Lily Orchard

Lilian Valerie "Lily" Orchard (born: ; formerly Bhaalspawn) is an alt-left Canadian YouTuber, producer, comedian, and reviewer specializing in animation, but her major focus surrounds My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Her primary works include a riff show titled In A Minute, and a more general pundit/opinion show titled Glass of Water.
Lily Orchard has garnered infamy on the internet for her apparent misunderstanding of storywriting as evident by her now-deleted Twitter thread "Simple Writing Tips: A Thread." In addition to this, she is also known for creating the infamous two-hour-long rant "Steven Universe Is Garbage And Here Is Why".
On June 24, 2021, her fiancée Mikaila Turkleson Orchard officially joined her channel, with Lily moving the latter's videos to her own channel.
== Content==
Lily is a trans woman who had been creating MLP related content for quite some time before she got married to Mikalia. She had been a member of the brony community and would collab with Josh Scorcher and InkRose. She would review My Little Pony, Pokémon, fanfiction and even add her own original characters. She has her own webcomic called "Pokemadhouse". In 2015 and 2016, she decided to change her content to reviewing mainstream cartoons such as Steven Universe and The Legend of Korra, making two long-form videos on them, while still maintaining her old series such as Glass of Water.
She talks about fan culture such as shipping and fan art in her videos too, often in a critical manner, critiquing ships that are unhealthy/abusive, and fan art that she deems is offensive. 
Between 2017 and 2018, Lily's content became steadily more venomous and vitriolic with many fans becoming turned off from it. From 2019 onward, it eased off. Lily later stated that the reason for the steady decline was the fact that she was stuck in an abusive relationship and it had detrimental effects on her mental health, in addition to having been raped two months prior to the end of the relationship. In 2020, Orchard completely broke down during a video in which she detailed increasing pressure from fans going to her for creative and personal advice on one hand, and critics hounding her over some of her actions and views on the other, describing the two as "treating [her] like a free editor and therapist" and "harassment from the alt-right." She took a hiatus after that and closed off her social media for several months.
==Controversies ==
===Courtney Orchard Allegations===
On March 22nd, 2024, Lily's younger sibling Courtney Orchard uploaded a video where she accused Lily of having sexually abused them as a child. Claiming that she would frequently sneak into her room and steal her undergarments.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8IU8AONYQU
Lily has said that she no longer considers Courtney her Sister calling her a "Piece of Work".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXVytA6G4Io 
==Trivia== 
*Lily loves Adagio Dazzle.
*Lily states that the reason she has hidden likes and dislikes on her channel is because they're "a useless metric". As of February 2022, her subscriber count is also hidden.
*Lily claims Native American ancestry despite not being affiliated with any known Indigenous group or tribe, and is originally from Halifax.
==Gallery ==
Lily Orchard.png|May 2021 profile picture
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==References==
Category:Commentary YouTubers
Category:Review YouTubers
Category:Canadian YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2009
Category:LGBT YouTubers