Maker Studios formerly produced Ray William 

Johnson'sEquals Three and Your Favorite Martian. Ray 

William Johnson has stated online that he left Maker Studios 

due to the pressure the company put on him into signing a 

contract which gives Maker a 40% share of his channel's 

AdSense revenue and 50% of his show's intellectual 

property rights. He stated that they were using "thuggish 

tactics" to pressurize him into signing the contract, one of 

which was allegedly leveraging his AdSense account for the 

intellectual property rights to YourFavoriteMartian.