YouTuber Christopher “Direct D” Ruff continued to act as his self-appointed role as enforcer of the first amendment auditing community with an extended livestream attacking former mentor San Joaquin Valley Transparency.
Ruff was joined by an auditor named “Mars,” real name Mitchell, who recently had one of his channels that was co run by San Joaquin Valley Transparency deleted by San Joaquin due to a dispute over monetizing the channel.
Mitchell said that he had moved to California from Colorado to work with San Joaquin but eventually problems developed between the two of them as Mitchell did not want to monetize his channel when San Joaquin wanted him to monetize the channel in San Joaquin’s wife’s name.
After several discussions and continued disagreement, Mitchell said that he woke up one morning to find that the channel was deleted by San Joaquin without warning. With San Joaquin then disparaging him and claiming he “owned” Mitchell.
The actions triggered Ruff, who had previously worked as an editor for San Joaquin in a similar situation, where he left Arizona for California to work with the YouTuber. The pair had a falling out as well after Ruff helped build San Joaquin’s channel to tremendous success.
Ruff revealed a series of text messages where he claims San Joaquin admitted to filing content strikes on multiple YouTube creators using sock accounts, including Lackluster, James Freeman and SeanPaul “Long Island Audit” Reyes and bragged about causing at least one creator to lose his channel completely.
After reading the texts, Ruff also claimed that San Joaquin had been taking a picture of Ruff’s partner buying a handgun and claiming that it was Ruff buying the handgun. Ruff is not allowed to own any firearms as he is a convicted felon. Being caught with a gun as felon is a class four felony and can bring a sentence of two years and six months in prison.
Ruff said he was tired of the community not policing itself and he would do his best to continue to call out members of the community who acted out of line, including Jose “Chille” DeCastro, in the future.
Why this sounds as if the so-called community was all about clicks and views and that sweet YouTube money and not about any so-called issues of the first amendment.
Hard to imagine, even harder to believe…
Unless, of course, you been around this so-called community for like 5 minutes or less