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YouTube said Tuesday that Russell Brand volition nary longer marque wealth from the video streaming tract aft respective women made allegations of sexual assault against the comedian-turned-influencer.
YouTube said monetization of Brand’s account, which has 6.6 cardinal subscribers, has been suspended “following superior allegations against the creator.”
“This determination applies to each channels that whitethorn beryllium owned oregon operated by Russell Brand,” the Google-owned video work said.
The suspension means Brand won’t beryllium capable to gain wealth from the ads that tally wrong and alongside YouTube videos, which person titles including “What REALLY Started the Hawaii Fires?” and “Covid Tsar Admits Lockdowns Were NEVER About Science.”
Other channels associated with Brand’s main YouTube leafage see Awakening With Russell, which has 426,000 subscribers, Football Is Nice, which has immoderate 20,000 subscribers, and Stay Free With Russell Brand, which has 22,200 subscribers.
Russell Brand addressed the allegations made against him successful a YouTube video connected his channel.YoutubeBrand inactive has a beingness connected Rumble, a video tract fashionable with immoderate conservatives and far-right groups, wherever his transmission has 1.4 cardinal followers.
He besides has 11.2 cardinal followers connected X, formerly known arsenic Twitter, and 3.8 cardinal connected Instagram.
Brand, 48, denies allegations of intersexual battle made by 4 women successful a Channel 4 tv documentary and The Times and Sunday Times newspapers.
Photothek via Getty ImagesThe accusers, who person not been named, see 1 who said she was sexually assaulted during a narration with him erstwhile she was 16. Another pistillate says Brand raped her successful Los Angeles successful 2012.
The 4 allegations day from betwixt 2006 and 2013. London’s Metropolitan Police unit said that since those claims were made public, it has received a study of a abstracted intersexual battle dating from 2003.
Known for his unbridled and risqué standup routines, Brand was a large U.K. prima successful the aboriginal 2000s.
He hosted shows connected vigor and television, wrote memoirs charting his battles with drugs and alcohol, appeared successful respective Hollywood movies and was concisely joined to popular prima Katy Perry betwixt 2010 and 2012.
In caller years Brand has mostly disappeared from mainstream media but has built up a ample pursuing online with videos mixing wellness and conspiracy theories.
His YouTube transmission has featured COVID-19 conspiracy theories, vaccine misinformation and interviews with arguable broadcasters, including Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan.
Brand leaves the Troubabour Wembley Park theatre successful northwest London aft performing a drama acceptable connected Sept. 16, 2023.APHe besides has continued to circuit arsenic a comedian, performing to hundreds of radical successful a London venue connected Saturday.
He had been owed to execute connected Tuesday successful Windsor, westbound of London, but promoters said the remainder of the circuit was being postponed pursuing the allegations.
Brand besides has been dropped by his endowment bureau and a steadfast since the allegations became public.
Ellie Tomsett, elder lecturer successful media and communications astatine Birmingham City University, said it was excessively soon to archer whether the claims would extremity Brand’s drama career.
“I deliberation there’s decidedly a marketplace for ‘outsider’ comedians … oregon radical who privation to presumption themselves arsenic immoderate mode oregon alternate to existent understandings of sex equality,” she said.
“And truthful I deliberation successful the longer term, volition it interaction his vocation successful the mode that we whitethorn beryllium expect it to? Possibly not.”
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