Black Pigeon Speaks

Felix Lace better known online as Black Pigeon Speaks is a political, social commentary, and vlogging channel discussing a variety of topics such as politics, news, current events, and vlogging. As of June 2019, he has ammassed over 500,000 subscribers.

History
Black Pigeon Speaks created his channel on November 13th, 2011. He became more active within the YouTube political scene in 2016, and began gaining a following.

BPS analyzes current event, online events, and other related material from a right wing point of view. His channel began growing throughout 2016 due to his unique approach of presenting information without overtly showing his bias.

Due to the content of his nature, Black Pigeon Speaks has attracted some critics during his YouTube career, mainly by media firms and RationalWiki. Many of his detracters call him a conspiracy theorist without muchh evidence although he has gotten into a fair bit of actual controversy with other YouTubers in the recent past.

On June 4th, 2019, YouTube terminated his monetization on his channel. Nine days later, BPS was banned from YouTube temporarily until his content was restored.

Controversy
Being a political and social-based channel, BPS has been involved in controversy in the past.

Kraut:
On December 2018, Kraut uploaded a video accusing Black Pigeon Speaks of plagiarizing his videos and content. In reponse to Kraut’s accusations, BPS uploaded a two hour long video refuting Kraut’s claims. This resulted in Kraut losing subscribers to under 100k subs.

Monetization Ban and Channel Termination:
On June 4th, 2019, BPS was one of the many channels whose monetization was banned completely in reponse to the VoxAdpocalypse. Nine days later on June 13th, 2019 BPS had his channel terminated by YouTube temporarily. This resulted in a large controversy as YouTube banned a channel with a considerable follower base. Several YouTubers weighed in on this scandal that broke out.