Tipster

Tipster, also known as ItsYaBoiTipster, and formerly GamerGeekReview, is an American YouTuber, livestreamer, and commentator primarily known for reporting news on YouTube and commentating on current events.
==Content==
With his videos reporting news on YouTubers and other events that happen online, the content on his channel covers the fields of Youtube commentary, and online drama, as well as the political space. This is usually accompanied with background footage, particularly gaming material.
Tipster has a smaller YouTube channel called "Tipster Speedrunning" (also called "TipsterPlaysGames", according to the channel's URL). This channel rather serves as his own gaming channel, and in particular, his content revolves around posting highlights of his casual speedrunning through his personal favorite classic games. So far, he has uploaded gameplay Resident Evil 2 and Goldeneye 007.
This channel was recently repurposed to "Tipster #Shorts" where he uploads short videos using YouTube's new Shorts feature.
==History==
He launched his YouTube channel on November 21, 2006. He started uploading in 2006, and the style of his videos were similar to Cinemassacre. However, the earliest public video on his channel is a livestream titled "Live Discussion About YouTube Advertising Policy Misinformation", uploaded on September 2, 2016. Most of the videos predating this stream were mostly privated, with a few early videos taken down for copyright infringement. In 2017, his videos were news about games, but over time, he moved on to more general topics, and during that time, he gained recognition, views, and subscribers. 
On October 17, 2019, he launched his speedrunning channel and started uploading his speedrunning highlights in late December 2020.
== Controversies ==
=== Leaked Messagerie ===
On May 31, 2022, Twitter/X user "@apsurvivedtheod" leaked a handful of screenshots describing a discussion with Tipster. Prior to the leak, she and Tipster became friends on TikTok and the former participated to the latter's streams, gaining the nickname "Goth Mommy". Aforementioned screenshots show Tipster allegedly flirting with A.P and telling embarrassing stories. Tipster later covered the story in DeadonDave's stream and a video on his channel titled "Adressing the Drama..." in which he showed evidence of A.P's cropped screenshots, which turned into his favor. Later development shows the leak was being orchestrated by Craig Beckett, which later turned on his controversies. A.P was never seen on Tipster's channel again.
=== Commentary on lollicons ===
On Twitter, Tipster defended a friend who liked an inappropriate picture believed to be lollicon. Tipsters friend had admitted it may have been an accident as she was scrolling through Twitter on her phone. Tipster ended up becoming the only voice defending the image as his own friend had told him to stop. During this time, Tipster liked and retweeted more loli images by the artist as a form of gotcha. A user on Twitter pinged MrGirl, known for his terrible video on cuties, for his opinion on the matter in which MrGirl stated the image was of a child, which caused Tipster to then block him. On February 20th, 2023 on a XylieGetsReal livestream titled “a Rum, a Tipster and a drawing equals a whole mess! Let’s talk about it!” Xylie tells tipster that she found proof that the image in question was shota. Tipster immediately conceded his stance without seeing any form of proof from Xylie. In a video response after the live stream ended, tipster stated “I do not condone the consumption or the creation of Loli” however this statement would fall through a year later when Tipster would jump to Vaushs defense.
In February 2024, Tipster once again found himself in drama revolving the topic of Lolicons when Tipster and Keffals jumped to Vaushs defense after Vaush had accidentally leaked a folder on his computer which contained explicit Lolicon images and beastiality. Tipster admitted to not knowing Vaush and barely interacting with Vaush. Leaks by another YouTuber, Fembro, detail that Tipster knew about the images on Vaushs computer, however chose to remain ignorant. During this drama, Tipster made the claims that Vaush could have accidentally downloaded the images to his computer. Ultimately, the situation ended abruptly as tipster chose to disengage from the drama due to the amount of backlash. Shortly thereafter, Keffals uploaded a video titled “The Vaush Video” in which she publicly blames Tipster for her being involved, shortly after the upload, she removed all videos across all of her platforms but they have since been reuploaded. This controversy resulted in Tipster being solidified as a Lolcow.
In March 2024, Tipster publicly beefed with Boogie2988 regarding the topic of politics and LGBTQ+ ideologies being involved in video games. At the time of writing, this drama is still ongoing.
==References==
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2006
Category:Verified YouTubers