Overview

• On Sept. 11 at Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens, Yves Tumor was booed during an opening set that leaned industrial and hard techno, according to videos from the show.
• In subsequent Instagram Stories, Tumor called the crowd “the corniest people I’ve ever seen,” described New York as “hell on earth,” tore a NYC poster, and captioned one clip “Irish house mafia.”
• The artist shared screenshots of hostile DMs from Swedish House Mafia fans, referred to the senders as “subhumans,” and answered a genre query with “blatant racism.”
• One Story showed what appeared to be a message from Swedish House Mafia creative director Alexander Wessely apologizing for the situation and saying the group loved the set.
• Swedish House Mafia have not commented on the incident as debate over the genre mismatch spread on social media, with figures such as deadmau5 weighing in.