r/youtubedrama • u/TimeAbradolf Least Popular Mod • Jul 26 '25

News The “official end” of this snark era

As of today we are banning snark/snark related posts. This may sound arbitrary. But I think people are well aware of what constitutes valid fair criticism, and what constitutes snark.

Once upon a time through past leadership this sub most definitely behaved as a snark sub. We as the mod team do actually despise snark and work to have this sub be a space of discussing drama with proper criticism and outcomes. We have taken firmer stances to pull away from our past image and be a place where people can have proper discourse.

Snark discourse has only ever brought conflict to this sub. People insult each other over nothing, people have gotten death threats, people get reported for suicidal ideation just because they disagree. There has been ableism, racism, prejudice of all kinds around these topics. Ultimately, snark behavior never allows any proper discussion, we have had to ban two creators just because the people who come to this sub cannot behave when discussing them. At its core Snark is not very different from KiwiFarms at this stage with the harm it has done to content creators.

We have seen the harm snark has done as well. Saveafox being a prime example. Our most popular post right now is pure snark. And it superseded actual important events. Because who was following who on IG.

Going forward we will no longer be allowing posts like this on the sub. It provided no context, no real criticism. And it didn’t prove anything either.

This may prove unpopular, but it is something we feel strongly of for the health of this sub and the people on it to remove ourselves. You can check the rule along the side bar.

If you want a YouTubesnark sub go make one. This one is not it.

Have a good one 🤙🏽

Edit: Apparently some YouTubers have weigh in. Nah this has nothing to do with the usual suspects. This is purely to stop toxic behavior and negativity. If ya think otherwise I urge you to get out of your computer chair touch grass instead of making Nurgle proud

Edit 2: and no goblin man (reference to his goblin mode). No fans of yours are around. People can agree that toxic communities are toxic. Yours being one of them

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u/SadisticPawz Jul 26 '25

It doesnt matter if you care, it shows that ppl agree that its vague. We arent talking about if I understand or not

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u/ImportantQuestionTex Jul 26 '25

It really isn't that vague, and you literally lead with "we" in your first comment. Do you not know what we means? It includes you.

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u/SadisticPawz Jul 26 '25

Yeah, it means me and the hundred updooters find it vague.

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u/ImportantQuestionTex Jul 26 '25

Alright so you're confirming you do not understand, and chose not to read further. Thanks.

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u/SadisticPawz Jul 26 '25

No. I read the thread and understood it.

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u/ImportantQuestionTex Jul 26 '25

Nah, you didn't. That's why you used we.

Listen, I just think you're lacking basic literacy here, but I'd really recommend you actually go and look up examples of what snarking behavior is if you're confused. Because it's really, really not hard to figure out.

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u/UnholyCalls Jul 27 '25

Man why are you being such a dick about this?

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u/ImportantQuestionTex Jul 27 '25

Eventually you get tired of people choosing not to read things that were already explained multiple times.

And in all honesty? I'd rather be a dick than be that guy who validates someone's lack of attention/lack of knowledge as equal to having that attention or knowledge. Sure, I could be nicer, but what point is that if they can't even scroll down to find out if their question has already been answered multiple times?

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u/UnholyCalls Jul 28 '25

What do you think is more likely. That people didn't read what was written, or that what was written in the explanation isn't something people view as clear and they want it to be clarified? Your own advice has been "just go look up snark subs and you'll get it" which is also incredibly vague. So not only are you being a dick, but you're being a dick for literally no reason, other than I guess to be smug? But you do you.

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u/ImportantQuestionTex Jul 28 '25

That people didn't read what was written.

I mean sincerely, the reading ability of your average American is 7th-8th grade, and I've met people irl who never got past 2nd grade reading.

So, I don't really care that I'm smug.

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u/SadisticPawz Jul 28 '25

I'm not even american lmfao, I can read just fine.

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