A prolific influencer and YouTube video creator known as “Mr. Crafty Pants” has been charged by Kentucky authorities with nearly 30 counts of possessing and trading disturbing sexual images of children on a messenger app traditionally popular with teens.

Michael David Booth, who reportedly had nearly a half million subscribers on his YouTube channel and a couple hundred thousand more on other social media, was arrested Wednesday for sharing explicit images of children on the messaging app Kik, according to numerous news reports.

The Mr. Crafty Pants YouTube channel, which has since been taken down, featured Booth, 39, offering arts and crafts tutorials. On his Instagram account, Booth describes himself as a “hot mess by nature…crafty by choice.”

On the day of his arrest, Booth had j

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