The Fever Dream Era of Youtuber Tours

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This was originally supposed to be a twenty minute goof and quickly turned into a deep dive on the whole youtuber tour industrial complex. From Jacob Sartorius rapping the ABCs to Magcon to Literally My Life Live, there were simply too many wild moments in this era to not discuss ad nauseam.
P.S. This is now a Shawn Mendes Stan Account.
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Intro: 00:00
Fullscreen Live and Digitour: 01:35
Care/of: 06:35
MAGcon: 08:00
Tana's Tours (and IDubbz): 19:28
Girls Night In: 27:59
James Charles SISTERS Tour: 34:36
Dobre Brothers Tour: 39:39
Lights Out Tour: 43:39
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[@ashleynorton]

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[@hp8685]

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[@ilariacremona2071]

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[@esmerodriguez8765]

Let him cook

[@bicuriousdirtbikeboi2594]

The best thing that Shawn has done for his career was to gaslight everyone on earth into forgetting that he was a MAGCON boy.

[@shaebranch]

I lived through that era and witnessed it all and I still forget 😂

[@bicuriousdirtbikeboi2594]

@@shaebranch Me too! I watched everything Magcon did and I completely forgot Shawn was even there 😂

[@veesaos8316]

damn cool naked jacob username

[@mayakainn3127]

The term gaslight truly has lost its original meaning

[@bigbootyboy420]

@@bicuriousdirtbikeboi2594did you jerk off to them bi curious motor bike man?

[@handsoaphandsoap]

Nash Grier truly got famous for having eyes, the 2010’s were weird

[@whiteoleander13]

I assure you, nowadays people get famous in a weirder way xd

[@Memmyrabilia]

and for telling women their hair is gross and they need to shave their forearms :')

[@jeffthealpacaisyourdad385]

​​​​​@@MemmyrabiliaSurprisingly he has changed so much now. He's engaged to a woman who is really into everything all natural and feminist (she also announced she doesn't shave), grew out his hair, and even has 2 kids now. He is vegan to help with environmental conservation, is also a feminist, advocates for literally every problem, and is heavily into nature. He also does wholesome family updates now and all of his social media's are just him enjoying life with his family. I was truly shocked when I learned about all of this. I always think of him as that one guy from vine 😭

[@xorayne_]

@@jeffthealpacaisyourdad385 i followed Taylor first and one day was like wait is that NASH GRIER? he’s literally a completely different man it’s crazy

[@Tw0Dots]

Idk man, the little 13 yo white girls loved that & the eboy sht. Couldnt be me 😂

[@pillbugm8914]

It's kinda amazing that a bunch of 14 y/os unionized against this comically evil Hollywood manager

[@danzinno]

for a grand and a pair of beats, no less

[@townfool4682]

the proletariat we didn't know we needed

[@katiebatten5794]

Newsies sequel just dropped

[@dreams_uwu]

It really reads as a Disney Channel Original Movie

[@mallorytaylor4910]

@@dreams_uwu i can’t stop thinking about this. youre so right

[@rkkwc]

the magcon boys were annoying af at the time but if they actually briefly unionized for 1k each and a new pair of beats, that is so unbelievably funny. dareisay: iconic.

[@danzinno]

The sheer thought of this is taking me out 😭😭😭

[@morley364]

Ashley: I'm not sure what they're famous for Well if you read the Very Reliable Middle Schooler Prezi source, you would see they've been out there, fighting to save teenage girls' lives. That is their sole purpose and description. Which somehow makes the unionization even funnier.

[@becca3718]

No as someone with extensive knowledge of union laws and relations and works in HR, I declare this moment ✨iconic✨

[@Dixavd]

Your side-note about family-channel youtubers going on tour with small children reminded me of that: in 1763, Wolfgang Mozart's parents took him and his similarly talented older-sister, Maria Anna, on a tour around Europe when they were 7 and 11 for 3 years. The kids had gained some notoriety the year before when they played for an empress in Vienna, and their parents we cashing in on the attention. Just a historical reminder that parents have been going on tour to capitalize on their children's fame for centuries. *[I'm typing this only a minute into the video so as not to forget to post it]*

[@TacticusPrime]

Truly the Jackson 5 of the late 18th century.

[@townfool4682]

I never rlly thought about it but Mozart does give a "traumatized child of a Family vlogging empire" type of vibe

[@charlotte5459]

A fun historical anecdote is that a child Mozart allegedly played for a child Marie Antoinette (she was one of the daughters of Maria Theresa, the empress mentioned above). They would have been about the same age, Mozart 6 and Marie Antoinette 7.

[@marnenotmarnie259]

@@TacticusPrimethe mozart 2

[@rikkirikki4892]

@@charlotte5459 I learned this last week from the manga Rose of Versailles - wasn’t sure if it was a true thing from history or not haha.

[@margoalex.]

as a former Shawn Mendes fan it makes a hilarious amount of sense to me that Shawn would simply sing and dissociate the entire time he was at magcon considering nowadays he never talks about it publicly and you almost get the impression that he wants to forget that it ever happened in the first place

[@bgcrp2005]

He wasn’t in it for that long

[@abrielle13]

Former fan?

[@margoalex.]

@@abrielle13 yeah I used to have a huge crush on him and loved his acoustic stuff when I was thirteen but my music taste has really grown and changed with time ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I still have a special place in my heart for him though

[@shaebranch]

He probably has nothing to say about it because he was too dissociated to remember anything 😂 The brain is commonly known for blocking out traumatic events

[@sarahdiehl2672]

I forgot Shawn was there

[@spiraljunior]

The casual mentioning of Miranda Sings’s tour in one of the “good” KZbinr tours aged horrifically lol

[@Rettfet7265]

Simplynailogical talked about these tours on her podcast because she was constantly asked to do them. She said she always turned them down because she had nothing to offer an audience on a stage beyond the little one hour show things she did at vidcon, so it wouldn’t make sense. And every time, these companies always told her it doesn’t matter, because kids will pay for it anyway. I wish more influencers were just smart, good hearted people like her 😕

[@moppotae]

i get this, trust me i do, but you also have to see the other side of it.. these influencers were teens/ young adults! probably really excited abt an opportunity as big as going on tour! it’s awful that these big companies saw the profit on this, but you genuinely can’t blame the influencers for taking on such an opportunity..

[@Devilmousy]

Yeah I agree, at that age and probably even at this age, it seems like a fun way to earn money. I wouldn't do it because I like being "anonymous" in this world but I don't blame teenagers and young adults for grabbing that opportunity. Who didn't wanna be a youtuber in those eras tbh​@@moppotae

[@grae_x]

@@moppotaeyeah I can’t lie, if someone offered me when I was 18 to go on tour, make good money and gain even more of a social following, I wouldn’t think twice. I’d try to come up with real talent/skills to showcase, but I can’t really judge these people for taking the opportunity given to them.

[@bucca2]

Update: iDubbz is now apparently upset that he has cultivated a fanbase of people who will just walk up to him and say slurs

[@babyfaceweeb8937]

I shouldn't have laughed at this.

[@LordofFullmetal]

"Oh no, the consequences of my own actions!" Lmao

[@peytonlong2000]

​@LordofFullmetal Tbf to Idubbz he fully like acknowledged that it is his fault, and apologized to Tana. And said his views on slurs back then were wrong

[@israa.6375]

@@peytonlong2000right like he’s not so much as upset as he is disgusted with the fanbase he had cultivated. and he took full ownership and recognized that the blame was fully on him, so i can appreciate that since he can’t go back in time and undo the incel army he created lol

[@GioTheVax]

Well, like they say in Brooklyn, "Plant stupid seeds, grow stupid trees"

[@randomcloverr]

I just wanna say I'm so glad that we're finally recognizing how the tana situation was a lot more complicated than just "idubbz uses racial slur to own dumb youtube female" bc there's so many parts of that whole thing that just seem wild nowadays. Like, why did we all just let a bunch of white influencers lead the discussion on use of racial slurs like they had any semblance of authority on it? And why did the internet as a whole seem to think hypocrisy was a mistake that somehow excused any and all retaliation (up to and including trying to end her whole ass career)?? And, i get youtube was up in its anti-femoid bag back then, but people forget that less than two years before the idubbz incident, another female youtuber, Christina Grimmie was literally shot and killed at a meet and greet, but everyone treated tana's apparent anxiety around the situation as completely unfounded. Not saying her reaction was totally warranted or that she didn't have her own clown moments too, but that public reaction and subsequent discourse was the whole ass circus.

[@j1ung996]

no bc everyone was just cool w idubbz saying it constantly and praising but in the same breath calling her out for it? so stupid even my 9-10 year old self was perplexed

[@furbyacolyte5604]

who is this everyone yall are talking about though, i never heard about the drama except from people condemning both idubbz and tana 😭 he had the worst excuse for it too, claiming that by saying it he was "removing its power to hurt" or some shit idk

[@littleloner1159]

​@disappointment3090tea channels *really* had a thing with tana Like the Brittany spears of KZbin where everyone is just default dog piling on her instead of thinking about the situation for a sec At least what it felt like to me (and this is not to say tana the chronic scammer is a saint, just that there was an imbalance in how the situation was portrayed)

[@keystohellanddeath]

I just read about the story of Christina Grimmie and it infuriates me so much that that guy escaped justice. Ashley is already an attorney but like her I want to go into law, specifically to be a prosecutor and put people like this away. I realize that in her case it wouldn't have helped since they weren't able to catch him before he offed himself, but still, I can't help but feel so enraged when I read about things like that... so sad and purposeless.

[@lunamiku4166]

I'm not American but when I first saw that video I did think that it made sense in a way in what he was saying Why can't it just be a universal standard that bad word = bad word and not bad word = but we made exceptions that certain people can use it and give it a different meaning *but* they are the only ones who is allowed to say it It really doesn't make any sense for someone who lives outside America to go with that logic in that way since isn't that double standards and at the same time your still confusing people on what that word stands for in today's time

[@nejdalej]

It's so weird that this whole Magcon thing was just a kissing booth with extra steps?

[@mocapcow2933]

I bought a ticket for magcon years back because it thought it was a Magic The Gathering convention.

[@l.e.6615]

Hi, I'm former venue security of AEG Presents. Crying, screaming teenagers outside a tour bus is way more common on influencer tours than music tours. Music tours the fans are more chill. You can't understand till you've seen it but its true.

[@ashleynorton]

Thank you for your service

[@handsoaphandsoap]

Probably the parasociality of it all

[@sarahrean7174]

Boy never work for korean pop band 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Devilmousy]

​@@sarahrean7174 I just wanted to say that lmao

[@egg5256]

Dan and Phil’s, Danny and Drew’s, and Kurtis Conner’s were the best of all the KZbin tours. There’s a reason Dan is actually on tour rn and kurtis continues to do them regularly.

[@ellielong6542]

everyone i talk to who has seen kurtis live tells me that his standup is not funny. have you had a different experience?

[@Beepboop6669]

Commenting to follow, I haven’t heard anything directly but my intuition is that his stand up wouldn’t good. I say this as someone who loves his channel, he just hasn’t given me any indication that he’d be good at stand up.

[@egg5256]

@@ellielong6542 I’m honestly going off of what I’ve heard of other peoples experiences that have gone of them enjoying themselves and the shows not being total shit shows like the rest of these LOL. When I say there’s a reason they still go on tour I mean there are people still willing to spend money to buy their tickets. I personally hate things like concerts/shows because I’m autistic. I also don’t enjoy or honestly understand stand up comedy so even if I did go I wouldn’t be a great person to ask LMAO.

[@ellielong6542]

@@egg5256 that makes sense!

[@dizzydee6362]

I went to his 2019 tour and the opening act, Captain Kalvis, was a lot funnier. It definitely wasn’t money wasted, I genuinely had an amazing time watching Kurtis and the vibes were so awesome the whole show, but you could tell a lot of people only laughed at his jokes because he was Kurtis. Tbh I’d probably go again.

[@Beepboop6669]

The part where she was doing all the stage dances was awesome. It really highlights how awkward that shit was.

[@ashleynorton]

The worst part is the host was Chachi Gonzales - a professional dancer

[@EF-kk3vh]

@@ashleynorton I’ve seen her dance in videos before she’s talented so like what was that 😭

[@kc7646]

gabbie hanna dancing like your 56 year old aunt is peak whatever year that was

[@neverneverland5836]

I screamed at the brief Rebecca Black praise. I saw her live in Glasgow last week and she was fucking amazing. The vibes were literally impeccable, definitely one of the best shows I've ever been at

[@phoenixtaylor4411]

Her new record is so good!

[@beth-bi9yv]

I'm really enjoying her new music.

[@EF-kk3vh]

Let Her Burn is such a good album imo we love Rebecca in this house

[@AleksandarBell]

I feel SO BAD for Caleb. Dude was just trying to make some money and he got scammed. He’s got a mark on his record because he was given misinformation. He seems like a good dude who got exploited.

[@honestival]

That's what I'm saying and especially when he said he was sorry for letting his fans down. That literally almost broke me. He actually seems so sweet and really wanted to go.

[@yamazukas]

as an edgy 'not like other girls' girl i watched a lot of idubbz and i remember when he released that content cop so when you started talking about tana i immediately knew where you were going. im out of that phase now and i still cannot believe that actually happened

[@ThemedNumber02]

No literally I’m a girl too and I cannot believe what I agreed with just 6-7 years ago. The climate is completely different now.

[@I_love_dr_stone]

That was also very feverdream-like

[@daisychainmilk]

He looks like he’d commit an atrocity at a public place

[@mavohq]

oh my godd so did i.. i had an irl friend who watched him too and we bonded over being the only 14 year old girls we knew who watched filthy frank + others in that circle it was super weird.. i put up with so many jokes at my expense because im openly queer and jewish, glad i grew up and surround myself with much better people now

[@j-skullz]

I used to be obsessed with iDubbz before I realised I'm transmasc lmaooo what a journey. Also i have this weird mandela effect with that Tana incident, I could have sworn the event iDubbz crashed and tanacon were the same thing and that's why tanacon was so widely talked about, like I vividly remember them happening at the same time and I get whiplash when i realise the 2 events were like a year apart. Guess I'm from the berenstein universe lmao

[@daisyprayers]

I am lucky enough to have attended both of Dan and Phil’s tours and they were genuinely fantastic. You could tell that a lot of effort and love for the fans went into both tours and the energy in those theatres was the most joyful and electric I’ve ever experienced. I still look back on my meet and greet photos and watch the tour movie when I’m feeling down and it always cheers me up. It makes me so sad to hear about creators that clearly have so little respect for their audience and put on no-effort tours as a cash grab.

[@ashleynorton]

The production value of Dan and Phil's tour was on a whole other level and I appreciate them for it

[@emo6577]

They truly had the energy of former theater kids that were given a fantastic budget and production team and then told “go absolutely wild”

[@WishGender]

I went to Interactive Introverts and We're All Doomed, and the production value was unbelievable. I saw Interactive Introverts on my 15th birthday and it was an experience I will never forget. I didn't have the opportunity to do a meet and greet but I have heard really good things.

[@catherinehansen8809]

i’ve always thought the same thing!! dan and phil shows were on such a higher level compared to youtuber tours. i’ve only been to ii and we’re all doomed but those were amazing experiences that were super special :)

[@existentialpotato]

dan and phil took youtube touring so far past what anyone else did and they did an amazing job

[@alphawaluigiepiccreepypast296]

lmaooo im dying at taylor and matthew saying the same story but changing it to THEM doing it 😭😭😭

[@v.v.9.9.]

I'm more inclined to believe Matthew... just because 😂

[@emsx5739]

@@v.v.9.9. same lol

[@annamaria9073]

​@ViihCastro99 more details I think

[@johnnam1380]

“Mildly emotionally abusive theater teacher” is such an accurate descriptor and I’ve never even met them

[@thehistorian1232]

I’m losing my mind that you mentioned “these teenagers should be making minimum wage” in presumed reference to baby-faced, braced-up Caleb Finn… who I then proceeded to search and found is TWENTY-EIGHT years old. I’m still trying to process this. The man looks 14!

[@ashleynorton]

Lmao I forgot that - but to be fair there were actual teenagers as well 😅

[@xxmakeuplover05xx]

i'm sorry WHAT?!?!? I would've never guessed! Honestly his look is very reminiscent of the teenage emo boys from MySpace so it makes sense 😅

[@cascharles3838]

He has a wife and child and everything

[@allVo1d8367]

Fyi, a couple of months before the Tana tour a singer/KZbinr got shot at her own tour, so that might affect the way she would perceive danger

[@ashleynorton]

Yes she mentioned her in her initial video about the topic and it’s not the same situation but I totally understand why her mind would go there

[@Mskittenlover12]

Yes, Christina Grimmie. Still so sad. 😔

[@sarahdiehl2672]

@@Mskittenlover12 I didn’t even realize Christina was shot …. That’s awful. I knew that she was taken too young but I had no idea it was a violent crime. That’s awful. Rest in peace

[@sarafschr]

That was a hard time for gun violence in general too. That was when the Orlando night club shooting happened as well.

[@kianna270]

@@sarafschryes, and in the same city, Orlando. It was like one tragic event after the other

[@pillbugm8914]

I have to say it - MAGCON shows are just child-friendly nightclub shows.

[@daipovs]

Ok I blocked out the james Charles tour but as soon as you mentioned it I remembered how pricey the tickets were and thinking how big of an ego James has. I didn't realize it got canceled lol

[@ckind2098]

That whole mess with Caleb's tour in particular is kinda heartbreaking, that sounds like an awful experience in multiple aspects. Trent, my man, what the hell is wrong with you...?

[@elle-vt1xt]

i was around when that was all happening and it was genuinely infuriating. he streamed on twitch at the time and he told the entire story on there and it was a mess. eventually he went to america but not with the lights out tour.

[@emo6577]

Poor guy seemed really hurt but it’s a shame that he felt so personally responsible when the whole debacle was so obviously the poor management

[@xxmakeuplover05xx]

The fact Trent never got held accountable for it makes me angry and I never even followed/particularly liked Caleb or any of the tiktok guys. That whole situation is so messy and sad...

[@Darinhaaa]

As a South American viewer who's had little to no contact with most of the topics you cover in your channel, I'm always amazed to learn about such U.S. American stuff and hear personal rearview insight from a true veteran herself. Thank you for your service truly

[@guy-sl3kr]

As a USian I'm amazed to learn all this too. It feels like peering into an alternate dimension

[@tifKh]

Instead of rearview insight, you’d say “hindsight”

[@v.v.9.9.]

As a South American (Brazilian), Magcon used to be my shit!!! Kinda embarrassing... but I have to say that it was fun. Being cringey as a preteen builds character 😂😂

[@rachelmcgraw3605]

she’s back! this video made for people who still have tan lines from dan and phil’s tour wristband (me) thank you for your service!!!!

[@kaleleaf1697]

Too personal

[@eerielakeerie]

i was genuinely distraught when i finally took that wristband off 😭

[@Evan_L_Rodriguez]

Oof, the Miranda Sings tour shoutout didn’t age well lmao

[@lauramessy]

right lmao

[@CZsWorld]

Ashley Norton tour when??

[@neverlandnights]

The saddest part of this video (at the end) was when Caleb got turned back. I remember when all this happened and he was DEVISTATED. He was a teacher and seems like a pretty normal person. It was such an awful situation.

[@tumblrqueen8143]

The sad thing is on the second girls night in tour, gabi had multiple breakdowns and didn’t even want to do the tour because of her anxiety, but because her and niki were twins and branded themselves as a duo, the company wouldn’t let niki go if gabi didn’t . Alisha was also paid more than the rest of the girls because she was the most popular

[@AnnaRenee]

For my 19th birthday I went to the Danny and drew tour with my mom, we had to go out of town and everything and got a nice hotel. Great memory, very fun trip!

[@ashleynorton]

I so would’ve gone to their tour if they came to Baltimore. Still bitter about it

[@AnnaRenee]

@@ashleynorton that’s very sad! If I could I’d share my memory of it with you telepathically

[@tape-6]

ive been to both dan and phil tours and dans solo tour and they have all been so insane fun. their second tour interactive introverts was less 2010s youtube/tumblr and maybe a bit easier for non phan obsessives to get into but was equally insane. nothing but good memories honestly

[@byeblckbirdxx]

50:53 Immigration lawyer here. I used to do a lot of entertainment visas, and I’m chiming in because you’re right, they make it complicated on purpose. ESTA isn’t a visa. It’s a substitute for a tourist visa available to nationals from countries that have specific agreements with the US. Getting paid in any way by any entity in any location while working in the US requires an employment-based visa. Any unauthorized work can get your ESTA revoked and future immigration benefits denied. There used to be an exception to this, called the “showcase exception.” This allowed bands to perform at SXSW for official SXSW events. Problem is, it doesn’t make financial sense to come to the US to do just one show. Look up the band Soviet Soviet. They were detained and sent right back to Italy because CBP found evidence that they were going to play unofficial events.

[@booksvsmovies]

I finally lived my middle school dream of seeing Dan Howell on tour last November in his We're All Doomed tour and had a great time. It was the perfect combination of incredibly nostalgic callbacks to old Dan videos, fun musical/comedy bits and sincerity. While some KZbinr tours can be awful when they're done by genuine entertainers they can be great for fans.

[@kamilareeder1493]

Thats awesome 😮 Dan is genuinely so funny 😂

[@voidfishtm2371]

Crazy seeing someone mention MirandaSings in a positive way rn

[@lauramessy]

it did not age well

[@phantomninja01]

As someone who didn't know a single one of the people mentioned in this video, all I can say is that these tours are basically the epitome of pretty privilage.

[@eternalultraviolet]

I have to add that I actually attended the 2017 Love is Love tour with Shannon, Rebecca, and Miles... it was a trainwreck. I think I'm one of the only people that attended that tour and I was ecstatic I literally traveled 3 hours to go for some reason. Nothing happened. Rebecca sang Friday, Miles tried on costumes and danced around the stage and Shannon actually talked about her life as a queer person and gave advice for coming out which was actually nice but there was no cohesion whatsoever it was so strange and I can't believe I did that

[@sp00kyladyyyy]

pls tell me how many people were there i’m so nosey

[@I_Couldnt_Think_Of_A_Username]

I remember when they were promoting that tour on their channels and being so confused as to what Miles and Shannon would even do on stage???

[@SuperNuclearUnicorn]

The one "feminist" in the Girlboss Tour having their mother be part of the Jan 6 Insurrection is God tier comedy

[@barbequesauceonmytiddies]

Was that about eva’s mom?

[@genericspectator3094]

no merediths mom was the one at the insurrection, eva was the feminist

[@allypatterson2625]

I need her to do a video slowly on Meredith’s devolution into the Bethel cult 🤣

[@faithinthereins1222]

There is a reality out there where Shawn mendes didn’t make it in music, went to KZbin during the vine invasion and became a commentary KZbinr. Hell maybe he opened during the we are two different people tour.

[@eerielakeerie]

i will honestly never forget seeing dan and phil for TATINOF. that show was like. next level amazing, you could really tell that that they really cared about making a quality show for their audience. my mom managed to get tickets despite how broke we were and let me miss school for two days to go. when i look at the pictures she took from that day of me wearing my Cat Whiskers Come From Within shirt and a lion hat i cringe a little, but mostly i look at how happy i was at a time when i was severely Not Okay lol. lowkey still sad i missed Interactive Introverts and We’re All Doomed, but i’ll forever be grateful to my mom for tatinof.

[@maisie9705]

honestly the girls night in set with the little bedroom is so cute and a really nice backdrop. a very awkward show overall it seems but the set was cute

[@vickisigh2674]

........................man, say what you want about kpop, but when they perform and interact with fans they go IN. these youtuber tours are, like you said, fever dream material, i'm appalled.

[@Xingyung]

Well.. yea?? There’s a huge difference between a fkn kpop star and a random KZbinr 💀

[@danzinno]

45:04 so the guy who keeps saying shoutout is currently MGK’s protege and it was SO JARRING to see him in this footage. The tours truly got to everybody

[@harmc2301]

In October I saw Dan on his tour. It was the first time I saw a KZbinr show, and as someone who’s been a huge fan of Dan since middle school (I’m in college now) I had a great time. My mom came with me and even thought it was great. You can tell Dan actually enjoyed being on tour and putting on shows for his fans. Edit: I follow Caleb and hearing again the whole story about him and the whole lights out shit show is so upsetting

[@gmc5618]

I went to the tour is not on fire for my 14th birthday with my bestie, cat whiskers and flower crowns on. It was high production and had musical theatre numbers, acting, skits and the revelation of their sim sabotaging the show from the start. It was genuinely fantastic for that era.

[@rachelmcgraw3605]

you somehow manage to always make videos about topics im very fascinated by before i know im interested in it

[@kyleeolsen2148]

I would love to see you break down the tours that actually had effort put in (We are Two Different People, Interactive Introverts, Tour of Mythically, Tiny Meat Gang Tour, etc.) even though some of them aren’t necessarily my favorite creators they definitely put effort in & it’d be cool to see what makes a “good tour” vs whatever MAGcon was…

[@RosieDean]

The cut to “and you did it at my BIRTHDAY dinner” absolutely TOOK me OUT😂

[@WHALEBOY777]

The reason I like watching Ashley Norton is because I feel like I'm getting the point of view of someone who's a normal person, while everyone else on youtube is trying too hard to be an absolute whacko.

[@nameissayra]

i went to go see tana in 2017 when she did the “tana and friends tour” i was 11 or so at the time and i still have my video of when i met her 😭 it was pretty awkward and i spent $150 on that.

[@morganf1968]

Oh no 😭

[@Gandalfsoda]

this video gave me such whiplash especially that tana and idubbbz situation i completely blocked it out of my mind god what a horrible era of youtube content

[@s_l_n_0]

I'm so glad that 15-year-old me was too lazy to deal with the amount of scheduling it took to go to a show and decided not to buy a ticket to Playlist. It also helped that I arrived late to the obsession of the KZbin influencers' tours. I will gladly take being someone who used to read Wattpad than being someone who bought a ticket to see Magcon.

[@littlerat329]

would you ever consider doing a video on those song parody channels like the key of awesome or bart baker (seriously what happened to him) cause that time in youtube history was also such a fever dream

[@WendlaBergmann]

i for some reason or another missed every aspect of the peak vlog era despite being in the right age demographic for it! learning the tea starting in quarantine has been a wild ride for me haha. with that said, i am so unsurprised that the sleepver female answer to magcon had WAY more production effort put into it

[@mirasdiary]

BABES YOU NEED TO MAKE A KZbinR BOOK VIDEO PUHLEASE

[@c1nnamodoll]

i canttt believe ashley memorized all that complex choreography !!!! she really did put in the work for us

[@annalivingtv]

I have held this in for years and now I can mention it lol: James Charles was supposed to come to my hometown during his tour-which is an odd choice because my town is mid-sized, 3 hours outside LA, and Republican. There was a giant billboard right outside my dad’s office window with James Charles’ face on it for weeks and everyone was joking about him coming to visit. And then it was CANCELLED. It was both relieving to everyone he wasn’t coming cause people found him annoying and saddening that we’d missed out on this very surreal experience

[@saf2127]

That is, indeed, absurd. I wonder if your town had a demographic mix where they figured there would be a lot of James Charles fans (teenage girls) with middle/upper class parents who could hypothetically afford tickets.

[@LittleMissLounge]

The Tati clip took me right fucking out.

[@LittleMissLounge]

Jesus, poor Caleb. Trent sucks.

[@itsangeline]

i was a legit CHILD when i was a magcon stan idk what i was doing gushing over vine boys and to hear that the original lineup only existed as long as it did is surprising lmao. i was also a lights out tour girlie (it was a dark time) for a little while so i can concur that it’s the next generation’s magcon. i didn’t know the logistics behind each organizations but i do remember when magcon first fell apart and bart being corrupt. i also didn’t know the details about caleb omg

[@BE-fw1lr]

I just found your channel after the "Bad Cinderella" vid and I hope someday you get big enough to have your own horrible youtuber tour

[@No1PlutoSupporter]

Ashley I literally look forward to your videos. Bless 🙇🏽‍♀️

[@erinwhipple4666]

Thank you so much for including clips from these tours 😂 I always wondered what they did for their live performances

[@InkEyed]

gods bless that Prezi presentation. And bless you for putting so much work into this "quick" goof!

[@kycheese7424]

I’ve never watched your content before but for me to sit for an hour long video about creators I’ve really never watched or cared about is really something. New subscriber

[@pinkbunnylover]

i am so excited about this video, i used to spend my early teenage years at so many digitour events and it truly does feel like a fever dream looking back 😭

[@getJENNArated]

I never knew how many flashbacks this video would give me... thank you for your service

[@kolonarulez5222]

I will never forgive myself for missing the Danny, Drew, Kurtis tour. What a knockout lineup 😭

[@angelsnaiilz]

haven’t even gotten to two mins yet but you said that this video .. which is an hour long ..was a break after working on long videos .. immediately i am a fan.

[@GioTheVax]

This video is good because I don't recall ever hearing about most of these people who were apparently the most popular youtubers in the world at the time (i was even in their initial target demographic at the time) and it scares me but I'm so captivated by the history I can't stop watching

[@flawedsanity]

I'm so sad to say that I, too, watched "Chasing Cameron" when it came out lol. I was in horrible withdrawals at the time, so the show really was a fever dream, esp because I hadn't known of magcon before then.

[@genericname8727]

I’ve seen Dan and Phil’s two tours, and most recently I saw Dan’s solo tour We’re All Doomed. It was so good. It had humour (was a comedy show), it had theatrics, fun audience interaction, impressive lighting and fun props and effects, and it had a meaningful conversation about mental health that really resonated with me. It’s also been so nice seeing the videos of him meeting fans on tour. I wasn’t able to get a meet and greet, but you can tell in all the footage of him meeting fans that he really does care about his viewers. He almost seems as happy to meet the fans as they are to meet him. He’s been saying this is the happiest he’s ever been and I believe it when I look at him. I watched this video because a fellow Phannie on Twitter actually mentioned it lol. Good video. Seeing what other creators have done when given the opportunity to tour really makes me appreciate all the effort, creativity, and heart that Dan put in to his show. I’m going to subscribe, so I’m glad I saw you recommended and can’t wait to see more from you.

[@RZTree]

this was very fun to watch, thank you ashley

[@roci9809]

Your videos never miss!! I love every topic you talk about!!

[@ericawhitney3835]

The creativeness in this video is amazing!!! I love that you made references to past vines, this is comedic gold!

[@jmv333]

Loved this video so much! Exactly my kind of history analysis! Although thing I was wondering about was the strange music at 33:56 & 50:53? It's v weird cos it covers up the sound of what you are saying, I'm not complaining, it's just a tiny thing, but interested if there is a reason

[@alexwritessomtimes5022]

THANK YOU I THOGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE HEARING THAT

[@TheTechnoTiger]

Omg I got so confused lol

[@jmv333]

I just saw Ashley leave a comment saying "Okay so strange those portions got copyright claimed so I replaced the audio but the clips got removed and the replaced audio is still there" so that's the reason if anyone else was also confused :)

[@20000dino]

@@jmv333 thank you for the explanation ! But copyrighted for what exactly, her own voice ?? 🤦‍♀️

[@xxmakeuplover05xx]

I don't hear anything

[@hee-hoo5672]

“I can monetize that child” literally all family blog/vlogers

[@DanielleStarry]

Your dancing along is the best part of the video! 💃🌶️

[@hexea777]

i just came here to unabashedly compliment you, this is my favorite video of yours yet and you're hilarious. that is all

[@9thousestellium]

this was so great, ty for making this

[@CosmicGaijin]

Ugh, my lawyer queen has returned! I was just wondering what the new video would be about. And whudda know?! You have uploaded another banger. 👏👏👏

[@sakyqueen]

Yes new vid!!! ^^ thank you! You make me laugh so much, I love your humor!

[@lydiasterling7349]

this is so amazingly researched. i always watch when you release a new video. did you ever read Mists of Avalon? that book has a weird cultural presence and a dark backstory that might be a good video topic

[@reginamadziar6737]

I’m so happy you posted!!!

[@bambamberg]

thank u Ashley!! great video

[@No1PlutoSupporter]

Was today years old that I learned Jack & Jack were in magcon. I unironically listen to a few of their songs

[@PierreFilmz]

Man I love your videos so much especially the longer ones

[@lucymartin6134]

I live in NZ and not many people come here, then a couple of weeks ago Dan Howell was here. Kinda pleased he still has his thing going but also shocked tours are still a thing 😂❤

[@pigeondance]

that's cool! his current tour is so much fun

[@Angie753]

Please do content on your law school experience 🤧 love this video btw and literally anything u put out

[@TheOwlGirls]

Rhett and Link's Tour of Mythicality was honestly awesome!! They had an existing huge and talented team so that kinda sets them apart from other KZbinr tours, but since they have a lot of music and entertainment in their background, it really felt like an amazing show that fit with the existing channel.

[@gayplastic1237]

Idk why, but the moment where music is censoring what Ashley is saying sent me

[@Emily-lq5mp]

I was about 13 when Magcon and Vine were this popular, this feels like a fever dream. I went to digitour in 2014 lol. Thanks for letting me revisit one of the most cringey eras of my entire life.

[@Emily-lq5mp]

the footage of the dobre brothers just reminded me at digitour they had all the boys in a line and just pushed fans through to take pictures, They had a tour worker grabbing your cellphone and snapping the pictures, like a drive thru lmaooo

[@smilelove101]

I love that during the early dance sequences that you were mimicking your dog just goes up to you like, "are you okay?" hahaha cute!

[@NenaDrama]

Hmm halfway through I noticed that the audio and video are not synced up. The audio is further ahead than the visuals.

[@ToffeeNB]

thought i was going crazy lol

[@idealdingding6050]

I’m so happy I found your channel, I love the content and the deep dive you do into these topics 😁 taking one for the team and saving me from having to go find these old fever dream events information 😂

[@shaureen]

I'm seeing a youtuber tour in less than 48 hours, your timing is impeccable

[@mirasdiary]

i needed this 😢 having such a hard time at work… glad to have something to distract myself…

[@DominikaDonchinka]

What kind of job do you have,that u can watch videos???😊

[@alainasheen4276]

hope things get better for u 💗

[@tehlittletoaster]

hi! i went to the 2017 love is love tour! i can say that miles mckenna is an amazing person, and so is rebecca black. i dont remember the other person and i didnt watch theior content but i was OBSESSED with miles back in 2017. i went to his solo tour earlier that year, right after he came out as trans, and the show was amazing. the merch for both tours was really cool, and i still have my bandana from the solo tour. the love is love tour was really cool, rebecca black talked about her depression, how she felt after friday, and preformed a few songs including the hit song friday. the other two guests also talked about mental health and how they struggled, but also how they were able to overcome it. there was a q&a at the beginning of the show for VIPs (i was a VIP, dont judge me) and an extra meet and greet at the end of the show for people who werent VIPs. also, rebecca black smells really good. thank you for reading my tangent about a pretty cool night :)

[@Zoe_Dion]

I’m glad SOMEBODY recognizes the artistry of Literally My Life 😍😍😍