10 Biggest YouTubers Who Are Permanently Banned (& Why)

A detailed look at 10 biggest YouTubers permanently banned, exploring their controversial content and reasons behind their channel terminations.

Key Takeaways

YouTube strictly enforces community guidelines on harassment, explicit content, and copyright.
Clickbait and exploitation of sensitive events can lead to permanent bans.
Even accidental violations, like showing a gambling URL, can result in channel termination.
Impersonation and reposting content without permission is heavily penalized.
YouTube actively removes channels copying or infringing on popular content.

What the video covers

The video lists 10 permanently banned YouTube channels from smallest to largest by subscriber count.
It starts with 'It's Owen,' known for terrible intros and exploiting Technoblade's death for clickbait, leading to his ban for explicit content.
SteveWillDo was banned controversially after accidentally showing a gambling URL, violating YouTube's strict rules despite no prior strikes.
Leafy, known for edgy content, was banned for harassment due to multiple videos targeting Pokémon Man with misleading titles and thumbnails.
Kby Lamy's channel was banned after an impersonator reposted his content, amassing billions of views before detection.
Seven Super Girls channel amassed billions of views with skits but faced termination.
JStation exploited his girlfriend's death for engagement, causing public backlash.
The video highlights YouTube's enforcement actions against channels copying popular content like Coco Melon and Super JoJo.
YouTube's policies on harassment, copyright infringement, and explicit content are central to these bans.
The video provides insight into YouTube's community guidelines enforcement and the consequences of violating them.

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Why was It's Owen's channel permanently banned?

It's Owen was banned for repeatedly posting clickbait videos exploiting Technoblade's death and violating YouTube's explicit content policies.

What caused SteveWillDo's channel termination despite no prior strikes?

SteveWillDo's channel was terminated because a gambling video accidentally showed a URL with '.com,' violating YouTube's strict rules on gambling content.

How did Leafy violate YouTube's policies leading to his ban?

Leafy was banned for harassment after uploading multiple videos targeting Pokémon Man with misleading titles and thumbnails, which YouTube viewed as bullying.

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We're going to list these 10 permanently banned channels from smallest to largest, explaining what they did, beginning with the most unlikable channel in YouTube history called It's Owen. You might recognize the channel from his notoriously terrible intros like this.

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video And subscribe right now of this spider AC your ear whilst you're asleep tonight always placed after Shameless clickbait like Charlie demilio is dying today on top of this on relentlessly click baited fake Mr Beast scenarios however after technoblade's passing on

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Video: "And subscribe right now." Of this spider AC your ear whilst you're asleep tonight. Always placed after shameless clickbait like "Charli D'Amelio is dying today." On top of this, he relentlessly clickbaited fake MrBeast scenarios. However, after Technoblade's passing on the 30th of June 2022, It's Owen took his scumbaggery to a point of no return. He uploaded a video titled "MrBeast final goodbye to Technoblade," with the introduction stating this: "This is MrBeast's final goodbye to Technoblade and the last time playing Minecraft together." Although the video showed nothing more than Technoblade playing Minecraft and a completely fabricated MrBeast tweet, the video received over 800,000 views in under 24 hours, yet with a top comment reading, "The amount of disrespect this guy has is unlike anything I've ever seen before. Complete and utter shame."

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time playing Minecraft together although the video showed nothing more than technoblade playing Minecraft and a completely fabricated Mr Beast tweet the video received over 800,000 views in under 24 hours yet with a top comment reading the amount of disrespect this

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He was about to face some serious backlash. Just awful garbage. I have more respect for stains in a gas station urinal than I do for Owen. YouTubers clickbaiting Technoblade's death for views has made me lose all faith in humanity. It's just so messed up.

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baiting technoblades death for views has made me lose all faith in humanity it's just so messed up which is followed by another tweet from Owen himself at Team YouTube my YouTube channel with 3.5 million Subs just got terminated please

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Which is followed by another tweet from Owen himself: "At Team YouTube, my YouTube channel with 3.5 million subs just got terminated. Please help me get it back. I'm so depressed right now. I don't know what to do." After YouTube then responded, Owen doubled down by stating, "I never received any Community Guidelines strikes, so I didn't know what I was doing was violating the guidelines. If I received just one strike, that would have been enough for me to realize what I did was wrong. Please give me another chance. I'm so depressed right now. It's my only income."

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guidelines if I received just one strike that would have been enough for me to realize what I did was wrong please give me another chance I'm so depressed right now it's my only income Owen then made another two tweets displaying how

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Owen then made another two tweets displaying how desperately he wanted his account back, although Team YouTube concluded their thread by stating, "Update: We've reviewed your account and confirmed that your channel was correctly suspended due to explicit content. Note that you will not be able to access or create any other YouTube accounts."

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YouTube accounts although while everybody was happy to witness Owen's ban Steve will Do's termination was a bit more controversial Steve had always been on YouTube's radar for his unconventional style of content eating challenges prank videos and beginning in

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Although while everybody was happy to witness Owen's ban, SteveWillDo's termination was a bit more controversial. Steve had always been on YouTube's radar for his unconventional style of content: eating challenges, prank videos, and beginning in 2021, sponsored gambling uploads for which he was being paid more than a million dollars a month. It's therefore no surprise that Steve leaned into this type of content, even picking up a sponsorship from Stake, until he made one simple error, undoing everything that he'd worked for.

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error undoing everything that he'd worked for YouTube has an extremely strange rule where you're allowed to say the name of any gambling website but you can't show the URL of the website with the dotom included well in June 2022

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YouTube has an extremely strange rule where you're allowed to say the name of any gambling website, but you can't show the URL of the website with the dot-com included. Well, in June 2022, Steve uploaded a gambling video like any other, although the URL had been left in as his editor forgot to blur it. Despite Steve having no strikes on any of his channels, YouTube made the choice to permanently delete all of them.

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allowed to say I'm playing the website but they would go to deleting my entire main Channel because on my second Channel it wasn't fully blurred after which stve said this they called me the day of deletion and it was a girl she

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"I'm allowed to say I'm playing the website, but they would go to deleting my entire main channel because on my second channel it wasn't fully blurred," after which Steve said this: "They called me the day of deletion, and it was a girl. She seemed pretty stoked I was getting deleted, and I was like, seemed happy, and I was like, I was with me and my editor, and we're like, bro, like she's happy."

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about filming with him they basically said like your Channel's going to be deleted if Steve's in your videos which might be harsher treatment than that given to Leafy between 2013 and 2016 Le built a reputation for uploading edgy

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As a result, the Nek Boys were warned about filming with him. They basically said, "Your channel's going to be deleted if Steve's in your videos," which might be harsher treatment than that given to Leafy.

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criticism 80% of Pokémon man streams is just her watching videos adding actually nothing to what she's watching whatsoever however he'd then go on to upload 12 different videos click baiting Pokémon in the tit tit and thumbnail while talking about unrelated topics in

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Between 2013 and 2016, Leafy built a reputation for uploading edgy content, which flowed well with YouTube zeitgeist at the time. However, between 2017 and 2020, Leafy went on hiatus before returning with a pretty controversial approach. He'd uploaded a video titled "Content Nuke Pokémon Man," in which he'd offer pretty reasonable criticism: "80% of Pokémon Man streams is just her watching videos, adding actually nothing to what she's watching whatsoever."

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PRI strikes on his channel leafy woke up to a permanent ban for creating content designed to harass bully or threaten he take a Twitter stating morning at Team YouTube my channel was suspended yesterday curious if there's anything I

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However, he'd then go on to upload 12 different videos clickbaiting Pokémon Man in the title and thumbnail while talking about unrelated topics in the video itself, such as finance and investing. Of his last 15 videos, 12 of them were on Pokémon Man. Having 12 videos all insulting Pokémon Man in the title and thumbnail is viewed as harassment by YouTube.

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is what else is there need like there's nothing else needed to be said Pokémon took to Twitter stating I know I'm going to get asked this so I'd like to clarify I had nothing to do with leafy's ban

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Despite having no prior strikes on his channel, Leafy woke up to a permanent ban for creating content designed to harass, bully, or threaten. He took to Twitter stating, "Morning at Team YouTube, my channel was suspended yesterday. Curious if there's anything I could do to get it reinstated or if there's any statement on this you could give on this."

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less than 5 months and with YouTube launching their own shorts program kby started posting across the two platforms his notoriously funny skits exploded on YouTube as they had on Tik Tok giving him over 800 million views and 2 million

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However, despite his tweet, Leafy seemed pretty unconcerned about having his channel deleted. "If I am going to be banned, like so be it. The website is what else is there? Need like, there's nothing else needed to be said."

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million subscribers he was then banned permanently why well you see this wasn't actually kby Lamy it was an impersonator who was simply reposting his content to YouTube he'd gained 2.4 billion views before YouTube ever realized and this wasn't the only account doing it only 5

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Pokémon took to Twitter stating, "I know I'm going to get asked this, so I'd like to clarify I had nothing to do with Leafy's ban," before adding, "Don't want my silence to leave room for assumptions. Leafy's ban was bound to happen eventually."

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his own official Channel which remains very much active unlike jstation his termination began with a video titled my girlfriend Alexia died Rest in paradise in which he'd stay The Following last night we lost Alexia to a drug driver

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However, someone whose termination was a little more surprising was that of Kabilami. He gained 100 million TikTok followers in less than five months, and with YouTube launching their own Shorts program, Kby started posting across the two platforms. His notoriously funny skits exploded on YouTube as they had on TikTok, giving him over 800 million views and 2 million subscribers during his very first month on the platform.

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video visiting the spot where it supposedly happened it's okay man everything's going to be okay however only 3 Days Later jstation began using his girlfriend's death to gain extra engagement as you guys know my girlfriend Alexia just passed away in a

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This was then followed by another 800 million views in the next month, and after only four months of uploading to YouTube, Kabilami had racked up 2.4 billion views and 5.2 million subscribers. He was then banned permanently. Why? Well, you see, this wasn't actually Kby Lamy. It was an impersonator who was simply reposting his content to YouTube. He'd gained 2.4 billion views before YouTube ever realized.

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no I don't have anything by that name on the system Nobody by that name specifically has suffered any form of death right no as a result of the video Alexia came forward confirming that she hadn't actually died Jay faked my death

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And this wasn't the only account doing it. Only five days beforehand, YouTube had banned another Kabilami impersonator with 4.84 million subscribers, after which YouTube found a third impersonator who'd gained over 100 million views in a matter of days before they were also banned.

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don't know why despite having posted years worth of unsavory content it seemed faking his girlfriend death was a step too far as YouTube would permanently delete J station's channel on the 12th of March 2021 J station responded by stating I didn't even do

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As a result, Kabilami began uploading content to his own official channel, which remains very much active.

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drawn by Seven Super Girls the channel began in 2008 and featured seven girls for the seven days of the week that upload everything from skits today in the lives amassing over 5.6 billion views by 2018 when the channel took a

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Unlike JStation, his termination began with a video titled "My girlfriend Alexia died. Rest in paradise," in which he'd say the following: "Last night we lost Alexia to a drug driver. Guys, she was on the way to pick up something for our video we were making on our second channel, Dream Team. She got it."

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wasn't only sentenced to 3 months in prison but was also legally banned from working on YouTube as a result Seven Supergirls was terminated on the 12th of March 2019 at the time being the most subscribed Channel ever to receive a

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Guys, as mentioned, JStation's girlfriend had apparently died in a car crash, prompting him to upload another video visiting the spot where it supposedly happened. "It's okay, man. Everything's going to be okay."

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videos spoken in English before copying the thumbnail in its entirety adding their own Watermark and uploading it to Indonesian YouTube where the original Creator had no no way of finding it however all of this changed in November 2019 when British YouTuber JT posted his

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However, only three days later, JStation began using his girlfriend's death to gain extra engagement. "As you guys know, my girlfriend Alexia just passed away in a tragic accident. Guys, we're doing the Ouija board challenge on my dead girlfriend. Let's smash the like button right now. Guys, one like equals one prayer for Alexia. Guys, rest in peace."

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as theirs this YouTuber has stolen my thumbnail stolen all the information from my video they literally watched my video and took everything they took the screenshots they gave me no credit for my own M this guy has literally just

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Prompting some ordinary gamers to investigate if she'd even died at all. "No, no, I don't have anything by that name on the system. Nobody by that name specifically has suffered any form of death, right?"

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contact us at this email he did this because he knows he's stealing content leading the Indonesian media to talk about K's unethical practices a YouTube account from an Indonesian with more than 12 million subscribers has been accused of stealing other people's

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No. As a result of the video, Alexia came forward confirming that she hadn't actually died. "Jay faked my death. I felt sick to my stomach from the minute that he posted it," before going on to add that the couple had since broken up. "Like the times he was mean to me, it's just like he was so mean, and I just don't know why."

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apologized to the YouTube channel JT for using ideas thumbnails and video prototyping without permission before posting a second tweet reading thank you for all your Corrections hopefully the things that have happened will truly become a lesson for us to not make any

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Despite having posted years' worth of unsavory content, it seemed faking his girlfriend's death was a...

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material the user posted he was a fraud he deserved it you steal content you pay the price that's just how it is although Indonesia wasn't the only country to lose their most subscribed Channel as turkey's biggest was also banned at

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around the same time the channel began with two kids in their father Muhammed focusing on children's content before they'd find themselves involved in elsagate elate was the nickname for a 2016 genre of content where YouTubers took kid-friendly characters like

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Spider-Man and Elsa and mix them with very unsavory themes inappropriate videos have infiltrated YouTube kids often showing popular children's characters in violent and even sexual scenarios the motive behind the videos was pretty damn obvious here's one from 1 month ago 117 million views although

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with so many people watching parents began to talk about it there is a terrifying new trend in middle schoolers that I need to tell you about prompting advertisers to pull their ads from the site we are shocked and appalled to see

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that our adverts have appeared alongside such exploitive and inappropriate content said of marburg's person in a statement we've taken the decision to immediately suspend all our online advertising on YouTube and Google globally therefore forcing YouTube to take a stance against these sketchy

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videos only 4 days after Mars and Adidas pulled their ads YouTube you removed over 150,000 elsagate videos turned off comments on more than 625,000 videos and terminated more than 270 accounts one of which being turkey's biggest Channel with over 15 million Subs although no

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termination is Stranger Than That of Minaj paraha the channel was included amongst hundreds of banned multi-million subscriber Indian shorts channels who all employed the exact same strategy they'd find Western videos that had been successful in English cut them down into

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shorts and provide a Hindi voice voice over essentially re-uploading other people's content with their language being the only difference in an article discussing these channels one owner stated I would pick any video and do a voice over I realized that if we do

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voiceovers in a short story then we're bound to get views so I just stuck to that although this wasn't the end of the article over the past few months he claims eight such fact channels have been banned the rate at which YouTube

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grew their channels it's also taking them away at the same rate many of these fact channels add voiceovers to content belonging to other creators and that it's important for creators to only upload videos that they have made or are

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authorized to use the biggest of these channels Minaj paraha was able to gain 20 million subscribers in just over a year before YouTube also smashed it with the banhammer however even then Super JoJo Nursery rymes was banned with even

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more Super JoJo caught copying Coco melon this Reddit post referenced to cartoon Brew article reading super JoJo shamelessly free rides on Coco melon success by closely cop and exploiting every possible element of the Coco melon Channel sometimes even frame by frame

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which was displayed in the previously mentioned Reddit post where user Billy Disney showed just how badly the copying really was as a result in August 2021 Coco melon launched a lawsuit against super JoJo claiming that the defendant has built its super JoJo Youtube

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business by blatantly copying Coco melon one month after this a new article is published reading YouTube terminates Coco melon rival super JoJo Channel with 22 million subscribers citing that they had received multiple third-party claims of copyright infringement super JoJo's

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ban lasted for 2 months before the channel was then restored however this wasn't the end of the story The Channel's growth took a nose dive following their return to YouTube and in July 2023 a jury has decided that baby

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bus committed copyright infringement with its animated series super Jojo and as a result they were ordered to pay Coco melon 23.5 million in that very same month super JoJo wiped their Channel clean deleting everything down to their profile picture so while the

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channel is still technically active super JoJo could easily be considered the largest YouTube channel that's permanently banned

Topics:YouTube banspermanently banned YouTubersIt's OwenSteveWillDoLeafyKby LamyYouTube community guidelinesclickbaitharassment on YouTubecopyright infringement

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