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"Ashley S." is a YouTube commentator who rose to infamy in 2019 for lying, stealing, and bullying others. To give you an idea of the persona she put on in her videos, Ashley liked to pronounce her channel's name "Madame Ash" as "Muh-dah-may" like that of an autistic weeaboo. She ran with the channel's name for a while up until some young artists and an underwear salesman publicly called her out on her bullshit, though more on that later. This would result in Ashley retiring the channel's name and changing it to "Princess Ash" in a poor attempt to rebrand, which is what she currently goes by today. Nonetheless, she likes to describe herself as a female, "less-edgy" version of LeafyisHere (Calvin Marquez)*. In reality, Ashley has completely plagiarized Leafy's identity (which wasn't very original to begin with) to the point of just slapping her own face on his avatar for the sole purpose of merchandising.
While hardly the worst of examples, to call Ashley a lazy hack fraud by the end of the OP would be an understatement.
Note: Ashley is known for deleting a lot of her social media posts and such, so make sure to screenshot and archive everything.
Sauce (Archive)
The Fake Onision Lolsuit
Before all the drama unfolded and truly propelled Ashley into infamy, what really put her name on the map were her videos covering Onision (Greg) of all people. Now, unlike most commentary or reaction videos that would shit on Greg for his terrible writing, videos and behavior, Ashely took things a step further: She planned on suing Greg in small claims court for him falsely copyright striking one of her videos. This naturally caught many people's attention, with many of them subscribing to her channel and donating money to help fund the lawsuit. Some time would pass, however, with there being little to no updates from her about it. It wasn't until the aforementioned underwear salesman, MrRepzion (Daniel Sulzbach), exposed Ashley for completely lying about the lawsuit and defrauding her supporters.
Essentially, Ashley refused to provide any proof of her filing the lawsuit, saying in a now deleted 2-hour rant video that she'd delete the footage of her filing it because people were being mean to her. As it turns out, rather than go to court in Washington, she instead went to go see a concert. The ex-friend she stayed with in Washington talked a lot of shit about Ashley, saying how she was incredibly ungrateful and a terrible house guest. Main takeaways were her using up over 16 rolls of toilet paper for unknown reasons, asking her friend to leave work to bring her weed, and snooping around the house in order to steal things while covering up the home security cameras. There have also been rumors of her using the lawsuit money to buy an expensive handbag, though I have yet to see any actual evidence that corroborates this claim.
Update: According to BlackWolfCompany's video (featured at bottom of the OP), the purchase of the ugly, expensive handbag has been confirmed to be true.
Following the incident, Ashley has taken down the Onision videos and refuses to own up to any wrongdoing on her part. Thankfully, those videos have been archived and can be found here.
Too Cheap to Pay in Exposure
In addition to lying and defrauding her fans, Ashley would find herself in some more drama with the art community:
(Archive 1 / Archive 2)
Imagine trying to be a dedicated "social media influencer" with your most viewed video having a roughly 97% dislike ratio. Truly incredible.
One of the only posts Slimurz left up on her Instagram in regards to Ashley using her art (archive).
Mocafuwa's twitter thread explaining the situation (archive).
There have been a handful of response videos and videos covering the art community drama, though I'll leave these ones here from Nawnii for the sake of consistency:
General Unprofessionalism
Art Created by Empty-Brooke for their own video's thumbnail (video featured down below)
Ever since the two videos dropped, every single video on Ashley's channel has been disliked bombed to Hell and back. And to add insult to injury, she previously put out a Q&A video in celebration of her reaching 50k subscribers, only to then lose 7k subscribers from all the drama. As a result, she went on to change her channel name from "Madame Ash" to "Princess Ash", claiming it was being done for personal reasons and that the ongoing drama has had absolutely no effect on her. There was also a supposed announcement she made about her going homeless and being unable to use her Madame name for legal reasons, though couldn't quite find anything official outside of Daniel's video from before.
Source / Archive
Now that Ashley was under heavy scrutiny, some other instances of her terrible behavior would manage to crop up. Much of this has been consolidated on her lolcow thread (archive), which I highly recommend checking out for a complete overview:
Most recently, as of today (1/7/20), Ashley put out a video (archive) where she wants to raise money via livestream with another individual for an Australian charity. Even if the money's meant to be donated directly to the charity, many people are wary of donating due to the past crowdfunding scam she pulled. Unsurprisingly, she chooses to ignore the haters and instead likes + responds to any positive comments she gets.
Update 1: Ashley basically left the guy who was doing the charity stream to fend for himself in the comments. From there they had a falling out (no surprise), and he's since come out and told people about more of the shitty behavior she's pulled.
Update 2: Her channels have been terminated by YouTube on October 11, 2020 for violating ToS. According to her Patreon, she is still active on YouTube under a different (secret) channel. She plans on making some sort of comeback in May, 2021, though it's unlikely that she'll ever manage to shake off her negative reputation.
Additional Summary Videos:
A huge thank you to @Pizza Time for providing me with a lot of the info used in this thread. Link to his initial post here.
Thank you to @zedkissed60 for initially looking into her dox for me.
And thank you as always to @Ride for giving me good feedback.
While hardly the worst of examples, to call Ashley a lazy hack fraud by the end of the OP would be an understatement.
For those unfamiliar with Calvin, you can check out his thread to get an idea of what he's like. If for some reason you want a whole rundown of his history, you can watch this amateur documentary by EmpLemon here: Part 1 and Part 2.
Otherwise, for a short summation:
Calvin became incredibly popular for his brash commentary videos making fun of young teens, autistic people, and a bunch of other lolcows over gameplay footage. For that, he's typically regarded as one of, if not the leading figure who influenced the commentary genre to become what it is today. While some drama between himself and other creators/personalities (such as GradeAUnderA, H3H3, and Keemstar) would further snowball his success, much of it was short-lived as he found himself feeling less inclined to keep making videos. This soon lead to his abandonment of the channel and the platform entirely around 2017. Since then, many people like Ashley have created "Leafy clone channels" as they wish to emulate the same success Leafy once held on the platform.
Otherwise, for a short summation:
Calvin became incredibly popular for his brash commentary videos making fun of young teens, autistic people, and a bunch of other lolcows over gameplay footage. For that, he's typically regarded as one of, if not the leading figure who influenced the commentary genre to become what it is today. While some drama between himself and other creators/personalities (such as GradeAUnderA, H3H3, and Keemstar) would further snowball his success, much of it was short-lived as he found himself feeling less inclined to keep making videos. This soon lead to his abandonment of the channel and the platform entirely around 2017. Since then, many people like Ashley have created "Leafy clone channels" as they wish to emulate the same success Leafy once held on the platform.
Note: Ashley is known for deleting a lot of her social media posts and such, so make sure to screenshot and archive everything.
Sauce (Archive)
The Fake Onision Lolsuit
Before all the drama unfolded and truly propelled Ashley into infamy, what really put her name on the map were her videos covering Onision (Greg) of all people. Now, unlike most commentary or reaction videos that would shit on Greg for his terrible writing, videos and behavior, Ashely took things a step further: She planned on suing Greg in small claims court for him falsely copyright striking one of her videos. This naturally caught many people's attention, with many of them subscribing to her channel and donating money to help fund the lawsuit. Some time would pass, however, with there being little to no updates from her about it. It wasn't until the aforementioned underwear salesman, MrRepzion (Daniel Sulzbach), exposed Ashley for completely lying about the lawsuit and defrauding her supporters.
Credit to @Pizza Time for the entire summation of the video.
- [2:22] Madame believes she started the trend of paying for and reviewing (specifically Onision's) Patreon content, humblebrags about "inspiring others creators" while simultaneously being passive aggressive about other people "copying her." Repzion shows DMs between himself and Ash discussing this.
- [7:52] Uses Patreon to fund a small claims court lolsuit against Onision over copyright abuse. Repzion shows more DMs between himself and Ash, showing his willingness to help her and even show up in person at the courthouse.
- [10:15] Repzion goes over the actual process of Small Claims Case with the local court system Ash was supposed to be using (which Rep has used himself). Notably he points out there will be a confirmation number when you file which is public record.
- [11:42] Shows a clip from a (now deleted) 2 hour drama rant video by Ash where she says she refuses to update anyone regarding the lawsuit because people are being mean to her.
She claims to have video of her going to the courthouse but again refuses to update anyone, including the people who paid her. Repzion once again brings up all she'd need to do is post the filing number so people could check out updates themselves. He looked up her name and did not see anything - [18:30] Shows screenshots of text messages between Ashley and an unknown "ex-friend" that she stayed with in Washington where Ashley claims to have spent $6k on legal advice when small claims court pay out caps out at $5k. Ashley provides several court different dates. Repzion looks up all the court dates and there is no evidence of any case being filed.
- [20:02] Begins talking about the art theft. Shows a clip from one of the rant videos.
- Ash saw some fan art and contacted the artist (_smilurs_cryaotic_ on Instagram) about getting a commission of some stills. Slimurs was 15 and didn't have a Paypal, Ash insists on paying them somehow so Slimurs asks for friendship, conversation, and a verbal shout out in a video.
- Ash says she gives Slimurs her personal discord and phone number. She also complains that it took 2 weeks for her to get the stills. She posts the video using Slimurs' art in the thumbnail and Slimurs makes a comment on it asking why she wasn't credited as agreed.
- Ash gets upset that she made it public rather than contacting her in private. She lambasts Smilurs for not being professional (despite her being an actual child, not a professional). Ash claims she thought she only needed to credit if she used the stills in the actual video, not the thumbnail.
- [32:04] Recorded discord voice chat with Ashley's ex-friend from Washington. Discord is (at the time) lilithlevity20
- They've known each other since at least 6th grade. Ashley has always been a bully. 1-2 years ago, she made a Gofundme for Lily (the ex-friend) to get lip injections as a joke. She apparently had about 10 different Facebook accounts.
- She came to visit for a concert in September, stayed at this Lily's house for a week. Lily's wife bought the concert ticket and Ashley never thanked her. She bought the ticket to arrive in September and THEN called Lily to say she was coming to visit. Originally the agreement was she would be coming to visit in October for a the court date.
- She was a disrespectful house guest, lied and stole from Lily and her wife and roommates, made rude comments to and about Lily's mother and wife. She was bratty and entitled, requesting Lily leave work to bring her marijuana.
- Lily had (since auto-deleted) home security video of Ash saying she wanted to call Animal Control on Lily and her wife because they left their bunny in a cage while they were at work. This got her kicked out of Lily and wife's room and put in a room upstairs.
- Ash claims she repeatedly knocked on Lily's room trying to see if she was home, video revealed she knocked quietly once, then busted the door in and started snooping in the room. Lily texts her telling her to shut the door to her room, Ash walks back into the room and covered the camera. Audio picked up her continuing the snoop around.
- She used over 16 toilet paper rolls. Lily doesn't know why or how.
- She trashed her side of the room when she was in Lily's room. Left cups everywhere and stuck gum on the walls, didn't clean up her trash. When told to clean the upstairs room she was dumped in, she brought down 2 full bags of trash and left them in the house rather than taking it to the trash bin outside, saying she had to carry her suitcase.
- [46:40] shows a screenshot of her claiming on discord to be abandoning her "Madame" persona due to IRL reasons.
Update: According to BlackWolfCompany's video (featured at bottom of the OP), the purchase of the ugly, expensive handbag has been confirmed to be true.
Following the incident, Ashley has taken down the Onision videos and refuses to own up to any wrongdoing on her part. Thankfully, those videos have been archived and can be found here.
Too Cheap to Pay in Exposure
In addition to lying and defrauding her fans, Ashley would find herself in some more drama with the art community:
- A former fan of hers named Slimurz was a 15 year old artist that Ashley commissioned.
- Slimurz did not own a PayPal account due to her age and instead asked to be paid in exposure, which Ashley agreed to.
- Ashley would use the art in her videos and such without crediting Slimurz, to which Slimurz complained about it in the video's comment section.
- Ashley and Slimurz would try and sort things out in some DMs, though Ashley would later pull a 180 and intentionally not credit Slimurz.
- To make matters worse, Ashley then decided to dox Slimurz's phone number (which happened to be either her Skype number or a burner number) and create multiple lies about Slimurz, including her age and a supposed sexual assault.
- Atrocious video drops, art community calls her out on her bullshit.
- Ashley keeps calling the artist "very unprofessional" the entire time, which has now become a bit of a meme at her own expense.
- Another artist, a 14 year old named Mocafuwa, was targeted by Ashley in a followup video about the art community being toxic (this being the artist who did the "Leafy-inspired" merch designs and an icon of hers).
- Ashley completely lies about the artist, calling her at one point a clout chaser.
- Once again doxes the artist, this time an email address via a screenshot.
- Artist responds to the video via Twitter, disproving all of the lies she fabricated (Twitter thread found below).
Imagine trying to be a dedicated "social media influencer" with your most viewed video having a roughly 97% dislike ratio. Truly incredible.
One of the only posts Slimurz left up on her Instagram in regards to Ashley using her art (archive).
Mocafuwa's twitter thread explaining the situation (archive).
There have been a handful of response videos and videos covering the art community drama, though I'll leave these ones here from Nawnii for the sake of consistency:
While yes, Ashley is a scumbag and a generally awful person, some of these commenters are really something else. According to them, Ashely broke the law for "breaking her end of a contract."
Imagine losing a court case for not paying someone in exposure.
Imagine losing a court case for not paying someone in exposure.
General Unprofessionalism
Art Created by Empty-Brooke for their own video's thumbnail (video featured down below)
Ever since the two videos dropped, every single video on Ashley's channel has been disliked bombed to Hell and back. And to add insult to injury, she previously put out a Q&A video in celebration of her reaching 50k subscribers, only to then lose 7k subscribers from all the drama. As a result, she went on to change her channel name from "Madame Ash" to "Princess Ash", claiming it was being done for personal reasons and that the ongoing drama has had absolutely no effect on her. There was also a supposed announcement she made about her going homeless and being unable to use her Madame name for legal reasons, though couldn't quite find anything official outside of Daniel's video from before.
Source / Archive
Now that Ashley was under heavy scrutiny, some other instances of her terrible behavior would manage to crop up. Much of this has been consolidated on her lolcow thread (archive), which I highly recommend checking out for a complete overview:
*Ashley has a tendency to bully younger teens/children and autistic people, telling them to kill themselves and even threatening to sue them. She's also gone out of her way to try and "compete" with Slazo (Michael Kucharski) for merch sales, saying how he's an abuser that doesn't deserve a following, despite Michael having proven before that he was falsely accused by others. More on all of this in D'Angelo Wallace's video (also featured down below).
Most recently, as of today (1/7/20), Ashley put out a video (archive) where she wants to raise money via livestream with another individual for an Australian charity. Even if the money's meant to be donated directly to the charity, many people are wary of donating due to the past crowdfunding scam she pulled. Unsurprisingly, she chooses to ignore the haters and instead likes + responds to any positive comments she gets.
Update 1: Ashley basically left the guy who was doing the charity stream to fend for himself in the comments. From there they had a falling out (no surprise), and he's since come out and told people about more of the shitty behavior she's pulled.
Update 2: Her channels have been terminated by YouTube on October 11, 2020 for violating ToS. According to her Patreon, she is still active on YouTube under a different (secret) channel. She plans on making some sort of comeback in May, 2021, though it's unlikely that she'll ever manage to shake off her negative reputation.
Additional Summary Videos:
YouTube Channel (Terminated) / Archive
Secondary Channel (Terminated) / Archive
YouTube Fandom Wiki Page / Archive
DeviantArt / Archive
Twitch Channel (Dead)
Merch Store (Removed) / Archive 1 / Archive 2
(All are currently dead)
Instagram / Archive
Old Instagram / Archive
Personal Instagram / Archive
(All are currently dead)
Twitter - @Pr1ncessAsh / Archive
Personal Twitter - @ManqiiSmith / Archive
Old Twitter (suspended) - @MadameYT
Patreon / Archive
ToS Page 1 / Archive
ToS Page 2 / Archive
Supposed DOB: 2/8/2000
She may or may not still be living in Florida.
Dox is currently still pending.
Secondary Channel (Terminated) / Archive
YouTube Fandom Wiki Page / Archive
DeviantArt / Archive
Twitch Channel (Dead)
Merch Store (Removed) / Archive 1 / Archive 2
(All are currently dead)
Instagram / Archive
Old Instagram / Archive
Personal Instagram / Archive
(All are currently dead)
Twitter - @Pr1ncessAsh / Archive
Personal Twitter - @ManqiiSmith / Archive
Old Twitter (suspended) - @MadameYT
Patreon / Archive
ToS Page 1 / Archive
ToS Page 2 / Archive
Supposed DOB: 2/8/2000
She may or may not still be living in Florida.
Dox is currently still pending.
Thank you to @zedkissed60 for initially looking into her dox for me.
And thank you as always to @Ride for giving me good feedback.