Undoubtedly the biggest black mark on the Yogscast's history, Yogventures! was a project to create an ambitious, feature-rich video game based on the Yogscast's Minecraft adventures. This game would be created by small studio Winterkewl Games, but of course, funded by the fans.
13,647 backers pledged a total of $567,665 on Kickstarter (
Archive), and then Winterkewl ran off with the money. Or, according to Winterkewl, when development foundered, the money was transferred to the Yogscast, who ran off with it. Either way, the project failed with nothing to show for it but concept art and optimistic videos. The Yogscast were quick to note that they were not
technically beholden to their fans or their promises, and it was just out of the goodness of their hearts that they did send out physical rewards, and free keys to another studio's game in the same vein as Yogventures!, called TUG. TUG was not just in the same vein, but probably part of the same lump of ore: that studio soon also ditched their game.
Lewis Alan Brindley / BlueXephos / Xephos
One of the two founding members, alongside Simon Lane, and the de facto leader. Read out some fanfiction featuring him and Simon, without permission, on stream, and Tumblr got in a tizzy. Several times got roaring drunk and made an ass of himself. Told Tumblr to go fuck themselves on stream. Claimed that he was sexually harassing his personal trainer because he felt insecure (yes, all of that is what
he claimed). Told Notch that Minecraft only got popular because of the Yogscast, and seems to think that excuses his bad behavior, such as swearing in front of kids at Minecon, and reportedly hogging game demos as well.
Simon Charles Lane / Honeydew
The other founding member. Got in a fight with Totalbiscuit and called him a "crying pissbabby" on Twitter. This was one of TB's reasons for breaking off contact with the Yogscast. Nowadays, Simon seems to have relegated himself to the sidelines.
Hannah Rutherford / Lomadia
The Yogscast used to have a main channel and a Yogscast2 channel. When Hannah joined, they gave her Yogscast2, and it promptly died because Hannah is no fun. She's bitter, crabby, no doubt eggless, and spends most of her time bitching at brands on Twitter. A while ago, some teenager told Hannah's friend
Laura Kate Dale to kill himself for being a troon. So, Hannah
doxxed the kid (
Archive). At the time, she thought he was 12 years old, and while she didn't post his actual name, she did tag his school, and laid out exactly where to find the rest of his info. Even Dale later publically asked "folk" to please refrain from doxxing. Doxxing seems to be her primary weapon; previously she posted a guy's full name and some info about his house and his blue front door after he messed with her eBay auction. She doesn't seem to be a Yogscast member anymore and I've no idea the circumstances of her departure.
Paul Sykes / Sjin
Early member, has now left under suspicion of pedophilia. Several years ago, he exchanged awkward flirty messages with a few fans, including at least one American 16 year old, and gave out his room number at a convention to a fan. No one called the police, but
there were screenshots on Tumblr (
Archive), consternation from a few other Yogscast members, including his girlfriend, and an "internal investigation" (nothing came of it). Later, when Matthew Meredith and Mark Turpin were also accused of misconduct, the Yogscast said they reached out to a third party to reinvestigate, and Sjin vanished with no official or unofficial statement. Him being a nonce with a thing for dressing up as Elsa, my bet is he'll troon out.
Mark Turpin / Turps / Turpster
The (former) CEO of the Yogscast, who has now stepped down after asking a 17 year old for nudes and sending a video of himself jerking off to a fan on Snapchat, presumably without his wife's knowledge.
Matthew Meredith / Caffcast / Caff
Largely unpopular and boring, briefly a member and then left when he was found to be trying to make a harem out of his volunteer Twitch mods.
Steven Goates / Ridgedog / Ridge
Used to be in charge of running their Minecraft servers, then got a fan pregnant and quit the company and the country. Now gets sad and drunk on livestreams and claims he did it all by choice and the rest of the Yogscast were just jealous. Other incidents include telling a trans fan to hang themselves, asking an "acesexual" fan if she masturbated and assuming the affirmative when she refused to answer, and firing Pat Woodward / Peva by changing the password on his Facebook account and sending him vague threats about his other social media accounts.
Zoeya / Zoey Proasheck
Claims to be a lesbian,
actually a troon. Powerword so far unknown. Frequently passive-aggressively snivels at other members for being politically incorrect. Dating Fiona Riches / Saberial, who seems to be a real woman, despite claiming nonbinary.
Bea Baron / BasicallyBea
Publically a troon, otherwise irrelevant. Joined up and was given the family friendly Yogscast Conquest channel, which tanked even further than it already had, because Bea is boring. Danielle Partis, a "journalist", is his cousin, and didn't disclose that when giving him a glowing interview, but even then no one cared.
Several identical Twitch thots:
Radderss
Geestargames / Geestar
MissMousieMouse / Mousie
Leozaur / Leo
Bouphe
One of them was basically using her Yogscast position to advertise her lewds on Patreon. One of them had her email hacked and the hacker claimed she was selling her used underwear. One of them shaved herself bald on stream for attention. One of them claimed to have been propositioned by Sjin after he had already left the company. One of them "unintentionally" showed off her bare legs right in front of the camera on an official stream (Sjin was the one who pulled a chair over to block the view). One of them is transparently pursuing Lewis. One of them is named Hannah. Which ones did what? No idea, they all look exactly the same. Such is the state of "diversity" hires.
Harry Marshall / Barry / VeteranHarry
Current main artist, seems to have taken over Turps' role as community manager. Previously got in trouble for ripping off a hoodie design, or, as the official apology put it, "being a little too inspired", oops, UwU!
Tinman
Ancient history. Used to run the Yogscast website, and got fired when it turned out he embezzled several thousand dollars by redirecting their advertising money to his own account.
Links
Yogscast Wiki - Fanmade wiki. Has some trivia and personal history, but obviously they have a bias and don't show the worst of the drama.
Official Yogscast Subreddit - Seems to be the biggest hub for their fans, and they fairly frequently drop in to give announcements and answer questions. The wiki here has links to the social media pages for each member (check the history for former members).
Drama Highlights as of 2014 by YogPetShame on Tumblr (
Archive) - The rest of the blog has tags for each member (append /chrono to the URL to get the tag in order), and while it's clogged up with commentary, SJW sperging, and self-righteousness, there is plenty of info, including links and screenshots. Not much in the way of
proper archives, though.