Utubedrama.com and Trevor Rieger
Celebrities have the supermarket tabloids running exaggerated or dramatized tales of their every move, misquoting their every step. YouTubers have Trevor Rieger and his "news" site, www.utubedrama.com (URL 9.4), as shown in Figure 9-4.
Figure 9-4. Utubedrama.com's Trevor Rieger gives well-known YouTubers their own page on his site; here's mine.
Trevor began on YouTube with the username utubedrama. He made videos in which he exposed high- and low-profile YouTubers for cheating, "gaming the system," or participating in other unfair practices. He found users who autorefreshed, and he grabbed screenshots of their behavior over time to present "evidence" of their actions. He looked through subscriber lists and shined his spotlight on those creating ghost accounts and sock puppets just to subscribe to themselves. He entertained a few people, got a few people removed from the site for breaking the terms of use, and made more than one person cry and threaten to leave YouTube after they were exposed.
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