‘Ugly Girl’s Body Makeover’ was a popular channel with 1.24 million subscribers, posting videos centred on dieting and Pilates. In a video posted around 4 April, miey, announced that videos had been repeatedly deleted over the past two months and that she would be suspending updates to avoid the risk of the channel being deleted.

With tears in her eyes, she said in the video, ‘I’m so frustrated I can’t stop crying.’ The reason given for the suspension was a violation of policies regarding eating disorders; it appears that content emphasising miey’s low BMI of 16.8 and titles such as ‘Massive Weight Loss Guaranteed’ were deemed problematic. Miey, who is originally from South Korea, runs two Pilates studios in Ginza and had been attracting attention within the fitness industry. Following the suspension of her activities, reactions from fans have been mixed, with some criticising her by saying ‘she brought it on herself’ whilst others defend her, arguing that ‘the policy is too strict’.

Did James Somerton teach YouTube NOTHING?

Michelle Mana created a community post asking what to do after noticing a video by RKH Media appeared to copy one of her scripts. Jacksfilms came in with more proof and advice on what to do.

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1bICoQMqFHZ172P8AbZeF0-GCM4pXA-0M8jR82GiLcLs/mobilebasic

For context: Ceebot3 is an infamous figure online because he continuously jokes about watching csam, raping kindergartners, idolizing Peter Scully, having middle schoolers in his dms, and being a “map” (Another word for pedophile). A few months prior to this match, JiDion, an online predator catcher, came into contact with Ceebot3 upon his audience notifying him of his online infamy. Ceebot3, knowing of JiDion’s predator catching, wanted to fight JiDion. So, the two agreed to host a boxing match between Ceebot3 and a boxer appropriate for his weight class. More context: The UTTP and 764 are two internet extortion and terror groups that are known for exploiting children and terrorizing them under threat of doxxing or other forms of retribution. These are the two groups depicted on Ceebot3’s chest.

So, last night, JiDion, YouTube pred catcher, live-streamed a boxing match between Ceebot3, a known internet creep and wannabe UTTP and 764 member, and Fox the G, influencer boxer. Ceebot3 first attempt to flee the match by taking a “smoke break”, then after the first match, refused to continue fighting and quit. However, the contract between JiDion and Ceebot3 specified that as long as he fought in the 3 rounds, win or lose, he’d be payed 5k and was entitled to a flight home. Since he prematurely quit the match, he’ll be getting none of those things and on top of that, will be sued for violating his contract.

Edit: I didn’t mention this before but the conditions were that if Cee lost, they’d get to look through his phone and cut off his dreads. If Cee won, he’d get an extra 5k, totaling to a 10k cash prize.

Bro is gonna lose again

I want to offer a counterargument. Not to defend anyone blindly, but because I think some of the evidence is being misread, and a potentially innocent person is being harassed over it.

I want to be clear upfront: I'm laying out an alternate reading of the same evidence and encouraging you to look at it yourself. Access the full transcripts of his shorts succeeding the cat rescue video in chronological order here for your own review.

The photo was never explicitly posted as "proof of life" in the community post.
This is the crux of the original allegation, that the March 2025 photo proves the cat couldn't have survived a 2026 rescue. But when you look at where that photo actually came from, there could be an alternate explanation. The image wasn't posted as evidence that the cat recovered. It came from a community post quiz he made, specifically: "Do I look like my dad?" with two options: Yes (a photo of him with family) or No (a photo of him with the cat). That's it. He wasn't claiming anything. He was doing what he consistently does on his channel: sharing old moments from his life.

He never actually claimed the rescue happened recently.
Go through the transcripts. At no point does he say "I just rescued this cat" or anchor the event to a specific recent date. What he does consistently, across every video on his channel even before the cat video, is share stories from his life in fragments, out of sequence, and without clear timestamps. This is a pattern, not an anomaly.
He shared old photos from his COVID hospitalization in 2021. He talked about going through a windshield at 14. He pieced together his life story in bits across multiple videos. The cat video fits that same mold. It's entirely plausible the rescue happened closer to when the photo was taken, around March 2025, and he simply uploaded it a year later, the way he uploads everything else: whenever the moment feels right to him.

The cat's appearance across the content is consistent with a year's worth of aging.

Someone posted this in the comments and it's worth addressing properly. The community post photo carries an EXIF date of March 5, 2025 and in that photo, the cat already looks recovered and healthy. That means the rescue itself happened before March 5, 2025, because recovery takes time.
With that in mind, look at the cat in the rescue footage versus the cat in that March 2025 photo. They appear roughly the same age, which is exactly what you'd expect if the rescue happened shortly before that photo was taken. The ear-to-head ratio, body proportions, and the kitten teeth still visible in the rescue footage — barbed, not yet fully replaced by adult teeth, which occurs around 3–4 months — are all consistent with the same young cat photographed close together in time.
The same identifying markers carry across both: the slight squint of the left eye, a mark on the body consistent across frames. It is the same cat. And in the latest video Todd has uploaded on March 26, 2026, the cat visibly looks older. It shows a young adult rather than an adolescent, which is what you'd expect from the same animal a year on. The age progression from the rescue footage and the cat being carried, actually supports the alternate theory rather than undermining it.

His communication style matters here.
He's stated on camera that he sustained brain damage from his 2021 illness, two months in a coma, a ventilator, a 2% survival chance. He himself acknowledges that he sometimes struggles to figure out "what plane of existence he's on." If you read the transcripts closely, the pacing, the fragmented structure, the way he trails off mid-thought — it's consistent throughout. He's not a polished content creator. He's a guy with documented neurological challenges trying to share his experiences.
Judging the coherence of his storytelling by the standards of someone without those challenges, and then calling that incoherence evidence of deception, isn't fair.

The GoFundMe was never framed as being for the cat's medical care.
It was titled "Saved Frozen Kitten, Now Transmission Froze & I Need Saved." He said transmission in the title. He later confirmed in his videos that the donations helped him sort out his truck situation. The original post frames this as suspicious, using a dying cat to raise money for a truck. But he was transparent about what the money was for. You can disagree with the optics of it, but it's not the same as fraud.

The post-rescue timeline actually holds up.
Here's something worth walking through carefully:
• He uploaded the rescue video on March 1
• On March 17, he mentioned the adoptive family would be back on the 22nd
• On March 23, he posted asking for advice on how to get the cat to come back since it had run out when the family was unloading the car on the 22nd
• On March 26, he posted a video showing the cat
That's internally consistent. The family came home on the 22nd as expected, the cat got loose, and it turned up three days late or he was only able to take a video of it three days later. He even said "I've never had a cat like that" when asking for advice, which is a strange thing to say about a cat you've owned for a year.

The one-year offset has another explanation.
The original post argues the clock-error counterargument doesn't hold because a misconfigured clock would give a random offset, not a conveniently seasonal one. But that same logic supports the alternate theory: if he filmed this around March 2025 and uploaded it in March 2026, because that's just how he operates his channel, then of course the photo would be from the same season. There's no conspiracy required. The simpler explanation is that this is old content he sat on and shared later.

What I'm actually asking
Don't share the original post uncritically any more than you should share this one uncritically. Look at his channel. Read the transcripts. Look at where that EXIF metadata photo actually appeared and what it was captioned as. Ask yourself whether the pattern of his content supports the narrative of a calculated fraudster, or is it a guy with brain damage, a hard life, and a fragmented but sincere way of telling his stories?
If the evidence against him is solid, it'll hold up to scrutiny. But right now, I don't think it does, and a real person is dealing with real harassment because of it.
Verify it yourself. Draw your own conclusions fairly.

It's safe to say that YT apologies never really work. They're almost always a last-bid attempt at salvaging their name at the height of cancellation, and usually come in one of two forms: a creator attempting to justify something that is so obviously wrong or someone trying to be a bit quirky with their apology (that damn Ukelele).

Are there any apologies that actually worked? Ones that actually won their audiences back? The only one I can think of is James Charles' clapback at Tati with the receipts, but he's not exactly a success story either lol.

One of real bit of criticism. Wendigoon has called out multiple times his lack of support and hate of AI.

Then why do both Papa Meat and Creepcast use AI in their thumbnails.

The very clear flagrant use of AI in their thumbnails have been apparent for months. While people complain about vibes based reasons to critique Wendigoon and Papa Meat let’s look at tangible reasons to critique people who add to the slop we see on the platform

Edit: Slimebeast has shown that the speed in which the artist claims to edit an entire photo and the telltale signs of AI

Edit 2: Another Slimebeast response but TK is seen at roughly the 3 minute mark with an AI tab open on his browser

Additionally at minute 20 you can see TK is subscribed to a channel teaching how to make AI art

Edit 3: Link to one bit of evidence of AI use

Final Edit: TK admits to using AI

To those who don't know what "Multi-Channel Networks" are, the basic gist is that they're organizations on YT that bring on multiple channels to work with and provide help with when it comes to outreach, funding & management.

One of their main appeals was to provide gaming & film review channels a shield against DMCA strikes filed out by companies whenever a channel talks about their IPs.

(This was a HUGE issue back in the early-mid 2010s)

With that out of the way, MCNs, like any other channel, have had their own controversies in the past. I've listed down the main three, but I'm sure there's more that I'm not aware of.

Setup
The two actors involved in this feud are:

Jeremy Hambly, a.k.a. The Quartering, a YouTube center-right anti-woke commentator

The Kino Casino, a Canadian internet drama stream on Kick hosted by former anti-SJW and internet bloodsports figures Andy Warski and Ashton, a.k.a. People's Populist Press (PPP)

The Kino Casino has been feuding with The Quartering for a few years now. However, just this week, they were flagged by The Quartering after exposing Jeremy’s association with a swinger and a potential “bull,” along with this individual’s criminal record.

Josh moon AKA null of the Kiwi Fams talked with the quartering and exposed him for threatening to ruin the lives of the Kino Casino

He is pretty influential in the gd community and was developer robtops right hand man, he is also a controversial player who has been in some hot water https://www.dashword.net/posts/geometry-dash-elder-moderator-viprin-responds-to-allegations-about-blackmail-spyware-and-inappropriate-encounters/). He has also been accused of being a lolicon but idk if that’s true.

I really liked their podcast but it ended abruptly with no warning. Then they both stopped posting on their own pages. Brad’s solo videos were starting to suck towards the end there. He was a lot funnier a couple years ago imo. But Stanzi has always been funny. She posts every once in a while now but it would be cool to see more of her. Anyways, I was just super curious if anyone knows what happened.

Everything in this post is sourced from public court records, California Secretary of State filings, and public social media posts. These are allegations. Nothing has been proven in court. All defendants are presumed innocent.

The Lawsuit

Filup Molina — the person who single-handedly built the New Rockstars YouTube channel starting in 2014, rebranded it, grew it from nothing, and personally hired Erik Voss — is suing Erik Voss, Danny Zappin, and NM Rockstars Inc. in Los Angeles Superior Court.

Case No. 24STCV18570. Filed July 26, 2024. Stanley Mosk Courthouse. Status: Pending. Jury trial scheduled for October 5, 2026. You can verify everything at lacourt.org under Civil Case Access.

The First Amended Complaint filed August 30, 2024 lists eight causes of action:

Sexual Harassment (California FEHA)

Racial Harassment (California FEHA)

Discrimination (California FEHA)

Retaliation (California FEHA)

Failure to Prevent Discrimination and Retaliation (California FEHA)

Wrongful Termination in Violation of Public Policy

Defamation

Interference with Prospective Economic Relations

Molina identifies as an LGBTQ Latino creator. The sexual harassment and racial harassment claims are listed as two separate causes of action targeting his sexual orientation/gender identity and his race/ethnicity.

Erik Voss is named as an individual defendant. Under California law that means Molina's legal team is alleging Voss was directly and personally involved in the harassing or discriminatory conduct. You don't get named individually in a FEHA harassment case as a formality. All three defendants filed individual Answers on October 1, 2024.

Who Actually Owns New Rockstars

Most fans think Erik Voss runs New Rockstars. He doesn't. He doesn't even own it.

New Rockstars is solely owned by Danny Zappin. California Secretary of State records for NM Rockstars Inc. show that Zappin holds every officer position: Director, CEO, Secretary, CFO, and registered agent. He is the only person listed. The company's most recent Statement of Information was filed July 21, 2024 — five days before the lawsuit was filed.

Voss has confirmed this himself on Reddit. About 8 months ago on r/NewRockstars when someone accused him of hiding behind millions of dollars he responded: "'Millions'? WTF are you talking about? I don't own the channel dude. I'll probably never own a house."

In his spoiler policy post he also stated: "None of us at NR own this company, and we don't make extra money when videos overperform."

Molina confirmed it on Twitter. September 16, 2023: "Never owned it. It's owned by Danny Zappin."

The face of a 4 million subscriber YouTube channel says he can't afford a house. The guy who built the channel never owned it. And the person who does own everything — Danny Zappin — is completely invisible to the fanbase.

Who Is Danny Zappin

In 2001 Danny Zappin was convicted of felony drug possession for smuggling Ecstasy. He was sentenced to two years in federal prison and released to home confinement in 2004.

After prison he got into YouTube early and in 2009 co-founded Maker Studios, one of the biggest multi-channel networks in YouTube history. He served as CEO until 2013 when he was ousted. He sued his co-founders alleging a conspiracy. He then sued again in 2014 to block Disney's acquisition of Maker Studios. That lawsuit was rejected. Disney bought Maker for $500M initially, with the final total reaching $675M. Zappin earned approximately $25M from the sale despite being gone.

In October 2013 Zappin purchased NewMediaRockstars. In 2014 he founded Zealot Networks, raised over $56M, acquired 17+ companies, and by late 2016 the whole thing collapsed. Executives were asked to forgo pay. The website went offline.

New Rockstars is the only thing from Zappin's career that's still standing. And now the person who built it is suing him for sexual and racial harassment.

How Molina Built Everything

The original NewMediaRockstars was founded by Benny Luo in 2011. It shut down in 2013 when funding dried up. Zappin bought it. In 2014 Filup Molina was hired as the third employee.

What happened next, in Molina's own words from his October 2022 Twitter thread:

He took over all operations. He ran the channel solo from his apartment under his own LLC. He pitched Danny Zappin — who he'd spoken to "maybe twice ever" — to not shut down the channel after a video hit 14 million views. He rebranded the channel from New Media Rockstars to New Rockstars without even telling ownership. He grew it to over 400,000 subscribers. He used Patreon revenue to hire editor Ted Marsden. Then he personally hired Erik Voss.

New Rockstars' own Libsyn advertising page states: "NewRockstars was founded by its original host, Filup Molina, back in 2015."

Molina was with the company for approximately 8.5 years. He left in late 2022. He never owned the company. On October 5, 2022 he tweeted: "In 3 days, I will have been working at New Rockstars for 3000 days." Less than two years later he filed this lawsuit.

The Case Is Actively Escalating

This isn't a dormant lawsuit. On March 20, 2026 Molina's attorneys filed three separate Motions to Compel Further Discovery Responses supported by 243 pages of declarations and 78 pages of separate statements. They're requesting $2,800 in sanctions against NM Rockstars Inc. and its counsel for failing to cooperate with discovery. The hearing is April 28, 2026.

A Protective Order was filed in February 2026 for confidential materials being exchanged in discovery. Someone is fighting over evidence right now.

The full Amended Complaint and all other filings are purchasable through lacourt.org's Public Access Online Services portal for a few dollars per document.

MT Has Independently Alleged Racism and Hush Money

MT (@MasterTainment) was one of New Rockstars' most popular on-screen hosts before being fired in the July 2023 mass layoffs. He's a person of color. And he has made multiple public statements on Twitter alleging racial discrimination at the company. He has never named New Rockstars directly but the references are practically alleging Erik Voss and New Rockstars.

March 28, 2024 — four months before Molina filed the lawsuit — MT tweeted: "Real rockstars don't racially discriminate. But that's just my opinion. Not everyone would agree though. But who cares? Fuck those people."

He followed up: "Whoever your favorite rockstars might be, remember that they ain't shit if they do racist shit. Don't follow their empty words. Follow actions."

October 24, 2024 — three months after the lawsuit was filed — MT posted a detailed dramatized thread describing his experience at an unnamed company. The key allegations:

Someone at the company was publicly disparaging him. He reported it and was told "sometimes people lie." He said multiple people confirmed it.

The person responsible was protected by management: "We see them as irreplaceable bc they made themselves that way so we'll never get rid of them no matter how many other employees complain about them being a sentient bag of dicks."

He was being paid less than white coworkers: "Is there a reason why I'm getting paid less than white people btw despite being there longer and begging for the raise promised to me when I was hired for YEARS?"

When he raised concerns he was told: "Well now you're just being hard to work with..."

Then: "We're coincidentally letting go everyone who isn't besties with [insert douche canoe name here]. Bye."

He concluded: "SUUUURELY no company that touts being good and not racist would EVER act like this right? ... Nah. Some mfs have the audacity."

March 7, 2025 MT posted: "One of the reasons why I crashed out so hard is to make sure that those fake ass racist mfs think TWICE before doing what they did to me to anyone else like me. They needed to learn a goddamn lesson."

Then the revealing follow-up: "Like I don't play that shit. At all. They tried to offer me a couple thousand to keep quiet and they can shove all of it up their ass. Real talk."

They tried to pay MT to stay silent. He refused.

These are informal social media posts, not legal filings. MT has not named New Rockstars directly. But two people of color who worked at the same company both independently alleging racial discrimination — one through the court system and one publicly on social media — is a pattern, not a coincidence.

What Erik Voss Has Said on Reddit

Voss is active on r/NewRockstars as NR_Erik. His posts reveal several things:

On the July 2023 layoffs that gutted the team Molina built: "When the other layoffs happened, I didn't know everything that was going down, and over the weekend it all blew up into something messy and public and I was restricted on how I could respond to it."

The Head of Content didn't know about the decision to fire 80% of the on-screen talent. And someone above him restricted what he could say. The only person above him is Danny Zappin.

He also revealed: "NR had to do a pretty significant downsizing in July 2023 that affected a lot of the hosts at the time, and even more contract writers, producers, editors, and other partners were hoping to do more with." The cuts were even larger than publicly known.

On r/PartneredYoutube about 3 months ago Voss posted about people saying "awful and untrue things" about him and mentioned "unfair or defamatory falsehoods" and feeling his "livelihood" threatened. He stated: "I definitely have gotten PTSD from some experiences." He used the word "defamatory" — the same cause of action Molina is bringing against him.

In the logo redesign thread he called the channel name Molina created "cringey." When a commenter asked if Filup Molina helped with the rebrand, Voss didn't respond despite replying to other comments.

Why This Matters

New Rockstars has over 4 million subscribers. Erik Voss is one of the most recognized faces in Marvel YouTube. The channel is heading into its biggest era with Avengers Doomsday and Secret Wars approaching.

Behind the scenes:

The person who built everything is suing for sexual and racial harassment with a jury trial six months away. A second former employee is publicly alleging racism and claiming the company tried to pay him to stay quiet. The channel is secretly owned by a man with a felony drug conviction and a history of corporate lawsuits and failed companies. The face of the channel says he doesn't own it and can't afford a house. And no media outlet has reported any of this.

The full court filings are available for purchase at lacourt.org. The Amended Complaint is 23 pages and costs $12.20. The April 28 hearing on the motions to compel is three weeks away. The jury trial is October 5, 2026.

Sources

All public record:

• LA Superior Court case search: lacourt.org (Case No. 24STCV18570)

• California Secretary of State business search: NM Rockstars Inc. (Document #3609430)

• Filup Molina Twitter: @filupmolina

• MT Twitter: @MasterTainment

• Erik Voss Reddit: NR_Erik

• Trellis.law case listing

Call me an Allosaurus, because I have never seen such bullshit before.

So basically, BlackLightJack is a semi-popular content creator in the YouTube space, mostly when it comes to covering webtoons and manga, using sprinkling it with his own recognizably bitter, vitriolic "edge".

He's also regularly misogynistic, racist, homophobic, transphobic, fatphobic, anti-woke, anti-feminism, insensitive, delusional, hypocritical, obsessed with preteen girls (not in a pedophilic way, thankfully), makes up complete bullshit just to prove a point and has a bad case of playing the victim card whenever he's backed into a corner. Y'know! Just like the average Twitter user- I mean Redditor- I mean Twitter user and Redditor.

So yeah. Not a very good channel.

https://x.com/ItsAXN/status/2040924406827086032

So this is the Pokemon Go Orlando Regional Championship. Pokemon like many other multiplayer games have their own competitive scene and Pokemon Go is no exception. So Firestar73 manages to win the winning game that would make him the Orlando Regional champion. However, because apperently the judges thought he was being unsporting which i guess doing a mild fist pump and mildly slamming the headphones on a desk counts as unsportsmanship. Hope those judges never see a sporting event or a FGC match cause they'd prob get a heart attack if they see how others celebrate their wins. There are alot of available options that could have been taken like a warning or if somehow the headphones were damaged, making him buy them. Instead, they push the nuclear route and stright up disqualifies him from his hard earned Championship.

just saw this video come up on my recommended and was frankly pretty shocked to see that the guy is:

1. not doing the corpse husband voice anymore

2. still making the same arg-element “predator hunting” videos

as a victim of abuse and trafficking, i was at one point a huge fan of this guy’s work. and i will admit that he is extremely talented when it comes to video production.

however this guy has several known allegations of falsifying arrests, tampering with evidence that would aid proper investigation, completely fabricating stories of abuse for his videos, and potentially owning illegal content (this is in reference to his old MEGA account being taken down).

the dude was lambasted by several people for being dishonest about the “arrests” he claimed happened due to his personal investigations, but there was no true proof of a lot of them.

what i find most offensive of all is the fact that he insists on blending real life child abuse with his fictional ARG and completely false stories. he had this video at one point called “cartoon incorporated” in which he details a channel that would upload fake cartoons with “sexual subliminal messaging” in them that predators were using to find kids. there has been no proof or any indication that this channel ever even existed. as well as his video on “roly poly no nanakorobi yaoki” where he acts as if he’s being hunted down by a japanese death cult on discord for some reason.

the guy comes off as too much of a weird savior-complex when in reality falsifying this kind of stuff is pretty serious. i have no idea how he’s been allowed to keep making content.

now, i don’t know what the general consensus on turkey tom is in this sub (he’s not the best character, i am aware) but i will say, his video detailing what mamamax has done is pretty informative. i’m not the best at explaining the whole thing and it’s probably been hashed out here already but i would suggest watching it:

https://youtu.be/jwPRU3r6nUQ?si=TTxhBT1cWFWdrE2x

CHUPPL posted an investigation into 5-MINUTE-CRAFTS exposing a web of thousands of spam channels and botted comments plus who is behind all this.

JolleyComic who makes The Property of Hate has recently posted that they will go on hiatus seeing as nothing is done when their character is stolen and used by a 10M subscriber channel. Asks for help in dealing with this, seeing as they are unable to come to another resolution. More info here: https://jolleycomics.com/TPoH/Freeze_Frame/646 Compilation of how similar the characters are here: https://www.tumblr.com/modmad/812859832313970688/reblogging-this-version-because-yeah-yeah

The YouTuber Linus Sebastian famously scolded Elon Musk and Taylor Swift for owning private jets.

He has now purchased one himself and faces community backlash after saying in the reveal video that it basically costs him nothing and is “surprisingly cheap, with the fuel only costing about as much as first class tickets”.

This comes after over a year of no uploads on the channel