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Chasing Cameron

Chasing Cameron is an American reality television series that follows social media personality Cameron Dallas and fellow members of the Magcon tour as they take a worldwide meet-and-greet tour and try to advance his career. It premiered on Netflix on December 27, 2016, with all ten episodes released at once, and ran for a single season.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Format	Unscripted docu-series, 10 episodes of roughly 31 minutes, one season¹
Premiere	December 27, 2016, on Netflix (United States)¹
Subject	Cameron Dallas and the 2016 international Magcon ("meet and greet") tour across Europe and Australia²^•³
Main cast	Cameron Dallas, Aaron Carpenter, Taylor Caniff, Willie Jones, Trey Schafer, Bart Bordelon, Blake Gray⁴
Production	Brillstein Entertainment Partners, Magical Elves Productions, and Netflix; Dallas also served as executive producer¹^•⁵
Reception	IMDb user rating of 3.7/10 from about 1,600 votes; critics described the show as self-promotional fluff¹^•⁶
Status	Ended after one season⁷

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Premise and cast

The series centers on Cameron Dallas, a social media influencer best known for his Vine videos, as he works to energize his career with a worldwide fan tour alongside his friends Aaron Carpenter, Taylor Caniff, Willie Jones, Trey Schafer, and Blake Gray. Bart Bordelon, the chief executive of Magcon, also appears. The half-hour episodes show the group's lives on and off tour: time with their families, interactions with fans, and the business side of their careers.²^•¹

Magcon, short for "meet and greet convention," was an annual event where fans could encounter rising Vine and YouTube stars in person.⁸ In the show, Dallas and his friends embark on a new Magcon tour around Europe under a new business plan in which they hold a bigger stake.⁹ The tour later reaches Australia, with stops in Brisbane, Perth, Sydney, and Melbourne; the production company Scout worked on the Australian leg in July 2016.³

Dallas said the show was his own idea, dating from a year before release, and that having a Netflix series was one of the goals he tracked on a large whiteboard. He said he wanted to show fans a new side of him and to educate people unfamiliar with social media about what happens behind the scenes.⁹

Episodes

The ten episodes, all released on December 27, 2016, follow the tour's arc from Europe to Australia and back to Los Angeles. Early episodes cover the European tour, including a brawl at a German nightclub that leads Bart to cancel a show, an out-of-control crowd in Paris, and a fan mobbing in Milan that pushes Cameron to a breaking point. Later episodes cover Taylor collapsing after a night in Barcelona, Cameron walking in a Dolce & Gabbana fashion show, a panic attack during a show in Perth, Cameron opening up about his anxiety, Taylor's attempt to exit his Magcon contract, and a closing episode in which Cameron does a photo shoot for Variety and the group vacations in Santa Barbara.¹⁰

Production

The series was produced by Brillstein Entertainment Partners, Magical Elves Productions, and Netflix. Magical Elves, the production team behind Top Chef, handled the series, and Dallas served as an executive producer alongside Jane Lipsitz, Dan Cutforth, and Bart Bordelon.¹^•⁵^•⁶ Directors included Tom Currie and Peter Crystal, and the producers listed were Jonathan Craig, Ben Curtis, Rich Eckersley, Teresa Hsu, and Matt Kaunitz.¹¹

Reception

Critics treated the show lightly. Kevin O'Keeffe of Mic called it "propaganda with teeth," arguing that much of the drama was dispelled because Dallas, as executive producer, clearly wanted to maintain a clean image. Michael Andor Brodeur of The Boston Globe wrote that the show "feels like peak nothing," while still finding it a strangely fitting document of its moment in internet celebrity.⁶^•⁸ On IMDb, the series holds a user rating of 3.7 out of 10 from about 1,600 votes.¹

Common Sense Media, a family media review organization, rated the show appropriate for ages 13 and up. Its review noted sporadic language such as "damn" and "bitch," frequent brand visibility including Apple, Calvin Klein, Converse, and Vans, and no violence, sexual content, or drinking. The reviewer described the series as a self-serving platform for Dallas's existing fan base of young tween and teen girls, while acknowledging his apparent authenticity in his love for his family and appreciation of his fans.²

Context

The series documents a specific phase of the Magcon era, in which Vine-era creators converted online followings into touring income. Dallas had won a Teen Choice Award in 2015 for "Best Viner" and "Choice Web Star," and by the time of the show had amassed millions of followers across platforms.⁸ A 2022 Forbes profile of Dallas's later business career quotes his mother, Gina Bannemer, speaking about his early brand-building in the show's first episode, and describes the apartment complex where Dallas and his collaborators lived and made videos together as a predecessor of later content houses such as the Hype House.¹² The show was not renewed; it ended after its single season.⁷

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › Unscripted, reality, and web-native series › Celebrity, family, lifestyle, and court reality series › Lifestyle, dating, and docusoaps › Celebrity and family docusoaps › Premiered 1997 to 2018

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