ClayRanger143

Michael Day (born: )https://twitter.com/CLR143 better known online as ClayRanger143, is an American YouTuber. He mostly posted Emergency Alert System mock-up videos or weather warnings from radios.
==About==
ClayRanger143 signed up on July 30, 2013 with the account laying dormant until November 8th, 2013 when he posted a video titled "Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog Full Pilot Episode", until getting into electronic games such as Bop-It! and Simon variants starting in early December of the same year, along with some other games from Tiger Electronics like Brain Bash, Brain Warp, and Brain Shift. It wasn't until 2016 that his view on electronic games would fade away for EAS related content. On August 10th, 2016, his first EAS Scenario titled "Weather Disaster" was posted, paving a landmark on the channel moving forward. On September 28th, 2016, he posted his first EAS capture to the channel. Since then, he has continued his work of making EAS videos and recording EAS Alerts, almost accumulating up to 6,000 alerts in total. On December 31st, 2017, a new series called "Radio Reviews" made its debut to the channel, where Michael reviews certain weather radios discussing its functions, build quality, siren tests, button beeps, and other topics depending on the radio that is being reviewed. The series ended on December 31st, 2022. On January 26th, 2021, his channel was fully monetized by YouTube. According to SocialBlade, depending on how many views his videos get as they are uploaded, his channel has the potential to earn under $1.3K every year, and about a little over $100 a month. On September 29th, 2021, premium memberships were added to his channel. 
== Downfall ==
=== Erotic Roleplay Allegations (Clayranger143 vs ꧁Süpêrñøvå / Hypêrñøvã꧂ & serryn) ===
In October 2022, ClayRanger143 was accused of ERPing with a minor by ꧁Süpêrñøvå / Hypêrñøvã꧂ on Twitter (an event that occurred in January, 2021. Clay was 19 and the other person was 16 going on 17). In response, ClayRanger143 did a live stream defending himself. ꧁Süpêrñøvå / Hypêrñøvã꧂ and serryn finished their video on October 29, 2022 in response and to debunk Clay's stream. The video itself received mixed replies at the time, with some supporting Süpêrñøvå & serryn for exposing Clay's actions and others downplaying or defending his actions. Later on, ClayRanger143 released a self provlaimed Google "Defense Doc" (꧁Süpêrñøvå / Hypêrñøvã꧂also has an evidence folder). Since then, before GWES's investigation, ClayRanger143 had essentially dusted his arms of. On the Livestream, he had stated some of the things that are true and stating that he would never groom anyone and risk his career (serryn and Supernova had not called him a pedophile nor groomer officially until GWES's documents from the afforementioned investigation had been released.) However, he states that he has been getting Death Threats on Twitter and Xbox messages. The entirety of the situation pre-expulsion had caused ClayRanger143 to lose subscribers and supporters of his channel. This entire situation (& Clay's respective control over the community) made other EAS Youtuber's want to get involved. Some defended Clay and some stood with ꧁Süpêrñøvå / Hypêrñøvã꧂ & serryn in this situation, most notably EAceS, DutchEASFan (unconfirmed), and jayfeather31. When the situation first Broke out and when people believed Clay, Supernova, EAceS and those who were involved with it saw a sharp decrease in views. Supernova would later point this out in a community post venting about how the situation caused him to lose views and subscribers. When GWES made a document about an investigation about Clay and the allegations, they had stated the following about ꧁Süpêrñøvå / Hypêrñøvã꧂'s video:
"While this video did prove useful in our investigations, it ultimately provided little conclusive evidence of Clay’s actions. In addition, we in no way want to take part in EAS community drama. In accordance with our regular, established procedures, we had conducted our own independent investigation and used evidence that we have collected"
==== Downfall and hiatus ====
On January 11, 2023, Clay announced that he would take a hiatus from his YouTube, Twitter, and his Discord due to personal reasons unrelated to the current situation that has unfolded. 4 days later, on January 15, ThunderBuddy01 announced that he would stop co-hosting Clay’s Radio Reviews series via Twitter. On January 16, it would be revealed that Clay had been acting in a sexually behavioral manner towards minors (particularly 16-17 year-olds, while being 18-20 years old at the time). The allegations about him being 21 and being creepy to 15 year-olds were later concluded to be inaccurate via second-hand sources and was actually being referred to when Clay made a sexual joke towards a 15 year old in his server back in 2020 when he was 18, after the 15 year old made a joke directed at Clay first. It was also reported that Clay had allegedly assaulted (name removed in order to give the victim their respective space -serryn) during the last meetup they had while filming Season 14 of Radio Reviews in June, 2022. The details of what exactly happened cannot be determined at this time. ([afforementioned assaulted victim] stated he is not pressing charges for assault.) News of that broke out on January 17th, when Clay was banned from numerous big EAS Discord servers, including GWES (Global Weather and EAS Society), Xtreme Weather’s Server, and the EAS Society. Clay deleted his own Discord server shortly thereafter, and an announcement was made on the ClayRanger143 channel was being ran by "Jackson Miller Davis" due to Clay reportedly getting therapy. This is his alternative account's description per 5/10/23, the contents of it being contradictative of what "Jackson Davis" had said: 
"a new person has emerged with no emotion at all. he has been deceived, scarred, traumatized, walked over, lied to, and much more. it ends now. #NoFriendsNoProblems. #Fuck988. #GetOverIt." 
The post received mostly negative replies, and later on the 17th, replies were disabled on all of Clay’s community tab posts and his most recent video at the time, which was getting tons of comments from trolls. This led to Clay's reputation that he built over the years damaged considerably. Many people throughout the day made memes making fun of Clay, and comparing him to Cole EAS and RMwx, both of them being notable pedophiles in the EAS community, and even EDP445. Clay would lose over 500 subs in the 24 hours after the news broke, and he deactivated his Twitter account from the backlash, until it was restored in early February. The Radio Reviews Twitter is still up but has been blacked out and has tweets protected. (Radio Reviews is also on an indefinite hiatus and has not been given to anyone else.) 
On January 22nd, 2023, GWES released a document showcasing evidence of the claims they made with screenshots of him acknowledging the allegations listed above, (assault, unlawful contact with a minor, and sexual misconduct) although not much was said from his side about it after the document was made. Clay has mentioned to other close people that he did apologize about what he had done months before the document was even being written, such as the erotic roleplay and sexual behavior, but has not commented on anything else in said document since taking his hiatus. 
It was also stated that a "Jackson Miller Davis" was unable to be found by Paulge (GWES Staff Member). On February 6th, Jack Davis made a new YouTube channel and made several troll-like videos pertaining to the situation, not providing any context or insight on it what-so-ever, along with using an AI-Generated voice to read out meme copy-pastas (refer to the "navy seal" 'joke'.) This led many in the community to believe that Jack Davis was Clay under an alias name to hide from the allegations, however, it was then discovered by GWES staff that Jack Davis was in fact a separate person, as Clay had given a GWES staff member (who shall remain anonymous) Jack's deleted Discord account which was deleted shortly after being given access to Clay's channel back in January. As of February, 2023, the channel is back under Clay's control. 
Clay is still on a hiatus as a result of these allegations that have been exposed to light, and there has been no sign of him. A rumor has been floating around that he was apparently stalked and assaulted outside a McDonald's in his area in late February between the 18th-23rd. 
==Subscriber Milestones==
*100 Subscribers: December 4, 2015
*200 Subscribers: September 16, 2016
*1,000 Subscribers: December 11, 2017
*2,000 Subscribers: October 31, 2018
*3,000 Subscribers: April 12, 2019
*4,000 Subscribers: December 12, 2019
*5,000 Subscribers: August 24, 2020
*6,000 Subscribers: March 22, 2021
*7,000 Subscribers: October 7, 2021
*8,000 Subscribers: August 1, 2022 - January 30, 2023
==References==
Category:Educational YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2013
Category:Verified YouTubers