It was the first ever live YouTube roadshow, an event described as a "celebration of the vibrant communities that exist on the site, including bedroom vloggers, budding creatives, underground athletes and world-famous musicians". Tens of thousands of YouTube fans watched the celebration live online. A host of performers took to the stage, including singer Katy Perry, whose song "I Kissed a Girl" garnered thousands of hits on YouTube before topping the charts in more than 20 countries worldwide. Tom Dickson, the lab-coat-wearing scientist from the Will It Blend? videos blitzed a broom handle on stage, while Juan Mann, pioneer of the "free hugs" movement, which became a sensation on YouTube, wandered through the audience handing out free embraces. Black-Eyes Peas frontman Will.i.am gave a live performance of "It's a New Day", the song released as a follow-up to the YouTube smash "Yes We Can", which endorsed Barack Obama's presidential campaign. Also on stage at the show was William Sledd, a former sales assistant at Gap who found notoriety on YouTube for his videos that offered a caustic take on modern fashion. He was joined by Beardyman, a human "beatbox". One of YouTube's co-founders, Chad Hurley, appeared at the event, along with Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of Google, the company that bought YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006.
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