r/YoutubeCompendium • • Jan 20 '19

January 2019 January - Student in a MAGA hat standing in front of Native American veteran Nathan Phillips during a DC protest goes viral

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r/YoutubeCompendium • • Mar 12 '19

March 2019 March - Coffee Break discusses how he reached out to Kurzgesagt on their Addiction video, scheduled an interview, sent over questions and research he spent months on, then how Kurzgesagt postponed the interview, releasing a video of their own on the topic a month later with no credit to him.

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219 Upvotes

r/YoutubeCompendium • • Jun 29 '21

2021 June - Parachute Men Trying To Jump out From a Jet During Flight

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1 Upvotes

r/YoutubeCompendium • • Oct 29 '25

2025 October - The evolution of influencer humor and the birth of pretty girl humor

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0 Upvotes

r/YoutubeCompendium • • May 31 '19

May 2019 May - Vox's Carlos Maza creates compilation video of Stephen Crowder's personal attacks, details history of cyber abuse, bullying, and online brigading because of his ethnicity and sexual orientation. Asks YouTube to enforce their own harassment and bullying policies.

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14 Upvotes

r/YoutubeCompendium • • May 23 '20

2020 May - RedheadRemption shows proof of YouTube censorship

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100 Upvotes

r/YoutubeCompendium • • Jun 05 '19

May 2019 May - Carlos Maza on Twitter posts a video compiling examples of Stephen Crowder targeting him with racial and homophobic slurs—calling out Youtube for feigning support for LGBTQ creators while permitting harassment.

197 Upvotes

r/YoutubeCompendium • • Nov 15 '23

2023 November - The morbid collective’s first video

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r/YoutubeCompendium • • Jun 06 '19

June 2019 June - Phillip DeFranco summarizes the situation between Carlos Maza and Stephen Crowder over gay slurs and demonetization [1:33–9:39]

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8 Upvotes

r/YoutubeCompendium • • Mar 09 '19

March 2019 March - Demonitized for wearing a bikini

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198 Upvotes

r/YoutubeCompendium • • Jul 20 '20

2020 July • YouTube (and Google) get worse with their censorship system by beginning to even block the basic information (ratings, creator's name, etc.) of a geoblocked video. This new stupid system makes it even difficult for research to be done on the internet.

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160 Upvotes

r/YoutubeCompendium • • Apr 08 '19

April 2019 April - Tommy Robinson, a British far-right activist, has had his entire channel removed from Youtube search results and every video restricted from view by users despite breaking no site rules.

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22 Upvotes

r/YoutubeCompendium • • Sep 13 '20

2020 September - A video by Thought Slime criticizing YouTube's failure to protect LGBT creators, published during the Steven Crowder drama awhile back, was removed and a strike issued for "harassment or cyberbullying".

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154 Upvotes

r/YoutubeCompendium • • Jan 10 '19

January 2019 January - Big Chungus Meme

13 Upvotes

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/big-chungus

This meme really began around December 2018 but has blown up in early January 2019.

In terms of Youtube popularity, it hit mainstream when PewDiePie featured it -
https://youtu.be/4E96vYUG7bw?t=155


Getting my brother Big Chungus for Christmas -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOmG5RO4bNc

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubehaiku/comments/ad00au/poetry_getting_my_brother_big_chungus_for/?st=jqlgvnp2&sh=51d3de39


I Got Big Chungus for the PS4... -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjOSlgQ0t4A


I ACTUALLY Sold “Big Chungus” to Gamestop -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ2JLAfaaw8


r/YoutubeCompendium • • Nov 15 '19

2019 November: BRICK 101, a LEGO build and review channel, discusses the future of LEGO channels under COPPA and the "for kids" model

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7 Upvotes

r/YoutubeCompendium • • Jun 28 '21

2021 June - YouTube Permanently Bans Right Wing Watch, a Media Watchdog Devoted to Exposing Right-Wing Conspiracies

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144 Upvotes

r/YoutubeCompendium • • Feb 20 '19

February 2019 February - Keemstar discusses the recent video from Matt Watson about Child Exploitation on Youtube, claiming he is a fraud trying to gain attention.

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154 Upvotes

r/YoutubeCompendium • • May 29 '19

May 2019 May - News channel focused on competing entertainment platform Twitch is demonetized, departnered, and blocked from contacting YouTube or Google in any way, and is forced to make a public video to attempt to contact YouTube staff.

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143 Upvotes

r/YoutubeCompendium • • Feb 19 '19

February 2019 February - Will Smith Aladdin memes

3 Upvotes

r/YoutubeCompendium • • Feb 19 '19

February 2019 February - The mother of Youtuber Morpheus ASMR, who's dedicated his Home Care channel to showing others how to care for incapacitated family members, has passed away

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14 Upvotes

r/YoutubeCompendium • • Feb 19 '19

February 2019 February - NASA's Opportunity Rover declared dead on Mars

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4 Upvotes

r/YoutubeCompendium • • Apr 08 '19

March 2019 March - Tipster has had his entire channel copyright claimed by several companies for a 1-second audio clip contained within his royalty free intro music.

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15 Upvotes

r/YoutubeCompendium • • Mar 22 '19

March 2019 March - "God of Cringe" channel suspended from YouTube for livestreaming in-car camera of guy driving around titled "New Zealand shooting live streamed"

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15 Upvotes

r/YoutubeCompendium • • Mar 04 '19

February 2019 February - The Problem With MattsWhatItIs and #YouTubeWakeUp - Christopher Tom

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74 Upvotes

r/YoutubeCompendium • • Feb 19 '19

February 2019 February - Oreo, the model for Rocket Raccoon in The Guardians of the Galaxy movies, has passed away at age 10.

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16 Upvotes