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WTF is Wrong With You? Ruby Franke, Jodi Hildebrandt and YouTube edition.

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YouTube celebrities are a kind of accessible celebrity that exist on the margins of fame, and YT content creators do some really fucked up stuff sometimes that captures the world's attention. Remember when Logan Paul went to the Japanese suicide forest? Or when James Charles was canceled for being outed as a predator? Of course, you do if you pay close attention to gossip. However, superstars need to be A to B (ish) list for us in the Manor, okay C list too, for us to care. YTers don't even register on the alphabet. Though at times, they behave poorly, and that's when we might care about what they do. At the moment, this woman is famous, big time famous, but not for what she intended. She's renowned in the only way YouTubers become famous-acting atrociously or criminally.  Ruby Franke is a former American family vlogger who produced the now-defunct YouTube judgy-as-hell channel ConneXions/8 Passengers along with her crooked business partner, Jodi Hildebrandt.  They host