LeafyIsHere explains what drove him to quit YouTube Controversial YouTuber LeafyIsHere returned from a nearly 10-month hiatus to speak with Drama Alert host KEEMSTAR, where he explained what had caused him to leave the platform indefinitely. Leafy explained that making daily videos had \u201cburnt him out,\u201d and that YouTube\u2019s changes toward monetization, censorship, and copyright had incited his break back in December of 2017. \u201cYouTube itself was just becoming worse and worse over time,\u201d Leafy answered. \u201cThe monetization yellow things were frustrating to deal with. There were so many changes\u2026 the entire platform was turning.\u201d He also cited YouTube\u2019s trending page as an issue that bothered him, citing BuzzFeed and other trending channels as \u201cshit\u201d that turned him away from the platform. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t one big thing that just happened,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt was slow\u2026 more and more things to just add on top of it, and eventually, it was just the [straw] that broke the camel\u2019s back.\u201d Leafy admitted that he thought about returning to YouTube now and again but ultimately held that he wouldn\u2019t be able to voice his opinion as he used to on his channel. LeafyIsHere was at the center of multiple controversies before his hiatus, catching flack for his videos criticizing creators like autistic YouTuber TommyNC2010, and eventually KEEMSTAR himself. This led to a slew of allegations from YouTubers like iDubbbz and Nick Cash. He admitted that his hit piece on KEEMSTAR had been for the \u201cadsense,\u201d which KEEMSTAR seemed to take in good spirits. Leafy is now investing in stocks and bonds, and even teased that he might make a return to YouTube in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LeafyIsHere explains what drove him to quit YouTube Controversial YouTuber LeafyIsHere returned from a nearly 10-month hiatus to speak with Drama Alert host KEEMSTAR, where he explained what had caused him to leave the platform indefinitely. Leafy explained that making daily videos had \u201cburnt him out,\u201d and that YouTube\u2019s changes toward monetization, censorship, and copyright […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}