YouTubers are facing backlash for collaborating with Trisha Paytas, a controversial creator who viewers are calling 'toxic' and 'harmful'

• YouTube star Morgan Adams is facing backlash after posting a collaboration video with Trisha Paytas, one of the platform's most controversial personalities.
• Paytas has been at the center of a bitter online feud for the last month, following a video in which she claimed to have Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and called another YouTuber "crazy."
• Paytas, a self-confessed "troll," has a reputation for posting controversial content that outrages and bewilders her followers.
• Fans are telling Adams that they're "disappointed" in her and in her brother, YouTuber Ryland Adams, for maintaining a relationship with Paytas who has "caused hurt" and remained "unapologetic."
• The Adams siblings are best known for their association with YouTube megastar Shane Dawson. Ryland is engaged to Dawson, who is friends with Paytas.
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YouTuber Morgan Adams, a largely uncontroversial personality known for her vlogs, travel content, and association with Shane Dawson, is facing backlash from fans after collaborating with the ever-controversial YouTuber Trisha Paytas in a new video.

The 22-year-old — whose brother is YouTuber (and Shane Dawson's fiancé ) Ryland Adams — has amassed 3.4 million subscribers since joining the platform in 2015.

On April 21, Adams posted a video titled "I Wore Trisha Paytas Clothes For A Week!" in which Paytas styled a week's worth of outfits for her to wear.

In the video, Adams and her brother traveled to Paytas' home, ready to dig through the mukbanger's many closets.

"I literally don't collab with anyone ever because I get too antisocial and weird," Adams joked.

Paytas and Adams discussed their style preferences and mulled over their options for Adams' new wardrobe — and Ryland advised "the crazier the better," suggesting that the outfits should be "maybe semi-offensive" and "really blingy."

Adams proceeded to wear her new Paytas-inspired outfits — including a pink tube top, fur boots, an orange NASA jumpsuit, a pink feathered dress, and a pink plaid bikini — while going about her daily activities, including assembling a bookshelf, researching foot fetishes, and making a cautious trip to the Taco Bell drive-thru to make a mukbang video.

The video also captures Ryland Adams and Shane Dawson's reactions to the new looks.

"Did Jeffree [Star] give you permission to use his dogs as shoes?" Dawson joked. "Quarantine is going well."

Within hours of posting the collaboration video, Adams began receiving backlash from fans over her decision to collaborate with Paytas.

Subscribers expressed disappointment in the Adams siblings and Shane Dawson for continuing their friendship with Paytas despite the mukbanger's history of controversial and "harmful" statements.

"I really can't wrap my head around the fact that Morgan and Shane talk so much about mental health but still hang out with Trish," one commenter wrote. "Don't get me wrong, I love Shane, Ryland, and Morgan, but I really don't understand this situation."

"The fact that people still stan Trish is absurd. Even if she is an actual good person behind cameras, doing content that is offensive to so many people all for more clout is disgusting," another wrote.

The criticism continued on when Adams posted a link to the video on Twitter.

"I think it's disappointing for people such as Morgan, Ryland, and Shane to openly support someone who has caused so much hurt and is unapologetic about it. I don't [think] putting this on a platform where you have such a young, impressionable audience is right," one commenter wrote.

"Trisha's actions played a part in driving someone to attempt suicide. Her deplorable behavior cannot simply be ignored," another added. "It looks really bad on your part to still work with her and post this video after all the harm she has caused."

After Adams' video dropped, Paytas took to her Instagram stories to praise the video.

The YouTube star said she was "flattered" to collaborate with Adams and that she was proud of the way the video was executed.

"Morgan has my whole heart, I love her so fricken much," Paytas said.

Morgan Adams did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

The video collaboration follows a particularly chaotic month for Paytas, who outraged subscribers and YouTubers when she uploaded a video claiming to have Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID).

In early March, Paytas uploaded a video in which she claimed to have multiple personalities and introduced her subscribers to her various 'alters.' She went on to make several inaccurate claims about the nature of the disorder and to describe Chloe Wilkinson, a YouTuber who shares her experience living with DID on her channel DissociaDID, as "crazy."

YouTube star Anthony Padilla immediately responded to the video, posting an Instagram story accusing Paytas of claiming to have the disorder in order to "mock people in the [DID] community and call them crazy."

Wilkinson — who goes professionally by Chloe but identifies as a system of alters — posted a 40-minute-long reaction video in which she called Paytas' characterization of the disorder "misinformed," "outdated," and "stigmatizing." Wilkinson did not comment on the validity of Paytas' stated symptoms but said that the video was "a step back" for the DID community.

Paytas posted a response video of her own in which she criticized both Padilla and Wilkinson, accusing Padilla of "pretending to be some sort of mental health advocate" and defending her right to comment on Wilkinson's content.

She went on to post another video in which, she claims, she experienced an "on camera switch" of her alters — to which Wilkinson responded in a video uploaded to the DissociaDID channel.

Paytas then accused DissociaDID of "bullying" her and said the online backlash had put her in "a constant state of fear and sadness."

In April, Wilkinson, who frequently posted on Instagram about the impact of the escalating feud, revealed that she'd experienced a recent suicide attempt and would be taking a break from social media.

As the feud escalated, Paytas' subscribers commented on her videos accusing her of exacerbating the trauma of the DID community, with hundreds calling her "disgusting" and "toxic."

This is not the first time Paytas has been embroiled in YouTube drama.

Paytas, a self-confessed "online troll" is notorious for posting controversial content that bewilders her followers — from claiming out of left field to be a transgender man to telling followers she identifies "as a chicken nugget."

Most recently, Paytas enraged subscribers with a new video in which she argued that large-scale safety measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, like closing restaurants, are "crazy."

"It is a flu, if you do get it you're not going to die," she said. "I get if you're older, you're more susceptible at higher risk. Literally everyone I've talked to who's informed says it's just a flu, it goes away."

Thousands of commenters accused Paytas of "spreading incorrect information" and being "selfish" amid the pandemic.

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