Frank Ocean's Coachella Performance Dropped From YouTube Livestream, Fans React Strongly

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Coachella in 2020 — before the pandemic shut that year down — Frank Ocean again returned to Indio on Sunday to headline the first weekend of this year's star-studded music festival.The appearance marked Ocean's first performance in six years — since 2017's Flow Festival in Finland.Ocean was set to take the stage at 10:05 pm — but he'd already had stirred a great deal of controversy and backlash online when it was announced that his set would not be included in YouTube's livestream from the festival.The video platform confirmed this on Twitter, just a few hours before he took the stage, writing, «Frank Ocean is not scheduled to appear on the Coachella livestream.» No explanation was provided.Frank Ocean is not scheduled to appear on the Coachella livestream.

The current schedule is in the description → https://t.co/oweGcgaTZsAdditionally, signs were prominently placed around the venue declaring that no Frank Ocean merchandise would be available for purchase at the festival.Fans were frustrated by this absence from the livestream and made their disappointment abundantly clear on Twitter.“frank oceans set is not going to be livestream-“ pic.twitter.com/vVQVvzh6vDAll Frank Ocean fans right nowpic.twitter.com/80IhNkp0SrFrank Ocean’s coachella performance wont be live streamed?

pic.twitter.com/YiQBvdabP3Frank Oceans set not being live streamed has been the worst thing to happen all year pic.twitter.com/a75N0StFBIwdym frank oceans coachella set won’t be livestreamed…pic.twitter.com/qGdtNUmuGpme if coachella doesn’t livestream frank ocean tonight pic.twitter.com/cyt2w3H6hoWHAT DO YOU MEAN FRANK OCEAN’S SET WONT BE LIVESTREAMED WTF #Coachellapic.twitter.com/B1nDkRdtRKfrank ocean’s performance isn’t gonna be livestreamed anymore.