How Wilbur Soot Lost His Entire Audience In 1 Month | Internet Anarchist

0:00Wilbur Suth spent years building an incredibly successful career, amassing over 6 million subscribers on YouTube, 4.7 million followers on Twitch, and it banned that toward the world. However, after a serious allegation surfaced, his entire empire would come crumbling down, as his audience not only would abandon him, but became his new haters. Hi, I'm the internet anarchist, I create weekly YouTube documentaries, and today we'll be covering the story of Wilbur Suth, his massive rise to fame, and even bigger fall from grace in the public eye. William Patrick Spencer Gold, who we'll be referring to as Wilbur, was born on the 14th of September 1996. Growing up in the beachside town of Brighton, England, he would be raised by his split parents, who divorced whilst he was in middle school. In 2008 at the age of 12, Wilbur would create his first YouTube channel named Setting 66, alongside his childhood friend Ben, where they would upload typical content for 12 year olds in 2008.

1:04According to Wilbur, they forgot the password and lost access to the channel, leaving it as it glimps into his life whilst growing up. Three years later on the 18th of May 2011, Wilbur would create a new channel named Minecraft and Donuts. The channel was a collaboration with his friend Sophie, where they would upload regular Minecraft content up until 2013, when Wilbur would once again make a new channel. This time titled A Little Brit of Will. The channel would act as a hub for short films and music videos. His passion for filmmaking and creating would further continue into his development, as he would go on to get a bachelor's degree in editing and post-production. By 2017, Wilbur would create his new channel named Wilbur Music in order to share his music covers. Between the years 2017 and 2019, Wilbur would form a group known as the Sutthouse, which consisted of a variety of his friends who would make meme-based content.

2:06The channel would be a massive success, garnering over 283 million views and over 1 million subscribers. But despite the success, the channel would ultimately be abandoned, with the final upload being on the 29th of July 2019. However, during the Sutthouse era, he created his own personal channel named Wilbur Sutt, where he would publish Minecraft content, with the first video being a collaboration with J-Shlet titled Tiny Minecraft 25 Blocks of Vival Challenge. During 2019, PewDiePie would make Minecraft popular again with his incredibly viral Let's Play series that would gain millions of views on each and every episode. Wilbur Solo channel would initially continue with Minecraft content streak, but in April of 2020,

3:07he received an invitation to join a new private Minecraft server, the Dream SMP. This server, created by popular youtubers Dream and George Not Found, would transform Wilbur's career, his natural charisma and storytelling abilities, were a perfect fit for the server's unique concept. Roll playing. The Dream SMP propelled Wilbur to fame that he'd never reached before, amassing millions of new subscribers as he seamlessly fit into the storyline and became a well-liked member of the server. Whilst riding off the high from the Dream SMP success, Wilbur would found his indie rock band Lovejoy in May of 2021, posting their debut EP Are You Well Right just days after. It wouldn't be long before the band would gain millions of monthly listeners, Wilbur would spend the following two years touring the world and making festival appearances with his band. It's more than safe to say that at this point,

4:09Wilbur was on top of the world. He built a multi-million subscriber youtube empire, created a successful world touring band and was actively becoming a superstar in his own right. However, 2024 would be a turning point for Wilbur's reputation, as little did he know, serious accusations were about to be made against him. On 21 February 2024, Crater Shelby Shubber would host a stream titled Talking About Something More Serious. Throughout the stream, Shubber would detail her negative experience with her unnamed British ex. She spent the stream educating her audience on early signs of dangerous relationships, wherein she revealed multiple details that led to the audience, believing that she was talking about the beloved streamer Wilbur Surt. She stated that during her relationship, her ex was extremely manipulative and would bite her aggressively. She'll be said that at the beginning, she didn't realise it was sandalwood even cover for him by telling others that it was fine. However, as the biting went on, it would get to a point where he allegedly had to change locations in order to not bite the bruises and marks left from previous bites. At this point,

5:14her friends began to tell her that what was going on wasn't normal, and she would go on to learn that she was actually being in the relationship. When I hear about physical I think of hitting, I think of hitting and punching. So I thought that this wasn't violent enough to be. I thought that it was just like a constant accident that he kept hurting me, but he's not hitting me. It didn't start as something that he did to hurt me. He had this habit of biting, which is so weird to me now, but he said that he had had this habit since he was a kid and even his mom said that that was true. He said it was just affectionate. I think that that might have been true maybe at the start, but I also feel that I have good reason to believe that every part of it was a lie, but that's just my personal opinion. I had no problem with just

6:17biting. That isn't even the most uncommon thing, but he did mention something early that I should have taken as a red flag, and he wanted to make sure that I was okay with him biting me, because he didn't want me to come back later and say that he did to me, which I thought was really weird considering he had never hurt me before. Why would I call it? And why was he thinking about that? I thought he was being sweet, checking on me to make sure that I was still comfortable, but of course I was because he hadn't hurt me. Why would I think he ever would? According to Shelby, the pair eventually started using his safe word for her to say when Wilbur's biting tendencies got too painful. However, despite that, in the final months of their relationship, he would allegedly always bite to the point where she was forced to say it. He had now at this point, weaponized the safe word and was using it to ensure that I was hurt

7:20and on a constant basis, and he wasn't sorry anymore. I couldn't even tell you the last time he had apologized for doing it anymore, because now sometimes he would bite me, and I would yell out the safe word because it hurts so bad and he'd clamp down even harder. And just for a second, just for good measure, before letting go, and sometimes I'd say the safe word and he'd grind his teeth down on my skin, and sometimes he'd smile after, like a gloating grin. And during the time I was filled with so much anxiety all the time that I was constantly nauseous. To make Matt as worse, Shelby also claimed to joke about it looking like he a big tear. But even joke that it looked like he pissed me. And eventually he did acknowledge how bad it looked that I was covered in bruises all

8:22the time. So he stopped biting my arms as often, and he started biting my legs instead. And it was in the last couple of months of the relationship that every time he bit me, it was until I needed to use this safe word. It had become his benchmark for when to stop. Only once I was definitely hurt, which meant I was being hurt every single day, multiple times a day, for all of the days that we spent together in person. And when I asked him to stop again, this time he said, this is who he is, he isn't going to change. Those were his words. Following the stream, viewers would start investigating who this abusive ex could possibly be, and with various details lining up, it was quickly becoming evident that she was talking about Wilbur. Over the following week, many of Wilbur's fanbase had turned against him. However, one post would make things a whole lot worse. On the 27th of February 2024, Wilbur suit would make a

9:28tweet reading, in the past week, a series of allegations have been made over my conduct from an ex-girlfriend. I want to emphasise that although I feel it fair to offer my perspective, this person's feelings are completely valid. I have taken my time sharing the statement as I wanted to process and respond respectfully, and with the hope to gain a deeper understanding for the situation. During our relationships final months, I regrettably became slobbish, disrespectful, and selfish. These actions cause a lot of pain to my ex-girlfriend, and I've since sought therapy to address these behaviours, making significant lifestyle changes to rectify my past actions. I've come to realise how much my past behaviour hurt this person, but I truly, compassionately believe I've made great strides from the person I once was, and hope I can continue to grow and improve on this trajectory. The allegation of a boon to particularly in the form of biting deeply shocked me. Throughout our relationship, I understood from our numerous conversations and text message exchanges on the subject that this behaviour was consensual, playful, and reciprocally enjoyed. I truly believe those personal

10:30message exchanges reflect mutual affection and understanding. Out of respect for her, I choose not to publish them, and I emphasise my perspective is not shared to diminish or invalidate anyone's feelings. Instead, I share it in the hope that I can offer a genuine, fair and relevant insight into my understanding of this situation. While I may perceive our interactions differently, I recognise that this person has processed and expressed feelings of hurt. I want to extend my sincerest apologies for any pain that I caused. I am fully committed to understanding and addressing our concerns going forwards. I hope my perspective sheds light on this situation without detracting from its message. I am dedicated to earning and maintaining the trust of those around me, and hope I continue to be held to these high standards I wish to attain and maintain. Will. It's more than safe to say that the community was not impressed with Willba's response, with the main cruisism being how much he focused on defending himself and studying that he has caught changed, and not enough focusing on his alleged negative actions that brought him into the situation to begin with, as Willba specifically didn't admit to abusing her. And instead,

11:33said he had texts that made it seem mutually enjoyed, consensual and playful. However, some of the responses were almost as controversial as the apology itself. Minecraft YouTuber Dream would receive criticism for responding to the situation by instantly taking Shubble's side, and taking the moral high ground above Willba, with lyrics tweeting, Dream. The guy who was falsely accused of being a glimmer and perjus two months ago, is taking Shubble's side against Willba's suit and calling him in the bizarre with no evidence. Dude, what is happening? On top of this, Dream conveniently posted proof that he had donated his last video's revenue to a charity for victims of assault, a move that was clearly PR and business based rather than a genuine display of proof. Willba's tweet would spark a discussion about accusations being used as evidence. As a community note on Willba's post, would state Shubble's word as concrete evidence, despite Willba stating a different story. With another tweet from lyrics reading, Willba's response to the allegations by saying everything was consensual based on his understanding got community noted. Just because his

12:35ex said it wasn't, Willba's word is gospel and is taken as fact. Literally no screenshots, nothing. Just testimony got him community noted. Numbies don't lie, and by looking at Willba's social blade, it's evident that he has lost over 220,000 subscribers in the last 30 days alone, more subscribers than he gained throughout the entire previous year. Just as things seemed at an all-time low for Willba, it would get even worse. As on the 9th of March 2024, even more accusations would be targeted towards him. In a tweet from user Alice Nayanya, she shared her experiences dating Willba back in 2019. Reading, Hello, I'm Alice. I dated Willba back in 2019 and I want to speak out about my experience. I felt like I couldn't talk about the sooner because I was scared of his public influence and the potential backlash from fans. But now after hearing Shelby's story, seeing the support she's been shown, and admiring her bravery, I finally feel safe to break from my silence on our relationship. Back in 2019, at the beginning of the relationship,

13:35I was immediately shown a lot of affection, very reminiscent of love bombing. One of his close friends at the time warned me in confidence to quote, Be careful, unquote, as if they had seen people get hurt in the past, but I believed he was good inside. After a month, the honeymoon period was over and it was like I was dating a completely different person. I was told to keep our relationship a secret, but was framed in a way that implied it was for my safety, as if it was in my best interest to keep the secret despite my own feelings. I believe that he enjoyed having control in the relationship, old have to hide as he screamed, and sit silently in the corner of his room waiting for him to go offline. He would say condescending things to me about my interests and the type of content I created, as if he didn't take it, or me, seriously. I would only be enthusiastic about his future plans with music and desire for fame. I never felt like he was encouraging towards me or any of my goals, and in the last few months he'd made me feel extremely unlovable and unwanted. I suffered with self-harm tendencies in 2019, he ignored the marks on my body and only took

14:37interest in retelling his own life struggles. I also experienced the biting habit, which has already been elaborated on by Shelby. After a while, I noticed that it was always me putting effort into the relationship, so I decided one day to not be the one to message first, just to see what would happen. And he never spoke to me again, so the relationship dissolved. Skipping ahead to 2021, we'd spoken briefly over an Instagram DM about the relationship and meeting up for closure on how things went in 2019. I gave him a second chance and met up hoping to get some answers. We walked through densely populated areas of town where we got stopped multiple times by his fans. In hindsight, this felt very intentional, almost as if he wants to flaunt his influence and desire ability to me. We went to a bar to talk, and then he proceeded to get me very drunk. He got us an Uber back to his house. I ended up blacking out on his bed due to the alcohol, but the last thing I remember was him unconsensually removing my clothes. The next morning, he proceeded to tell me that I must be a lesbian because I wasn't interested in him. These past years have been

15:39extremely difficult to navigate because of this. I couldn't go online without seeing him everywhere and being a daughter's soft boy who heroically respects women and mental health issues. I couldn't even go to conventions and enjoy my own hobbies without seeing people dressed up as him. Shelby was right, staying quiet wasn't bringing me any peace, it was only keeping his. The tweed would garner a lot of support from the community, receiving upwards of 65,000 likes, and various comments in support of her, including one from Shubble Reading. I'm so sorry this happened to you. I'm with you. The implosion of World Basutes career will be a moment to remember for years to come, and if he doesn't somehow come out with a long response, disproving the allegations, displaying the proof he claimed he had earlier and winning his audience back, it's safe to say that not only his career reseruands, but his entire life. His career will go on as a prime example of how quickly an audience can abandon their favourite creator in the wake of serious allegations, and how a poor response can make the situation 10 times worse. From touring the world to being

16:39exiled by the internet, the future for Wilbur looks grim to say the least. Eric Fect is content and docks someone, click the video on screen to find out more.