what I can say is that your theory in my case is completely true, in 2016 I was a big fan of those drama channels like leafy, gradeAunderA, scarce and so on and so on because to me it was entertaining to see those mongoloids throwing insults at each other, also,  at that same time period in which leafy started to decline I noticed that I haven't been watching as many of his videos because he kinda faded away, I couldn't find him at the home page, recomended list, and EVEN at my subscriptions tab. After leafy faded, so kinda did all of the other channels, some literally poofed out of existence (R.I.P. gradeAunderA, 9 months after his supposed 'comeback' he still didn't upload a video), and others content just got old (In this case scarce, mainly his videos are about celebs roasting eachother back and forth in my view). So I just want to add another thing to the death of leafy, as you said, he didn't change his content after he got roasted and still kept going, and like minecraft, that genre of videos just got stale with age. I know that you probably won't see this comment anyways and that this will be lost to the darkest depths of youtube, but to be honest, I don't have anything better to do :DDDDDD. I've been watching youtube every day for atleas 4 hours since 2008 or 9, and it's weird to see a channel like yours, that is reflecting on the past of youtube, because I can remember myself being there (for instance the whole leafy thing i just wrote about) and I wanted to say thanks for doing the content that you do, it's nice to see that I'm not the only person that's lived through this rollercoaster of a ride we call youtube

Mikhail Mcmorrow my comment was more like a thank you letter to emplemon in strange way

Mikhail Mcmorrow What are you 11? I can guarantee you didn't even watch the whole video if your gonna complain about a long paragraph.

Destro Jesus mate did you just write an entire English easy on a fuckin meme video

Destro This is a very strange age we live in when videos on Youtube history get me more excited than the most hyped media in existence.

Destro Wait, Did GradeAUnderA die? or was that more of a way of saying that his channel is dead


I used to animate, none of the videos are up anymore but I put hours into it and one time didn’t sleep for days just practicing trying to improve, I got unmotivated more and more because originally I got a couple views and a small amount of people liked me, it was enough, but then they forgot about me, nobody watched anymore, on an impulse I deleted it all because I felt I was the problem it wasn’t good enough and that I should just quit, I know this is a strange rant for this video but animation isn’t worth the effort, years later I did one speed run in a vr game as an excuse to exercise and I got more views then ever before, sure my legs hurt after but the physical pain was better than the mental pain and sleep deprevation but that time I didn’t have the motivation to keep going, my motivation got kicked to the curb long ago, I used to want to be an animator as a job but with everybody wanting to do so the demand will be pretty low for them, there will be so many options, I’ve accepted that now and I’ve settled for graphic design and I’m now fully studying that, my dreams were kicked to the curb early and I learned it doesn’t matter how passionate you are anymore and I’ll never succeed doing what I love


The tree metaphor, while on the nose, is well executed and beautiful


FWIW on a platform as huge as youtube, Content Cops' 2/7 kill rate is outstanding


Maybe the real leafy was the friends we made along the way


Good lord. The sheer amount of effort, research, backstory, storytelling, comparison, and hypothesis Put in by EmpLemon is leagues above and beyond anything else anyone is or has made on YouTube. Please keep making YouTube Geographic. It’s something we all need in our YouTube lives


man 2016 was THEE year. so much crap went down


The bojack horseman intro though. Damn right in the nostalgia


Ah yes I remember watching leafy in his prime. I’m covering my chin rn real ones get it


In English class, we're reading Shakespeare, specifically Macbeth, and I feel like it's pretty similar to what happened with Leafy.

Macbeth is about a Scottish warrior who sees a chance to become king and takes it. To do so, he does horrible things, he kills the king to take his place, and after becoming king, even stabs his best friend Banquo in the back simply to maintain his position. In the end, his power corrupts him, and eventually, even his own people turn on him. His downfall ended up being because he let his lust for power get to his head. The English army, a force far greater than his, came to his castle and even still he believed himself to be invincible, until it was far too late.

Leafy saw making commentary videos tearing down people lower than him as an opportunity to be king of Youtube I guess you could say. All the while not realizing he was doing anything wrong. He stabbed his friend Keemstar in the back to maintain his place on top. He kept doing bad things, treading deeper and deeper into dark water, until a force came in and stopped him, call it Content Cop, or Youtube. Leafy rode the wave all the way down, and never really realized his mistake, and looking back it makes you think. Was it really Leafy's fault?

The tale of leafy is a classic Shakespearean tragedy, Leafy started as a good meaning boy, who saw an opportunity, and taking it, he became successful, but not realizing it his once noble actions became negative, and his lust for power took control of him, his hamartia. The crisis happens, Peripeteia aka TommyNC, leafy makes his first error in judgement  (making fun of an autistic kid) setting him in an unknowing downward spiral. He continues on his path, not learning from his actions all the way until the catastrophe, in Macbeth's case the raid on his castle, or in leafy's case, the raid on his channel. In the end, both of them perished, but started with good intentions, but they both begin to corrupt, and finally, ride their fading wave until it crashes overtop of them.

Lol if only leafy paid attention in school

but did Macbeth return to call his people simps to then be shut down by god himself? Didn't think so bud

@Crazy Chocolate Monkey YouTube fame was lady Macbeth...

@Crazy Chocolate Monkey Whelp, now we know from recent vids that it was Idubbbz's girlfriend

History does tend to repeat, over and over.<br>In the core, people dont change.

History does tend to repeat, over and over.
In the core, people dont change.

We needed someone like Leafy tho... so people can see what shit people are putting out here or in life overall, I'll agree attacking kids is easy. But he's not just a cynical dick

okay but did god have any influence in the raid on macbeths castle?

@bdjsjshhehehd in the case of his british edgelords some might be studying macbeth now for their gcse's. Now that I thought about it, even though I study macbeth for the GCSE's, it never occurred to me that a comparison between the play and leafy could be drawn.

Hey just saying, power doesn't corrupt, power reveals. Leafy would have only ever avoided doing evil out of fear. He'd do dirty deeds as long as it was profitable.

a wise man once said <br>"your letting the fame get to your head, The fame has gotten so much into your head it has went through the ceiling"

a wise man once said
"your letting the fame get to your head, The fame has gotten so much into your head it has went through the ceiling"

Teacher: what have you learned from this book?

Kenzie: pulls out phone and goes onto his comment

Teacher: A++++++++-+

Teacher: what have you learned from this book?

Kenzie: *pulls out phone and goes onto his comment*

Teacher: A++++++++-+

@Bumberton's Delight The Case of 'LeafyBeth' syndrome, doomed to repeat one of Shakespeare classic tragedies.

Holy shit I am doing a project where I had to compare MacBeth to something else

The best comparison to my project actually happened

Funny how most of leafy’s 12 year old edgelords are like 15-16 now in high school, where does time go

Then that also makes TommyNC Duncan and H3H3 Malcolm.

ThePhantomac wow. I can see the parallels now

ThePhantomac the whole keem Star shit is debatable. Keemstar isn’t exactly an innocent person.

Crazy Chocolate Monkey His Lady Macbeth was the beautiful tinfoil hat wearing man with like 3 teeth and made videos proclaiming his love for Leafy.

THOSE WHO FAIL HISTORY CLASS ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT

King Chungus I’m with you on this. The sub count that continued to rise was as deceiving as Macbeth’s wife. The more subs Leafy got, the more untouchable he felt he was.

Crazy Chocolate Monkey perhaps leafy's subcount was his lady macbeth

But who was Leafy's Lady Macbeth? Was it not she who tempted Macbeth to sin in the first place? Was it not she who destroyed the good man that once was?


A literal masterpiece of a YouTube video


he was also banned from Twitch a couple of days ago


I miss LeafyIsHere. I think a lot of people do.


If there will never be another channel's like Leafy, does that mean this video would technically be a Never Ever episode as well?


Idubbbz brought the gun, YouTube loaded it but it was Leafy himself who pulled the trigger

2 years late, but...

It's more of "YouTube brought the gun, loaded it, and Leafy pulled the trigger, then iDubbz took the credit for the kill allowing YouTube to get away with it."


I swear, Dream will end up like this soon.

He’s already going through the same situation, I don’t think he does the same sh it as leafy (like making commentary videos on small YouTube’s for everyone to see) but he’s getting a lot of hate for his fanbase and people are trying to deplatform him


'it would never again be this popular" lmao


I did like some of the new videos. (take this part with a grain of salt) The only problem was he didn't fully change, basically, he taunted H3 with a clip in most of his videos thinking that ha! I can continue doing this but more mature! and for youtube...yeah...the 2020 youtube line was crossed and that killed him, twice. (i might be wrong and missed some things so tell me what I missed)


You're like a internet history teacher or even better historian and I love it.

Spicy

Yeah I fixed it because I didn't want to type I agree everytime  someone said it.

LOL i saw your original comment and then saw the edited version right after i finished watching the video

High VVizard Lizard

I do like that so I fixed it.

Internet historian is the god of this genre. Nobody can beat what he does

I say a YouTube historian, sounds better

The internet It's more complicated than this

Darkcyndermaya -<br>Not as good as Internet Historian, though.

Darkcyndermaya -
Not as good as Internet Historian, though.


YT definitely consinred to crush leafy. They do it all the time to kill channels they dont like.


Interesting video, would like a follow up now that he is gone... Me personally actually really liked Leafy’s content but I was never part of the Toxic community, so I guess I didn’t quite see that part of him. Sure I heard about it, but not much more than that. The question is, is YouTube truly a better place without Leafy? A lot of people have been saying that YouTube is and has been going down hill over the last couple of years, so the question stands, what if the lizard king was still around?


"Minecraft Has reached its Peak popularity in 2013, it will never be as popular ever since".

Dream: I'm Gonna Ruin this mans whole career

"Minecraft Has reached its Peak popularity in 2013, it will never be as popular ever since".

Dream: *I'm Gonna Ruin this mans whole career*


Pretty crazy looking at this video now and seeing channels like Dream pop up and gain tens of millions of subscribers after Minecraft Rebounded. I think of Leafy stuck to Minecraft content, he may still be here today.


As a leafstorian myself, you got everything on point. Perfect, too perfect, consistent editing , mentions of his old channel and deep analysis. I applaud you EmpLemon.


Man, crazy to finally watch this video. I actually used to watch Leafy back when he made Minecraft youtube videos.


“Minecraft surpassed its cultural peak in summer of 2013, it would never again be as popular.”


44:35 Honestly despite being one of his fans and subscribed to him long after the Content Cop, no, I hadn’t see any of his videos in my recommended, in fact, I didn’t even know he started uploading again after like two years of inactivity. This is really similar to what happened to Mumkey Jones


The fact Emperor really played All Caps makes me smile (R.I.P MF DOOM)

this video actually introduced me to MF Doom back in 2018


instantly demonetized due to the fact that EmpLemon is telling the truth about youtube

also thx for some history on yt emp!

*instantly demonetized due to the fact that EmpLemon is telling the truth about youtube*

also thx for some history on yt emp!

Doesn’t matter anyway cause the vid was claimed by 2 record labels

Ya they even changed it so that when you search up leafy his channel comes up now.

Memetastic oh hey like your videos also that’s a good comment

+Karoler But did any of them mention TowerDog's leaks?

People have told the truth about youtube millions of times EmpLemon is doing nothing different lmao


When you think the video is over but you are actually only 26 minutes into a 52 minute video


2016: Leafyishere is disliked by everyone, IDubbbz is a treasured internet icon.

2020: IDubbbz is disliked by everyone, Leafyishere is a treasured Internet icon.


Interesting, I was a leafy viewer for years then suddenly he was just gone, or I stopped getting him in my recommended feed and I just said "meh". Now I understand what happened, thanks.


I was there for this whole debacle. This video is like wave upon wave of painful nostalgia. Thank you. This is art.


I come from the year 2021, he came back to Youtube at 2020, but got ban hammered to oblivion by YouTube itself.


I've never heard of leafy, I'm grateful to have heard of u 🙏


yknow I know a lot of emplemon's content for this series doesn't always age all too well but damn this one is just aged like fine cheese

Wdym i think this whole series is still pretty correct and all, not much has changed.


when you appeal to a young demographic and all your demographic grows out of you.


I remember sitting back, watching all of this happening. It was really something. And looking back at it, it's quite nostalgic and hilarious.

Mark Mason Youtube is becoming an anime at this point


Maybe the real leafy was the friends we made along the way


27:58
emp finna get cancelled for casual use of the happy merchant. I think he's just smart though.


This video truly made me realize how fucked up YouTube is and to a bigger extent Google


<i>I wonder where he is now. I can imagine people recognizing him in his day job and he'd just curl into a ball.</i>

_I wonder where he is now. I can imagine people recognizing him in his day job and he'd just curl into a ball._

Pizzerizgud even if he is lying, it is factually true that Leafy has been traveling Europe for the past few months. In one of his newest update vids he mentioned that he was doing that, and basically admitted to having a stupid amount of money to be able to do it.

@chi I won't ever understand why people still like him. Only simple answers are given to me, "He was funny". Yeah right.

@Spaghetti Boy Agreed. I dislike Leafys content. I wish he lost all of that money that made him rich. Money that he never gave to his editors. Money he never gave to anyone but him self. Looking out for #1 as they say.

Well, Keemstar just made a video about him lol. Interview with Leafy himself lol.

Matt Petty can you tell me how to contact him please

I know it is strange request , but you can check that's my real name and i am completely honest in my words. I am a writer of 12 books if that brings any value to my words. Do you know how i can contact that boy, since i couldn't even find an email. Leafy. I think i can help him return and be bigger than ever.

I could dig a comeback. Youtube just isn't as interesting without its villain man. It's like a marvel movie with just the heroes. Fucking terrible. Jake paul and Logan paul are the only "villains" we have. One filmed a corpse, oh god loose your mind time, it's not like dead bodies are in movies, tv shows, music videos, books, etc...Totally. And suicide? Can't joke about that, I mean....<Chlorox Bleach.exe file not found.> So yes, a comeback would be nice. Villains are important, and I always like this villain, chin or no.

Matt Petty any updates? It’s been three months ever said anything else since? Hopefully a comeback?

This Guy that is kind of a pointless thing to do

Matt Petty if you’re telling the truth and you happened to still speak to him you should convince him to come back. maybe at least on social media. plenty of us miss him.

Funny how satan suggests that leafy shouldn't come back. Must be a friend of onision.

@This Guy hedoes deserve the money he made. Yes his content was toxic but that's what people craved back then.

Brother Noah I dont feel as if his content was originally negative. His cynical side even though yes it wasnt all sunlight and rainbows I liked that he seemed like he was toying with his prey before his fanbase ripped the subject of video apart, I feel like he got a really shitty wrap

Coaster lol good idea. I'll copy you and comment for the updates.

Matt Petty good intel I see that you have ima comment just to get updates on this situation

Matt Petty have you heard from him recently?

Matt Petty hopefully he does comeback I mean if he's changed and has matured then I don't know maybe YouTube might change from the hell hole it becam, I still remember watching him seeing the rise and fall of his channel when his channel died that brought out the begging of censorship from YouTube I don't know maybe if he did make a comeback that'd show YouTube they can't silence their creators , if his redemption was good enough perhaps he could be the one to lead the charge against the current state of YouTube

The Meatballcake87 true enough. He never mentioned any youtubers to me keem or otherwise though. he got irritated if you tried to bring up his content while playing. That's probably why he would invite me to play i assume. Im good and I dont give a shit if he was on YouTube

Satan well not much I can say to that. His vids weren't for everyone. You love him or you hate him

Antonio Vrdoljak We played csgo every now and then.thsts where I first met him. A couple other games alot less frequently. One of the few things I clearly remember talking to him about way back then was him telling me I should play Minecraft it's the shit. I told him Minecraft <b>is</b> shit lol. But to reiterate we were never like best buds or anything

Antonio Vrdoljak We played csgo every now and then.thsts where I first met him. A couple other games alot less frequently. One of the few things I clearly remember talking to him about way back then was him telling me I should play Minecraft it's the shit. I told him Minecraft *is* shit lol. But to reiterate we were never like best buds or anything

Milbox R pretty much the same thing built ricegums channel and look where he is....

Satan Hey, he probably has matured out of his younger self by now

Youtube is actually a hellhole for creators atm

Matt Petty He could make a comeback, just look at Keemstar a year or 2 ago. Everyone hated him and his channel was dead at under a million subs. Now he’s almost at 4 million, and is mostly liked.

Pizzerizgud understand I'm not claiming to be besties with the guy. The extent of my interaction with him is strictly through online gaming and that pretty infrequently

Pizzerizgud yeah I would probably assume I was lying too. It's not really the kind of thing you'd see someone in the YouTube comments telling the truth about lol. But for what it's worth im not

Night0wl14 I play a couple games with him like once every 6 months or so on average

matt you should tell him just because people thin hes a prick dosnt mean they hate him

i mean he could quite honestly pull it off, member sam pepper? that nigga is currently streaming with ice poseidon and has an average of 1k viewers on his stream

He could make a comeback by "trying to reform", and then go back into his old habits... because as much as people threw hate at him, it was just the bandwagon effect. Once he seems to be reformed, people will grow bias for him, and then he can go back to his old ways.

"I'm reformed!" -> YouTube remonitizes his videos -> new viewers come in -> toxicity subtly returns -> remains partially reformed to keep the viewer gates open

(and I don't use "toxicity" in a negative way... toxicity is good for entertainment)

DammitSinged he doesn't have a day job. He's rich. Hes been in Europe travelling for the past 7 months. I talked to him like 2 months ago. He said he was thinking about making a comeback but he's afraid everyone still hates his guts. I feel bad for him. He's actually a pretty cool dude


“Minecraft passed its peak. It would never be as popular again”

Spoke about 1 year too early


I love how leafy just has Tetra as his pfp


This is like a supervillain getting taken down, him bullying everyone and then his own tactics being used against him


U need to look into Ethan dude. That egomaniac has complete lost sight of the morals and values that he once made a point of ensuring were a part of his channel. Now he’s just a freaking monster


I barely noticed this video was almost an hour long because the structure and editing are so well done.

Me too lmao. I had it on in the background and kept glancing. And I was like "this feels like it's been a while" and I was at 35 minutes in lol


I think that the difference is the channels he didn’t kill are too “lowest common denominator” type channels to ever die


MrBlackDarkness666 never publicly lifting the curse is a very important piece of leafy lore


The only thing that truly aged like milk “Minecraft would never be as popular again.”


I think it's funny that Emp talked about the fall of Minecraft YouTube and yet here we are in 2021


well.... this video aged like fine wine, TWICE so far

@Robert does that make idubzz the chozen undead?

Except the Minecraft parts, that aged poorly…

Make it age like whatever is after thrice!

This channel genuinely helps my depression lmao

@Robert take a break here friend the road ahead isn’t safe to go alone

Except that thing that minecraft would never be has popular has in June 2013

What about him saying Minecraft will never be relevant again?

Five times now, if you include Minecraft resurgence, leafy coming back, getting banned, and coming back again to get banned again.

<b>sigh</b> Somehow, Leafy has returned.

@Grade Y but the last time he fell he fell with pride

This is like some dark souls lore shit, next I gots light the flames for a third time

@Blue Solace  probably not gonna be unbanned since its been a month. But yeah according to leafy, YouTube emailed em that their looking into his requests to be unbanned.

@Grade Y Possiblily the rise again... Stuff has came out about youtube emailing leafy and the termination couldve been a "mistake".


Every mistake, teaches us after some Time a lesson.


the mf doom at 16:20 was fucking amazing


i can kind of relate to leafy's decline. when i was in middle school i got huge popularity and respect by making fun of other classmates to the point when i had no one left to mock

Hope you've changed now and are no longer like that 🙂


I like to think that MrBlackDarkness actually didn't break the curse or do a counterspell or anything just to spite Keemstar for laughing at him. To be fair, the laughing was pretty rude considering the rest of the video was about apologizing for making fun of him.


Leafy wasnt playing chess. He was playing high stakes Risk,only problem is that he only knew how to play checkers.

Looks like he was playing uno cause the mofo just pulled a reverse one on ian.

@Wade Sheckles several million ? Most of his videos dont pass 2 million and some not even 1 million

@Wade Sheckles  that profile picture of urs  fits perfectly with ur comment

Say what you want, Leafy has several million views per video still so he is doing alright and I still hear about him from my little brother so he must still have some popularity

@Designed kinda forgot about this statement of mine , and i  forgot of leafy as well ,  i assume that he does contet but hes most likely a mere shadow of what he has been , and i shall thanke u for ur sheer will of beering 2 months to come here and say this and u most likely  sacrificed ur whole free time just to observe leafys activite and  so u can makr this statement

@Designed  i mean i havent watched  his content since the video with idubz but even so hes not rly blowing up and he doest have the same influence as he had back than

@gman bozdo do you still think leafy isn't returning

Crucillus Thorn jeez didn’t realize it had this many likes lol

I gave this comment it's 666 Like.

Now only time will tell if the universe decides to maintain this delicate balance.

@Dipper Jr  he would   have won if he didnt have his career blown and would single handedly blown idubz's career but no , what did he do ? he came and said yeah everyone is right idubz sucks, and now he confirmed that he isnt coming back so what was this? A punch of spite   still has his youtube chanel inactive and if he didnt say anything about idbuz the situation with idubz would still be the same its not even like  he was the fist to "expose" idubz he just followed a trend so tell me how exactly did he won  ,the fact that he gained subs doesnt change the fact that he wont come back and idubz basically fucked leafy hard pushing others to hate on him  what leafy did as a come back was doing what other youtubers already did with nothing new , he is not different than an idubz fan that came on leafy's chanel and said "no chin lmao"

Lance Anthony but he literally gained 200k subs in 2 videos like a week apart. That’s what he would normally gained in a third of a month, around 10 videos, in 2.

lightxz27  ig yeah he won at the end with his new vid on idubbtz

And yet he still managed to win right at the very end, what a Chad


Soundtrack for this video is so hilariously fitting 😂


Nothing of value was lost when Leafy got deleted.

You could say that about most content on YouTube, but anyways the permaban was unfair and kinda scary because YouTube can just ban whoever they dont like


25:49 Ah yes, the days before the infamous Drama Mondays struck.


rewatching this video i love the bojack horseman parallels. such a great comparison


this video was incredible, i think every content creator should watch this video, it really opened my eyes, since i too had a beginning in minecraft lol
I think the one depressing thing about this video is realizing that edgy humor and content really doesn't thrive on YouTube anymore, it sucks that no longer can we push the boundaries without view counts and stats being suppressed. 2016 was a crazy year for youtube, it even makes more sense now that a lot of our fave creators don't upload anymore.

PS: lots of people forget that leafy's twitter was locked for threats or something, he can't get his account backc he didn't abandon twitter

Sup linklight how's smash Bros working out for you

bedo o Leafy MIGHT Have A New Twitter. If You Go On His Wikitubia Page, You Will Find A Link That Leads To A Twitter Account, But It Doesn't Go By LeafyIsHere, But Another Name Instead.

I agree completely. <br>We never see any YouTube channels push the boundaries anymore. :(

I agree completely.
We never see any YouTube channels push the boundaries anymore. :(

Linklight, more like bargain bin ludv- haha funny

Yo, thanks for showing me this video Linklight!

Linklight hey Linklight I saw a lot of this video already

Do you know his new tweeter or any of his social media?


I think in order for you to  even begin to ask us to feel bad for leafy, he would have to have even ONE redeeming trait, or done even ONE good thing in his entire career. "Feel bad for the fate of the irredeemable peice of crap who did nothing good, made no positive changes to the world around him, and contributed nothing positive whatsoever in his entire existance" is a hard sell for leafy, and
The victim of circumstance routine doesn't really do it fof me. The algorithm might have favored bullying children as apposed to Minecraft Let's Plays,
 but,
commentary videos weren't LITERALLY the only type of content on the entire platform, he could have chosen to transition to a thousand other niches at any point if he felt remorse or wanted to grow up. Weren't film and game reviews booming at that time ?
"Damn Blockbuster is going out of buisness, better get into dogfighting if i want to continue my career, there is no other logical conclusion"


They tried quietly killing him, but that didn't work so they shot him in broad daylight.


We called mrDarkness666 a crazy man, but we should thank him now


I miss 2016 YouTube drama. People actually had problems with each other and it was interesting to watch. Now in 2018 we have dumb staged drama that's just cringeworthy.(Great Video man!!!)

I miss the times when people fought against other people.
It's just not the same when you attack the company that allowed all this in the first place.
Leafy was basically the fake villain who was "betrayed" by YouTube.


I watch this like I watch a documentary on a mob king


This aged well after the whole QuantumTV bs


Cody ko, noel miller, Kurtis conner, danny gonzalez, and drew gooden are the only commentary channels that I watch a lot.


It's still wild to me that 2015 already feels like ancient history.

Mehoy Menoi Exactly.And I See People Saying It Was The Best Year Of YouTube Lol.

Maddafi that sounds more like 2018 I'm kind of confused LOL


Fucking hell, I thought it was content cop all this time but I believe you. Good shit.


Imagine if leafy waited until 2020 when minecraft became popular again


Hmm, looking at the numbers, doesn't look like Content Cop killed any channels. The Fine Bros was on an upswing when the Content Cop came out, if the mark you put is correct. the prank channel was on a decline and the content cop didn't seem to effect how fast it went down.


16:31 Using glue70 Casin is fitting since it's on the Leafy Radio channel, which I don't think is actually connected to Leafy but is widely assumed to be run by him
41:29 Now that I think about it, it is really weird. I watched Leafy from time to time back in his hay-day, but over time his videos suddenly stopped appearing in my reccomended. I didn't notice it at all so if it really was a ploy by Youtube, it worked
45:50 You were 16 when you made Uncredibles?? Damn, that makes it even more impressive of a poop


Easily one of the best commentary videos I've ever seen


I remember commenting “HISSSS” in random videos back then, still remember that era of the internet very fondly


I need a playlist for this video. The song choices are so good.


One of the greatest videos on this site,  This is my fifth time watching this.


These will be the stories we tell our grandchildren in the future, i can't wait to see all you veterans there as well.

This would be a sad one for Grandpa Calvin (I think that was his name...)

Nvm I found out it's called 'Picardía', 'Strawman Ball' or 'Memeball'.

"Hey grandkids, you wanna hear about the time a 20 year old contributed to the meteoric rise in online fascism through memes?"

My grandchildren would probably want to hear about this

I see this emoji thing everywhere. Idk the official name of the emoji thing. It appears in tons of surreal memes. The first thing that comes to my mind when i see that emoji is either <del>ihaveaids:)</del> ifunny:) or maybe those shitheads from the movie whose name shouldn't be said.

I see this emoji thing everywhere. Idk the official name of the emoji thing. It appears in tons of surreal memes. The first thing that comes to my mind when i see that emoji is either -ihaveaids:)- ifunny:) or maybe those shitheads from the movie whose name shouldn't be said.


Your seemingly natural ability to weave an epic narrative, [masquerading as retrospective commentary] has eclipsed what many would consider the standard of “quality” on YouTube - to the point I’m having serious doubts that EmpLemon the YTP-er isn’t part of some personal Mandela-Effect from a decade prior…
😳😵💫🤔 Your transformative, empathic, intellectual, and humble persona is as refreshing as your rebranding ✨
Keep Up The Great Work! 🙏🏻


Damn this documentary is soo good  and interesting that sunnyv2 and other documetary youtuber try to copy it... Even still i want to see sunnyv2 upload about the rise and fall of muselk


i remember watching leafy right before he did all his videos on commentary he had a little series where he talked about the drugs he had done


I had a tumblr fan page dedicated to leafy back in 2016


> 15 minutes in
> Thinks you're wrapping up
> 51 minutes long
The gift that keeps on giving, thanks dad

> 15 minutes in
> Thinks you're wrapping up
> *51 minutes long*
The gift that keeps on giving, thanks dad


After leafy returned, he started gaining again. It was all YouTube.


Imagine your entire Youtube kingdom falling because of a lack of facial features


Luckily, they banished Leafy to an island.
BUT HE CAME BACK!
Luckily, they banished him to another island.

Rofl exactly<br>Except this time they vanished him permanently

Rofl exactly
Except this time they vanished him permanently


you either die a villain or live long enough to see yourself become a hero


I've watched this masterpiece about 30 times now and every time you bring up Idubbbz and that western music comes on, my heart starts to flutter as I remember those days on YouTube. I watched it all unfold.
Keep your hand on your gun.
Jesus christ it gets me every time.

When you remember the old days of YouTube,  nothing but Minecraft. I am tempted to write a story about the history of YouTube in a western style

Happy to hear that someone rewatches Emp as much as I do

Tell me about it. Watching that in realtime was jaw-dropping

“Don’t you trust anyone” Just like h3h3 turned on leafy and leafy and grade turned on keem


Ethan managed to look like the good guy but he's the biggest snake of all.


mfw mrblackdarkness666's curse actually worked


You underestimate the power of Mr.Darkness.


You acknowledge Leafy likely didn't invent it, but just for a concrete example, ReviewtechUSA did the "gameplay and unrelated commentary" style way before Leafy.<br>Edit: Now that I think of it, I think this style may have been pretty common before Leafy. Maybe with the exception of it being the main focus of a channel.

You acknowledge Leafy likely didn't invent it, but just for a concrete example, ReviewtechUSA did the "gameplay and unrelated commentary" style way before Leafy.
Edit: Now that I think of it, I think this style may have been pretty common before Leafy. Maybe with the exception of it being the main focus of a channel.


It’s actually amazing seeing the evolution of Leafy in such a new memey era in YouTube

Dopy <br>Lmao "new era" dude come back to this vid 5 or 10 years from now.

Dopy
Lmao "new era" dude come back to this vid 5 or 10 years from now.


Yeah… I never did what he did.

I started with literally anything related to Cars toys.

And look at where I am now.

I literally learned how to make edited videos half a year ago.

Yeah… I never did what he did.

I started with literally anything related to Cars toys.

And look at where I am now.

*I literally learned how to make edited videos half a year ago.*


Talking about the conspiracy theory, I also noticed censorship in the comment section as well. I'm not sure if this correlates with anything, but I noticed during this period that youtube's comment section underwent "restructuring" during that phase. Before the restructuring, you could say anything you want and get your comment noticed. Now, there are certain things you cannot say without getting completely "censored" by youtube. Maybe this plays into the demonetization change, maybe not. Who knows. It's just my two cents.

How the frick you have 616k subs and no videos?

I know your secret now, RIVAL-DA!!! A spy working for the Youtubes perhaps?

it became my hobby to look for you in every single comment section

Mad respect to see you address your thoughts on a topic as delicate as this.

Payne 404 lol report him for what?<br>Stop hating because he's more popular than you man.

Payne 404 lol report him for what?
Stop hating because he's more popular than you man.

anyone remember the days of the top 2 comments?

Freemason definitely some kind of government psyop. I don’t trust him and I don’t like him.

Justin Y. I’m starting to think Justin Y is an experiment from an unknown business

Justin Y. I don’t think that is true. I see words they would consider “trigger words” all the time in top comments.

Emp liked this so he must agree. I think your on to something

Ah, Justin. Who made that Ninja avatar by thr way?

Justin Y. Of course you of all people would notice.

FInally, a Justin Y. comment that actually contributes to something

Justin Y. Id like youtube to censor your comments

well at least you said something that could be important

Have you ever seen a top comment that said "faggot"?
It's pretty interesting to think about.
Maybe the reason that you always get top comment is because youtube boosts you to the top unconditionally?
this video is a lot more thought provoking than i thought it would be.

Have you ever seen a top comment that said "faggot"?
It's pretty interesting to think about.
Maybe the reason that *you* always get top comment is because youtube boosts you to the top unconditionally?
this video is a lot more thought provoking than i thought it would be.

Kneight oh but recently the eu parliament pass a law to censor memes adding filters as well as bots they also may even censor sites like reddit and /4chan/ oh I'm scared what are they gonna do with my hentai ? Oh well I have an entire hentai pics in my folder

Interesting comment, while I don't agree with you being everywhere, I do agree that there are new word filters in place.

Justin Y. It must those eu laws btw do you live in Europe ?

Interesting to see a guy like you talk on whats on your mind. Usually we just see you say a punchline relating to the video, and thats it. Its also interesting to see this in EmperorLemon's channel too, and not in many others. I guess you could say I saw you as just "that guy everybody sees" with nothing else, but not anymore.

The guy who likebots is complaining about censorship in the comments

Welp, you know better than all of us what doesn't a youtube comment make.

Justin Y. Are there any videos you don't comment on that i watch?

I was gonna mention the mister metokur videos but since I see you there too I guess you've seen em

Justin Y. Yeah your actul thoughts because every other comment is a bot!


I swear to god emp you are the only youtuber who can keep me mentally invested in a video for an hour straight. Your content is seriously great.


This video was nostalgic for me. Being with leafys channel since 150k but also just a nice throwback to 2014 - late 2016 YouTube. The glorious days where people could really push the limits of what was actually acceptable. Great video that was well worth the time.


U switched up, and became bigger than u ever had. Congratulations👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾


I wonder how he got all this information surely, all of this isnt readily available all the time. I can understand some or most events but this video must of taken alot of time and probably speaking to the right people.

this is all basic stuff most people knows with some theory at the end. the theory was very impressive since it had basically been comfirmwd when leafy actually got banned. this video is out of date and i’d love for him to do a remake. and also explain how his minecraft content wasnt the normal content but was promotion for his server which he made his first $100k from and how toxic of a pool the minecraft server running was in those days


I guess this is the perfect phrase for "you reap what you sow."

Leafy got out with $12 million, all for making low quality YouTube videos for less than 4 years.

He won


42:40 is where you finally convinced me, that is beyond strange


YouTube did COMPLETELY KILL LeafyIsHere. FOREVER.


It’s pretty wild keemstar is still going after such a hit


28:12 gotta hand to ya thats pretty darn good editing


Funny thing, I think the only one out of all these guys still doing pretty well, is KeemStar. Outside of getting over Covid, he's getting on live streams with people, and still host Drama Alert and has always been active more or less despite everything.


So weirdly this video no longer turns up at all on YouTube search results


"Minecraft had reached its cultural peak (...) it would never again be as popular" Surprised to check google trends and see that this was still true.


Emp: “There's a little bit of Leafy in all of us”<br>Me: yes, I think you're right *sips tea

Emp: “There's a little bit of Leafy in all of us”
Me: yes, I think you're right *sips tea


17:34

this almost puts him in a good light lmao


5:45 OH BOY IF ONLY WE KNEW WHAT 2020 HAD FOR US


He's more or less gone. He returned today.


one of the greatest videos in youtube history


Wow, once again I am floored but the amount of effort you put into these YT Geographic videos. 2016 YouTube seems like such a distant memory now. YouTube was definitely a lot more fun and interesting back then.  All the drama with Leafy, h3h3, Keemstar, GradeA and IDubbbz put YouTube into a state of Civil War. So many memes. And what's going on now with the Ad-pocalypse almost makes me wish Leafy was still here. Perhaps maybe things would be different now. Amazing video again! I look forward to more YouTube history.

Dank_Shrimp Such a memorable era, for better or worse.

Yea it’s like each summer something crazy happened like 2016 the temporary fall of keemstar and decline of leafy with other things then 2017 with the rise of the Pauler Empire aka Jake Paul’s stupidity in full force. Now I wonder what this summer is going to be like


this is one of the best videos in this whole platform


Leafy was my favourite youtuber at the time, and if he wasn't banned he probably still would be.


"Awe yes back in my day...we had NFs, not NFTs. and There was a pinkboi who ruled supreme. There was law. There was order."


Last time I've heard of it the channel was still going. <br>Crazy how fast the internet it; or maybe I'm too slow.

Last time I've heard of it the channel was still going.
Crazy how fast the internet it; or maybe I'm too slow.


This was such a nostalgia trip for 2015 though, awesome style and editing! Wish I had seen this sooner edgy meme man


16:18 RIP MF DOOM.
14:38 that whole part gave me goosebumps, was not expecting that lol


I really like your mix of green and purple colors appearing often in videos.


2016 was just a dumpster fire that burnout out in 2020 then was on fire again then thrown out


EmpLemon this absolutely beautifully done. The quality this has is top notch with production and facts right...

But watching this made me kinda sad though...
It made me feel nostalgia for the time when leafy was still popular because he was actually my favorite youtuber at the time...
Rip leafy...

Different people, same story as me, I'm worried that he died in real life though, I don't need a closure video, just a confirmation that he didn't just die would be nice

Andrew Shaw's Flow same, I’d love to get real closure. I’m sure it’d spark a huge conversation again too.

Koco123 I wish he would just make one final video

Zander Blob Logan Paul did that with the suicide forest drama

Edit:But Logan Paul isnt as interesting as leafy

I wonder how long it'll be before someone as interesting as leafy shows up,  leafy United most everyone against him something like that is very rare on youtube

aSmallDot oh i was talking EmpLemons video


4:19
I don't know about you, but every time I see something that looks easy, like getting rich on YouTube, I wonder if it was that easy, wouldn't everyone do it? Doesn't everyone have the exact same idea? Logically speaking, if everyone has the same idea to do something, you have a terrible chance at being successful. In my eyes, if you want to be successful on YouTube, you have to do two things:  something different than everyone else, and care about you content you make. This part summed up my thoughts about this.


damn, what a good video! Im gonna subscribe real quick


Bro, when I realized you made the Uncredibles YTP I nearly lost my fucking mind. I've watched that a million fucking times.


1:47 holy shit is that the bojack horseman theme???


WOW! just wow! Very impressed with the scripting, structure, story telling, visual "and just overall" the creation of this video! very impressed with this really held the emotion and tons of research was conducted! you have my subscription <br>OH YEAH! was also very entertaining! keep it up looking forward to what you create next

WOW! just wow! Very impressed with the scripting, structure, story telling, visual "and just overall" the creation of this video! very impressed with this really held the emotion and tons of research was conducted! you have my subscription
OH YEAH! was also very entertaining! keep it up looking forward to what you create next

Wow. You are very positive about this. Not making fun. Not hating. It's just you are so happy you almost sound sarcastic. lol! Well if I could be that positive I would have a life and go outside for once! Keep it up, my guy!


Waiting (possibly forever) with bated breath for the Internet Bloodsports youtube geographic or perhaps more specifically, the Ethan Ralph geographic.


Formerly requesting for Leafywasback:farther down the spiral


I love when people use MF Doom music in their videos ❤


"I guess theres a leafy in all of us"<br>-Eminemplemon

"I guess theres a leafy in all of us"
-Eminemplemon


Dayum, never thought I'd watch almost an hour long video about a YouTuber's downfall but glad i did. I started watching YouTube at the end of 2016, so there were a lot of things i had heard of but didn't know the whole story. I've never watched Leafy's videos but i kind of want him to make a comeback to see what would happen. And great advice/moral, will definitely keep that in mind as a YouTuber.

Leafy made some great videos you should check them out

YouTube 2016 was such a beautiful mess, lmao.

...I miss Filthy Frank :(

Griffith did nothing wrong <br>Using YouTube means using it instead of tv, obviously i knew about it before and using it but never subscribed to any channel back then.

Griffith did nothing wrong
Using YouTube means using it instead of tv, obviously i knew about it before and using it but never subscribed to any channel back then.

FrostBug <br>So what's wrong in that? Yes, i started using it in place of TV at the end of 2016 but i was still using it casually before. And it didn't take me that long to familiarise with the platform, that's why i started my own channel and I'm satisfied.

FrostBug
So what's wrong in that? Yes, i started using it in place of TV at the end of 2016 but i was still using it casually before. And it didn't take me that long to familiarise with the platform, that's why i started my own channel and I'm satisfied.

ボイイイジーキュー And Idubbz pretty much demolished him

Daniyal Khan Tareen End of 2016? God how poor we're you, in which u never used YouTube?


4:00 Bruh that was 12yo me's EXACT mindset... I was literally watching a CaptainSparklez video one day and thought "this looks easy, imma do that" and so I started posting Minecraft Let's Plays lol. They were unedited 25 minute long videos of just vanilla Minecraft gameplay on a potato Laptop with a little bit of commentary. One of my favourites was one where I was loudly eating rice crackers into the mic for about half of the video, and somehow I thought "Yep, this is it, this is the video that is going to get me famous" lol.

Good times ahahaha.


you sound happy about this. all the guy did was be funny from his room. everything else is irrelevant


Funn yseeing Ethan being offended by Leafy when doing the exact same thing now - And getting eaten by his stupid community in the process


To be fair idubbbz video wasn't the one that made leafy lose a shit ton of subs it was actually "the real leafyishere" video made by heywatchyourmouth while I don't think it singlehandedly kill leafys channel but is what what made him lose a lot of subscribers

Edit: Not saying that idubbbz video didn't create an impact cause it did, everyone was clowning after that video


It’s been a very long time since I’ve been genuinely interested and then impressed with a YouTube video. This was like watching a movie, and it was very well done. If you always put this much effort into your content, you should surpass leafy in no time :)


5:31 It's never too late to use that meme.


I wasn’t a fan of leafy but for some reason I came across his content a couple of years ago due to the YouTube algorithm and I couldn’t help but think this kid seemed like a little craphead. I understand everyone has opinions but that also doesn’t mean your opinions are protected from any backlash that can bring. Every action has a reaction.


That theory may be correct. I didn't even know any of this happened to leafy and I used to be a viewer of his channel. Just seemed like he vanished


I don't remember when, it was years ago, I got a recommandation: a Leafy video. I ignored it at first, but it never went away, so I watched it. It hooked me so I kept watching and watcing and then more recommendations of Leafy's videos appeared and I kept watching. I gave in to this type of videos and subscribed to him. I started to watch his videos regularly since, back then, I was too an edgy and angry teen. But then I grew bored of him. I stopped watching his videos and finally, I unsubscribed from him. And then something happend. I noticed that youtube erased every hint of Leafy from my recommandations. Every time I got recommended a type of video I stopped watching, Leafy crossed my mind. I wondered what happend to him, why suddenly I stopped seeing something that once bombarded my recommandations? I didn't even got recommended H3H3's video about Leafy, not even content cop. Not even one video from Keemstar about him (and because of this I didn't even knew about these 'dramas' between Leafy and others untill 1-2 years later). I thought 'wow youtube finally understands when people don't want to watch certain things anymore??' so I left it like that, plus I didn't cared enough to give him a search. But it was still curios how he just disappeared into thin air from my youtube way before that big fall he experienced.

I can relate to the "edgy teen" thing....it also happened to me around the time that leafy got popular.

Ket same, leafy influenced me a lot, hell, look at my name and profile.

This same thing happened to me, minus the edgy teen part, back then I was very tame and his videos were like shock value jokes to me, hense why I watched them


This makes it seem plausible that without Leafys sucsess the adpocalypse would have never happend


29:44 Missed a golden opportunity to include the scream


This video is in DESPERATE need of an addendum. A lot has happened


This is probably my favorite video of yours


This is a whole ass documentary and it is some of the most engaging content on YouTube at the moment. It is so well written, and scripted, and edited. Time felt like it flew by watching this. I think your theory about YouTube makes a lot of sense. Think about Scarces' channel at the moment, he says in pretty much all his videos that they get demonetized as soon as they upload and that no one at YouTube will help him. It wouldn't surprise me at all if YouTube has been discreetly (or not so discreetly) trying to make it harder for drama/commentator channels.

I mean I guess Youtube has the right to demonitize those whose content they don't like on their platform, but they can at least just flat out say it and not keep some youtubers confused for weeks


I think the reason keem didn't decline was because nobody really made the same content as him<br>like scarce existed but watching scarce and watching keem was 2 different experiences while with leafy he was both not the best and not the only one idk lol jus my theory

I think the reason keem didn't decline was because nobody really made the same content as him
like scarce existed but watching scarce and watching keem was 2 different experiences while with leafy he was both not the best and not the only one idk lol jus my theory


4:39 - I've watched this video so many times but I've only JUST now noticed loss...


Your analysis rings true…I’ve been a YouTube addict for years (when it was only bad homemade music videos and stuff about Nibiru) and this is the first time I’ve heard of this channel….


Just knowing that i made it to leafy's video helps me sleep at night


Excellent video.

I've seen your Trump and Kimmel videos so I knew this would be good. You do your homework and try to understand a situation objectively versus looking through a biased lense. Keep it up dude. 👍


Just rewatched this video again, and call me crazy, but I loved leafy's content, I'll occasionally pull up some re-uploads and put it on my other monitor while I play a game, and it's some good stuff.

@Hyper Scary eh, what can I say internet cancer is pure entertainment


And now there are 10,000 drama commentary channels


"This kid won a CoD match so I doxxed him and he deserved it"


A very interesting take on leafy too bad his channel got deleted because someone got butt hurt


Oh mannn... these were the days. Youtube Drama 2016. Nothing ever got better than that

SavageBoy69Alt Oh the viner invasion was one of the fucking worst things to ever happen on this site

Ikr i remember keemstar used to be really big in 2016

I know now all we get is this fake ricegum drama


I will not stand for the Captainsparklez slander. He's a man of conviction


Why do I have a feeling leafy with no income coming in will blow through all his money in ten years an be homeless


Started out making minecraft videos LOL next thing you'll tell me is emperor lemon started out making YouTube poops as if xd

Maybe hes born with it maybe its Mephistopheles


"Minecraft hit it's peak in 2014, and would never again be as popular." Yeah, I think 2019 proved him wrong


Watched for nostalgic cringe and remembering the good old days of hating Leafy..
Left feeling sorry for the guy.

Who would've thought?

Curious Hoovy HISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS HEIL LEAFY

the fact you used the word misogynistic automatically makes everything you say false

I feel the same way about that he had potential to do something great but missed it and I just feel bad for him


Only thing iDubbz was ever able to SlaY was eventually his reputation


The 2016 seemed it was much longer, it was the best era of YT drama, the pokemon go kid etc... Now we live in elsagate and toy review era...


"It would never again be as popular" oh dear...


Seeing clips from idubbbz's content cop on Leafy hits differently in 2021 when now you know that idubbbz's wife and then girlfriend Anisa lusted after Leafy, lmao.
<br>I love YT drama muppets.

Seeing clips from idubbbz's content cop on Leafy hits differently in 2021 when now you know that idubbbz's wife and then girlfriend Anisa lusted after Leafy, lmao.
I love YT drama muppets.


"And this isn't just something I'm pulling out of my ass to explain away Leafy's decline."
>puts up a picture of Alex Jones

I like your style.

Other Gopher have you ever watched him without him getting taken out of context by an other source?


Now I want to go and subscribe to his channel, but at this point it won’t matter...


Started watching leafy when I was a kid. :(


man star_ and his tf2 days were awesome, i still loved watching his overwatch days too


While he wasn't the most serene youtuber, Leafy provided one of the only content that appealed to a Cynical and slightly Depressed audience (i was one of them), i was sick with the whole 'Inoffensive force-positivity vloggers' alongside a growing trend of politicised nonsense and rhetorics that has spiraled out of control today.

Leafy's content was a type of middle-ground between those 2 extremes, instead of a more 'formal' approach to commentary
he would instead just poke fun at while giving his honest cynical opinion about a topic or person.... instead of going off on a tangent or Ranting about it. he makes (and repeats) some stale jokes, give his thoughts and be done with it.

Instead of Taking things seriously like most people, Leafy would just laugh at a dumb situation and move on -

that's what appealed to me about him at least.

EDIT: I never even subscribed to him, just occasionally watched and enjoyed some of his videos

i never

yeah, to be honest I also watched leafy videos circa late-2015 until around the keemstar drama but he was one of those channels that I never fully engaged with. it was essentially just above background noise, he was like the video equivalent of taking a random buzzfeed quiz from a facebook timeline, so kind of engaging but not really. it was never until after all of the drama that I rewatched his videos and realised how polarising and toxic they actually were because I just never really paid much attention to what was being said before


Love the video!! Always wondered what the big deal behind Leafy was.
Question, what’s the song used around 44:14?

@Saba Shaw Thanks man! I didn't even notice that lol

"Lemon Jelly - Homage to Patagonia"<br>EmpLemon always has pastebins in the description of his videos where you can find each song used in order of appearance. Sadly they don't come with timestamps but you can always just make blind guesses until you find it.

"Lemon Jelly - Homage to Patagonia"
EmpLemon always has pastebins in the description of his videos where you can find each song used in order of appearance. Sadly they don't come with timestamps but you can always just make blind guesses until you find it.


"he didnt have a doofy looking haircut"....

i was waiting for the sike


Looking back, I personally don't really miss the cringe culture era. Irony is overrated


I saw Link on the thumbnail and my brain immediately jumped to the thought that you've made a video about Zelda but when i read the title i was mildly disappointed


The Leafy Content Cop being on trending as a cover up seems more likely than I want it to be being that YouTube has gone out of its way to keep Content Cop off tending since then.


14:49 Remember ALL CAPS when you spell the mans name, rip


10:34
"But what if...I were to purchase fast food from Krusty Burger next door?"


I’ll wear the tin foil hat with you, I’ve never seen one Leafy video, from his actual channel, never even heard of him during his peak, it was H3H3 and idubbs, was when I first heard of him, and then Charlie Moistcritikal, Grade A uk all of them, I watched all those vids, looked up Leafyishere and like u said never saw his channel pop up, even recently where all the youtubers were like Leafy is back, u look him up, his channel doesn’t pop, so I’m like…hm. Ur conspiracy may be 100% right


honestly, i feel if leafy responded just by saying "yeah, the content cop was immature and pretty bad, but i have to admit my chin game is weak. just as i bash others, its only fair and expected that i would one day get bashed in return and i congratulate idubbbz in his success." or something along those lines, he probably would have been fine after the content cop.


Damn, this was amazing and it got really emotional.

TheUsername yeah but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t emotional

Derek G maybe watch the video again and then you might know what I mean.

KillerMemestar Lol yes the fact that I’m not saddened by LeafyIsHere losing followers means I’m not sympathetic. You definitely have a complete judge of my character based on these two comments.

KillerMemestar I mean it’s unfortunate, but that doesn’t mean the video was emotional.

Derek G wtf do you mean his whole career ended how is that not sad

Augusto T Where did it get emotional? Lol.


15:06 on the right
who thought leafy on homestuck was a good idea


Brilliant brilliant video I really like your analysis and I am enjoying your videos allot


1:30 man that bojack intro is so fitting

rewatching this i found even more footages from bojack. very interesting detail considering how similar the story in the show is to leafys one.


5:49 “It would never again be as popular.”
Fast forward to now and now we have Dream and that SMP shit.


In the end. Leafy single handledly shook the entire platform of youtube to its core. All while being done in a dusty bedroom, talking into a mic over CSGO.

gaagle boss  lol I love this vid like finnaly someone shows a bit of good in leafy and not just Nash him for views

Nah everyone going in on the pauls is always pretty fun too

gaagle boss 2016 was a shitty year but YT was the most juicest it has ever been. The only drama that came close to being that good was the Sidemen and Netnobody beef.

He did more than shake it, he created a new/popularized genre of YT and changed the landscape.

2016 was really the highlight of the internet and the leafy drama being the most interesting events in youtube 2016


Leafy was the best channel to ever appear on youtube


Back in 2016 I was in middle school and all my classmates were obsessing over the drama between Leafy, Keemstar, Idubbz, H3H3, Pyrocynical and etc and I never understood what all the fuss was about. It seems so petty and stupid to me, I never got what all the fuss was about. I had to pretend to care about these shitty YouTubers to fit in with my classmates, glad to see their downfall.


Better than Shane Dawsons drawn out Jake Paul sociopath documentaries by miles. Great video man.

@TheIgors20 Ehhh I can't say Jake Paul is better than Shane. They're equally bad in different ways.


I give no other youtube channel a pass for using the bojack theme song. Top tier content


EmpLemon, your videos are not just good, they are inspiring. Knowing that there is someone out there who REALLY understands youtube who isn't some performer's handler or marketing guru. It gives me hope. It only takes one little dog pulling back the curtain to expose the Great and Powerful Oz. Don't ever give up. No one else on this site is making any content 1/10th as important as yours.


MattCS I love you Matt I love your videos

When's the next funny click bait moments matt


These feels less like a historical episode and more like a current event crash course. Not a bad episode by any means, just feels really random to tackle a subject as well known as Leafy.

I also absolutely love that Shining reference at the end.

Clonekiller66 Most videos on Leafy don't start at the very beginning.


Dude, you deserve so much more attention. Unlike a lot of YouTube's you take your time and put effort Into your videos. Keep it up!

Hi dude, im Michael Jackson how are you?


I hope leafy is getting on with his life just fine. He was young and famous, and he paid the price. Everyone makes mistakes

Allegedly. he's loaded. Doesn't want or need YouTube anymore.


What a great video. I was kind of expecting just a lot of filler and the same point that everyone makes, how content cop killed Leafy, but this really had an interesting narrative. The whole "YouTube assassinated Leafy and framed iDubbbz" theory really makes sense to me, and it is REALLY interesting.
I don't even want to know how much time you spent editing, researching, looking through archives, writing scripts, scavenging for video clips, looking through twitter posts, looking at past analytics of different channels, and everything else you did to make this video.
Definitely my favorite video of yours so far.


are we gonna acknowledge how emp used doom's ALL CAPS?


5:45 ironic because Minecraft is now extremely popular again

And that statement is now going down in r/AgedLikeMilk


"minecraft would never be as popular" oh boy that didn't age well


Remember when emplemon was a YTP youtuber?


And then on the 8th day the King was risen. The Dark Overlords were unhappy. A deceitful plan was put in place to overthrow The King.


Its sort of ironic that his avatar, Tetra from the legend of Zelda series kind of Parallel Leafys internet journey.
Tetra is initialy a goodhearted pirate who doesent believe in the princess that will save the world, but ends up becoming that princess and saves her world.
While Leafy was just some kid making fun of wierd stuff on the net like the existance of toxic lizard people, he ended up creating the very lizards he made fun of and became the Lizard queen, destroyer of worlds!

(is this a streach,im just trying to justify why i have to associate this fictional character with this poor fool)


If what your saying is correct, regarding Youtube's suppression of Leafy's channel on the search results and algorithm. I'm not sure how that could be legal. With in the bounds of Section 230's Publisher Vs Platform, it sounds like indexing & editorializing. With in the bounds of contract laws, sounds like it could be a violations of non-interference, specially since they didn't renegotiate the contract with Leafy nor inform him of any changes to the contract he signed with him.

Granted, I think any content creator probably could sue Youtube for the constant changes to Youtube's creator policies if they wanted to, since they never talk with us nor negotiate, nor are they transparent with us on policy changes, since every content creator has signs a legal contract with Youtube when we sign up, and them changing how things work with out giving us a chance to object or submit ideas could be seen as a breach of contract. Just no one has ever tried fighting it in court.


How can anyone even question it, of course youtube killed his channel hahaha


34:00 beat dropped harder than leafy's sub count 💀


36:50 ownage pranks isn’t a prank channel it’s a prank call channel.


You somehow made me watch the whole thing nonstop huh


i can confirm that youtube was hiding leafy as not once did i ever heard of leafy until he was already dead and i had to search him up and while obviously youtube recommends videos based on your watch its still strange that such a large at the time didn't get recommended now adays million subscriber channels are very common and yeah


Hot take: Making the content he did just because it was popular doesn't meat he HAD to do it, no one had a gun to his head. It's a HUGE assumption to say that people would do the same as he did. Not everyone wants to be in the spotlight either, these are all comments coming from a youtuber, apparently you forgot what it's like not being one.


Leafy is the chief keef of youtube he walked so others could run


I never realized emp used MF DOOM music in this video. Makes me like it even more


40:12 why was Scarce a target? dudes the most wholesome news channel out there


<b>THAT ONE DIDN’T AGE QUITE SO WELL</b>


the lgbtq+ just sponsored emp lemon. congrats


25:48 lol things used to be so different


I miss when Youtube was filled with edgy content, memes, and minecraft and call of duty gameplay but now it's filled with Jake Paul and Fortnite

What's the difference? It seems like you're just nostalgic for the old stuff, when that was just as toxic and annoying as the new stuff

There’s still a lot of that content out there. Technoblade has some pretty entertaining Minecraft content. Grandayy, SilvaGunner, Cyranek and Dolan Dark are all meme channels that are thriving pretty well. Mumkey Jones is probably one of the most edgy people on the platform right now, and while I don’t particularly like him myself, there is an audience for it and if you like Leafy you might like him as well.<br>If you look past the trending page, there’s content for literally anything imaginable.

There’s still a lot of that content out there. Technoblade has some pretty entertaining Minecraft content. Grandayy, SilvaGunner, Cyranek and Dolan Dark are all meme channels that are thriving pretty well. Mumkey Jones is probably one of the most edgy people on the platform right now, and while I don’t particularly like him myself, there is an audience for it and if you like Leafy you might like him as well.
If you look past the trending page, there’s content for literally anything imaginable.

after jake paul's falling out with youtube that probably wont last long

Preach YouTubes just watered down content made to appeal to YouTubes rules so they can make money smh


The leafy uprising was perfectly placed during my 3rd year of high school. I remember going into my programming class (the real cool class i know) and the people next to me would be talking about his latest upload or the keemstar drama.

But like a high school pregnancy in the classroom next to us he was dropped and left for dead the moment idubbz uploaded his video going for the shiny new commentator pyrocynical


Live in the cringe for long enough and you yourself become cringe. Learn from Leafy.


4:39 explain to me how I watch this video like six times and miss Loss each time.


crack theory: MrDarkness's curse caused Leafy's demise


Hey you know how leafs work, trees create them as small sprouts before they become big bright and green leaves. These leaves will absorb all the sunlight.
But in the autunm, the tree will slowly kill of its leaves by cutting it off from the food supply the tree has been sustaining his leaves with and drains all last remaining power out of those leaves before they fall off and are left to wither away.

Then next year, no traces of those leaves will be present and others will have taken its place.

You could almost say his name forshadowed his own fate.

@David Christian you have predicted the fucking future, sir!

joa fusaro you mean the ICBM wich bent over and completely mesaed up the east coast's electronics in MW2?

nah, i'd prefer to call it censorship. because it is

I notice that his subs keep going up though.  Interesting.  I wonder if he'll be back after a while.

ᝄuperabundant ᝄtar guess only time will tell

Did it disperse its seeds, allowing for more leaves to eventually rise?

The question is: did this tree bear fruit?

super konijn98<br>And then leaf-eating beasts consume the leaves for food. (idubbz, emplemon ect...)

super konijn98
And then leaf-eating beasts consume the leaves for food. (idubbz, emplemon ect...)

As The EMP said...maybe he wasn't meant to be the channel he had become

Leafy- What you just said<br>WasHere- Indicates past tense, and leaving(leafing?, hehe)

Leafy- What you just said
WasHere- Indicates past tense, and leaving(leafing?, hehe)


I'm gonna be real, this video introduced me to MF DOOM so thank you


14:41 Remember ALL CAPS boys. RIP DOOM :(


I legit have been recomended this video for the last 4 years consistently without watching it till now. I have no memory of ever being reccomended a video by leafy himself.


Note: he didn’t abandon his Twitter, he stated in a video that he got locked out of it by Twitter for an unknown reason.

Given the current Twitter climate, that's probably more of a blessing in disguise.

It was global terrorism, I’m not being edgy, I’m dead serious

His Twitter was hacked and locked leafy out if it, he still hasent gotten his Twitter back to this day...

@That's One Interesting Pfp Ya Got there in one of his videos. forget which one but it's in like the last 10 videos he made


then he came back and he's gone again, the more things change the more they stay the same uwu


So fitting that you used All Caps by MF DOOM in the back 😂


This video has aged a bit but it's still good


2015-2016 felt like it was yesterday. This dude was public enemy #1 on YouTube.

i remember watching him like it was yesterday, tho i never was toxic

Ze Hydra I was a fan and found the cyber heckling stupid of him, he did nice videos before, suddenly he started bullying people

Jason Skywalker too much drama? probably shouldnt have spread lies and bullying then

@lightnung Convinced by the content cop about what? He cyber heckled people? He didn't make extremely hard working original content? Nobody watched leafy for original content, he knew this and that's why he didn't change or put more effort into them. His fans didn't care he was cyber heckling kids or rando's on the internet... that was content to them. I really don't understand how "content cop" convinced people not to watch leafy anymore.

Yeah true, I used to watch Leafy sometimes before he was famous. Right when he started doing commentary and was in a sort of little alliance with Luna and xCodeh who were doing the same thing.

Tuna On A Stick I enjoyed his content until I found out how manipulative and shallow he was to those who worked under him.

I think it's fine if he stays off. No hate, it's just that being a YouTube commentator, especially on popular topics, is just WAY too much drama to deal with. I think Leafy isn't coming back just so he can live a more serene life. I wouldn't blame him. Who would wanna stay in an environment like that forever and miss out on life? I hope he's doing alright, and if coming back to YouTube is just gonna be drama for him, he should just stay off of it.

@GCNElite the hate hasn't really died down but his fanbase who weren't convinced by the content cop miss him

sgt.slayer [blue rose] because all the hate has died down and people are missing him now


28:37 The height of Leafy's success was on 9/11 of 2016... uh oh...


"Mincraft would never be as famous"<br>Boi was he wrong...

"Mincraft would never be as famous"
Boi was he wrong...

I mean well, yeah. Minecraft used to be way more popular even than it is now, and that’s saying something. Minecraft in its early days was so good because nobody understood it all.


“Oh he gone now honey,” said the sweet old black at your local grocery store.


The ALL CAPS part of the video was the best part


@Former CT Governor Dannel Malloy Well after he made the refreshing videos for a while he just went right back to the reactions where he just made fun of people repeatedly so that might've contributed.

@Mercury the real "Weafy" account got banned too and I think a fake one got 100k

Idk dannel that's not a lot of story for a video therr

@行屍走肉 Leafy came back for a while, he was being pretty faithful to his original content. It was incredibly refreshing. And then YouTube banned him because he had several videos which featured Pokimane in the titles because of drama going on with her, but it was almost purely clickbait because he would talk about stocks and stuff like that after giving like one sentence on the poki topic. Even tho Ethan H3H3 made hours upon hours of character assassination content on Keemstar with virtually zero consequence, Leafy was somehow guilty of “harassment” and got swiftly banned by youtube outright for making the most surface level insults and jokes like “bro she’s not even that attractive.” If anything he was mocking Poki’s fans WAY more than he was mocking her

Tl;dr the Leafy story doesn’t end at the point this video leaves off at

I dont follow youtube stuff that closely, what happened?


44:40 Actually, yeah. A little bit before he was banned from YouTube one of his videos was recommended to me. I just clicked on it, commented "Leafy is still a thing? Lol." and closed it.


Logan and Jake Paul rating: PG-TEEN
PewDiePie, JackSepticEye, Markiplier: TEEN-MATURE

Ah times change huh?


"It would never again be as popular" minecraft cave update and steve in smash:are you sure about that


It absolutely was YT working behind the scenes. I specifically remember him dropping off my feed at one point and wondering why he wasn't doing a videos. And then finding out he still was, it just wasn't showing up on my subs feed or recommendations. I thought it was very fishy at the time and wondered how he could possibly disappear that quickly despite the fact that he was doing the exact same content & not much, despite the drama, had changed. It became evident to me at the time that attitudes were beginning to change, too, about making fun of other youtubers. I have never bullied anyone, in fact I have always stood up for the underdog, but it was a guilty pleasure to watch Leafy rip people a new asshole. Most of the people he made fun of deserved it, and were whiny spoiled assholes or complete idiots (like that chick who put handfuls of fake cum on her face) who needed a smack of reality. Sometimes I felt bad for his targets, but that didn't make me want to watch him any less. And I knew he was a nerdy ex-Minecraft player, I really didn't care. There was something about him that made you want to watch and see what he had to say about the next weirdo.

I have been saying for a long time that it's no longer YouTube, it's TheirTube. Google had even said years ago they wanted to transform YT into "the next cable tv." They turned YT into a vast machine and you either comply with their rules & their idea of friendly entertainment, or they will get rid of you one way or another. If they can't get rid of you directly then they will make the environment so incompatible that certain users would have to leave. In the case of Leafy they sucked all the water out of his pond and left him to dry in the hot sun. Was it right? No. Was it legal? Probably not...but who's going to argue doctored numbers with them?

It absolutely was YT working behind the scenes. I specifically remember him dropping off my feed at one point and wondering why he wasn't doing a videos. And then finding out he still was, it just wasn't showing up on my subs feed or recommendations. I thought it was _very fishy_ at the time and wondered how he could possibly disappear that quickly despite the fact that he was doing the exact same content & not much, despite the drama, had changed. It became evident to me at the time that attitudes were beginning to change, too, about making fun of other youtubers. I have never bullied anyone, in fact I have always stood up for the underdog, but it was a guilty pleasure to watch Leafy rip people a new asshole. *_Most_* of the people he made fun of deserved it, and were whiny spoiled assholes or complete idiots (like that chick who put handfuls of fake cum on her face) who needed a smack of reality. Sometimes I felt bad for his targets, but that didn't make me want to watch him any less. And I knew he was a nerdy ex-Minecraft player, I really didn't care. There was something about him that made you want to watch and see what he had to say about the next weirdo.

I have been saying for a long time that it's no longer YouTube, it's _TheirTube._ Google had even said years ago they wanted to transform YT into "the next cable tv." They turned YT into a vast machine and you either comply with their rules & their idea of friendly entertainment, or they will get rid of you one way or another. If they can't get rid of you directly then they will make the environment so incompatible that certain users would have to leave. In the case of Leafy they sucked all the water out of his pond and left him to dry in the hot sun. Was it right? No. Was it legal? Probably not...but who's going to argue doctored numbers with them?

He did a video about a girl legitimately trying to glorify Hitler and the Nazi Party/NSDAP.

godaikin6886 she actually ended up getting arrested in real life which is actually thanks to leafy for bringing her to peoples attention. Can I still watch that last stream? I mean he did lose a lot of his friends but it was nice to see that him and keemstar made up after that flame war, and who knows, maybe he made up with the other people he had beef with

@bdjsjshhehehd ugh that girl having sex with dogs >_< and she was even making instructional videos how to do it. She got kicked off YT shortly after Leafy ripped on her. Shortly after Leafy left YT he did one live stream on Twitch and never did anything on Twitch again, as far as I can tell. Maybe he felt uncomfortable there. I watched it and he seemed kind of rattled at the time and I kinda felt bad for him because he really didn't seem to have too many friends. Which was arguably his own fault...he never seemed to understand why he pissed people off. He burned every bridge immediately after going over it. It was kind of sad it all spun down into a big drama war, but then again nothing lasts forever.


Huh, that switch thing is interesting to me, because sometimes not switching keeps the channel around. EthosLab is a good example; doing Minecraft for years, and still uploading actively.


5:45 "Minecraft would pass its cultural peak in summer 2013, and would never be as popular again"
2021: Dream SMP trending on Twitter every goddamn day

pewdiepie may have singlehandedly revived minecraft


Ngl how’d he last that long if that happened to me I’d be depressed at the least


I think it's crazy that for his entire life, the peak of his career will likely have been at age 20


So if you wanna get big on youtube, you gotta be a commentary channel.


You should do an update about leafy getting banned off youtube<br>Then going to twitch and getting crippled then when he came back to youtube got thrown off the cliff to never return

You should do an update about leafy getting banned off youtube
Then going to twitch and getting crippled then when he came back to youtube got thrown off the cliff to never return


Watching this at the time the "ship" has reached its watery grave.


Holy shit dude you were right YouTube nuked his channel


As a former watcher of Leafy's, the quality of his content dropped significantly even before the content cop and I just found myself not clicking on his videos in my feed like I used to. This drop is hard to notice because he was using the exact same formula and style of video, but his jokes were less funny, he was repeating things in every video, and was much less interesting to watch as a result. Perhaps it came from a lack of motivation in the wake of all the hate he was getting.

Ultimately, I don't think he was that horrible a person. Put anyone in his situation who has no experience being in the limelight and they'd probably be the same. He didn't have the foresight to see what his fans would do to the people he featured in his videos. To him it was all just for laughs, and the people he 'roasted' in his videos were funny to watch, and at a time his commentary was genuinely funny as well.

One thing I find so interesting is how almost all of the creators involved with him I personally like today. h3h3 and idubbbz for instance I actually admire, pyro is okay and even fucking keemstar seems to be alright now. But there has been a time that I have disliked things that they have done. No one was completely innocent in the youtube drama of 2016, and I think it's a shame that leafy seems to be the only channel that has died for what he did. Look at today though, and all of these other channels are thriving. Perhaps leafy was the youtube Jesus, who died for everybody's sins, all of the sin of youtube was thrust upon him, allowing everyone else to live in eternal subscriber growth. Interesting to think about.

I was also a leafy fan (although, I was not a rabid drone of his), and looking back at it, I never saw too much quality in his content, but most of the videos i saw from him were the ones where he targeted other channels

Poodz it was because he insisted on making daily uploads and that drained his creativity.

He would've been the YouTube Jesus if Jesus was throwing insults at children and people with disabilities for the entertainment of other people.

Leafy didn't even have the chance to better himself. He just rode the rails to the downward spiral.

Poodz I stopped watching and eventually unsuscribed when he started targeting specific channels instead of storytelling.


Leafy was the beta tester for youtube adpocalypse then.


46:21 Well, I guess I'm the one. Call me weird, but I make videos just for the hell of it, whenever I feel like it. And although I may have a lot of things to say about politics and social issues, I've no desire to share my thoughts with a broad audience. Too anti-social for that and there's more than enough channels that can do it better anyway.


All roasts and no play makes Leafy a gone boy


I am so glad I dropped all drama channels. Wasn't good for me. Isn't good for anyone. Too much negativity, not enough positivity.


this video has more dramatic plot than anything Hollywood could produce

@Alex Lazar where would all the intense gore and foot scenes fit in.

P.s , he is my favorite director

To be honest that could actually be a really good movie.  Like Best Picture award type stuff

Kinda reminds me of catch me if you can but with a darker ending

this would make a good black mirror episode

I guess you’ve been watching the wrong movies then. <br>Can’t just be watching Disney and marvel movies

I guess you’ve been watching the wrong movies then.
Can’t just be watching Disney and marvel movies

Because real life has consequences, not plot points

Ikr if a movie came out about a guy like Leafy, who starts out making innocent content but then rides a toxic trend to fame, and then you see him mishandle his celebrity status making more and more enemies, until his tragic downfall when everyone (even the megacorporation of his own platform) turns against him, that'd probably be a fucking good movie


I believe it because when I was like 8-10 I was watching pyro but I never saw leafy in my recommended not once and since their content is similar it would make sense I believe it


Forgive me father, for I have sinned. Back at his peak, I was a reptilian. I hissed and sought those channels. Never kys-ed, didn't even know what it meant. I would've been 12 at the time, start of 7th grade. Weird times back then.


this video disappeared for a week or 2 and I was really worried it wouldn't pop back up, glad to see its back here!


Although you can grow a YouTube channel to the millions mark doing one thing for years if that thing you do is niche, like Techmoan. You only have to adapt and evolve if you started out trend chasing.


when I clicked on this I was expecting to watch 10 minutes in, then make a comment saying its well known facts and that it can be summed up in a 10 minute video, but I ended up watching the whole thing.  I didn't realize the story went this deep, now I actually feel really terrible for him;  I had an empty feeling inside, and  feel bad about all the backlash he got, thank you for sharing the true side of the story.  I am definitely subscribing due to the fact that I've never watched an hour long video on YouTube feeling like I just watched a feature film.


I love your content so much, but if your theory is correct (and I don't think it is, although certainly a factor), why was only Leafy's channel affected? Keemstar's wasn't, despite being the same rating and despite you yourself pointing out how similar they are. You act as though your theory accounts for the anomaly, but really it leaves it unexplained? Is there not another correlation here?


Now I feel happy that carryminati changed .


YouTube: hey you wanna watch a 52 minute documentary on a dude you hate
me: oh fuck yes

YouTube: hey you wanna watch a 52 minute documentary on a dude you hate
me: oh _fuck_ yes

@Monke Lounge maybe not those two, though i'm not particularly fond of them either

god i'm about 35 minutes in and realizing this is about <i>several</i> dudes i hate and i'm enjoying every second of it

god i'm about 35 minutes in and realizing this is about _several_ dudes i hate and i'm enjoying every second of it


You made an hour long entertaining video! I struggle with making a 10 minute video... hahaha you're a badass

Yeesh I just correct someone and 2 people get their panties in a knot! I don't know about Killer Keemstar though. Maybe just kidding.

It's actually 9 minutes and 8 seconds from an hour.

That Russian Guy I love your channel ! I’m subbed to you


Ok ok but leafy definitely had a doofy looking haircut


Oh shit I loved the gold room at the end. Great movie!


insert overused "aged like fine wine" comment


Holy shit is Emp ALSO a Tobacco stan?! Wtf dude you have sick music taste


Wow, dude, your video is like, so well-made, it's true craftmanship, you actually did a journalist-job on this subject, but not only that, the musics, the editing, that's the second video is see from you (the first was the "Behind the meme rant") and I'm actually impressed how good the content you make is. Hope you'll continue making such nice videos, and maybe one day you'll become more famous than Leafy


alternate reality where leafy kept making minecraft vids and then joined the dream smp


Lmao. This video aged so well. Well done, detective.
Not only you had an amazing analysis of why he "quietly" disappeared, but confirmed to us as YT removed him completely after he came back.

Amazing. What a chad


People have been doing unrelated gameplay commentary since 2010, I’m not saying they all did it about the same topics as leafy but people like DarksydePhil have existed for a very long time.


I can tell you really care about your channel by not flooding this video with ads. Underrated channel


leafy getting wiped out of youtube twice in a month makes the theory correct


that raid reference is fitting, nice job lol


Looks like he couldn't survive in youtube's climate today bro, like he couldn't even curse.


Honestly, wow. This was by the far the most comprehensive video I've seen so far on Leafy.

I actually remember watching Leafy but now looking back, it's really sad thinking about it.

Leafy: The Youtube Icarus

Honestly that's the perfect way to describe him. Leafy got too cocky and thinking he could do anything. He flew too high and came falling down. Damn.

TheBlueRedGamer dude I love this video someone who dosent just bash leafy


I actually appreciate how well edited and researched this video is, it really shows the dedication emp still puts into his videos


I definitely didn't expect to feel sympathetic to Leafy when I clicked on this


Damn I never thought I'd feel sad for leafy, but it is truly sad to see someone much like us fall to his own corruption.  You know he wasn't really evil at heart, at least not to begin with, he just wanted some fame and glory.  Leafy may have died due to his own folly, but he deserves at the least a nice tomb.  His death was a tragedy.  We don't have to remember him fondly, but we should not forget him and what he taught us.


In 2021 and 2020 it’s crazy to know that leafy was deleted off the face of the YouTube earth


According to 2021 me I agree with your big tech killing of leafy was here.


1:17 do I hear the famous Bojack Horseman intro or are my ears deceiving me


To be fair fine bros is huge and that was more of idubbz piling onto hate


that bit at 9:30 made me realize that pornhub's colour scheme is inverted from youtube's default


Both the content cop and the channel are gone now.


5:45 “it would never again be that popular” lies


Bojack Horseman may have the best theme song I’ve ever heard.


They shot him dead, in broad daylight too.


this dude literally played all caps, best youtuber fr


Wow, you actually made me feel sorta bad for Leafy. He was pretty toxic, but I don't think he deserved the shit Youtube did to him either.

vally V ok lil tay i agree with but ppl like jojo siwa havent done anything yet half the internet bullies her, i didnt like his commentary videos either i thought they were boring but all im saying is everyone makes fun of kids on the internet yea leafy went too far sometimes but most of the time he was doing the same thing as everyone does now, he was just ahead of his time on commentary videos making fun of someone

But in a sense Leafy never died. It took the form of Youtube. The idea never died. YT became what they hated most. And this time it effected EVERYONE and no one could win.

+Dark Technica<br> He had no "balls" to speak of. He attacked children and people weaker than him. He was a fucking coward and a disloyal snake. His only power came from betraying his fellows and profiting off their corpses so to speak.

+Dark Technica
 He had no "balls" to speak of. He attacked children and people weaker than him. He was a fucking coward and a disloyal snake. His only power came from betraying his fellows and profiting off their corpses so to speak.

@Big O Eh he was young and didn't care about quality too much. He just wanted to broadcast himself... JUST LIKE YOUTUBE USED TO BE!

This makes no sense since youtube lost i'ts credibility supporting logan's suicide forest and apology videos. Should've happened to logan if you ask me.

He just had the balls to speak his mind and cut through the bullshit. (his story videos were great.)

I think it’s better this way. Is it really so bad for YouTube to knock down the people giving it a bad name or cancerous community? Leafy was promoting bullying and hate, so it’s really just cleaning up.

Tbh,Leafy was just Ironic, I mean He didnt hate on people or anything.

@Xieo TV 2 never even bought new mic or equipment

He took the the smart way out he cashed out and left yt


ALL CAPS WHEN YOU SPELL THE MAN NAME<br>rip MF DOOM, gone too soon

ALL CAPS WHEN YOU SPELL THE MAN NAME
rip MF DOOM, gone too soon


The music in this video is just generally great


Leafy was the Napoleon of his era in terms of YouTube, he was extremely innovative and ambitious for his time, but said ambition is what bit the bullet. Just like Napoleon, leafy made too many enemies and only his closest subscribers still followed him towards the end.


Never heard of him until content cop. Never ever had a recommendation


There will Never Ever be another YouTuber like LeafyIsHere


And then YouTube banished him to the Dungeon never to be seen again


2015 was one of YouTube’s many golden ages. Thank you for taking me back to a time that’s (surprisingly) long gone.

So you prefer today’s state of YouTube, where every mature content creator is forced to tone down their humor due to the fear of demonetization?

I said one of the many golden ages. Personally, I find the 2015-16 era a lot of fun to talk and reminisce about. At least it wasn’t as boring as today’s state of things.

So you prefer today’s state of YouTube, where every mature content creator is forced to tone down their humor due to the fear of demonetization?

I said one of the *many* golden ages. Personally, I find the 2015-16 era a lot of fun to talk and reminisce about. At least it wasn’t as boring as today’s state of things.

Rusty the channels that were caught up in the 2016 drama storm are either much different or incredibly successful, both even. Some are no longer active. It’s insane


Leafy vs Youtube execs, a classic Nazi vs Klansman death match if I ever saw one.


man i dont eve  know what happened. one minute youre watching this guy with 3k subs monologing with a cs go surf clip in the background, next thing you know the guy is making millions of subs and then hes just gone. i didnt really watch his videos in the e d when he was just pumping out daily videos reacting to some shit, but the whole thing was huge. couldnt go in qny comment sections without people spamming "HISSSS" or something.


2015-2016 was a really bad point in my life, but in a way I kinda miss the freedom on YouTube from that time period

Same here, man. I was really trying to figure myself out back then and got really obnoxiously edgy for a while as a result. Shit sucked for everyone involved, including me. YouTube was honestly kind of like a solace to me back then.

Yeah 2015 -6 was a really free yt, too bad I wasn't on yt for this

2016 was the best year in my life for me.

Me too. But hey, Emplemon is still really good. Wish he'd put out more videos though.

2015 wasn’t all that memorable for me, but 2016 was a year where so much shit was happening, i wish we could have a year like that again

2015 and 2016 were pretty shit years. Glad they ended and those type of youtubers like leafy died out

yeah. in 2016 i was on and off with my gf, had friend problems, did a lot of drugs and od'd twice but still i miss 2016, both on youtube and irl. the world was less heavy then

same; a few other channels i used to like stopped doing youtube and started twitch streaming or just went radio silent

@Big ciangas junior de ro-andrei DO YOU MEAN BEDROCK? AND YES I SAID MCPE BECAUSE 2016 WAS MCPE.

@Big ciangas junior de ro-andrei *_DO YOU MEAN BEDROCK? AND YES I SAID MCPE BECAUSE 2016 WAS MCPE._*

It was the best for me. I found this game called mcpe and im still playing it


The closest thing to leafy we have got now is Scrubby, and he is nowhere near as savage as leafy.


And then 2 years ago idubbbz gf opened an only fans and leafy couldn’t resist


Cringe culture might be one of the worse things to happen to the internet in a while. It’s just bullying people who like different things

Leafy was there to entertain and he did his job

@Curllum oh yeah totally agree most of the time it's not good but hey atleast, kids that DDos, the Tommync, Mr black darkness666 and all the other bullying videos were funny :)

@Conrad Reed I agree with that, but most of the time it’s not


did anyone catch at 23:20 where Ethan says "i didnt want to make this video because theyre my friends, but for some reason everyone has been giving them a pass."

you...just admitted to giving them a pass because youre they're your friends.

@Henry Martin if everyone else is giving them a pass, and you're also not saying anything; you're also giving them a pass because they're friends

yeah, he's saying his reason for keeping quiet was friendship, but fans or random viewers dont have that excuse, thus he doesnt know their reason


If leafy were to come back, but toned down and matured a bit, to fit in with current commentary channels, I would welcome him back with open arms. He just needed a few years of maturity before opening up a channel, and now I think he would be fine coming back. He never really bothered me other than picking on people who were sensitive and didn't deserve it. All he needs to do is genuinely apologize and take credit for what he did wrong and we wouldn't have let his channel die. It really is sad that a unique person went toxic so fast.


18:08
I'm so disappointed that you didn't use Aoki's bhop_monster_jam version of "Surfin' USA" that plays during the surf section of the map...


You didn’t look at his uploads after content cop. He kinda stopped uploading.


i love that you use gran turismo music its so soothing


Well I never had a leafy video recommended to me before 2016, so no that’s not that weird lol