Updated YouTube declined to comment on Sam Pepper’s case specifically, but a rep for the company told NMR “We have strong guidelines regarding advertising on the site, and we may choose to stop placing ads against any video if we receive advertiser complaints or determine that the content of the video is inappropriate for our advertising partners.” It’s safe to assume that they’ve received more than a few complaints about Sam’s content in recent weeks.
It looks like that’s a wrap on Sam Pepper’s YouTube career. The YouTube creator has been under pressure since late last month when a video in which he groped woman on the street for laughs triggered a firestorm of controversy. After a failed attempt to spin his prank as a “social experiment,” Pepper, who typically is very active on social media, has been laying low. Aside from a few cryptic tweets he has made little effort to address the claims by the media and his fellow YouTubers that much of his content is sexual abuse. Only when rumors of legal consequences started circulating did he respond by tweeting images of a statement from the LAPD confirming that he had not been arrested. Since that time multiple young women, both fans and fellow creators, have come forward to accuse him of sexual assault and rape. Sam Pepper seems content to ignore these allegations, at least publicly, but it looks like YouTube has run out of patience. The video giant has apparently pulled the plug on Pepper’s YouTube partnership, stripping him of the ability to generate revenue with his videos.
Though neither Pepper nor YouTube have made a public statement as of press time, videos on the Sam Pepper YouTube channel no longer carry ads, a tell-tale sign that his partnership has been terminated. Sam may have bigger concerns on the horizon. At least one of his growing number of accusers has contacted the Los Angeles Police Department to file an incident report relating to his conduct. It’s one thing to ignore media scrutiny, but the police are another matter.
It’s clear that the potential loss of his YouTube partnership is just the final nail in a coffin that Sam Pepper has built for himself. He’s already been dropped by his network, Collective Digital Studios, and blacklisted by most of the online video community. He is unwelcome at VidCon, Playlist Live, and a number of other YouTube conventions. Even former friends like fellow creator Marius Listhrop, better known as Mazzie Maz, have cut ties, leading us to wonder how much of a career he truly had left. We’ve reached out to YouTube representatives for official confirmation but one thing is abundantly clear. If this is the official end of Sam Pepper’s career on YouTube, he will not be missed.
FUCKING KILL THE LITTLE RAPIST
Does groping count as rape?
I don’t think it does. It depends on what you are groping and how far you take it.
It will still count as sexual harassment and it still not something anyone should do against someones will.
when it comes out that she was lying and doing it to get her 15 minutes of fame she should be jailed as long as he would of gone to jail for rape. She is saying he raped her then she stayed the night :s what girl goes to a guys apartment with him at 3:30am that doesn’t want sex? it pisses me off how girls scream rape and all of a sudden everyone believes them. who remembers that woman that said Justin Bieber raped her after a concert and its his kid. just another stupid bitch looking to sell a fake story. Have you seen the amount of women that throw themselves at him? if she didn’t want to have sex with him I’m sure he would have plenty of girls to call up that would. Shame on you all for believing this crap without any evidence and please don’t tell me there is any evidence because he would be arrested and have a court date set up already.
I hope some woman does the same thing to all men who supported that bitch, because you’ve just shown that you would agree to be considered guilty with no evidence but the word of the woman. Good job, assholes. This is going to bite in the ass a lot of men for years to come, but these narrow-minded shitheads don’t care because they can’t process that much of thought. Go fuck yourselves, you stupid assholes
uhhmm excuse me but is there any proof? other than a *anonymous* video of girl making allegations? what ever happened to innocent ’till proven guilty?
Again, buddy: Court of law. Also, arrest does not equate to conviction. We believe Sam Pepper should be arrested and tried in a court of law. Whether he’s convicted is up to the jury.
Also, you ignore 99% of our coverage, which has shown not one “anonymous” girl — who, if you had an ounce of compassion, would realize is REALLY SCARED TO BE DOING THIS — but a preponderance of evidence (another legal term you should look up) of a pattern of abusive behavior toward creators and fans alike.
I’m not going to link all of our articles, because we worked our asses off for weeks digging all this up and you can spend the extra thirty seconds looking through our archives before blindly jumping to his defense.
There are multiple young women. Multiple. It’s also been an open secret for years that Sam’s been a problem within the web community. He was never invited to parties, young women would be uncomfortable with going to events they knew he was at. This was a long time coming. If you want to crow for MOAR PROOF, feel free, but there isn’t a single person in this industry that’s surprised his behavior has finally bit him on the ass. Not one. And that should tell you something.
so “buddy” long story short there is no proof but only accusations.
One of the anonymous victims posted records of a positive rape test. Not sure how much more proof you need. Even one is too many.
^^As the person above states, the DNA testing from the rape kit would link it to him; in addition, for many of the anonymous victims’ videos it seems enough force was during their assaults used to leave bruises and such (so for those of you wanting proof, it’s there). It’s a horrible thing to happen, and regardless of whether or not you are skeptical, it’s important to know that the possibility of this having happened is already all too much. Regardless of your stance, I think respecting the anonymous victims or at least not posting things against them personally as well would be important.
Multiple accusations by multiple women, which is far more than enough for an arrest.
You see, when someone is accused of a crime by multiple people, they are arrested. The police and prosecutor then compile the evidence, continue their collection, and then the prosecutor decides whether or not to, y’know, prosecute and charge.
I’m sorry if Law & Order has confused your sense of how the justice system works, but this is how the justice system works.
so what you’re saying is THERE IS STILL NO PROOF you idiot
But word of mouth IS proof on the interwebs. TBF though is Dahvie Vanity of BOTDF is still walking free after all his rape shit with underage girls than does anyone REALLY think this asshat is going to get prison time. Not if he’s making YouTube any money he isn’t.
You’re a fucking idiot. -_- It was said TWICE already, read the comments. There was a POSITIVE DNA TEST THAT IS LINK TO SAM PEPPER. If you need more proof go look for it yourself instead of asking questions.
no there was no positive dna test you fucking moron or he would be in jai right now are that stupid?
This guy is a RAPIST. The fucker should be LOCKED UP. I don’t know why the fuck the police don’t already have this guy under arrest.
unfortunately, rape is a very hard crime to convict someone of. Although it is becoming obvious he IS a rapist, it is very hard to find solid legal proof of rape because it typically happens somewhere private and therefore no witnesses. Usually there are no marks or proof on the victim’s body either, so its the attacker’s word against the victims. I have a feeling it will be a while till we we see him in prison.
I have spent quite a few yrs working in a Ped/Adol Residential Psych Unit, and worked with sexual abuse victims. Many times I did the initial body check (on males, but worked with many females also) when accusations were made, and would make the call to send them to the ER for further eval. There are marks left on the body. These can include, besides DNA, fingerprint marks on the upper arm or neck, posterior marks from aggressive copulation, tearing in the mucosal lining or the entrance of the rectum, bleeding, etc…and many others. Even with a condom there are marks. Pubic hair is frequently left on the victim or comes loose and adheres to their under garments. That is why people are encouraged never to shower and report to the ER asap with the clothes they were wearing when the alleged assault took place. In addition, in a male-female situation that is forced, the cervix doesn’t move back and forth rhythmically with the male, which is normal in consensual intercourse. In a hostile situation, the female tenses, and the cervix doesn’t move with the result it is battered by the penis and becomes red, inflamed, or bruised. The ER has a device called a Culposcope which has a camera and can take pictures of the cervix. This can be used in a Court to show that a forced and unwanted sexual act occurred. In a male/male situation or if an object is used, the rectum can be photographed as well. A person ALWAYS needs to report this assault immediately.
As someone who worked for a support group for victims of rape the worst part is the reaction right after the assault. As someone who went through the experience, there is the feeling of shock where you can’t believe that it happened. Even during the experience I went through shock and denial that made it hard to come forward because I couldn’t believe it happened to me. I do want to thank you for working in that field and informing people.
Fuck you!!
How ironic; now he’s the centre of attention for something that seemingly exposes and humiliates him, and he’s gone quiet. The truth will out – what ever that maybe; however, perhaps this situation will concentrate his mind on the fall out from his puerile, immature and often humiliating ‘pranks’.
I guess the saying is true, guilty until proven….
Unfortunately, it is not at all clear that Pepper has been dropped from the partner program. I first noticed on September 30 that ads were removed from his main channel. However, ads have remained on his secondary YouTube channel at “16bitsam.” I am a YouTube Deputy and I have been trying to convince Google to end their business relationship with Pepper by terminating his YouTube channel and his AdSense account. As far as I know, neither event has occurred, which speaks volumes about Google’s tin ear for public relations. Fellow deputies have advised me that the removal of ads from his main channel could merely be the result of his network dropping him and the fact that he hasn’t logged in for two weeks (he probably CAN’T log in because of a two-week suspension for receiving two community guidelines strikes). Sadly, the fact that he still has ads on his “16bitsam” channel is the biggest indicator that he remains eligible for ads. Google is legitimizing and tacitly supporting sexual violence (and the use of YouTube as a medium to prey on girls and women) by failing to terminate Pepper’s accounts.
He’s been dropped from the partner program. The dropping of ads across the channel, along with conversations that must remain off-the-record make us comfortable in reporting that.
16bitsam we can’t comment on because we haven’t been digging in there, but for his main channel, there’s no future for it in the YouTube partner program.
If it’s true that he’s been dropped from the partner program, that’s encouraging. You should ask your anonymous sources why advertisements remain on his “16bitsam” channel, and where the ad revenue from that channel is going.
That’s really fucked up that you go and say that about a company because they didn’t do something about his accounts. Sure he did some fucked up stuff but refusing action towards more of a indirect action doesn’t mean they support and allow this to happen. This before you type out this stuff. You should be ashamed.
We have reached out to both YouTube and Sam for comment; so far they have not responded.
Laci Green’s thoughts on the subject.
Here’s hoping we only have to deal with an arrest report and be done with this story forever.
The continued presence of his videos and subscription count continue to normalize the sexual assaults and give his fans a place to comment on his videos and new fans to learn about him. Any word on YouTube shutting down his channel?
No response from anyone, basically. But the truth is YouTube tends to not comment. Though it’s clear they’ve been listening.
where is the proof though? you know innocent ’till proven guilty?
That belongs in a court of law. This is not a court of law. Apologies for the confusion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_accusation_of_rape
It’s agreed across numerous intersections of law enforcement and academia that when someone makes a rape accusation, they are 92-98% likely to be truthful. (The lower number comes from local law enforcement, who are notoriously bad at handling rape cases.)
so you want someone to get arrested with no proof at all
I hope some woman does the same thing to all men who supported that bitch, because you’ve just shown that you would agree to be considered guilty with no evidence but the word of the woman. Good job, assholes. This is going to bite in the ass a lot of men for years to come, but these narrow-minded shitheads don’t care because they can’t process that much of thought. Go fuck yourselves, you stupid assholes.
Those statistics refer to formal accusations made to law enforcement, not anonymous and vaguely worded accounts posted online.
You’re also wrong about the source of those figures, BTW. That range (2-10%), comes from a meta-analysis of a number of studies which have aimed to quantify that rate of false rape reports. Though none of the studies in that analysis were fantastic, and the especially bad ones were not included in the “credible range.”
The truth is there is no reliable way to study how common or uncommon false rape reports may be. In order to come up with a credible number, you would have to make a conclusive determination regarding the truth or falsity of every single rape accusation in your sample. An obviously impossible task until someone invents a perfect lie detector test.