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Once again, the pitchforks are out, youtubers are out in force, and boy are they angry, and they're calling for MrBeast 's scalp or at the very least an explanation WTF he thinks he doing. Why, you may ask, because isn't Jimmy the beloved smiling face of YouTube from a content creator standpoint? Here's a quick video from OG Youtuber Phil DeFranco where he covers the main points. Well just like the sudden reputational downgrade Elon Musk experienced recently, Jimmy Donaldson, owner and the main driving force behind YouTube's Most Subscribed Channel (with more than 408 million subs) and it feels like MrBeast poked many youtubers in their collective eyes. MrBeast has apparently embraced the dark arts of artificial intelligence and has found a new way to monetize AI and he is offering you this gift (for the low, low price of your creative soul) and a mere $80 a month so you too can forgo forever the tedious challenges of creating you own thumbnails with software ...

Someone's gonna get thumped. You hear the odd person say "You mess with the bull, you're gonna get the horns" and that's pretty much what I think when penguinz0 (aka moistcr1tikal or simply as Charlie to most) relates this latest story about identity theft. If you follow him on Twitch or YouTube, you probably know he's not one you trifle with lightly. Here's a quick peek at his moistcr1tikal stream on Twitch where he's got over 5 million followers. And with that penguinz0 channel he's no slouch either, amassing between 16-17 million subs. But this isn't a blog post to brag about how many followers someone has, its about ID theft and it happens to the big boys and the small fry. First, take a quick look at the following video entitled "I Didn't Realize How Big This Problem Was" as Charlie fills you in on someone impersonating him on Instagram using his alias moistcr1tikal on that platform to hoodwink his followers and friends w...