



A Rise to Fame Plagued with Hypocrisy & Lies





Yousef Saleh Erakat, known as fouseyTube has amassed what most would consider a massive fan base of over 10 millions subscribers on his main channel. His rise to fame on YouTube is attributed to his prank videos which often covered social issues related to race, his religious adherence to Islam, or whatever was topical at the time.





FouseyTube always tried to tie some moral message in his prank videos, wanting to appear as a moral figure by his fans and others. However, when it came out his prank videos were fake like many other pranksters, it deeply undermined any moral messages he tried to communicate to his audience. Deep down, fouseyTube was not making these videos because of his moral beliefs, but rather to build a persona for the sole purpose of propelling him to fame.





Over time, the uglier side of fouseyTube has come to light, revealing his fragile ego, dishonesty, and ultimately his hypocrisy. While fouseyTube may have meant well at the beginning of his journey on YouTube, his morals and integrity have eroded, and he has deluded himself into believing everything wrong he's done is justified.









Delusions of Grandeur





His false copyright strike against Colossal Is Crazy in 2016 demonstrated how fragile his ego is when anyone justly criticizes the tactics he has uses to gain views on his videos. FouseyTube has faked pranks from very serious topics such as when he faked wanting to commit suicide. This is a prime example of him taking advantage of a sensitive topic like suicide in one of the worst ways possible, and then later trying to justify his actions, despite the fact he ramps up the drama, and then subsequently provides cheap platitudes to his viewers, as if that makes what he did was alright.





More recently in 2018, FouseyTube has become more maniac and erratic as his he fails to deliver on promises he made to his fans, such as when he claimed the rapper Drake would be at his Fouseycon event. In reality, Drake has never been in contact with FouseyTube and didn't have the faintest clue who Fousey was. Fousey was even so brazen to say that Drake coming to his event was in his words: "God's Plan", as if God is a genie and just magically would make Drake appear at his show.





When Fouseycon finally happened on July 15th, 2018, well... it clearly showed how deluded and egotistical Fousey had become at that point. Becoming hostile to

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pointing the absurdity of the event. While Keemstar is not the most trustworthy source given his history, he very much pointed FouseyTube's shortcomings regarding the event. It demonstrated FouseyTube is not as famous or as influential as he proclaims to be, and hopefully more viewers have gotten wise to FouseyTube's tactics. While the event was free, many fans went so far as to fly out to LA, because of Fousey's ludicrous outlandish claims, only for them to be let down and put at risk with the bomb threat that shut down the event.









FouseyTube is not a real Role Model





Anybody who engages in this level of deception and megalomaniac behavior with his fans doesn't deserve to be famous. Fousey has built up his fame on lies and a false sense of morality, when in actuality he is anything but what he proclaims to be. When someone gains weight for the sole purpose to lose that weight to gain views, you seriously have to question their reasoning and motives. FouseyTube has proven that fame is his only motivation for making his videos. It's not to promote living more morally, but rather to feed his ego and bank account.





While I'm sympathetic to his mental health struggles with being Bipolar, it does not excuse the very real wrong doings he has committed, and the success he has amounted on YouTube has only feed his massive ego, and has encouraged him to indulge his worst impulses. Viewers to deserve to have a role model to look up to and admire in terms of their morality, but if that's what viewers are looking for when they watch YouTube videos, they aren't going to find a genuine person who sticks by his moral compass in fouseyTube, but rather they will come across someone who is only interested in building themselves at the expense of others.























