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Reckless Ben free to post Bricks & Minifigs Part 3 after federal court modifies restraining order

Reckless Ben free to post Bricks & Minifigs Part 3 after federal court modifies restraining order

Ben previously said Part 3 of his investigation was finished, but that he could not post it because of a temporary restraining order in the lawsuit filed by BAM Franchising and other plaintiffs.

The case was later moved from Utah state court to federal court. Now, a federal judge has granted the parties’ joint motion to modify the restraining order and enter a narrower preliminary injunction.

The new order still blocks things like threats, doxxing, trespassing, impersonation, interference with stores, soliciting leaks, and staged confrontations. However, it specifically says the defendants are not prohibited from discussing the plaintiffs, commenting on the lawsuit, publishing court filings, engaging in investigative journalism, or posting opinions, criticism, satire, and commentary on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, podcasts, and other platforms.

That means the broad speech restriction Ben previously cited appears to be gone, and Part 3 is no longer blocked by the order. This seems to be the clearest sign yet that Ben can post again.

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u/Significant_Food9017 — 5 hours ago

Fun fact YouTuber Allen Tsai deletes all videos and starts journey for love

Allen Tsai is a YouTuber that got big for his movie fact YouTube shorts and is known for the phrase “Tony always learns from his mistakes”. Recently he removed all of his fact videos and decided to start a new journey to find his wife which he will document on his channel. He states that it’s because he worries that he will die alone and that all of him friends are married. I hope he finds love in the future.

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u/Chapple69 — 7 hours ago

Jidion responds to outburst that led to his arrest

If you don’t know, Jidion and his teen posses were recently arrested for trying to harass someone they thought was a predator (https://youtu.be/VqcDsA7P6Ho), the body cam footage shows Jidion making a complete fool of himself to the point that fellow pred catcher skeeter Jean (https://youtube.com/@therealskeeterjean) wanted nothing to do with any of it and left after he talked to police (I would’ve done the same if I was in that situation).

A few hours ago he uploaded a response video to the incident where he is getting clowned on in the comment section, mainly for how many times he says genuinely in the video (28 times according to 1 comment).

This response just makes him look more entitled than he was in the bodycam footage and it just feels like it was made because his lawyers told him too.

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u/Chapple69 — 1 day ago
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YouTuber reacting to AI channel that copypasted an AI head onto an AI clone of himself in his clothes on a clone of his old set is so creepy

That Bad Guitar Podcast noticed an AI slop channel called "Guitar Games with Chase" had cloned youtuber Rhett Shull and using his body, his clothing, his old set plus his style of content used AI to generate videos.

Replacing his head with what I can only assume is the head of another youtuber isn't the worst (although it is viscerally uncomfortable and disgusting to see), they're also using his work to talk shit about guitar brands in ways that would have him in court if he said them and may if any of the companies start pursuing claims against the slop channel because the channel is so clearly his channel with a different face.

YouTube letting this channel stay up is such an insult to anyone who watches YouTube, to creators and to any advertisers who pay YouTube money because their brand could now be associated not just with plagiarism and IP/copyright infringement but identify theft and worse, uncanny valley AI slop farms.

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u/HannahAnthonia — 1 day ago

OtterlyNoah/Noahdivergence tried extorting a disabled fan out of $100

Last time on OtterlyNoah, he removed his accountability video for a second time until he got pressured to put it back up.

There’s a short video about it here, and you can find updates after the video here.

So a few days ago, DMs came out that OtterlyNoah (now rebranded to Noahdivergence) tried to extort a fan named Jeff Piatt out of $100 to get back into Noah’s discord server. Noah “needed” this money to go to a TooManyGames panel about autism in gaming. As if this wasn’t bad enough, Jeff and his dad are on disability, with Jeff’s dad controlling his son’s finances since Jeff struggles with reckless spending.

After this gets out into the public, Noah pressures Jeff into posting a public “the beef has been squashed” message while Noah does the same in his Discord community.

Ultimately, Noah was pressured by his community refunding games and memberships Jeff gave him (I’m not sure if Noah got the initial $100).

u/Im-A-Moose-Man — 3 days ago
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Thomas Brag from Yes Theory controversy (?)

I’ve seen some comments from folks on this post from Thomas Brag talking about the game yesterday between France and Paraguay (I’ve attached the screenshot that’s now been deleted from his account for context). What do you guys think?

u/enchante42 — 2 days ago

I suspect this “deceased animal disposal” account is guilty of foul play.

I recently came across this channel under the username @danielamunoz-m3s that posts graphic videos discovering or disposing of deceased and severely injured animals. I understand that this is likely a legitimate service provided in urban areas but the whole account seems very sketchy. The only reason I could think of for the videos being allowed on YouTube is that they could be considered “educational content”. Plenty of commenters, Chinese and English-speaking alike, have called out that these animals look very newly deceased and suspect the man behind the account is deliberately harming and/or killing these animals. To give him benefit of the doubt, these corpses could have just be recently reported so he’d be able to get to them quickly after their death. Another thing people have pointed out is he reuses the same burial clip at the end of many of dead animal disposal videos. I can’t find a good reason for why he would do this unless he didn’t feel like filming their burial or he just wasn’t properly disposing the bodies. Either way, it’s very odd. He does have an alarming number of videos for an account started on January 25, 2026. I wouldn’t be surprised if he had a previous channel that was deleted and he transferred that content to the current one. I already reported the account, and I’d like to see what you all think of this channel.

u/KingRepresentative17 — 4 days ago

Despite this being discussed frequently, this should REALLY be addressed in a larger form than just simple posts.

I am talking about MrBeast’s method of youtube content. Throughout his recent videos, he intentionally milks peoples real life problems, tragedies and financial ruin for views and money for himself, while giving nothing to these people. Before in his early videos, he gave money to random people and always gave a participation reward to loser contestants, but nowadays, he instead eats their money and time, chews away their problems for views, and spits them out in a mush of depression and less money than before.

It is absolutely despicable for Jimmy to do this and shows a complete disregard for human life and empathy, something that causes many people, like criminals to lose their own rights to their own life and liberty in due process of law.

As the 250th anniversary of our ambition to preserve these inalienable rights comes around the corner, I can't help but question if these Americans truly ideal the rights of all people. If they submit to practicing these inhumane ideals

u/Old_Diver_2511 — 4 days ago

Multiple Youtube Channels, lead including Celtic Phoenix and Judgmental Critter, basically make it a habit of harassing smaller youtube channels like Xel Writer. And whatever videos that Xel Writer makes, Celtic Phoenix and his friends make videos on their channels insulting him.

The first image is going to be the highlight, but we're going to get to that again in a little bit

For context: Kaiser Shounen and Raymond McNeil, Judgmental Critter and nakegotwilight banded together around 2023, shortly after the web animation show RWBY became recognized online for having canon main characters be a lesbian couple. They started making youtube videos attacking the show and accusing it of "pandering and queerbaiting"

Raymond McNeil, the leader of the 4 youtubers, originally started as a Madoka Magicka Rape Fanfic writer before trying to gather a number of RWBY Haters to make a RWBY Rewrite where they claimed to "Fix" everything about RWBY by removing everything "Woke" in it. In case you want to know which fixit fanfic it is? Its the one with the demi-human heat cycles.

Prior to that, they individually made rant videos that were grifter material.

As you can see by image 2

that video was 1 year ago, 2025. The show being critiqued, RWBY, went on hiatus in 2023, after its 9th season in which a lesbian ship became canon. The Scene being complained about happened around 2018, its 5th season. So Judgmental Critter basically earns her views nitpicking about media events that happened years ago, but because she has such a large following, it clogs up search and algorithms.

Please see images 3-4, in which Not only does the youtubers admit to illegally pirating a show,

But images 5-12,

They have also shown to have a hatred of both the show and the fandom that they claim to be a fan of, portraying themselves as victims, and accusing anyone disagreeing with them of being a bigot. With their large following who obey whatever they say, its hard to hold onto critical thinking due to people's embrace of their influencer.

Page 9? The "Did they not pay their mont's rent" was basically these youtubers harassing a young girl and her friend for saying that they were watching RWBY Together.

Page 10....comparing a lesbian ship to a TERRORIST ATTACK.

A Muslim RWBY Fan called FMF out on Twitter for this insensitivity and homophobia, and the poor dude was cybebullied for not finding "Dark humor" funny.

Now, normally, that shouldn't be a problem. Let them be, leave them alone and they won't bother you either, right? However, they often go after anyone who disagrees with their views. This even includes harassing staff who work on shows.

Please see Images 13-14.

Where Critter harasses a TRANS Animator. Despite literally harassing Arryn Troche and her followers, Critter remained in good standing with the RWBY Fandom and many people still support her and the rest of her team even as they continue to harass the writers and fans.

Now, ordinarily, these people would have been ex-communicated from the fandom.

Unfortunately, there is a strong centrist defending THEM.

Calxiyn.

Please see images 15-17

Considered one of the more powerful influencers in the RWBY fandom, her centrist views lead her to defend any and all of the activities mentioned prior in the name of "valid criticism" while shutting down all criticism of them and her by accusing her critics of "toxic positivity"

However at the same time, she considers herself allowed to criticize and harass anyone who disagrees with her, often smearing them with false accusations.

This has led to a girl on social media, Lilith Fairen, deleting all of her info after Calxiyn smeared Lilith, a liberal, as a far-right conservative.

It is very difficult to be part of a fandom on Twitter when your words can be twisted against you and people will believe NOT the truth, but only the most popular person in the room, regardless of who is right or wrong

Now, back to image 1.

Xel Writer is a progressive youtuber who defends progressive media. He's a SMALL youtuber. Barely 1,000 subscribers to the tens of thousands that the others have. He does not engage with any other youtuber channels, he simply makes his own content.

But...his content is the opposite of grifter material, its positivity. It involves defending shows like RWBY, Hazbin Hotel, Legend of Korra, and TADC.

As a result, positivity is considered "toxic" by individuals who spend their time online hating on any media with the slightest trace of "woke" to it.

And as a result, Celtic Phoenix and his group have made youtube videos harassing Xel Writer. When he so much as breathes or says anything.

Please observe images 18-20.

Not only their group channel, but affiliated channels join in on harassing Xel Writer for his positivity , feminism, pro-lgbt, and pro-POC videos.

And one of them is the very Controversial Youtuber Sai Scribbles, which I believe a number of people in this subreddit are apparently familiar with?

When the very concept of positivity is met with overwhelming toxicity by larger youtuber channels and small youtube channels are targeted by larger ones...

How can Youtube be considered a safe place or acceptable place for people to have discussions or opinions?

u/Important-Cry4782 — 4 days ago
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So he was in a MrBeast Video

Jacks react Video

Not a regular viewer, just watched a few Vids from Jack here and there but: what the fuck?

My problem is not really about MrBeast or exactly that he participated in a Video from him, but about the other contestants and how he handled them, especially regarding him criticizing a lot of them in the past.

For anyone not hearing about it, he was in a MrBeast Video with a lot of old Youtubers, including, amongst a lot of other people, Ricegum, Roman Atwood, Ali A, FouseyTube and FaZe Rug

In my opinion there's just some people you should never be in a room with, let alone collabing with them. The moment he saw these names he should have had the decency to just walk out and go, no matter the cost just to set a sign.

But okay, he didn't know beforehand and couldn't just go, okay. But his reaction to some of them genuinely disgusted me. At least from what he said in the react Video.

He went on to shake Atwoods hand and gave a false name because he was scared because he called him out some time in the past? Fuck, nothing could make me touch that human piece of trash. And giving a false name because you are scared for rightfully calling him out? What a way to stand up for your believes.

And he furthermore says his problem was not that he now collabed with him or Ali A or anyone else of these people but that he criticized them in the past and now didnt want to be a dick or have a confrontation. His problem was not that he was filming a video with some of the worst people on YouTube but that he was scared they could talk to him about his rightful criticism. Thats so disgusting.

He says he thinks all of this was bizarre?

Well, dont fucking participate.

He's always clowning on and crizising all of these people but now is himself a part of it and giving them attention. He made himself a part of the problem.

Sorry but that kind of narcissism genuinely disgusts me. Couldn't look myself in the mirror after that.

u/wripi — 3 days ago

Am I missing something?

So a reel came up on my instagram Fyp and it was Gus Johnson. It caught me by surprise because I thought he basically left the internet behind after it came out that he was neglectful of his pregnant girlfriend at the time. What suprised me even more is that he has mostly postive comments on his videos. Did the situation end up getting resolved properly or is he trying to sweep it under the rug and pretend he's still a popular internet comedian? I would really like to know.

u/glizzygladiator_1 — 5 days ago

Jacob Alpharad (3.86M subscribers) seemingly deletes all channels

I happened to be watching one of his videos when I suddenly got a “this channel does not exists” screen from YouTube. Went to check and his main VOD, and stream highlight channels all give the same message. Don’t see any update about this from his social media. I’m not sure what the cause of this is but as someone who’s been watching his videos almost since he started I hope that he’s doing fine

Edit: after about 15 minutes all channels are back up. Not sure what happened

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u/loganah76 — 5 days ago

Any Other OG Gabbie Hanna Viewers Here? Was she always like this all along?

I am certain that she has some serious issues. to me it seems she is seriously narcissistic, abusive, vindictive and manipulative. I also think she comes across like someone who has lost herself completely to the ’LA bubble’, just out of touch with the real world and completely sucked in to the clout chasing, reputation ruining toxicity. I do personally believe she also has some serious mental health issues - I know some people think she was faking but as someone who has worked with people in psychosis and experiencing psychotic breaks, to me they seemed very convincing, even down to the tiny details (THATS NOT TO SAY IM EXCUSING HER ABHORRENT BEHAVIOUR).

im just interested in how long people who watched her old content think she has been like this? was there a turning point or was it always there? I remember watching her old story time videos back in the day and it’s understandable to look back at some of those now with a raised eyebrow and wonder if the real story is she was always the problem. but she seemed so different back then. I remember her addressing the fact she had so many ‘psycho roommate‘ stories back then as saying she’s had a lot of living situations where she’s had to move places for work at short notice and quickly find somewhere cheap to live, which explains why her living situations are less than ideal. And as far as I can remember, many of her story times were not so outlandish that they were unbelievable (I’ve had some nightmare roommate situations so can relate). So was she like this even then? Were her stories her manipulating and lying? Or did she change?

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u/No_Dream5460 — 5 days ago
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YouTube Copyright Strikes Being Used As A Weapon

There's a loophole in the copyright system that is being absolutely abused against me and I am unsure how to proceed here. Long story short, I used to make videos for a korean game (mmorpg) and have been critical regarding some of the predatory practices. For context this company netted around $30m USD last year in sales, they aren't small by any means.

The CEO got personally offended by my videos and started sending copyright strikes. At first it was on videos that have game footage and by the time I got a second strike I wiped/deleted all my videos that had any game footage and only kept the ones that strictly have my face and nothing else.

Eventually they copyright striked videos of just my face for even mentioning their name/game which I sent a counter notification for. I had to basically dox myself by sending them my address, identity, etc in order to send this counter strike. They now had 10 days to file a legal claim against me in my Jurisdiction (Canada), in order enforce the deletion of my channel. Of course, they didn't and their ability to copyright strike me should've just ended there...

So now I am strictly making videos of just my face, not mentioning their game, their company name, nothing. They made a new youtube account under a new email and copyright striked my videos again claiming I am using their content in my entire video. This is problematic because anytime I upload a video they strike it and it gets taken down for 10 days and each time I've having to doxx myself to appeal.

YouTube has 0 verification in actually reviewing whether the footage/transcript even contains a single pixel or word mentioning the game or their company name. I'm basically in this loop now until they stop striking, or I let youtube delete my channel or they file a lawsuit against me...

Full video (Probably will get striked soon too): https://youtu.be/w7RWr-2xCIg

u/Careful_Put_1924 — 4 days ago

YouTuber Jideon Gets Trespassed, Goes On A Rant To Police And Then Gets Arrested By Police

Jidion is a predator catcher YouTuber yet always blames police when something goes wrong instead of owning up to his mistakes and in this bodycam video he shows his true colors.

In response Jidion has been on damage control and has been saying that he was falsely arrested. Even though the police were very patient and gave him many chances to leave.

His friend during this event Skeeter Jean another predator YouTuber, even left and stayed out of this before things went sour.

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u/Kind_Box5467 — 4 days ago

sometimes i think how shoe0nhead made me fall into a alt-right pipeline and i'm glad i'm out of that pipeline.

I used to watch shoe0nhead and i'm glad im not in the spaces that sh0e had harbored. I think it was obvious that she used words that entitled me to the alt-right and was a woman so i didn't know that she was a n*zi until i actually relooked through her content and realized yep. that is a nazi.

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u/Select_Awareness8583 — 8 days ago

Are you shitting me. Star Giant Productions' Den of Snakes

What the fuck is going on this is like the 3rd time he's done a video on this trans guy. What has he done now

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u/Jay-Wagner — 5 days ago
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ColdFusion (Dagogo Altraide) forced to upload a legal retraction and apology video regarding Builder.ai / Sachin Dev Duggal

Back in July 2025, ColdFusion (Dagogo Altraide) dropped a video breaking down the collapse of the tech startup Builder.ai and its founder, Sachin Dev Duggal. The company was heavily scrutinized by The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg for "AI washing" or allegedly using a massive network of human devs in India while marketing it as a magic AI tool, alongside major financial scandals that eventually pushed them into insolvency.

Apparently his video flew too close to the sun, as he just uploaded a 1 minute short titled "statement". It has zero editing, no background music, and is just Dagogo looking miserable while reading a scripted legal retraction verbatim. He retracts the original video, admits it was "misleading, incorrect, and unfair," and asks anyone who re-uploaded clips to take them down.

Not sure if Apology is the best flair but it seemed to fit.

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u/100100wayt — 7 days ago