On July 28, 2019 social media influencers Jake Paul and Tana Mongeau headed to Las Vegas for their grand wedding. Fans were given the opportunity to live stream the wedding for $50 (R745) fee. The influencers gathered an audience of 66 000 people. The first issue popped up with the masses complained that the quality of the stream was terrible, shaky and the video lagged.

 

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if this plane crashes it’d be legendary… wish us luck… also time to get married 💵😭🦋

A post shared by Jake Paul (@jakepaul) on Jul 28, 2019 at 12:17pm PDT

Before you start calculating what 50 times 66 000 is, those who requested a refund were reimbursed. The wedding was reported to be 10 minutes long and included a fight that seemed a bit too staged to be true.

 

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i’m probably gonna be posting wedding photos longer than we’re married for but i felt like i had to start with these- these photos were taken minutes after someone literally threw an entire drink at us at the fucking altar. obviously, like everything happening at this wedding- that wasn’t apart of my plan (or any ideal for a regular wedding). but somehow amidst all of the chaos and cameras, we grabbed eachother’s faces and the second we both locked eyes and smiled… it made it all better. everything was okay. if not, better. it kinda set the tone for everything we’ll go through together. probably not easy, or conventional, but throughout all of the chaos, if we can just grab eachother, the world stops spinning for a second. i’m never really prepared for what might be thrown at us but i’m happy i get to deal with it with my best friend by my side. it’s a beautiful thing that every single time someone wants to take the power away from us and put us down, we are able to come together and let positivity & love help us power through that. i wouldn’t have wanted to marry you in any other unconventional fucked up way, Jake. I love you. 7.28.19. ❤️ (apologies in advance for the amount of pictures i’ll post over the next week)

A post shared by tanamongeau (@tanamongeau) on Jul 31, 2019 at 6:25pm PDT

Influencers have to constantly come up with fresh and exciting content to maintain their following. Audiences follow them for a good laugh, tips on various things or just because they genuinely enjoy keeping up with they exciting lives.

Jake and Tana took the influencer game to the next level. They sparked rumours about dating in April 2019 when the pair were spending a lot of time together and featured extensively on each others social media accounts. Tana created a lot of hype around her 21st birthday and a YouTube reality series MTV’s No Filter: Tana Turns 21 premiered two weeks after her birthday detailing the event.

 

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when ur real life engagement raises ur instagram engagement > 😍 HI FIANCÉE

A post shared by tanamongeau (@tanamongeau) on Jun 28, 2019 at 1:29pm PDT

Jake proposed to Tana at the big birthday bash. Many believed that the proposal was just a publicity stunt but the the influential couple went ahead and then shared their engagement photoshoot snaps.

 

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bet you didn’t think we’d be engaged for this long… #ThePauls 🖤

A post shared by tanamongeau (@tanamongeau) on Jul 9, 2019 at 3:29pm PDT

A recent episode aired and featured Tana admitting it was all a publicity stunt. It was implied that the whole affair was for the content. She took to twitter to defend herself, explaining that those things were said long before the wedding and it was edited out of context.

confessionals for the show A LONG TIME AGO! the “for fun and content” sound bite was from a very long sentence lmao and was a little salty to see it pulled out of context.. i understand though that MTV has their own creative & that these episodes are airing very late, especially

— Tana Paul (@tanamongeau) August 1, 2019

Whether or not it was fake both Jake and Tana have received more followers on their social media platforms since their love ‘affair’.

Picture: Instagram/Tana Mongeau