoming Internet famous by interviewing Notch is and always has been patently absurd. Spoony sperging out the year prior likely had nothing to do with the growing bad reputation of TGWTG nor why Kat didnt get the interview, and Spoony was just a scapegoat for Kat at that time. Ultimately, Spoony's downfall is truly one of the saddest, as he was one of the few people at Channel Awesome who actually had real talent, but he just was not made for the stress of the limelight. His Counter Monkey videos are still great to this day and I highly recommend them to anyone interested in tabletop gaming. I sincerely hope Spoony gets better 🙏

The one in this video that upsets me the most is Idubbbz. He truly fell from grace. His past self would have destroyed his present self, and I would have sided with the old Idubbbz.

Joji didnt get destroyed by his fame lol

This era of KZfaq is always interesting to watch about. Because I don't know a single one of these people despite being from "that era" of youtube, just not into this type of content. Even now, I primarily only watch niche gamers and artists. So finding out KZfaqrs have these massive fanbases that are this obsessed with them is pretty interesting.

Joji/Frank leaving when he did in hindsight was such a smart transition. He left during the peak and didn’t drag or force the character too long, was when edgy content was getting nuked/becoming less culturally tolerated, made peace with his old fans and used pink guy as a method to practice for his music career.

The lord cat interview with notch is still hysterically funny. Dude blames spoony for losing that when in reality lord cat was and is a nobody.

"KZfaqrs Destroyed By Their Fame" First two. Not destroyed by their fame...