With YouTube becoming more saturated than ever, it was only a matter of time before two renowned vloggers got into a ‘fight’.
YouTube heavyweights RiceGum AKA Bryan Le (2.8 million subscribers) and Yousef Saleh Erakat behind fouseyTUBE (9.1 million subscribers) seemed to have got into in a definitely not fake fight, which totally isn’t just a cry for attention.
The spat all started when RiceGum accused an unknown collaborator of slagging him off behind his back. Very mature stuff right here:
I hate when people act nice to collab but then I find out they talk shit about me.
— RiceGum (@RiceGum) July 11, 2016
The pair did a collaborative video only three weeks ago, but whether this has got anything to do with Bryan’s beef remains a bit of a mystery:
Anyway, Yousef took a bit of a dislike to the tweet and assumed he was chatting shit about him:
https://twitter.com/fouseyTUBE/status/752590861251194881
And as you’d expect, it escalated pretty quickly:
Alright bet, I'll take it off Twitter. Next time I see you its fade on sight https://t.co/wiF701fOx2
— RiceGum (@RiceGum) July 11, 2016
https://twitter.com/fouseyTUBE/status/752595017886076928
https://twitter.com/fouseyTUBE/status/752596051224195072
https://twitter.com/fouseyTUBE/status/752596453399273472
And then things took an unexpected turn for the worse:
.@fouseyTUBE come outside your apartment
— RiceGum (@RiceGum) July 11, 2016
I'm about it in person too pic.twitter.com/EXimFJQGvX
— RiceGum (@RiceGum) July 11, 2016
Yeah, he just ‘punched’ him… apparently. Though the jury is very much out – seemed just a bit too staged if you ask me:
https://twitter.com/fouseyTUBE/status/752632316820729856
https://twitter.com/fouseyTUBE/status/752633287831498754
When asked about the punch, Yousef added that it was ‘like a mosquito kissed me… it felt fake’ and said he’d explain more to his fans about the feud at 10am (PT).
I hate the fact that this is what the world has come to, with stunts like this carried out just for the sake of a few retweets and favourites.
Can’t we just go back to the days of Keyboard Cat and Charlie the Unicorn? I’m so done with this shit.