The Deplatformee Scoreboard — 15 of 20 Are On Odysee, Infowars Just Multiplied 13x, and LeafyIsHere Arrived Four Months Ago

Our scanner maintains a watch-list of twenty creators who were removed, banned, or had their monetisation stripped on at least one major platform (YouTube, Twitch, Twitter / X pre-Musk era, Facebook, Instagram) under documented hate-speech, harassment, or incitement policy enforcement. The list is hand-curated and kept small precisely so that each named-presence finding is traceable to a specific public removal action. The 30 May 2026 supplementary scan reads the list against current Odysee data via the platform's public claim_search API. The headline: 15 of 20 tracked creators now operate at least one channel on Odysee.

Three changes from the May 12 reading deserve naming up front:

• @Infowars went 3 → 39 flagged videos in 18 days — a 13× expansion of Alex Jones's on-platform footprint. The May 12 reading had his secondary handle at 3 items; the May 30 scan shows 39. The expansion is consistent with a deliberate archive re-upload campaign, the same pattern we documented in our Fresh Propaganda Nodes piece on Stefan Molyneux's @freedomain (511 videos uploaded in 60 days).
• LeafyIsHere (@Leafy) arrived on Odysee with a 118-day-old channel. Calvin Vail / LeafyIsHere was permanently banned from YouTube in August 2020 under the harassment policy after years of escalating targeted-attack content (notably the "TanaCon" and Cyr/Pyrocynical episodes). His arrival on Odysee in February 2026 was unannounced and required no detection-evasion: there's no platform- side identity check that would surface a known-name re-banee.
• E;R (Ellis Roe) is now absent. The May 12 reading had @ER-Channel present; the May 30 reading shows the channel removed or otherwise no longer resolvable. E;R authored the YouTube animation series cited by Brenton Tarrant in the Christchurch manifesto and was banned from YouTube November 2020. Either Odysee removed the channel (in which case this is the first named-deplatformee takedown we've recorded — they owe a statement of reasons) or the channel was abandoned voluntarily.

The Full Scoreboard

Sorted by current on-platform footprint (videos × channel count, descending). "Banned" = the documented removal event from a peer platform. "Age (d)" = how long the specific Odysee channel has existed.

The single-channel record holder remains Vincent James / @RealRedElephants with 811 flagged videos on a single channel — a near- complete YouTube-era archive replicated on Odysee. James was removed from YouTube in 2021 under the hate-speech policy. His Odysee channel was opened the same year and has been unactioned since.

What "Channel Age" Reveals

The age column is the diagnostic for the funnel-as-feature argument. A long-tenured channel (Vincent James at 2091 days, DollarVigilante at 2182 days) represents the wave of 2020-2021 deplatformings — the "original" Odysee arrivals when LBRY was actively marketing itself as a censorship-resistant alternative. A medium-tenured channel (Bannon at 128 days, Molyneux's @freedomain at 1358 days though the actively-used handle is 60 days per our channel-velocity scan) represents the second wave — post-Stripe-exit, post-Forward-Research-acquisition. A short- tenured channel (LeafyIsHere at 118 days) is the current wave. Each wave correlates with a specific platform governance moment that should, in principle, have made Odysee's onboarding more cautious; in practice it has stayed identical: no identity verification, no peer-platform- ban cross-check, no friction.

The five who are absent are equally informative. E;R, Andy Warski, Paul Joseph Watson, Gavin McInnes, and Jon Minadeo (Goyim Defense League) are all named deplatformees who, on this reading, are NOT on Odysee. Their absence isn't a moderation success — Odysee has no system that would block them. It's a market decision: they chose other platforms (Telegram, Rumble, Truth Social, GDL's own properties). The implication is that the operational ceiling on Odysee's named-deplatformee population is set by creator preference, not by platform policy.

The 13× Surge On @Infowars Is The Active Story

The May 12 reading showed @Infowars holding 3 flagged videos. The May 30 reading shows 39 — an addition of 36 in eighteen days, or roughly two per day every day. The cadence is consistent with a deliberate re-upload campaign rather than real-time current-events coverage. It also exactly mirrors the pattern we documented on Stefan Molyneux's @freedomain in the Fresh Propaganda Nodes piece (511 videos in 60 days = 8.5/day). The Infowars cadence is slower (~2/day) but the genre is the same: bulk archive transplant rather than live production.

Our parallel piece on Bannon on Odysee documented 160 flagged War Room episodes across three Bannon- network handles (@WarRoom, @WarRoomShow, @SteveBannonsWarRoom). The Infowars expansion is the Jones-side equivalent: the on-platform amplification network for the same political cluster is being rebuilt in 2026 on Odysee's zero-moderation infrastructure.

What Should Happen

The minimum viable response from Odysee — independent of any political judgement on the specific creators above — would be to (a) maintain a denylist of named individuals who have been removed from peer platforms for incitement, hate speech, or CSAM-adjacent content, queried against public databases like the GIFCT shared hash list, SPLC Hatewatch, and Tech Against Terrorism, and (b) require email-plus-phone verification at channel-creation time so that operating multiple handles requires multiple distinct identities. Both are routine elsewhere; neither is happening on Odysee. The cost is small; the absence is a product choice.

The minimum viable response from EU regulators is an Article 34 systemic-risk filing on the named-deplatformee funnel as a documented onboarding-design failure. The DSA framework explicitly recognises "risks to civic discourse" as a systemic-risk category; a platform that admits 15 of 20 named-deplatformee creators with zero friction is operating an unmitigated systemic risk.

The May 30 scoreboard JSON and full per-channel metadata refreshes from /data/youtube_migration.json on every deploy. We'll publish the next reading after the June scanner cycle.