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They tried to silence him. YouTube deleted his channel. Blocked most of his videos. Buried him in the algorithm. Thomas Araujo—aka Dope As Yola—just made YouTube history, becoming the first weedtuber ...

Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Forbes in September 2024. It has been updated in May 2025 to reflect new milestones, metrics and brand expansions. Born and raised in a ...

FaZe Rain accused Dope as Yola of scamming him out of $100,000, so Yola has now responded with complete receipts on what he says actually went down, with Rain not abiding by any of the contractual ...