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Overview

Travis Scott Concert Crowd Crush refers to a deadly crowd surge that occurred at rapper Travis Scott's Astroworld Festival on November 5th, 2021, in which eight people died and over 300 were injured when the audience rushed the stage. The incident became a subject of viral discussions on social media, with users criticizing Scott and the festival promoter Live Nation, expressing condolences and sharing videos and witness accounts from the concert.

Background

On November 5th, 2021, Astroworld Festival, an annual two-day music festival run by American rapper Travis Scott, began in Houston, Texas, at NRG Park. On that day, possible signs of overcrowding were first reported[1][2] before the start of the event as a crowd of people pushed their way into the entrance gate to get into the venue, with some people getting trampled (video shown below). Approximately 50,000 people were estimated to attend, while the venue capacity was 200,000.



At 8:39 p.m, shortly before the start time of Travis Scott's performance, attendee Jorlyn Santana shot a video of people hopping over barricades to escape overcrowding.[3] The deadly incident occurred between 9:11 and 9:38 p.m., with most fatalities likely occurring after 9:30 p.m. According to the Houston fire chief, "at approximately 9 o’clock, 9:15, the crowd began to compress toward the front of the stage," which "caused some panic and started causing some injuries." At 9:23, attendee Ellen Elise Evans filmed concertgoers climbing speaker rigging to escape the crush. At 9:28, attendee Eric Daniels filmed staff performing chest compressions on an unresponsive person in the crowd.

At 9:30, concertgoers reported that an ambulance was moving through the crowd. Travis Scott acknowledged the ambulance and called for the crowd to make a room, but continued performing. At 9:38 p.m., Houston officials reported a "mass casualty incident" at the concert, with 17 people transferred to hospitals.

At 9:42 p.m. Scott stopped performing a song to warn that help was needed "somebody passed out up here." According to officials, the concert finally ended at 10:10 p.m. after Travis Scott and Drake performed "Sicko Mode."

The crowd surge at the concert resulted in the deaths of eight people, with 25 others evacuated to local hospitals, among them, 11 people were reportedly in a state of cardiac arrest. More than 300 people were treated for injuries at a field hospital at the festival.[4]



Developments

Travis Scott's Statements

On November 6th, 2021, Travis Scott posted[5] a response apology video in which he expressed condolences to families of those who died at the concert and thanked Houston PD and Fire Department for their response. The tweet received over 42,800 retweets, 36,400 quote tweets and 382,400 likes (shown below, left). Also on the same day, Scott[6] made another response in an Instagram story (shown below, right).


I'm absolutely devastated by what took place last night. My prayers go out to the families and all those impacted by what happened at Astroworld Festival. Houston PD has my total support as they continue to look into the tragic loss of life. I am committed to working together with the Houston community to heal and support the families in need. Thank you to Houston PD, Fire Department and NRG Park for their immediate response and support. Love You All.

My fans mean a world to me, and I always want to leave them with a positive experience. If at any time I could make out anything that was going on, I would stop the show and help them get the help they need, you know. I just could never imagine this […] situation.

The apology video was met with criticism by many, who found it disingenuous and unsatisfactory. People also criticized Scott's choice to use a black-and-white filter on the video and the way he constantly touches his face and wipes his forehead throughout it, saying he seemed tired and forced to do it. This inspired numerous memes mocking the apology video (examples shown below).


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Videos and Witness Accounts

On November 6th, 2021, concertgoer Seanna Faith posted[8] a witness account of the crowd crush at the concert and her attempts to attract people's attention to the trampling and deaths. The post (shown below) received over 1.3 million likes in two days, being reposted on other sites and reported on by the media in the following days. On November 6th, TikToker[16] @astroverse007 posted a recording of Faith and another concertgoer Ayden Cruz screaming at a cameraman to stop the show, with the cameraman acting annoyed and waving them away. The video received over 22 million views and 3.3 million likes on the app in two days (shown below, right).

On November 7th, 2021, TikToker[167] perry0071_ posted a recording of Scott singing while a group of first responders attended to an unresponsive person, writing "people dying while travis scott does the robot." The TikTok received over 25 million views in one day (shown below, right).


lost it. There were people below the ones I could see from above. There was a floor of bodies, of men and women, below two layers of fallen people above them. I began to shriek; I felt a primal tear rip through me, and I am not sure anyone understood the magnitude of the situation below. I screamed there were people on the floor. There were people. Unconscious. Being trampled by every foot that slammed into the ground as each individual tried to keep themselves upright. I saw his face. I became a shield for him. I think he smiled at me. Then I was shoved to the side. I saw more shoes slam to the ground. Exactly in the spot his body lay, face-up. I couldn't help him. I'couldn't help any of them. I didn't stop screaming the entire time. No one knew there were people below those that they could see. I almost met the same fate. I was losing balance, and I asked a man to grab me. He pulled me up, and I righted myself for just a fraction of a second before I was sucked back into the crowd. I couldn't take what I saw. I had to get out. I had to get help. I had to do something. Somehow, I went toward the back of the crowd, at a guardrail. A man pulled me over it. There were some many people just standing there. Like nothing was happening. Like people weren't dead a few feet from them. I saw the cameraman, eyes glued to the stage, elevated on a platform. A platform that looked directly into the crowd. Í climbed the ladder and pointed to the hole, telling him people were dying. He told me to get off the platform, and continued filming. I screamed over and over again. He wouldn't even look in the direction, so I pushed the camera so it pointed toward where I had just come from. He became angry. He called someone else up. I told him the same thing. People were dying, we needed to stop the music, we needed help, we needed attention towards the mass because I thought if only these people were aware, maybe they would do something. The other man grabbed my arm, and told me he would push me off the 15ft platfrom with no sides if I didn't get down. I told him to help.I told him people were dying. I showed him where. He wouldn't look in the direction either. I was in disbelief. Here were two people that could actually do something. Had the power to do something. Cut the camera, call in backup, pause something. They did nothing. I looked over at the sinkhole. People were screaming, reaching out their hands toward me, calling for help. I couldn't see the floor. The strangest thing happened in that moment. People began to boo at me. They pointed their fury at me, unleashed a rage. I screamed people were dying over and over. No one would listen. Somehow I ended up on the ladder, going back down, mindlessly. I should have ripped that camera to shreds. I looked the other guard in the eyes and told him he was the one responsible for countless deaths. He did nothing. I went under the platform, called 911. The only thing they said was they were calling the medical team in. I told the operator over and over we needed to stop the concert because we just needed a pause. We needed light, awareness of the deaths. Nothing. A kid watched me under the platform, watched me break down in tears, explaining how I saw people crushed, stomped on, unconscious. He watched the operator say nothing of use to me. I went out, not sure what to do. Suddenly two men in red medical shirts, looking confused and lost bumped into me. I explained everything and they told me they had gone in and saw nothing. Two girls that were in the pit with me were standing beside me, heard that and helped explain it was there. We led them to it. They climbed the metal gates and went through to the people. Those were the only ones working that were brave that night. I had endless respect for those two men. We waited, the two girls and I, and watched people being thrown over the railing, people trying to escape the cage we had been in. Today is November 5th, 2021. It is a Friday. Who I am in this story is not important, rather it is important the things Í have now witnessed. Astroworld, Houston, Texas. Travis Scott is the only one performing. I don't know how many people were at the festival, but I do know that every single person was at that stage. My friend and I wanted to be close to the stage – as close as we could possibly get. We were not able to get very close, but we did end up on the side, near the walkway in the middle. Surrounding us were chest-high metal gates. “Barriers." We stood there for two hours, as did every other person. Every gap was filled, where your feet were placed was where they stayed. Energy rose as the time neared - beginning the show. Within the first 30 seconds of the first song, people began to drown – in other people. There were so many people. Tall men, women. Women and men where the only thing they could see was the back of the person in front of them. The rush of people became tighter and tighter. Breathing became something only a few were capable of. The rest were crushed or unable to breathe in the thick, hot air. My friend began to gasp for breath, and she told me we needed to get out. We tried. There was no where to go. The shoving got harder and harder. If someone's arms had been up, it was no longer a possibility to put it down. So, people began to choke one another as the mass swayed. It became more and more violent. We began to scream for help. We could see security, just a few people over, in the walkway in the middle. It got tighter. Impossible to breathe, as our lungs were compressed between the bodies of those surrounding us. More people began to scream for help, some began to collapse. The music continued. Hundreds of people ripped their vocal cords apart screaming for help, but we were not heard. There was nowhere to go. My friend was trapped between people on every side of her, and she desperately tried to move towards the rail. It was no use. The screaming intensified, as more people realized they could not breathe. We begged security to help us, for the performer to see us and know something was wrong. None of that came. We continued to drown. More and more. One person fell, or collapsed, it doesn't matter how it started. Once one fell, a hole opened in the ground. It was like watching a Jenga Tower topple. Person after person were sucked down. You could not guess from which direction the shove of hundreds of people would come next. You were at the mercy of the wave. I watched my friend be dragged away from me, and lost sight of her. I began to realize in that moment that there is a way to die that not many people know about. Being trampled to death. I saw terror in every eye that I met, even the ones that told me to breathe and stay calm. We knew there was a very big chance some of us would not make it out alive. I was pushed away from the rail, into the crowd of people, where I could hear from another direction the shrieks of animals. It was happening all around me. These sinkholes of people. I was moved back towards the sinkhole I started at and was pushed to the edge of it. I sunk my feet into the ground, put my arms out and tried to stop anyone from entering the circle, or pushing those already in it. I was shoved further to the ground, my face down at the cold, hard plastic below us, and saw the body of a man. His face below mine. I
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There's someone dead in there! There's someone dead! Stop the show! Stop the show!

More footage from the incident received spread on TikTok, Twitter and other social media in the days following the concert.

Kylie Jenner's Account

On November 6th, 2021, Kylie Jenner, Travis Scott's partner, posted an Instagram story that she and Scott only learned about fatalities at the concert after it ended (shown below).[9] The claim was met with a negative reaction online as videos filmed at the concert suggested that Scott was aware of people being injured earlier.


kyliejenner 10m From Create Mode > TRAVIS AND I ARE BROKEN AND DEVASTATED. MY THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE WITH ALL WHO LOST THEIR LIVES, WERE INJURED OR AFFECTED IN ANYWAY BY YESTERDAY'S EVENTS. AND ALSO FOR TRAVIS WHO I KNOW CARES DEEPLY FOR HIS FANS AND THE HOUSTON COMMUNITY. I WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR WE WEREN'T AWARE OF ANY FATALITIES UNTIL THE NEWS CAME OUT AFTER THE SHOW AND IN NO WORLD WOULD HAVE CONTINUED FILMING OR PERFORMING. I AM SENDING MY DEEPEST CONDOLENCES TO ALL THE FAMILIES DURING THIS DIFFICULT TIME AND WILL BE PRAYING FOR THE HEALING OF EVERYONE WHO HAS BEEN IMPACTED. siphesihle @nkosinathinomvu ... Not Kylie Jenner lying saying they didn't know what was happening when she posted a picture of the crowd and the ambulance was there fetching injured people. And whereas there's a video of Travis Scott telling his team to do what they came here to do and ignore all else. TRAVIS AND I ARE BROKEN AND DEVASTATED. MY THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE WITH ALL WHO LOST THEIR LIVES, WERE INJURED OR AFFECTED IN ANYWAY BY YESTERDAY'S EVENTS. AND ALSO FOR TRAVIS WHO I KNOW CARES DEEPLY FOR HIS FANS AND THE HOUSTON COMMUNITY. I WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR WE WEREN'T AWARE OF ANY FATALITIES UNTIL THE NEWS CAME OUT AFTER THE SHOW AND IN NO WORLD WOULD HAVE CONTINUED FILMING OR PERFORMING. I AM SENDING MY DEEPEST CONDOLENCES TO ALL THE FAMILIES DURING THIS DIFFICULT TIME AND WILL BE PRAYING 2:10 AM - Nov 7, 2021 · Twitter for Android

Occult Ritual Conspiracy Theory

Following the spread of news and videos of the incident, some users on Twitter[13][14] and other social media[15] speculated that the concert was an occult (or demonic/satanic) ritual held involving human sacrifices, handpicking facts such as Travis Scott continuing to sing while unconscious people were being attended to by medical staff and "See you on the other side" being written on the promotional poster for the festival (images shown below).


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First Lawsuit

On November 7th, 2021, Kherker Garcia, LLP, a representative of a person injured in the incident, filed a lawsuit against several entities, including Live Nation, the organization responsible for the security at the festival and Travis Scott himself, seeking at least $1 million in damages.[6]

Online Reactions

The news of the incident sparked viral discussions on social media as users expressed condolences to the families of the victims, with several GoFundMe[10][11][12] pages set up to help gather money for funeral expenses, and criticized Scott and organizers of the concert for poor security measures at the event, inadequate reaction to the incident and Scott not stopping the concert.


М. ... Фросуos Replying to @trvisXX A girl yelled at the top of her f------ lungs saying someone was passed out DEAD, you pointed out a person being passed out. A guy yelled and told you to stop the show and you said “who told me to stop". You knew w-- was happening, They were trying to get help at the ASTROWORLD FEST 1/5/2021 TikTok entroverse007 cc: There's someone d"d in there! There's someone d"d! There's someone d"d! There's someone f'cking d"d! There's someone dy'ng! 0:34 1.3M views 9:19 PM - Nov 6, 2021 - Twitter for iPhone ben ... @maybenotben *8 people die and hundreds get injured at astroworld* travis scott on instagram the day after: ala iStock ny iStock Byy n alamy bak alamy iStock Visk 9:27 PM - Nov 6, 2021 · Twitter for iPhone 2021 AFRICA @2021AFRICA Their names are Ayden Cruz (18) and Seanna faith (22) They were at Travis Scott #ASTROWORLDFest trying to raise awareness that people were dying but their efforts were unnoticed, they were booed for trying to get on stage to stop the show. But they are actually heros in my eyes ODD 9:36 AM - Nov 7, 2021 - Twitter for Android

Search Interest

External References

[1] ABC13 – Stampede at Astroworld fest entry unfolds in front of ABC13 crew

[2] Rolling Stone – They Weren’t Prepared’: Experts Point to Missed Warning Signs at Astroworld

[3] Houston Chronicle – For 37 minutes after officials declared a 'mass casualty' at Astroworld, Travis Scott played on

[4] Wikipedia – Astroworld Festival crowd crush

[5] Twitter – @trvisXX

[6] Twitter – 1st lawsuit filed after 8 people died at Astroworld Festival

[7] YouTube – Travis Scott takes to Instagram to express condolences for lives lost at Astroworld Festival

[8] Instagram – seannafaith

[9] Twitter – @nkosinathinomvu

[10] GoFundMe – Axel Acosta

[11] GoFundMe – Funeral Expenses

[12] Twitter – @gofundme

[13] Twitter – @vers_laLune

[14] Twitter – @Chrs1228

[15] iFunny – Autotron

[16] TikTok – @astroverse007

[17] TikTok – @perry0071_

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