These sixteen YouTube stars bankrupt up in front of millions of people on their massive platforms

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Joey Graceffa and Daniel Preda announced the finish of their vi-year relationship in an emotional YouTube video.
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  • While YouTube stars profit from broadcasting their lives and relationships to millions of subscribers, they're forced to reveal painful changes in their personal lives — like breakups with their fellow vloggers.
  • The majority of YouTuber couples seem to prefer announcing their breakups via videos, commonly titled "We Broke Up."
  • Some of the platform's well-nigh visible "power couples" take paved the way for influencers breaking upward in the public centre.
  • In July, YouTuber couple Joey Graceffa and Daniel Preda made their carve up public.
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If you type "nosotros broke upward" in YouTube'southward search bar, you'll find an countless list of videos, featuring thumbnail images of forlorn couples sitting side by side and gazing hopelessly into the camera.

Information technology used to be only celebrities would need to release a joint statement almost their uncoupling, only breakup videos on YouTube are a glaring reminder that when you're an influencer, your love life requires a public declaration.

Here are 16 YouTuber power couples that fabricated waves online for their very public and very dramatic breakup videos.

July 2020: Joey Graceffa and Daniel Preda

Joey Graceffa and Daniel Preda split in April of 2020, but they continued to live together and waited three months earlier announcing their breakup online.
Joey Graceffa/YouTube

YouTubers Joey Graceffa and Daniel Preda took to YouTube on July 12 to announce their split up after half-dozen years of dating.

Graceffa told his 9.4 million subscribers that the pair had cleaved upward three months prior, but they continued to live together amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

"It was plain not ideal timing," he said of the split.

While the breakup happened amid a pandemic and time of upheaval, the decision to get their separate ways was non a result of  "everything going on" in the world, the couple explained. Large issues in their human relationship, they said, simply came to light amidst lockdown.

"This has been coming for a bit, " Preda said, "And the world but slowed down and said, 'Wake up, b-tch, yous need to focus on yourself.'"

"We didn't actually accept whatsoever distractions to go on united states from what's been kinda building up over the by couple years," Graceffa added.

The couple has also worked out an agreement regarding the care of their dogs. Graceffa and Preda will be splitting up their pets, but they volition suit playdates for the pups and care for each other's animals when necessary.

February 2020: Scotty Sire and Kristen McAtee said they weren't "growing together" anymore.

Sire and McAtee, who take a combined 4 meg-subscriber following, appear their breakup in a YouTube video posted on February 5.
Scotty Sire/YouTube

YouTubers Scotty Sire and Kristen McAtee announced their breakup in early on February via a six-infinitesimal video uploaded to Sire'south channel, accordingly titled "we broke up."

Sire, whose YouTube channel boasts 2.9 million subscribers, met McAtee, who has her ain one.2 million-subscriber post-obit, in 2015. For the next five years, the ii produced content together and separately — from cooking vlogs, to relationship update videos, to imitations of friend David Dobrik's content.

"In that location's no right way to exercise this, and we might wait similar goofs right now," a teary McAtee joked in the video. "Simply we broke up."

"Information technology's difficult," Sire added, "but we know information technology'southward the correct thing."

Ultimately, McAtee said, the two had outgrown the relationship. "I think information technology just got to a point where we only grew apart. We weren't growing together anymore," she explained.

The exes assured viewers that they will remain friends, perhaps fifty-fifty reuniting for a cooking video. And McAtee will be keeping the couple's love dog, Link.

The video, at the time of this mail service, has received over 4 one thousand thousand views.

January 2020: Jeffree Star and Nathan Schwandt split over the pressures of viral fame.

Makeup mogul Jeffree Starr announced his breakdown with boyfriend Nathan Schwandt in January, just weeks after two posted a video tour of their new mansion.
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Makeup mogul and YouTube phenom Jeffree star announced his split with boyfriend Nathan Schwandt in a YouTube video titled "Nosotros Broke Up," posted on January 11.

"I never idea the day would come where I'd exist sitting here talking well-nigh this," Starr told his 17.four meg subscribers, confirming the rumors that began weeks earlier when Star disappeared from social media and removed all mentions of Schwandt from his profiles. "I'm starting this year off lonely."

The YouTube star explained that Schwandt, who appeared in multiple videos with Starr over the course of their five-year relationship, struggled to arrange to the pressures of viral fame. "It'due south hard because Nathan never wanted to be in the spotlight," he said.

The pain of the separate, Starr said, was compounded by betrayals from family.

"We've had family effort to accomplish out to the media to make money off of me and Nathan's breakup," he said. "I don't even know how to procedure that. We're over here heartbroken, dealing with our emotions, dealing with things behind the scenes and off-camera, and there'due south family trying to tell the media fake stories, get money out of it."

 Throughout the 17-minute video, Starr referred to Schwandt as his "soulmate" and his "i and only love."

Starr closed out the video by thanking his subscribers for their support and promising to return soon with makeup content.

The video, at the time of this post, has received over 30 meg views.

Jan 2020: Jake Paul and Tana Mongeau broke up to focus on their careers.

Jake Paul and Tana Mongeau dropped $500,000 on a Las Vegas wedding in July of 2019, although the 2 never obtained an official marriage license.
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YouTube royalty (and arguably, the most controversial creators on the platform) Jake Paul and Tana Mongeau took to Instagram to announce their split on January 2, just six months after their Las Vegas wedding.

The couple went public with their "human relationship" in April of 2019 past posting videos of their hangouts to their respective channels — simultaneously cuddling, admitting the videos were only to stoke the flames of YouTube gossip, and kissing. Paul even referred to the pair as "two of the biggest sociopaths on the Cyberspace."

Two months later, Paul proposed to Mongeau on her 21st first birthday, fueling ongoing defoliation nearly the legitimacy of the human relationship.  The couple's lavish July wedding — costing a reported $500,000 — involved private jets, a mansion, multiple wedding cakes, a replica of Jon Snowfall'due south sword from "Game of Thrones," and even a mid-ceremony fistfight.

The YouTube stars never actually made their union legal; the couple didn't sign a marriage license considering, equally Mongeau stated in a video about the wedding twenty-four hours, proverb legally-bounden paperwork "takes away the love."

Paul's Instagram post announcing the "break" from the human relationship, posted on January 2, featured a photo of the couple snuggling with their dog, Thor.

"Every bit Tana and I sit next to each other writing captions about taking a break we're literally laughing at how crazy and stupid the past couple months accept been," he wrote. The 22-year-former insisted that he wouldn't "change anything that happened" and that two remain "best friends."

He joked that while he would retain custody of their dog, Tana would be keeping his prized Lamborghini.

Ultimately, Paul said, the 2 needed to footstep back to focus on their ain lives and careers. "luv u mongeau," he closed out the post, which has since received 690,000 likes.

Mongeau posted an identical photograph and echoed her ex'due south sentiments.

"i'm happy to still be able to sit with Jake and laugh as we do this," she wrote. "i''ll never know what the futurity holds and i will always dear Jake and everything we did."

The 21-year-onetime expressed excitement for the new year, also joking near her "new Lamborghini."

"i love u Jakey. thank u for this past year," she closed out the post. It has since received 860,000 likes.

The separate came in the wake of an emotional video Mongeau posted to YouTube titled "the truth almost everything. (the wedding, jake, alissa, erika, mtv, mental health, drugs, etc)." In the clip, the YouTube star suggested that her relationship had been struggling since the wedding.

Finding out that Paul met upward with his ex-girlfriend YouTuber Erika Costell just a month afterward their vows, she said, rocked their already-fragile relationship. Paul releasing a new song virtually ex Alissa Violet, so posting an former photo of them kissing to his Instagram, only compounded the newlyweds' problems.

"I felt similar I was opening my phone every mean solar day to something that just broke me further," she said.

July 2019: Alissa Violet and FaZe Banks sparred on Twitter over his alleged infidelity.

FaZe Banks and Alissa Violet dated for almost ii years before announcing a seemingly-amicable carve up on Twitter. Months later, Violet would charge Banks of infidelity.
FaZe Banks/YouTube

After almost two years of dating, FaZe Banks and Alissa Violet — known as "Balissa" to their combined 9 million YouTube subscribers — ended their relationship, confirming rumors that began circulating days earlier when Violet unfollowed Banks on Twitter.

Before the split, the model and Chief Operating Officer of east-sports organization FaZe Association oftentimes appeared in each other's vlogs. In 2017, Banks fifty-fifty confirmed the relationship with a YouTube video titled "My New Girlfriend." Later that month, Violet posted a cryptic tweet that read "Alissa Violet Marie Banks," causing fans to speculate that the 2 were engaged.

Rather than opting for the traditional "We Bankrupt Up" video, Violet posted a uncomplicated tweet announcing the split.

"single violet thrives," she wrote, receiving over 80,000 likes.

Banks' tweet confirming the split up required several actress sentences.

"Love that daughter to decease and always will," he wrote. "I'll never say a bad word about her." The tweet, to date, has received over 165,000 likes.

While Banks insisted the breakup was "mutual" and that the two would remain friends, Violet took to Twitter months later to clarify the circumstances of the split.

In a tweet that received over 155,000 likes, the vlogger wrote that she caught Banks cheating on her in the guest fly of their house.

Banks, in between thousands of comments on the mail, wrote, "I love you," in response to the allegations, to which Violet replied with a screenshot of the one-time couple's text messages (with Banks listed as "scumbag" in her phone).

December 2018: Lance Stewart and Lizzy Wurst ended their human relationship to "find themselves" as individuals.

Loftier school sweethearts Lance Stewart and Lizzy Wurst announced their breakdown in a video posted to Stewart's channel of 5.7 million subscribers.
Lance Stewart/YouTube

High schoolhouse sweethearts and former Vine stars Lance Stewart and Lizzy wurst, who have a total of 7.1 million subscribers between their respective YouTube channels, posted a joint video to Stewart's channel titled "we broke upwards" in December of 2018.

"We are no longer together," Wurst said through tears.

"It'south a buildup of things over time," Stewart added, explaining that the couple had been "grouse" for the last 6 months.

The exes bodacious their subscribers that there was no bad blood.

"I volition always accept a honey for him," Wurst said, reminding viewers that the two began dating when she was only 14 years old. "I believe that u.s. separating is going to help us observe out who nosotros are every bit an individual."

The two followed through on their hope to remain friends, even reuniting on Wurst'south aqueduct in 2019 for an "ex-swain tag" video. To date, the breakup video has received over 4 meg views.

November 2018: Jake Paul and Erika Costell were "heartbroken" that they couldn't gear up their human relationship.

Jake Paul and Erika Costell kept their subscribers guessing about the condition of their relationship, staging a faux wedding in 2017.
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Jake Paul and Erika Costell, referred to as "Jerika" by their combined 24 million YouTube subscribers, dated for seven months earlier Paul announced their split on Twitter.

Over the grade of their relationship, the vloggers frequently featured each other in videos and kept their audiences guessing nearly the status of the human relationship. The couple even posted a YouTube video in 2017 in which they appeared to become married, although Paul claimed in an interview months later that the two were not married — or even dating.

The human relationship, it seemed, became legitimate earlier in 2018 when Costell was featured in Shane Dawson's "The Secrets of Jake Paul" documentary. The two were filmed holding easily and Dawson commented that the human relationship "didn't feel faux."

In his tweet announcing the split, Paul admitted to "barely holding information technology together" and chosen the split up "heartbreaking."

To date, the tweet has received over 52,000 likes.

September 2018: Laura Riihimaki (also known as LaurDIY) and Alex Burris (likewise known equally Alex Wassabi) said they weren't "on the same page."

"Laurex," as YouTubers LaurDIY and Alex Wassabi had come to be known, insisted their breakup was non over for good, but simply "taking a nap."
LaurDIY/YouTube

Laura Riihimaki, known as LaurDIY to her 8.9 meg YouTube subscribers, and vlogger Alex Wassabi announced the end of their three-twelvemonth relationship in a video posted to Riihimaki's aqueduct in September of 2018. "Laurex," as the couple was referred to by fans, insisted the relationship wasn't over for good — only "taking a nap."

"Basically, we just feel like nosotros both need specific things and we're not fully on the same page and we demand to take time apart," Riihimaki said. "Then for united states of america to come back better and stronger, nosotros have to take time and focus on ourselves."

To date, the video has been viewed over 12 million times.

June 2018: Liza Koshy and David Dobrik said they grew "distant" in their human relationship.

Vlogger Liza Koshy and David Dobrik announced their split in a YouTube video posted 6 months after the ii had gone their separate ways.
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Over the course of their two-year relationship, vloggers David Dobrik and Liza Koshy had get one of YouTube's about honey couples, posting content chronicling their joint Target runs and disastrous vacations. The Dobrik & Koshy content, however, came to an cease with a video titled "We Broke Up," posted to Dobrik's aqueduct.

The split up, they said in the emotional six-infinitesimal video, actually happened half-dozen months prior, just the pair was planning to remain friends and re-evaluate their relationship in the future.

"Liza broke upwardly with me because she felt similar we've been kind of afar considering we've simply been so busy. Period," Dobrik said. "And, as much equally I hate to admit it, I was feeling that on my side, too."

The exes made an effort to continue the video light.

"How's my hair?" Dobrik asked Koshy.

"Receding," she joked.

The viral video has received threescore million views to date. Koshy, cheers to the widespread interest in the couple, fifty-fifty appeared on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" to talk over the split.

The vlogger-turned-actress explained that she and Dobrik needed vi months to process their breakup before broadcasting it to their combined 33 million subscribers.

"We wanted to heal first," she said. "We wanted to give ourselves some time to come to an understanding and be able to exist all-time friends and be in each other's lives still without existence in a romantic relationship and still be able to create online."

Colbert offered his sage advice on the couple'southward connected friendship, calling it a "terrible thought."

May 2018: Jaclyn Hill and Jon Hill said they "grew autonomously" over the course of their nine-year union.

Jon Loma frequently appeared in videos on beauty YouTuber Lauren Hill'southward channel while the ii were married. They announced their divorce in May of 2018.
Jaclyn Hill/YouTube

Beauty YouTuber Jaclyn Hill and her husband of nine years, Jon Hill, announced their divorce via matching Instagram posts in May of 2018. The announcement followed months of speculation from fans later the two unfollowed each other on social media and the makeup guru was noticeably absent from her channel, where she has 5.9 meg subscribers.

In her Instagram post, Loma stressed that choosing to divorce was "one of the hardest decisions" of their lives, but they were confident that they'd fabricated the correct motion.

"My center is broken by this, but I even so believe in beloved," she wrote.

A postal service shared by J A C L Y N 😜 (@jaclynhill)

The mail has received over 660,000 likes to date.

Jon echoed his married woman's sentiments.

"This is obviously not the hereafter we envisioned," he wrote, citing "growing apart" over the course of their decade-long relationship as the impetus for the split.

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October 2016: Colleen Ballinger and Joshua David Evans said their union had some "terrible times" that subscribers never saw.

Colleen Ballinger and Joshua Evans chronicled their entire relationship online, from their first appointment to their wedding vows.
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YouTube icon Colleen Ballinger, known for her online persona Miranda Sings, devastated fans in an emotional YouTube video announcing her divorce from husband Joshua Evans. The couple, who chronicled their unabridged relationship online, from their commencement date to their wedding vows, developed a devoted online post-obit.

The epitome the couple created online, Ballinger said in the now-deleted video, was not the total moving-picture show.

"We accept always had a rocky relationship since the beginning, we've always butted heads, we've ever fought ever since we met. Information technology's never been a perfect relationship," she said through tears. "We've chosen to share our relationship online. You lot've watched us date, become engaged, get married. We've shown you everything considering we wanted to and I don't regret whatever of that but, you lot know, we chose to not share with you the hard parts of our relationship and there were a lot of hard parts of our human relationship.

Evans posted a video of his ain titled "Heartbroken," in which he suggested that the human relationship had been rocky. "Nosotros've had some great times and terrible times over the past viii years," said.

He clarified that the divorce, withal, was non a mutual decision.

"I exercise not want this divorce," he said. "I want her just I truly believe she thinks she's making the right decision right now and I tin can't make her decisions for her."

May 2016: Jesse Wellens and Jeana Smith said working together was "not good for you" for a relationship.

Jesse Wellens and Jeana Smith, who frequently filmed prank videos together, said that the stresses of working together strained their human relationship.
Jeana Smith/YouTube

YouTubers Jesse Wellens and Jeana Smith, known for their PrankvsPrank and BFvsGF videos, announced their split in 2016 with a video posted to Smith's channel titled "A NEW CHAPTER."

Working together to constantly produce content, the couple said, strained their partnership.

"Don't make daily videos," Smith brash her 8.8 million followers. "Nosotros both tin agree it's not healthy, it'southward non skillful for your relationship."

Several days afterwards posting the breakup announcement, Wellens told his followers in a series of now-deleted tweets that he believed he had a long-lost teenage daughter — and he planned to move to New York City where the girl lived with an adoptive family.

March 2016: Hannah Hart and Ingrid Nilson decided to become their separate ways while remaining friends.

Hannah Hart and Ingrid Nilson were given the couple name "Hangrid" past devoted subscribers.
Hannah Hart/YouTube

"My Drunkard Kitchen" star Hannah Hart and boyfriend YouTuber Ingrid Nilson, dubbed "Hangrid" by their subscribers, shocked fans by announcing their split via Twitter in March of 2016.

The vloggers, who appeared on each other's channels and walked reddish carpets together over the form of the relationship, appeared to be smitten.

"To have a peer who is also my partner, who does what I do and gets this world, this world that we alive in, simply also gets the world inside ourselves? Oh my god. I couldn't exist happier," Hart said in a feature in DIVA Magazine's October 2015 result.

The divide, Hart insisted in her tweet confirming the breakup, was amicable. "Ingrid is an incredible woman," she wrote. "She remains my personal hero in more means than ane."

The tweet, to appointment, has received over 10,000 likes.

Nilson posted a now-deleted tweet of her own in which she said that she would always "beloved Hannah across words" and that the two had broken upward months earlier, but delayed a breakdown announcement while they took fourth dimension to process the divide and worked on "building a friendship."

July 2015: Shane Dawson and Lisa Schwartz said they felt both "joy" and devastation over their determination to split.

YouTube stars Shane Dawson and Lisa Schwartz announced their split in 2015. Soon thereafter, Dawson came out as bisexual in a video uploaded to his aqueduct.
Lisa Schwartz/YouTube

Over the course of their iv-year relationship, YouTubers Shane Dawson and Lisa Schwartz solidified their identify as one of the internet's favorite power couples. The pair, who frequently posted videos together, shocked fans in July of 2015 when they announced their split.

Days after the declaration, Dawson posted a coming out video titled "I'm Bisexual."

In the xiv-minute video, which has since received over x one thousand thousand views, Dawson discussed his struggle to come to terms with his sexuality and how Schwartz fully supported him when he opened up to her.

"I dont know who I'm gonna stop up with, and I don't know what my life is gonna exist," he said, "but I just wanna be honest about it."

Schwartz uploaded a video of her own to address the split, titled "Explaining My Breakup."

"I feel a lot of joy for Shane," she said through tears, "because for years I watched him endure. And for years I hurt for him. And at the time, I didn't know why he was suffering."

Despite the pain from the split, Schwartz explained, she knew the decision had given both her and Dawson a risk to live a happier time to come.

"I was able to help give him this opportuntiy to be himself," she said, "and now I'm too able to aid myself and give myself the all-time chance of being free, of having the ability to notice someone who's able to love me fully."

Schwartz added that she would repeat the relationship "in a heartbeat" and would always love Dawson.

The video has since received over 5 million views.

Years later, in July of 2019, the couple would revisit their breakup in a video titled "What Actually Happened (with Shane Dawson)," posted to Schwartz'due south channel.

In the video, the former couple addressed some of the misconceptions surrounding their carve up — mainly, the rumor that Dawson's sexuality acquired the breakup. In reality, the two said, they were grappling with emotional and mental health issues.

"That period of fourth dimension was quite dark considering I remember nosotros needed each other because we were both lost in then many different means — career then many different things," Dawson said in the clip. "It was very much a family bond and trauma bonding, almost."

Schwartz recalled just how bittersweet the split was and how she forced to confront conflicting emotions.

"Breakups are atrocious and the i with you was so painful. Merely and then at the same time, I was and so proud because one time nosotros got by that stuff, then I was proud for you," she said.

Since the split, Schwartz has gone on to write a book titled "Thirty-Life Crisis" and has gotten engaged to comedian Jeff Galante. Meanwhile, Dawson has grown his massive online following and gotten engaged to fellow YouTuber Ryland Adams.

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