Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Another hastily planned YouTuber event ends in failure

It’s barely been a month since TanaCon, the disastrous convention thrown by creator Tana Mongeau, but the highly publicized failure of that event doesn’t seem to have deterred other YouTubers from event planning. Yousef Erakat, known as FouseyTube to his 10 million YouTube subscribers, attempted to plan and run a concert in seven days at the Greek Theater in LA. Instead, the July 15th event was canceled after an alleged bomb threat.

Erakat gained fame online, thanks to his videos around pranks and controversial “social experiments.” His event, “Hate Dies, Love Arrives,” promised fans big names like Drake and Snoop Dogg in a free event he called “the next Coachella.” There’s no proof that these celebrities were actually scheduled to...

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