Youtube Pranksters -

[Cosmos]

On YouTube, there exists a community of thespians who are dedicated to making others laugh by pulling off clever and funny acts of mischief. Nah, just kidding, they're a bunch of douchebags who take to a new level.

YouTube pranksters are notorious for pulling "pranks" on people that are ill thought-out, douchey, or just plain inappropriate. The phrase "IT'S JUST A PRANK, BRO" has become infamous due to the myriad of videos where pranksters almost get their asses beat by the people they're fucking with. Occasionally, pranksters like to pretend that they're preforming some kind of higher calling by making "social experiments," which are basically just the same dumb pranks with a thin Very Special Episode veneer. It should be noted that a lot of these pranks are staged, especially by larger channels which have the resources to hire actors. However, they're often copied by smaller channels who believe they're real, leading to disastrous consequences.

To start things off, I have a few videos by the amazing h3h3Productions, which go over just how stupid these pranksters are:

I'm putting this one first because it's about a fairly recent scandal regarding the prank channel MoeAndET; the staged a "social experiment" that involved threatening people who were trying to buy/sell something off of Craigslist. Due to the incredibly realistic acting (especially by the woman who was surrounded by 5+ men in masks who were acting like they were going to rape her), many people assumed that they actually antagonized real people. Ethan (the guy in the above vid) later made a video discussing if it's fake or not, but people are still debating.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

These guys are the worst content providers on YouTube, if only because they're smug bastards who never learn their lesson (though that could apply to 90 percent of the site, when you really think about it).

Still, these guys do make great (literal) punching bags.

 

[wagglyplacebo]

IM ETHAN BRADBURRY

 

[Overcast]

Pyrocynical going over one of these pranksters.

The dude pranks his mom into thinking he hanged himself. Not sure if she was in on the prank or not, but if she wasn't, I feel really bad for her.

 

[NumberingYourState]

"I was just joking about showing my dick off on YouTube. That wasn't really me."

 

[ZehnBoat]

"I was just joking about showing my dick off on YouTube. That wasn't really me."

I was only pretending to be retarded

 

[Cosmos]

Pyrocynical going over one of these pranksters.

The dude pranks his mom into thinking he hanged himself. Not sure if she was in on the prank or not, but if she wasn't, I feel really bad for her.

Like Pyrocynical himself said in the video, it doesn't make any fucking sense even if it is fake. In what universe is making a mother believe her child has killed themselves a funny prank?

It's just par the course for YouTube pranks, though. If you don't cause any physical or psychological damage then what's the point?

 

[HarryHowler]

Funnily enough, someone sent me a link to this story a few hours ago. Someone faked a bomb threat as part of a prank video, and as it turns out, judges apparently don't buy into the "hey, chillax dude, it's just a prank" thing; the guy responsible got a 9-month prison sentence.

 

[AnOminous]

There's these morons who staged fake robberies in front of an ATM as a "prank" and got beaten up.

Frankly, they should have been fucking arrested.

Amazingly, these morons still think it's a good idea to have this up.

 

[DrChristianTroy]

Gotta be honest bunch of dumb ass white boys getting the smug beat out of them for doing dumb ass white boy shit is pretty delightful to watch.

But yeah only assholes do prank videos.

 

[Pepsi-Cola]

IM ETHAN BRADBURRY

 

[Darwin Watterson]

Sam Pepper pissed off SJWs like Laci Green, and that makes him okay in my book.

 

[neverendingmidi]

There was only one of these I found funny... It involved an idiot leaping out at random people in the dark with a chainsaw with the chain removed. They were having fun with it, and went after this older guy.

He had a concealed carry permit.

Hearing them freaking out as the guy held a gun on their buddy was the funniest thing I had seen in a while. Especially if the guy had actually been shot it would've been a clean shooting given that in the dark there was no way to tell the chain had been removed from the chainsaw.

 

[Jozef]

There's so many of these morons who nearly get their ass kicked in just to make a prank video on YouTube. If they're stupid enough to do this though, maybe they deserve it.

This guy has a lot of pranks like this.

 

[Hat]

The one prank video worth watching:

 

[nonnewtonian]

I'm putting this one first because it's about a fairly recent scandal regarding the prank channel MoeAndET; the staged a "social experiment" that involved threatening people who were trying to buy/sell something off of Craigslist. Due to the incredibly realistic acting (especially by the woman who was surrounded by 5+ men in masks who were acting like they were going to rape her), many people assumed that they actually antagonized real people. Ethan (the guy in the above vid) later made a video discussing if it's fake or not, but people are still debating.

Remington Moses (the woman in the Craigslist video) ecently uploaded a video of her singing the "NDA" song, a song about a young actress being put through hell for the promise of exposure but getting nothing in the end, while wearing the same beanie she wore in the Craigslist video.

The Prank Reviewer (who's exposed a lot of other pranks as being fake) also made a video showing photos of Moses wearing the same coat/scarf combo as she wore in the video.

So at the very least, her segment was faked.

 

[c-no]

Funnily enough, someone sent me a link to this story a few hours ago. Someone faked a bomb threat as part of a prank video, and as it turns out, judges apparently don't buy into the "hey, chillax dude, it's just a prank" thing; the guy responsible got a 9-month prison sentence.

Unfair sentences? Making a bomb hoax isn't really funny when considering that you can have terrorist groups planting bombs and it doesn't help that being an obnoxious prankster makes it "cry wolf" sort of thing. Beyond that, the bomb hoax along with the fake robberies can give the judge a good reason to slap a 9-month prison sentence.

 

[The Great Chandler]

The one prank video worth watching:

(GONE SEXUAL) (jews)

 

[autisticdragonkin]

This would be so hilarious if she had a gun and shot the guy

 

[KFC]

While these guys are shitheads, I don't really think they're lolcows. They produce fake, redundant content for views. Not much goes on behind the scenes. They're just annoying. There are few lolcows who are YouTube pranksters, but the thing is, most of them do't react to trolls. They'll just disable ratings/comments or delete videos.

You can laugh at them, but they don't really produce a lot of lolmilk.