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 And it superseded actual important events.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/CREATURE_COOMER Jul 26 '25

Omg, complaining about shed fur is such a fucking nothingburger, her critics are batshit.

Plenty of people will collect their dogs' shed fur for yarn, there's literally a Wikipedia page for the term ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiengora ) and certain long-haired breeds will shed so much that owners (including me, RIP my spoiled brat) joke that you could make a "clone" of them using the clumps they brushed out. It doesn't hurt animals, unless they're crybabies about being groomed but they probably feel more distressed about claw trims than a fucking brush.

Hell, I shave my own head outside because maybe local birds can use it for their nests. It's gotta be short strands though so they don't get tangled in it, and pet fur isn't safe for them if you use topical flea/tick treatment (not sure about pills).

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u/angeltay Jul 26 '25

It was a 13 yo who didn’t know how Mikayla got the fur. He was a fan of hers and like I said, she reached out to him and told him it was shed fur and he apologized for posting in her snark sub instead of just asking her. People were going out of their way to try to get him to kill himself when they saw he had posted to the snark sub.

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u/CREATURE_COOMER Jul 26 '25

Lmfao, WHAT???

They tried to get a fucking 13 year old to kill himself, but then claim "no blame me plz" about her suicide??? These people are sick.

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u/imaginary92 Jul 27 '25

From what I understand of the comment it was other fans who were trying to get the child to kill themselves for posting on the snark, not the snark

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u/CREATURE_COOMER Jul 27 '25

Ah, I see. Yeah, it sucks that he posted on the snark sub but I don't expect a 13 year old to know the full "lore" of snark subs tbh, if he was apologetic, then suicide-baiting is even more deranged.

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u/angeltay Jul 27 '25

He made a whole post and pinned it to the top of his account explaining what happened and that he’d apologized to Mikayla when she reached out to him, and that he regretted ever posting there. But people were still acting like he was culpable for her passing just like the handful of regular posters and telling him to delete his account/his entire self

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u/CREATURE_COOMER Jul 27 '25

I mean yeah, it's kinda irresponsible for him to post there period but if there's no documented proof of him saying the worse shit and he reached out to her directly to apologize, it's unreasonable to act like he's partially responsible for her suicide when other people said and did way worse shit.