Does Fousey really know Drake? Is the hate dies love arrives tour a real thing? and
Is Fousie's new act the real him, or just an act? We're gonna try try to answer
some of those questions in this video. Welcome back to What's Trending, I'm Martine
Beerman. Make sure to subscribe for more stories about love, and positivity. In
case you're completely uninitiated Yousef Erakat a.k.a. Fousey is a massively
popular youtuber with over 10 million subscribers. His greatest success came in
the form of staged prank videos, such as this one where he dressed up like Sub
Zero from Mortal Kombat, and acted like he was going to attack people. Or the
farting gym instructor prank. Video: "Go! Harder! I think I sharted a bit." It's just
hilarious. But in recent weeks, he was primarily
promoting a free event at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles called
Hate Dies Love Arrives. He told Adam 22 the whole thing was about spreading love,
and positivity, and claimed it would be the next Coachella. And Fousey now says
he considers himself an artiste, not a YouTuber, and he says that motivational
speaking might be his next calling. And without saying it outright, Fousey heavily
insinuated that Drake would appear and perform at his free event. Using Drake's
image in connection with the show. And unfortunately, stopping if you've heard
this one before, a free event by a YouTuber didn't exactly go as planned.
Video: "Police say at about 6:15 they got a call from a person claiming to planted an
explosive device at the theater. The LAPD decided to clear out the venue just in
case, and brought in the bomb squad." The bomb threat appears to have been an
active swatting from someone hoping to cause chaos at Fousey's event. Or at least
shut it down. Fousey hadn't yet taken the stage, but he did speak to 1500-or-so
fans who were already in attendance in the parking lot. Fousey: "No matter who tries to stop
us. It's not a mistake. It was supposed to
happen. Something bad could have happened at that event. God didn't wanted it to. I
wanted that event to be a success tonight, I wanted my picture with Drake, I
met Drake last night!" But, shocker, Drake
never turned up, and it turns out Fousey had never actually met him. Sources close
to Drake told The Blast that Drake was never booked to perform at the event, and
that he definitely doesn't know the guy and this is the first he's ever heard of
him. So I get it, if you positively think about the fact that somebody could show
up at your show, then maybe they'll just be there. That's obviously how this all
works, this whole motivational thing. That question was sort of answered on an
hour-long live stream on Adam 22's No Jumper podcast. Video: "As soon as Drake moves
and makes odd contact with me, and I stare at him, I see that his second
right-hand man, and he nods at me like this. I did it, I was hype! So you didn't meet
Drake, he just looked at you? Literally like this, that's how close he was to me.
Okay, so even though he is considering the event a success, he admits that
Drake was never actually booked for the show, cause you've never actually met
Drake in the first place. And major props to Philip DeFranco for highlighting Shane
Dawson's reactions throughout which are hilarious. Video: "Of his event. Also, side note,
Shane's reactions to everything that's happening is everything. Knowing
that I left... Drake. but instead of taking that moment to be.... that's how close he
was to me." Now, in this interview with Adam 22 Fousey talks a lot about vague
things like energy and manifestation and putting things into the world. Fousey: "I say
exactly what I want to happen, and that's what gets it to happen. So I wanted, I
started July 15th, a week ago, just by putting it on a shirt, and with that one
idea and energy and manifestation, every single thing I put is happening, but not
in the way I wanted it to." Ultimately it's a little unclear as to what his
actual goal was, but if he wants to be a motivational speaker, then power to him.
He's also said he's set a goal to make 100 million dollars by January 1st
2019. Dude, that's in like, five months and that's Tony Robbins money.
I was so excited to see this whole thing pan out, I hope he does it. There are so
many ins and outs to the story, we won't have time to get into it but Keemstar
says he's making a documentary about the event, the first part of which is already
up on his dramaalert channel. And if you're in the LA area, Fousey says he's
hosting another hate dies love arrives event on August 15 in the Los Angeles
area. Which he's hinted will be at the Staples Center. He also released a diss
track aimed at rice gun which he was apparently planning to perform on stage
at the Greek. Voice Over: "Can I get on your album, maybe?" and believe it or not, YouTube
browsed about Sam Pepper was there as well, and got arrested. Though, if you hear
his side of it, he claims that fousey's own people were the ones who got him in
trouble as a possible suspect in the bomb threat. Video: "The countries holding me holding me
holding me and they start shouting 'officer! officer! officer! officer! and I'm like
what the f***? The police come over and they instantly put me in handcuffs, right? They
get my arms behind my back." But, with all of his love and positivity Fousey was not
forthcoming with an apology to Sam Pepper. Fousey: "Count how many times I called and
flip them off, told him he's a little sucker in real life, and he's a (bleep) on the
internet, and I'll give you guys like, put up a thing, I'll throw a party in LA, and
throw a pizza party for you guys. I'll ordered that many pizzas in honor of this little (bleep). We've even got
PewDiePie talking about him now in a very critical video titled "This Is Why
You Shouldn't Be a YouTuber." Video: "He's the kind of YouTuber whose ego is so big
that literally, he can not take any form of criticism. And I'm sure he's
gonna watch this video going "oh my god PewDiePie talked about me, guys, wow I'm such
a big deal. No!" So, Does Fousey have really good
intentions, and want to spread positivity and love? Absolutely. Probably? But his ego
and his desire for like other worldly success and his constant need to
name-drop. Fousey: "I'm in talks with Lenny S, who's DJ Khaled's manager, who runs Rock
nation, who manages Jay Z. I have Lenny S's mentorship in this. Tyler Perry is
helping me through this, OVO Johnny who's OVO Ryan's brother, who's in Drake's team,
who gave me this tattoo, at OVO's tattoo shop was FacetTming me every five minutes to
see how it was going." Is that stuff getting in his way?
Probably, yeah. So what do you guys think about this whole thing? Is he gonna reach
his financial goal? Is hate dies love arrives part two going to be the place
to go? Let us know in the comments and for more trends head to what'strending.com