{"id":52380,"date":"2025-01-28T17:58:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/josh-richards-reacts-to-thomas-petrou-taking-over-the-hype-house-youtube-channel-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T17:58:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:58:30","slug":"josh-richards-reacts-to-thomas-petrou-taking-over-the-hype-house-youtube-channel-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/josh-richards-reacts-to-thomas-petrou-taking-over-the-hype-house-youtube-channel-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Richards reacts to Thomas Petrou taking over the Hype House YouTube Channel &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Richards reacts to Thomas Petrou taking over the Hype House YouTube Channel Instagram: Josh Richards\/Thomas PetrouHype House manager Thomas Petrou has taken over the content house\u2019s former YouTube channel, causing a mixed reaction and even grabbing the attention of Josh Richards. Thomas Petrou \u2013 co-founder, and manager of the TikTok famous Hype House \u2013 has amassed over 8.1 million followers on TikTok with an added 1.8m subscribers on YouTube. The Hype House was a group of talented teens who collaborated together with the sole mission of driving views on each other\u2019s TikTok pages, with included names like Charli and Dixie D\u2019Amelio, Chase Hudson, Alex Waren, Addison Rae, and more. Recently, fans have noticed that the house\u2019s YouTube channel name has changed, with all of its videos being completely wiped. Josh Richards reacts to Thomas Petrou taking over the Hype House\u2019s YT On March 5, a video titled \u201cSPENDING 24 HOURS IN A MOVING TRUCK\u201d was uploaded to the Hype House\u2019s YouTube channel, with one major feature confusing fans: the channel\u2019s name was no longer \u201cHype House\u201d but rather \u201cThomas Petrou,\u201d making this his second page. The video showcased Petrou spending the night in a moving truck, earning the upload over 24,000 views. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vJDQxKX015Q On March 9, Josh Richards went on the BFFs podcast to talk about the subject, and whether or not it was a smart play on Petrou\u2019s part. \u201cIf it\u2019s just you paying for the house, and it was a channel with over million-plus subscribers, why the f**k give that away?\u201d he stated. (Timestamp 20:42 in the following video) Richards, who was once part of the Hype House\u2019s biggest rival, Sway House, has developed a friendship with Petrou over the years, even recently having the former Hype House member on his podcast. While the original Hype House line-up isn\u2019t the same as it is now, the collective now has its own show on Netflix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Richards reacts to Thomas Petrou taking over the Hype House YouTube Channel Instagram: Josh Richards\/Thomas PetrouHype House manager Thomas Petrou has taken over the content house\u2019s former YouTube channel, causing a mixed reaction and even grabbing the attention of Josh Richards. Thomas Petrou \u2013 co-founder, and manager of the TikTok famous Hype House \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}