DailyMail | The wildly popular Toy Freaks YouTube
channel featuring a single dad and his two daughters has been deleted,
amid a broader crackdown on disturbing children's content on the video
streaming platform.
Toy Freaks, founded
two years ago by landscaper Greg Chism of Granite City, Illinois, had
8.53million subscribers and was among the 100 most-viewed YouTube
channels before it was shutdown on Friday.
Though
it's unclear what exact policy the channel violated, the videos showed
the girls in unusual situations that often involved gross-out food play
and simulated vomiting. The channel invented the 'bad baby' genre, and
some videos showed the girls pretending to urinate on each other or
fishing pacifiers out of the toilet.
Another series of videos showed the younger daughter Annabelle wiggling her loose teeth out while shrieking and spitting blood.
'He is profiting off of his children's pain and suffering,' one indignant Reddit user
wrote about the channel last year. 'It's barf inducing and no mentally
stable person or child should ever have to watch it.'
A
YouTube spokesperson said in a statement: 'It's not always clear that
the uploader of the content intends to break our rules, but we may still
remove their videos to help protect viewers, uploaders and children.
We've terminated the Toy Freaks channel for violation of our policies.
