The Truth About Tanacon

That being said, vidcon, whoever created vidcon, I think all the unruly people and all the unwanted people should host a little meet and greet in anaheim, california on the same days as vidcon. I would love to do it to have shane and have his friends support my convention it's literally the most emotional and touching thing that has ever happened to me like literally every day once a day they make me cry over the fact that Shane loves me and supports me, we never will. get in because there's no way in so she needs to give everyone their money this show couldn't be any worse you guys having fun today uh yeah okay there's a lot going on right now um I'm about to go uh tana interview uh tana mojo about a lot of things um but we've been filming all day today because a lot of things happened that I'm going to get to, I literally don't even know where to start.

I'll start with

tanacon

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tanacon

. it was supposed to be tana's version of vidcon it's a convention where you can meet your favorite youtuber it's inclusive and anyone can come and it was being marketed as a free version of vidcon if you want to leave me suggestions for places in anaheim to throw a free meet up for meet and greet at vidcon this year, let me know because I'm going to find a place and I'll do it and this all started because tana made a video about vidcon where she was like, "Oh, they treated her badly, not only did they treat her badly." vidcon decided at the last minute not to make me a featured creator but they decided it would be better if they banned me from their event for life and they knew they were doing a lot of shady things to youtubers but every year you do everything in your power . to make it hell for me, but only after promoting your event and don't you think that's it?

She wanted to create her version of vidcon, but better, I would love to make this bigger, better and freer than vidcon and then when that video came out, a lot of youtubers started tweeting about it and took her side, like many youtubers said, yes, we agree with team tana and there are reportedly 80 creators already confirmed to attend, miranda sings ricky dillon casey neistat bella thorne. It was pretty crazy because Tana is one of those people who is very polarizing. Many people don't like him. Many people think it is a disaster. They don't trust her. They think she lies a lot, but for some reason, this is specific.

What everyone was saying was that I'm on the Tana team personally, I hope they do well because the success of others and people being more independent in this community leads to more success for others to be independent in this community, then Tanacon became a reality. She was planning a convention the same weekend that vidcon starts tomorrow at the same time vidcon will be held right down the street from vidcon, literally walking distance, and she said that this convention was going to be free or I would have very cheap VIP tickets and I would love to meet you. free guys and because our records are free and all your favorite creators were going to be there now she texted me and said, Hey, I totally understand if you don't want to come, but it would mean a lot to me if you did. and I said yes, I've been on YouTube for a long time.

I was literally at the first vidcon in 2009 or 2010. Hi shira lazar coming with you backstage at vidcon with shane dawson how did it go? Because this is the first vidcon conference. this guy when there was only a thousand people and it was some youtubers and it was very small and I was there in my ugly outfit right here, so amazing, Shane Dawson is here. Can you sign my book, of course? And I did. because the green brothers, you know, asked me to do it and they wanted me to support them and I didn't, that's why I decided to go to tanacón because I wanted to support tana, she was trying something new and I thought, you know what?

I hate conventions, I've been a vidcon forever, I hate this but let's do it, so I didn't really do much research on anything. I didn't really know anything except the fact that my face was on the list of people next to bella thorne I don't know and I was going to meet and greet them, I said "okay, it sounds good, like this isn't my convention, it's Well, I wasn't part of the planning, I wasn't part of anything." except for the fact that I was sure he would come, which now, in retrospect, is the worst decision I think I've ever made.

She created her own event called tanacon and they closed it today, not only was tanacon a failure, but it was a safety hazard to be here, I need everyone to move and clean this up because the paramedics are coming, everyone is in this hot parking lot without Bathrooms, no water, no food, I know you've been standing in hot sauce, I know. you need water, I know you need food, it caused a riot, fish don't steal badges, it caused thousands of people to get sunburns, third degree burns on their bodies, we stood in line for almost five hours, as you can see I'm actually Burned. this hurts, people were passing out, no one was even entering the convention center, the convention center wasn't even a convention center, it was the lobby of a hotel the size of a chipotle and they acted like they could fit 5,000 people there, which is crazy. look in line, this is crazy, so you finish, you finish here, but you start way back here and then of course it got cancelled.

Okay, I don't know, they canceled it. Many people. There's a lot of drama involved with that. You had James Charles ranting on Twitter. I was with him when he was ranting and I mean, I know he was getting a lot for it, but I agreed with everything he said. This was a disaster. It was a disaster. Tana was not. taking responsibility, she didn't return anyone's phone calls or text messages, her team was confused and not helping either, this whole thing was titanic, like everything, women and children first, okay, guys, like the captain , they said kindly and cheerfully, so there is no panic at the wedding dance for everyone.

I need to vote now it was canceled thank God no one was seriously hurt but now we are left in a place where I don't know if anyone will get refunds. I haven't been able to talk to anyone, but it's even more confusing. I've been hearing some crazy theories that maybe this whole thing was planned to fail. It seems crazy, but why else would they have a hotel lobby that says on the website it can fit a thousand people? Why would they sell 5,000 tickets too in all the videos of the people in tanacon everyone buys tickets all the featured creators I haven't seen a single badge anymore you guys saw people claiming to have free passes or something no no no she said that There were separate lines for VIP and regular, but every time I went through the line it made no difference no one saw anyone with a free ticket, which is all oh so they are giving out free tickets and I would love to meet them for free and because the records are free, where are they and then the big story? 20,000 people showed up and that's why it was cancelled. 20,000 crazy teenagers showed up and ruined everything for everyone and well, she expected about 5,000 people to show up. 20,000 people showed up, but then you look at the actual pictures and it doesn't look like 20,000 people and everyone that was there that I talked to said no, maybe a few thousand, not 20.

Then you start to think, what if all this was not would there be free tickets? What if everyone paid 65? for one ticket and more free than vidcon and what if a thousand of them were inside and then the other four thousand who paid to be there were outside waiting to get in but there was literally no room inside so it wasn't a fuss, it was? It's not like a bunch of crazy people saying vidcon was kids paying money to stand there in the sun burning their asses. Now the reason this makes sense to me is because the number one company that is the one that tours in good times, who is that?

I've never heard of them, I don't know what they are, they're even the real number two, look at this photo, okay this is a photo of a group of 20,000 people, this is what it looks like now, these are the supposed 20. 000 people who were outside of Tanacon that's not the same now I know a lot of people are going to be like Shane shut up why do you care so much who cares? It's not your convention. Nobody blames you. Get over. Keep going. I heard that from a lot of people on the internet in my life, people are like stop making a big deal out of this, the reason I do it is because I went into this thinking, oh this is tanacon, you know, it's all going to be tana . fans and maybe I'll be walking around and it's like oh there's grandpa from youtube oh that's shane oh that old guy who makes cool conspiracies but like where's your frittana why would anyone who sees tana care about me?

Don't know. but when I saw all the pictures and I saw all the kids making videos that were there, a lot of them said they went there specifically to see me, I mean there were kids that flew there to see me as soon as I announced I was going. I bought a ticket and then I was like, oh, now I need a flight, I need a hotel and stuff, can I pay for all this? No, but I did. I thought, oh, that's really cool. You know, Shane Dawson doesn't really go out. conventions i spent two thousand dollars to fly from hawaii well that's something else i don't even know if i will meet shane tomorrow i paid a thousand just to be here with my plane ticket and with the hotel there were so many people walking in my photo and in my other merchandise and with the Illuminati pop plugs and I think that's when it really hit me that this isn't Tanacon anymore, it's like all of us, Khan, and all these kids are done and I.

I'm part of that, you know, my face was on the website, I told people to come see me and they got nothing, they literally got, and I'm going to say this right now, the main reason I bought the tickets for Tanacon and I beg you to go and my mom made this for my birthday it was for shane because I've been watching him for 10 years since I was literally 12. and it's been like eating me, I haven't been sleeping, I was even awake at like 5 am doing an Instagram live just talking about it because I needed to talk about it and everyone around me was sick of hearing about it and I'm sick of people saying, "I'll do it better," like I'll do it with you and I think.

The main reason I really want to resolve this is because I'm angry, I'm angry that all these people who paid money were lied to, but the most important thing is that they were disappointed and thought they were going to have a lot of fun. Tana. I made this whole video about oh this can be better than vidcon this is going to be so much fun this is for you guys and like it was worse than vidcon it was horrible this is crazy if it was tana it would be to the point where I wanted to. literally moving out of the country, that's something else too.

I want to talk to Tana and tell her what you were thinking was your fault, whose fault it was and why you haven't figured out a way to fix it because there is a lot. tweets can actually work and someone has to pay for it, so I guess the last thing I want to leave you with is a question. I mean, I think a big part of this will also be like the constant weirdness of that guy on the Segway exactly, but the guy Michael, the guy who was the CEO back in the good old days, I don't even know if that's a real thing, I don't know, it's a company, but in all the images that people have of tanacon like all the Crazy Chaos, riots, whatever, you just see this guy with bleached blonde hair, like a Gucci necklace scarf, and It's like riding a Segway through the convention, like it's the craziest thing I've ever seen in my life.

Do you think he would let us interview? He man, that would be crazy. I literally texted him. I said, Hey, I literally need to talk to someone about something and he said, I'm so sad. I invested every penny into this to make this work. I'm going to lose my house. About this now I'm thinking that everyone is blaming him and saying that Tanacon was a nightmare because the people who organized it were scamming everyone, but was it them or was it Tana? Tana knew she wanted to interview them both, yeah, well that's interesting. crazy, of course, at the same time I don't even think about it, oh my god, you're going to have a cause, it's not even about exposition and I like drama and tea, it's literally not tea, it's like things are happening and I want to know what it is and I'm tired of seeing public statements about it on people's Twitters.

I want to know what happened and they're just going to wait for it to go away. I know what company is owned by a 22 20 year old guy on a segway like what is that. I'll answer uh three questions three um anyway, the most important thing is I want to hear from the people who were there. I already talked to a girl, Caitlyn. I saw a video that she posted where um, she was showing off her sunburn, she was talking about how she flew out to specifically meet me and you guys, my friends, so I met up with her, took a picture with her and you can see her sunburn. solar in the photo, it is crazy like everything else.

The chest was like yeah, it was crazy, literally crazy, right, it makes sense, although I mean, if you're standing outside for four hours with the sun beating down on you and obviously not anticipating it, so you don't have a hat or sunscreen orsafety and well-being were considered first, that was the number one priority, because if it was, you are lying to yourself, yes, while I was talking to the girls who came, I received a phone call from Tana and I went to the other room and she I was crazy. Andrew came over when she was talking and we started recording the phone call.

Yeah, I mean, we were trying to hold on. She didn't know we were filming. uh, this is where I realized that it's wrong and, yeah, no matter my intentions, like people have to do it, even things have to be right, Michael can't keep doing this to people because I can't keep doing it to them. this to people like everything I do. I totally understand where you're coming fromsuccess, I think you know after talking to these kids it's like they just want to hear us talk about it, they want to hear you talk about it even if you don't know everything, they just want more, I agree and I've been really during The last few days I was afraid to say anything negative about Michael or the good times because no matter how dirty you did me, it's my fault, I agreed, I should have listened to the people who told me not to work with him, I should have made. better research, but you know, I just don't know, I don't know what to say, am I talking about the fact that I was lied to in my place in capacity sizes?

Am I talking about the bike that my Michael literally pulled me and people off of? I'm like Marriott's lie about that. Do I say those things or do I just take all the blame? I think we say everything. I want to interview Michael too right after and he left us all here without transportation back to Los Angeles and like everyone I like people and I like all that kind of stuff I kind of want to come back and pay the talent for their time I kind of want to I feel so bad for Gabby Show, she's so angry I don't even know what to say, where are you now?

Anaheim well, I think we have to do this tonight, I think we have to get this out as soon as possible. Can I be honest with you? Yes, I'm terrified, I feel like I don't have the answers everyone wants. I can only say what Michael told me and that I went and did my best to like the research, like I was sitting in the meetings that he had, people told me everything, you know what I mean and I believed it, yeah, like that, it's possible that my fans have to go through something like this. I get so excited that Michael isn't around like he doesn't know what to do to fix it but obviously with all your help I trust you yeah can I answer an honest question?

I think this should be my answer like your video. Yeah, okay, I agree because that's what I'm so afraid of. I think with other things in the past I feel very impulsive and I just say everything and I don't want people to do it. being like you don't know what you're saying, you're lying, whatever I want, just being able to talk and know what I want to say, I think people trust me, trust me enough that they know I'm not going to go. leave you and I'm not going to do it, so what do I have to do to fix it with the people who bought tickets?

I'm just terrified of disappointing the people who love me the most and I did and I don't. I don't know how to come back from this. I'm terrified. Well, we're going to do it. I have you. I love you to say. I don't know why you even have it in your heart to give me a chance and a platform. to talk and try to make things better like you're the best person I'll ever know and thank you of course I love you keep me informed please please inform me it's okay he left town that's what I was trying to find out.

Was? Where you live? Let me text that guy. How does that sound? It's not like Bernie Madoff Bernard Madoff just got sentenced for the largest investment fraud in Wall Street history. Well, I just texted him and told him he was making a video. about all of this and I want to interview all sides and make sure it's balanced and you're not here today for an interview, Michael, I mean, even if it's just like a phone call, oh my gosh, I just got a text. Oh my goodness, there are thousands. of people crying in their hotel rooms and she just finds her Gucci party boots, like why do people admire that, that sounds really bad, but there's a lot more bad than people outside and that's the first problem you think is the only. something's wrong hello well this is taking a turn oh my god