Born under the lucky zodiac sign of Pisces is Durv, the insanely famous YouTube personality best known for his bottle flip contests and sky-high appeals in videos. The British YouTube vlogger did a lot to make his name one of YouTube’s top moguls of his time with a channel boasting around 2 million subscribers.
For those who know little or nothing about what we’re talking about, here are important facts about Dylan McEvoy, also known as Durv, and the reasons he was fired.
Who is Durv?
The YouTube star was born in Crawley, England on March 14, 2003. He launched his first YouTube channel in July 2016, introducing himself as ItzDurv in a video titled ‘Shoutout Sunday #01 – Grow Your Channel! Gain active subscribers! ”. Durv quickly gained popularity with his tips for giving freebies with gift cards. He would win over his fans by handing out a free gift card at the start of each of his videos and ask his followers to subscribe, press the bell and leave a comment in order to take part in the giveaway and, if possible, receive a gift. menu. Most of his highly watched videos have him talking about a killer clown. In fact, in one of his videos, he pranked a McDonald’s with a John Cena voice. Unknown to its subscribers,
Even though his YouTube channels were growing, Durv was heavily criticized for using this clickbait to get rich indirectly through the viewer’s subscription. In October 2016, he already had more than one hundred thousand subscribers. That grew by a bigger one from that month until April 2017, when he hit one million subscribers. To prove how quickly the channel was growing, Durv already had around 1.4 million subscribers by the end of May 2017, barely a year after its launch.
Why was he fired?
On May 31, 2017, Durv’s channel was shut down for “violating YouTube Community Guidelines”, the termination came months after he uploaded a video in which he claimed his school was threatening to terminate his chain. Even though he was gaining a lot of popularity from his uploaded videos, Durv knew that he had a lot of enemies basically from those who knew all about his pranks. His videos also had a large number of likes, as his channel was said to have bots that allowed him to have pretty much the same likes and likes.
What made Durv “MY SCHOOL REMOVED MONCHANNEL” has been controversial because it got one of the biggest subscriptions and the biggest audience. According to reports on YouTube, Durv has had over 6 million views as many have been introduced to the infamous ‘Do you want to participate in my free giveaway with a gift card’ series? He also claimed that one of the reasons his channel was shut down was because he uploaded videos three times in a row promoting violence, “which he said includes, ‘throwing a ball of snow in a car. Oddly enough, Durv knew his video content was also bad. He even makes jokes about it on his Twitter account, which also has many followers.
On June 26, 2017, an unnamed person exposed Durv as a liar and a cheat, pointing out that the design of the XBOX Live Gift Card that Durv used to attract his viewers did not resemble the design of the XBOX Live Gift Card from 2017 It was more like a 2012 XBOX gift card. Also, it was revealed that other card designs, like the iTunes gift card, were older than they looked and the Club Penguin was no longer a game. Another indication of his claimed gift card giveaway was that he had mistakenly called a “$500 gift card giveaway” forgetting to use UK currency.
Ten months after his channel ended, he was reinstated and to officially announce his return, Durv released a new video in April 2018 which he named “I’m Back”. In the video, he claimed that he was done making gift card videos and would “make videos that everyone would want to watch.” He, however, lost around 97,000 subscribers, but despite his loss, the young YouTuber is also gaining more subscribers and viewers. His channel is said to have over 3,000 views and around 2,500 likes, compared to 203 likes.