TWITCH AND YOUTUBE STARS HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN SOME BIG CONTROVERSIES THIS YEAR, WHICH IN TURN HAS ADDED TO THEIR POPULARITY.
7) THE POKIMANE-JIDION CONTROVERSY STARTED WHEN JIDION STARTED A HATE RAID AGAINST POKIMANE.EVEN STREAMER NINJA GOT INVOLVED AND ACCUSED POKI OF CHARACTER DEFAMATION.
6) YOUTUBER SKYDOESMINECRAFT WAS ACCUSED OF SE*UAL ASSAULT BY HIS FORMER GIRLFRIEND. THIS LED HIM TO BEING INACTIVE ON YOUTUBE UNTIL TODAY.
5) TWITCH STREAMER FAZE MEW WAS ACCUSED BY ASHTRONOVA OF SE*UALLY ASSAULTING HER WHEN SHE WAS DRUNK AFTER A PARTY. ALTHOUGH FAZE MEW GAVE EVIDENCE TO PROVE THE OPPOSITE, HIS SUSPENSION FROM FAZE CLAN WASN'T LIFTED.
4) STREAMER ITSSLIKER WAS INVOLVED IN GAMBLING AND LOSING THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS WHICH HE USED TO ASK FROM FELLOW STREAMERS AND HIS AUDIENCE.
3) TWITCH STREAMER MIZKIF WAS ACCUSED OF DOWNPLAYING THE SE*UAL ASSAULT CASE OF ADRIANAH LEE WHERE SHE STATED THAT MIZKIF'S FRIEND HAD SE*UALLY ASSAULTED HER.
2) ISHOWSPEED HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN MULTIPLE CONTROVERSIES THIS YEAR. FROM GAMBLING PROMOTION, BEING RACIST TO HIS MISOGYNISTIC COMMENTS, HE WAS PERMANENTLY BANNED FROM TWITCH.
1) YOUTUBER DREAM WHO REVEALED HIS FACE THIS YEAR WAS ACCUSED OF BEING PEDOPHILE AND GROOMING MINORS. ALTHOUGH HE TERMED THE ALLEGATIONS AS BLATANT LIES.