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LeafyIsHere
Personal information
Born
Calvin Lee Vail

1995 or 1996 (age 28–29)[1]
Utah, U.S.[1]
NationalityAmerican
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2011–2017; 2020
GenreReaction[2]
Subscribers4.9 million (before channel was terminated)[3][4]
Total views1.2 billion[3][4]
100,000 subscribers2015
1,000,000 subscribers2016
Last updated: August 21, 2020

Calvin Lee Vail, also known as Leafy, or LeafyisHere is an American former YouTuber and Twitch streamer who makes reaction, drama, and let's play videos.[2][5]

Beginning in 2015, Vail was involved in several conflicts with other YouTubers which lead to allegations of cyberbullying. Vail was banned by YouTube in 2020, citing repeated violations of their harassment policies.[6][1][2]

Career

Vail started his channel in 2011, and uploaded his first video in 2013. He focuses mainly on commentary and Let's Plays. His videos often include him talking over gameplay footage of video games including Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Superhot. He had amassed 4.8 million subscribers before he slowed his uploading schedule down and went on a hiatus in December 2017.[7]

According to Bryan Menegus of Gizmodo, Vail mocked a man in 2016 with a learning disability, and had earlier made fun of an autistic man known as TommyNC2010, after which YouTube and Reddit communities rallied behind Tommy, prompting Vail to release an apology.[8]

In 2015 and 2016, Vail was the target of a swatting campaign, with repeated calls to the police between December 2015 and February 2016. At that time he resided in Layton, Utah.[9]

Vail's account was the target of several mass hacks, once in 2016 by hacker group Poodlecorp and again by OurMine in 2017.[10][11]

Controversies and channel termination

Vail's YouTube channel LeafyIsHere was a drama channel, which commented on gossip involving online content creators.[5]

In 2016, YouTuber Ian Carter, known as iDubbbz, featured Leafy in an episode of his "Content Cop" series, accusing him and his videos of cyberbullying, among other things.[12][13] In the same year, Vail accused YouTuber Evalion of supporting nazism and antisemitism. Shortly after Vail drew attention to her, Evalion was banned by YouTube.[14] Also that year, Vail's statements regarding transgender vlogger Milo Stewart, where he criticized the concept of gender identity, were taken down by YouTube for harassment.[15] The video was taken down later in 2019, after it was determined to be in violation of YouTube's guidelines.[16]

Vail returned to YouTube from a hiatus in April 2020 with a video responding to Carter, following which he resumed posting frequently.[17] In July, Vail began aggressively criticizing Twitch streamer Pokimane and her supporters based on speculation about Pokimane's personal life.[18][5]

On August 21, 2020, Vail's YouTube account was permanently terminated.[18] According to The Verge, Vail's channel had three violations in the previous three months, such as cyberbullying and encouraging viewers to disrupt other people's streams. A YouTube spokesperson said the channel had repeatedly violated YouTube's policies on harassment.[6] Following the ban, Vail joined the video sharing website Storyfire, created by fellow YouTuber Jesse Ridgway, also known by his channel name as "McJuggerNuggets", and Brian Spitz. He also began streaming near-daily on the live-streaming platform Twitch (service).

On September 11, 2020, Vail's Twitch account was banned. Earlier that day, Vail had tweeted about receiving a strike on his account from Twitch for "hateful conduct and threats of violence against a person or group of people". Twitch did not comment on the ban or indicate whether it was permanent.[19]

References

  1. ^ a b c Kiberd, Roisin (August 5, 2016). "YouTube's Trolls Are Crying Censorship Over Cyberbullying Rules". Vice. Archived from the original on July 5, 2020. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "LeafyIsHere Net Worth 2018". Gazette Review. March 17, 2018. Archived from the original on June 13, 2018. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
  3. ^ a b "LeafyIsHere's YouTube Stats". Social Blade. Archived from the original on August 24, 2020. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
  4. ^ a b "About LeafyIsHere". YouTube.
  5. ^ a b c D'Anistasio, Cecilia; Grey Ellis, Emma (July 31, 2020). "PokimaneBoyfriend and the Scandalous Reign of Drama YouTube". Wired. Archived from the original on August 3, 2020. Retrieved August 22, 2020.
  6. ^ a b Alexander, Julia (August 24, 2020). "YouTube permanently bans controversial creator LeafyIsHere". The Verge. Archived from the original on August 24, 2020. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
  7. ^ Teti, Julia (March 31, 2020). "Leafy Returns To YouTube For 1st Time In 2 Years To Call Out IDubbbz & Fans Go Wild — Watch". Hollywood Life. Archived from the original on July 3, 2020. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
  8. ^ Menegus, Bryan. "YouTube Star Makes Money Bullying People With Learning Disabilities [Updated]". Gizmodo. Archived from the original on June 12, 2020. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
  9. ^ Reavy, Pat (August 4, 2016). "Popular Layton YouTuber target of 'swatting' pranks". KSL.com. Archived from the original on October 2, 2020. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
  10. ^ "PoodleCorp Shut Down Blizzard and League of Legends (NA) Servers". HackRead. August 3, 2016. Archived from the original on August 4, 2020. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
  11. ^ Sacco, Dom (April 2, 2017). "YouTubers hacked by OurMine including Foxdrop, Nightblue3, Kiandymundi & LeafyIsHere". Esports News UK. Archived from the original on September 5, 2020. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
  12. ^ Alexander, Julia (December 16, 2019). "YouTube is growing up, and creators are frustrated by growing pains". The Verge. Archived from the original on August 17, 2020. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
  13. ^ Romano, Aja (December 13, 2019). "YouTube just made sweeping positive changes to its harassment policy. So why all the backlash?". Vox. Archived from the original on May 14, 2020. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
  14. ^ "Eva Lion, la youtubeuse fan d'Hitler". L'Express. May 31, 2016. Archived from the original on August 22, 2017. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
  15. ^ "Trans Activist Milo Stewart's Never-Ending War on Trolls". The Daily Dot. October 17, 2016. Archived from the original on September 3, 2019. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
  16. ^ Dodgson, Lindsay. "PewDiePie announced plans to take a break from YouTube, but it's not the first time the platform's biggest creator has struggled with burnout". Insider. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
  17. ^ Tenbarge, Kat. "A controversial YouTuber returned to the platform after two years of inactivity to make fun his online nemesis after his girlfriend made an OnlyFans". Insider. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
  18. ^ a b Samuels, Alexandra (August 22, 2020). "Leafy banned from YouTube after targeting Pokimane". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on August 24, 2020. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
  19. ^ Grayson, Nathan (September 11, 2020). "Twitch Suspends Leafy, The Banned YouTuber Who Harassed Pokimane". Kotaku. Archived from the original on September 13, 2020. Retrieved September 12, 2020.
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