Sup you beautiful bastards!
Hope you're having a fantastic Monday
Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco Show
and let's just jump into it.
And the first thing we're going to talk about today is a story that really hits on internety things
more and more bleeding out into the real world,
We had James Charles in the news.
If you didn't see over the weekend, popular makeup YouTuber and entrepreneur
James Charles was the special guest of a Morphe store opening in the UK
and this is of massive note because reportedly over 8,000 fans went to Birmingham Bullring shopping center
to see him on Saturday.
As you can see from this amazing and for me personally horrifying video,
all three floors of the mall were packed with people waiting for him
Some reportedly had been lining up since early in the morning.
(Crowd noise)
And extra security had to be brought to the mall
to handle the crowd size which is why you saw
them kind of hand and hand trying to act as human barriers
But this story isn't just wow look at how popular this popular person is
This situation had real-world consequences
because of a large crowd and street closures surrounding the mall
his appearance ended up causing a massive
traffic jam in Birmingham
According to reports, the area near the mall was in grid-lock
for four hours
One driver saying it took him three-and-a-half hours to travel just under a mile
Which is also why is wasn't surprising why we saw reports
that shoppers just abandoned their cars overnight to avoid driving in the trafffic
Also, according to the Birmingham city council they said they had not been notified
of James Charles' event at the mall and therefore did not make proper traffic plans
Adding had they'd known about it and how many people would be attending
they would have better prepared for it
As far as James Charles' initial reaction to hearing about the trafffic he tweeted oops
