Drifty

drifty, formerly known as FlaminghornZ, MULT1C0L0R3D, DDR1FTYZ, and expu, is a Japanese-Americanhttps://www.youtube.com/@driftydrifter/about YouTuber who is known for his animation memes and object-sonas. He became more known after his controversy with BFDI/FNF YouTuber kawaiiaoi, who he used to date.
==Content==
drifty's content consists of animation memes featuring characters from Battle For Dream Island, as well as his own original characters.
==History==
He created his YouTube channel on August 22, 2020, and uploaded his first video 8 days later. Then, he made their his popular video, titled "if i find inflation, the video ends (lightning bfb) STOP WATCHING THIS WHAT", which is a video based off the "If I" series created by ParashockX. He would reach 1,000 subscribers on January 30, 2021. On May 21, 2021, He would upload what became the most viewed video on their channel. He reached 2,000 subscribers 2 days later.
Throughout June 2021, drifty got into a dispute with his former girlfriend, DiamondzAreCool (now kawaiiaoi). The controversy became decently big in the object show community and most sided with drifty. Many people created hate videos to combat kawaiiaoi. drifty was punished by his parents soon after.
On June 27, 2021, as a result to their feud with kawaiiaoi, drifty announced that he would be deleting all his social media accounts in 24 hours. drifty's channel reached 2,640 subscribers before deletion.
However, on July 3, 2021, his account was reinstated. He lost most of his subscribers but quickly gained them back. He now continues to make videos and gain subscribers.
On August 2, 2021, FlaminghornZ changed his username to MULT1C0L0R3D. On October 6, 2021, he changed it again to DDR1FTYZ. In March 2022, he changed it to drifty.
==Controversy==
===DiamondzAreCool/cancelthegem===
In late May 2021, information began emerging about the feud between FlaminghornZ and his girlfriend at the time, kawaiiaoi (DiamondzAreCool during controversy). They broke up on May 31, 2021. This was soon followed by drifty posting a video exposing kawaiiaoi for the things she had done on June 18, 2021.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSQP4n-9kSs 
kawaiiaoi had accessed drifty's Discord account (with permission), and sent inappropriate messages to their friends to make it look like he said those things himself. She had also banned members from his Discord server for no reason, publicly said drifty's deadname (something he is known to be very uncomfortable with), begged him for his address and a picture of his real life appearance, and sent death threats to his friends.
After the news was let out, many people became very angry at kawaiiaoi and got #cancelthegem going on YouTube ("gem" referring to kawaiiaoi's old nickname, Diamond). The hashtag was originally going to be #shatterthegem but it got misinterpreted as a death threat.https://twitter.com/AreUncool/status/1403949277907390465 This was far from what they were going for, so it ended up being changed. #cancelthegem debuted on YouTube and Twitter with over 200 YouTubers making their own #cancelthegem videos on the situation. On Twitter, many people tweeted the hashtag.
kawaiiaoi then got in contact with drifty's father and told him everything. This soon got drifty grounded. drifty then publicly asked anyone who made a #cancelthegem video to remove it. Some of the videos have been taken down but many still remain up. On June 27, 2021, drifty announced he would be deleting his channel and all other social platforms. His dad had told him to do so, but the channel was brought back a few days later. 
==Channel milestones==
===Subscriber milestones===
*100 subscribers: December 12, 2020
*500 subscribers: January 26, 2021
*1,000 subscribers: January 30, 2021
*2,000 subscribers: May 23, 2021
*3,000 subscribers: July 25, 2021
*4,000 subscribers: October 25, 2021
*5,000 subscribers: November 2, 2021
*6,000 subscribers: March 8, 2022https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxUGxTS8vG5PtOa6tEknn6IFi7jE2X3Vyr
*7,000 subscribers: May 16, 2022
===Video view milestones===
*10,000 views: December 29, 2020
*50,000 views: February 12, 2021
*100,000 views: March 18, 2021
*1 million views: November 1, 2021
==References==
Category:Animation YouTubers
Category:Japanese YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2020
Category:LGBT YouTubers