YouTubers exploiting the dead

When celebrities die, it's an awful tragedy. But some people like to use death for their own gain.

Notorious exploiters

 * 1) Elisocray: When rapper XXXTentacion got murdered, Eli made around 9 videos in under a week exploiting the death of XXX. 8 got deleted which only remains 1.
 * 2) Vlogger Joe: When UK TV & Radio presenter Caroline Flack committed suicide, Vlogger Joe made a video facetiming her not even an hour after her death has been announced. His video was then taken down and then his channel got taken down.
 * 3) Josh Giles: He made a video facetiming famous basketball player Kobe Bryant at 3AM on his throw away channel. Just hours after his death.
 * 4) ImJayStation: The most notorious of all of them as he started the exploiting dead people trend.
 * 5) He stared off by making an Ouji Board Challenge on XXXTentacion which recieved a very negative reception from the platform.
 * 6) He then did another Ouji Board Challenge on another famous rapper Mac Miller just under a day after his death.
 * 7) He clickbaited doing an Ouji Board Challenge on YouTuber and Twitch streamer Etika, he also changed the title many times which wasn't any good and this was the most backlash he has ever recieved.
 * 8) He faked the death of his Girlfriend Alexia and made around 3 videos exploiting her fake death. One of them was even an Ouji Board Challenge! Not even a week after she is dead. Some YouTubers thought that it was the end of the line for JayStation. He then kept her as hostage, luckily he got arrested and was trialed at court.
 * 9) N&A productions: He made and privated a video basically clickbaiting/exploiting the death of Twitch streamer Etika, he then made an apology video (if you can even call it an apology video), but then blamed his fans over twitter.
 * 10) Micheal McCrudden: He made 3 videos exploiting the death of XXX packed with mid-roll ads starting from the day he died.
 * 11) Agenda-Free TV: They made an infamous 12 hour live stream documenting the death of Etika packed with mid-roll ads.

Why This Practice Sucks

 * 1) Not only it is disrespectful to the person who died, but it is also disrespectful to the persons' friends, family and fans.
 * 2) These videos are usaully made within hours after the person's death which can lead to awful consequences.
 * 3) The main purpose for these videos is attention.
 * 4) Sometimes they can lack editing or production quality considering these videos are made within hours, which basically means these videos are rushed.
 * 5) Most of time it's underaged people who make these videos which can not only damage the platform, it can also damage their future as they most likely can't apply for a job or an application in college.
 * 6) These videos usaully get taken down very quickly, but luckily there are people who archive it.

Reception
Usaully these videos get a really negative reception from community, YouTubers such as Memeulous, Penguinz0, Pyrocynical, The Combat Wombat, DJ Cook, and many others (including Memetastic and Ryan Franklin of all people) call these videos out for being wretched and a scummy act.

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