Controversial streamer Fousey banned from Ontario mall during livestream

A well-known YouTuber with an enormous following equivalent to about one-quarter of Canada’s total population, has been banned from an Ontario mall following an attempt to stream in the busy shopping centre.

It seems controversial content creators are currently gravitating towards the Greater Toronto Area, including contentious figures like streamer Adin Ross and, most recently, another streamer best known for helping to kick off the prank video trend of the 2010s.

California-based content creator Yousef Erakat, better known by his online personas FouseyTube/Fousey, was recently banned from Square One Shopping Centre in Mississauga while attempting to stream a shopping trip in the mall.

Fousey, who has amassed over ten million subscribers and more than two billion total views on YouTube alone, was hoping to stream interactions with mall patrons, but it didn’t quite work out as planned.

Security quickly caught up with the streamer, at which point Fousey exchanged tense words with mall security guards and even Peel Regional Police officers after being asked to vacate the premises and repeatedly refusing.

After several demands for an explanation as to why he was being asked to leave the mall, a security guard explains that Fousey — with his private security and camera crew in tow — was seen on security camera jumping over a couch, a seemingly reasonable reason to be kicked out of a private retail establishment. 

Still, Fousey — who has been banned from the streaming platform Twitch over hateful conduct towards the LGBT community — is unable to take no for an answer in the clip, demanding to “speak to the person in charge.”

“Let him come out of his office and talk to me if he’s watching behind the camera,” demands Fousey.

When a police officer calmly instructs Fousey to vacate the mall “before a million other security [guards] come,” the content creator finally makes for the exit, but not before calling one of the security guards a “bitch.”

Security then informs Fousey that he is banned from the premises for three months, to which he barks back, “bitch, I won’t come back here another day in my goddamn life ever again,” and baselessly alleges discrimination by mall staff as cameras continue to roll.

Fousey can be seen in a similar stream going into stores at the nearby Sherway Gardens shopping centre, filming mall patrons without their consent, and interviewing strangers while on private property.

At one point, a voice behind the camera can even be heard warning Fousey of security, evidence that the group behind the stream was fully aware that what they were doing was not going to go over well with mall staff.