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FouseyTube

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “palestinian american entertainer and motivational speaker who produces parodies”. Today it says “palestinian-american youtuber”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “American YouTuber Yousef Saleh Erakat ( / ˈ j uː s ə f ˈ s æ l ə ˈ ɛr ə k æ t / ; born January 22, 1990), also known as”. It now reads “American YouTuber (born 1990) Yousef Saleh Erakat ( / ˈ j uː s ə f ˈ s æ l ə ˈ ɛr ə k æ t / YOO -səf SAL -ə ERR -ə-kat ; , , Palestinian ; born January 22, 1990), also known as”.
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Yousef Saleh Erakat ( ; born January 22, 1990 in Fremont , California ), also known by his stage name FouseyTube (stylized fouseyTUBE ), is a Palestinian American entertainer and motivational speaker who produces parodies, vlogs, comedy sketches and pranks on YouTube .1 He graduated from San Jose State University and currently lives in Los Angeles , California. On January 1, 2015, Erakat released his first single "Prideland" under the stage name "fousey". A music video for the song was released the same day on his daily vlog channel DOSEofFOUSEY . DOSEofFOUSEY , " YouTube ", September 6, 2014.2

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “palestinian american entertainer and motivational speaker who produces parodies”. Today it says “palestinian-american youtuber”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “American YouTuber Yousef Saleh Erakat ( / ˈ j uː s ə f ˈ s æ l ə ˈ ɛr ə k æ t / ; born January 22, 1990), also known as”. It now reads “American YouTuber (born 1990) Yousef Saleh Erakat ( / ˈ j uː s ə f ˈ s æ l ə ˈ ɛr ə k æ t / YOO -səf SAL -ə ERR -ə-kat ; , , Palestinian ; born January 22, 1990), also known as”. Read the current article and compare.
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palestinian american entertainer and motivational speaker who produces parodies

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palestinian-american youtuber

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