Onision (channel)

Channel overview and history
The Onision channel includes skits, comedy series, and deals with controversial issues. Some label James, the main character in the channel, as either a fraud, a pedophile, a homophobe, a purveyor of ephebophilia and a tax evader.

The Onision channel was created by James, at the time referring to himself as Greg, in 2004 or earlier but moved to YouTube on January 29, 2006. In 2017, the channel switched to 50% paid only for a short time, but switched back to all free videos later, the exclusive videos solely being available to people supporting Onision on Patreon. James (then Greg) then began reuploading his old videos, censored, along with new videos. However, the majority of those videos do not seem to gain any revenue due to lack of any ads whatsoever. On November 26, 2019, the Patreon option was removed when they declined James' membership due to allegedly accidentally doxing Billie on Twitter.

Events concerning James and his channel
In 2018, it was discovered a new actress of his, Sam, was not paid for her appearances and may have only been recruited by Onision to be part of a poly-relationship with him and his husband, Kai. She will likely not appear on the channel again. Months later, in January 2019, women came forward making serious allegations against James (then Greg) and Kai. Many are calling for James or even both him and Kai to be imprisoned. This, along with loss of interest in the channel, and algorithm, has severely impacted the success and subscriber count of the Onision channel.

A large number of viewers claim the channel is dying or even dead while others staunchly support James. The channel still has thousands of views for each video and has steadily held over 2 million subscribers.

In 2019, James turned off the ability to comment on the channel and ceased uploading pet thoughts due to people accusing him of abusing his pets, instead for a short time using zoo trips with family to upload animal thoughts. Near the end of spring of that year, he turned commenting back on. He frequently uses the same group of actors to be in his skits. He would turn commenting on and off various times throughout 2019 and 2020.

In February 2020, James held true to his word about not showing his face on YouTube anymore and began uploading comedic animation videos, bringing back Vicky, albeit not in bodily form but in animated form. He also designed a version of himself and is the main character in all the videos. A few months later, he began showing his face once more, although mostly in archive uploads.