Yousef Erakat / FouseyTUBE

About

Yousef Erakat, better known by his channels FouseyTUBE and DoseOfFousey, is an American Youtube pranker and vlogger, who gained massive popularity over his prank videos. He has 9 million subscribers on his main channel, and 3 million on his vlog channel, and has gained over a billion views on all of his videos combined. ^[1]

Origin

Erakat created his FouseyTUBE account on March 21st, 2011. ^[1] His first channel, specifically about workouts, was created in 2009,and has since been deleted. ^[2] His first video on the FouseyTube channel was titled "FouseyTUBE INTRO PARODY" and has 850,000 views.

His first video which gained massive popularity was titled "MIDDLE EASTERN PARENTS", which gained just under 7 million views, and 64,000 likes.

Spread

On May 4th, 2014, Erakat uploaded a video titled "SPIDERMAN IN REAL LIFE PRANK!". The video went viral, getting over 120,000,000 views, and 400,000 likes.

Fousey has 10 videos with over 25 million views, and a billion views in total. His most popular video series is the "YOGA PANTS PRANK", which has 80 million views between two videos.

Erakat has also held large success with his vlog channel, DOSEofFOUSEY. His most popular video, uploaded in January of 2015, is titled "ARGUING WITH A COP!!!", which has 7 million views.

Fake Prank Allegations

On December 4th, 2015, YouTuber Danny Duncan uploaded a video titled "Real PROOF FouseyTube is Fake! Actor Speaks Out!" The video shows an actor from one of Fousey's videos, titled "UBER PRANK", in which he played a man in a car, who Fousey then jumped in, claiming he was hired off of Craigslist. The video gained over a million views, with 25,000 likes and 10,000 dislikes.

Hate Dies, Love Arrives Concert

On July 6th, 2018, Erakat announced he would be producing a concert on July 15th. Tickets for the event were free, selling out within minutes according to Newsweek.^[3] On July 15th, Erakat tweeted a video message asking Drake to attend his event (shown below).

The event was held later that day at Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California. Following performances by Dax and Lil Poppy, police instructed attendees to leave due to a bomb threat. Fousey was them filmed yelling at Keemstar while standing on top of a car (shown below).

On July 17th, PewDiePie posted a video titled "This is why you shouldnt be a YouTuber // Fouseytube," in which he compared the event to TanaCon (shown below).

That day, Keemstar uploaded the first in a two-part documentary on the event titled "The Hard Truth About FouseyTube" (shown below).

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