10 Biggest YouTube Lies We All Fell For Fool me once, shame on you, the saying goes.
But it seems you can fool YouTube watchers multiple times- will we ever learn?
Today, we count down 10 Youtube hoaxes that pulled a fast one on all of us.
1 - Marina’s Kidnapping If there’s one thing we’ve come to understand
about social media, it’s that things go viral FAST.
Just ask Marina.
The news about her being kidnapped spread like wildfire!
Marina left her fans wondering what was behind her odd behavior in one of her videos titled
“Date Outfit Ideas”.
Some said ISIS was involved, others said she was on drugs...
It turned out she was just egging on the whole thing and quietly nurtured the drama by keeping
silent.
2.
Drunk Girl in Public In this fake enactment, a drunk girl stumbles
around Hollywood and is approached by several guys.
The guys end up acting like total creeps, blatantly asking to take advantage of the
drunken beauty.
The video quickly went viral on Youtube, but unbeknown to us at the time, the guys in the
video were actually actors who had agreed to play a part in a school project.
The dudes were made look like real predators on camera without their knowlegde.
Ouch!
3.
Killing Best Friend One beloved prankster Sam Pepper really pushed
the envelope with his video titled “KILLING BEST FRIEND PRANK.”
He staged a fake kidnapping of Vine prankster Sam Golbach and then pretended to murder his
best friend in front of him.
You know, just light hearted fun!
The video went on to be covered internationally by various media sources.
Sam later admitted that most of his prank videos, including the “Killing Best Friend”
prank were in fact staged.
4.
Homeless With $100 YouTuber Josh Palin Lin faked a “social
experiment” In the video where he is recorded giving a homeless man named Kenni $100.
Expecting him to spend it on booze, Josh "secretly" films the man, who instead uses the money
to buy food for others.
Josh raised over $145,000 on a donation page he started for
Thomas.
to get a fresh start.
Surprise surprise Kenni never received a dime from the fund and was later found dead in
an alley due to alcoholism.
5.
Twerking Girl on Fire in 2013 a “viral” video that made the
rounds about a twerking session gone very very wrong.
But like the other viral successes before it, the twerking girl on fire video turned
out to be a big joke.
Jimmy Kimmel revealed that it was a staged video played by a stunt girl.
Well played, Jimmy.
Well played.
6.
Nia’s Pregnancy In the 2015 viral video, Sam claimed to collect
his wife Nia’s urine that had been left in the toilet and used it for a pregnancy
test.
He finds out the test results and later reveals to Nia that she is in fact pregnant.
But happily-ever-after wasn’t to be.
Only three days later, they announced that they had a miscarriage.
Needless to say, serious doubt was cast on their story.
Some point to the couple’s bad acting during both announcements and their oddly happy behavior
in their vlog just a day after the miscarriage announcement.
7.
Bree’s Stories The most classic hoax was of a young YouTuber
Bree Avery better known as Lonely Girl 15, which chronicled the life of a typical teenager
living in a small town.
When her stories started to morph into a bizarre narrative that portrayed her dealings with
secret occult practices, she started to raise eyebrows
prompting the internet to start speculating.
Was it all fake?
Her fans later discovered that Lonelygirl15’s story line was actually scripted by a small
team of writers.
Bree was a 19-year-old hired actress named Jessica Rose and the operation was produced
by a professional agency.
8.
Beef Between Fousey & RiceGum FouseyTube and Ricegum planned a fake fight
after exchanging some heated messages on Twitter.
Before you knew it, it was all over social media and was picked up by YouTube news channels
like DramaAlert.
They were called out by other YouTubers for faking the fight.
Fousey & Rice later came forward to admit that it was staged stating their intentions
were to point out how easy it is to manipulate drama channels.
9 Drey’s Fake Raffle Drey from RichKidsTV bought himself a shiney
new Corvette with the money he stole from his fans.
How did he achieve this you ask?
He got them to participate in what he called a “raffle” which they would enter into
by paying through PayPal.
The winner of the raffle would win a big portion of the money raised and a small percentage
would go to charity.
But after he raised over $100,000 in funds, his story switched.
Suddenly, for legal reasons, he had to give 90% of the raffle to charity and the other
10% to the raffle winner.
The charity he chose was quote “my live your dream foundation”.
Turns out the Foundation was less what you’d call a “charity” and more what you’d
call “his bank account”.
But at least he bought a cool car with it.
Does that make you feel better?
10.
TmarTn’s Gambling Gamer Tmartn got into hot water when he promoted
a gambling site CSGO lotto for his 13 year old fans.
Tmartin claimed he was just promoting an outside site he used, but
turned out to be a site he owned.
This broke several FTC rules including disclosure information.
He later apologized while sitting on top of a pile of money.
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