{"id":1086053,"date":"2021-12-05T09:14:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T14:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1086053"},"modified":"2021-12-05T09:14:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T14:14:15","slug":"amid-backlash-hulu-pulls-documentary-about-deadly-travis-scott-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amid-backlash-hulu-pulls-documentary-about-deadly-travis-scott-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid Backlash, Hulu Pulls Documentary About Deadly Travis Scott Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famid-backlash-hulu-pulls-documentary-about-deadly-travis-scott-concert%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1086053&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Amid backlash, Hulu pulled a documentary about a Travis Scott music festival that resulted in ten deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the Astroworld Festival in Houston turned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/8-confirmed-dead-at-music-festival-after-crowd-surged-toward-stage-during-rapper-travis-scotts-set\">fatal<\/a> when crowds \u201csuddenly surged toward the stage during a performance by rapper Travis Scott, squeezing fans so tightly together that they could not breathe or move their arms,\u201d according to the Associated Press. The youngest victim was a nine-year-old boy who was <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2021\/music\/news\/astroworld-victim-dies-9-year-old-tenth-fatality-1235112127\/\">kept<\/a> on life support for several days after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, however, Hulu posted a 50-minute documentary entitled \u201cAstroworld: Concert From Hell,\u201d which detailed the events surrounding the concert. Also on Wednesday, a tweet assuming that Hulu had produced the documentary gained tens of thousands of likes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHulu making a documentary about Astroworld is in poor taste all around,\u201d it said. \u201cPeople are still burying their loved ones. The legal cases haven\u2019t even started. Great documentaries are done when all the facts are laid out. Not enough time has passed to fully discuss this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Hulu clarified that it did not produce the film \u2014 and stated that it had nevertheless been pulled from the platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was an investigative local news special from ABC13\/KTRK-TV in Houston that originally aired on November 20th,\u201d a Hulu spokesperson told <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2021\/digital\/news\/hulu-pulls-astroworld-concert-from-hell-documentary-backlash-1235124470\/\">Variety<\/a>. \u201cThis was not a Hulu documentary and has since been removed to avoid confusion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An earlier report from CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/this-was-not-a-concert-this-was-a-fight-for-survival-travis-scott-concertgoers-speak-of-horror-stampede\">detailed<\/a> the chaos felt by concertgoers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe crowd became tighter and tighter, and at that point it was hard to breathe. When Travis came out performing his first song, I witnessed people passing out next to me,\u201d said 20-year-old TK Tellez. \u201cWe were all screaming for help, and no one helped or heard us. It was horrifying. People were screaming for their lives, and they couldn\u2019t get out. Nobody could move a muscle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody was crying; it was the scariest sound I\u2019ve ever heard. \u2026 Imagine listening to Travis Scott and people screaming for their lives at the same time,\u201d he said. \u201cThere was just not enough people to help everyone \u2026 Travis Scott would have a short time in between songs, and we would scream our vocal chords out so someone could hear us but nobody did. This year\u2019s festival will be stuck with me forever. I\u2019ve never seen someone die in front of my eyes. It was horrific.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI picked some kid up and his eyes rolled to the back of his head, so I checked his pulse. I knew he was dead,\u201d explained Billy Nasser, who said he works as a disc jockey. \u201cI checked the people around me. And I just had to leave him there, there was nothing I could do. I had to keep going. \u2026 Kids were dropping left and right. \u2026 There wasn\u2019t enough security guards and there wasn\u2019t enough EMTs and people helping out the crowd. The paramedics couldn\u2019t even reach the crowd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the tragedy, Nike <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nike-delays-release-of-travis-scott-sneaker-in-light-of-astroworld-tragedy\">postponed<\/a> the release of its planned Travis Scott sneaker line. Scott is also facing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/rapper-travis-scott-facing-multiple-lawsuits-over-astroworld-festival-carnage\">deluge<\/a> of lawsuits, which also name rapper Drake, whose real name is Aubrey Drake Graham, as well as Live Nation and NRG Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid backlash, Hulu pulled a documentary about a Travis Scott music festival that resulted in ten deaths.Last month, the Astroworld Festival in Houston turned fatal when crowds \u201csuddenly surged toward the stage during a performance by rapper Travis Scott, squeezing fans so tightly together that they could not breathe or move their arms,\u201d according to the Associated Press. The youngest victim was a nine-year-old boy who was kept on life support for several days after the incident.On Wednesday, however, Hulu posted a 50-minute documentary entitled \u201cAstroworld: Concert From Hell,\u201d which detailed the events surrounding the concert. Also on Wednesday, a tweet assuming that Hulu had produced the documentary gained tens of thousands of likes.\u201cHulu making a documentary about Astroworld is in poor taste all around,\u201d it said. \u201cPeople are still burying their loved ones. The legal cases haven\u2019t even started. Great documentaries are done when all the facts are laid out. Not enough time has passed to fully discuss this.\u201dAs a result, Hulu clarified that it did not produce the film \u2014 and stated that it had nevertheless been pulled from the platform.\u201cThis was an investigative local news special from ABC13\/KTRK-TV in Houston that originally aired on November 20th,\u201d a Hulu spokesperson told Variety. \u201cThis was not a Hulu documentary and has since been removed to avoid confusion.\u201dAn earlier report from CNN detailed the chaos felt by concertgoers.\u201cThe crowd became tighter and tighter, and at that point it was hard to breathe. When Travis came out performing his first song, I witnessed people passing out next to me,\u201d said 20-year-old TK Tellez. \u201cWe were all screaming for help, and no one helped or heard us. It was horrifying. People were screaming for their lives, and they couldn\u2019t get out. Nobody could move a muscle.\u201d\u201cEverybody was crying; it was the scariest sound I\u2019ve ever heard. \u2026 Imagine listening to Travis Scott and people screaming for their lives at the same time,\u201d he said. \u201cThere was just not enough people to help everyone \u2026 Travis Scott would have a short time in between songs, and we would scream our vocal chords out so someone could hear us but nobody did. This year\u2019s festival will be stuck with me forever. I\u2019ve never seen someone die in front of my eyes. It was horrific.\u201d\u201cI picked some kid up and his eyes rolled to the back of his head, so I checked his pulse. I knew he was dead,\u201d explained Billy Nasser, who said he works as a disc jockey. \u201cI checked the people around me. And I just had to leave him there, there was nothing I could do. I had to keep going. \u2026 Kids were dropping left and right. \u2026 There wasn\u2019t enough security guards and there wasn\u2019t enough EMTs and people helping out the crowd. The paramedics couldn\u2019t even reach the crowd.\u201dAfter the tragedy, Nike postponed the release of its planned Travis Scott sneaker line. Scott is also facing a deluge of lawsuits, which also name rapper Drake, whose real name is Aubrey Drake Graham, as well as Live Nation and NRG Stadium.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a member.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}