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Jason Wilhelm, co-founder of skill control organization TalentX Entertainment, tweeted today: “I have COVID.”
Wilhelm, who runs the company’s gaming division, TalentX Gaming, wrote on Twitter that he woke up with fever and sore throat, and felt tired.
“I feel like I’ve been hit with a truckArray … it sucks,” Wilhelm wrote to his 63,000 followers on Twitter.
The tweet comes a day after many of the company’s most sensitive talents, some members of TikTok Sway LA’s group of influencers, were excluded from the city of Los Angeles for ignoring public fitness precautions while celebrating the pandemic.
Wilhelm, who lately lives in Las Vegas, told Business Insider that he had recently been in Los Angeles for a week, but had had no contact with Sway LA or TalentX talents.
“I’ll have to give it from the plane, a place to eat or the hotel where I was staying,” he said in a direct Twitter message to Business Insider.
Wilhelm co-founded TalentX last year with his colleague YouTuber Tal Fishman.The company has hired former full-screen creators Warren Lentz, who is its CEO, Michael Gruen is its vice president of skill and TikTok star Josh Richards is a partner.it has become music and games in recent months, building partnerships with Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Warner Records and e-sports company ReKTGlobal.
TalentX has recruited dozens of TikTok stars to its list this year. Many of the company’s creators post content as a component of the Sway LA collective. The organization has come under scrutiny in recent weeks for organizing components and ignoring social distancing measures put in place in California and the United States. the city of Los Angeles to stop the spread of the new coronavirus.
Yesterday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti legalized the city to cut the force off the rental house where Sway LA, Bryce Hall, Noah Beck and Blake Gray members create content.
Prevention came into action after Hall held a massive 21st anniversary party in Encino, where the videos show dozens of un masked visitors and influencers entertaining themselves with male and female strippers.Wilhelm told Business Insider he didn’t attend the rally.
The mayor said: “Despite several warnings, this space has become a nightclub in the hills, harboring giant talks in flagrant violation of our public aptitude orders.The City Council has now disconnected the public facilities from this space to avoid those celebrations that put our network.”at risk.”
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