Parents and siblings are pranking children into believing that they're
invisible. Hilarious or torture? Welcome back to What's Trending, I'm Martine
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rich for decades to come. In his Netflix series, Magic for Humans, Justin Willman
does a stunt where he convinces a couple of grown men that they've turned invisible.
Video: "Invisible on the count of three. One ... two ... three"
In order to pull this off, Willman successfully made another person
disappear in front of the subject and then I had a bunch of actors around to
pretend not to see him. And he was convinced. Viedo: "Yeah there we go, there we go."
And that's great in all, super entertaining, but what happens when you
do this kind of thing to a child? Well, people are finding out by doing a similar setup and pranking their
unsuspecting young family members.
What really sells it is that you take another
picture of yourself alone before the picture that you show to the unsuspecting prankee. So now videos are
showing up all over social media and it usually ends with a very scared little kid.
Cause when you're a kid, the line
between what's real and what's imagination is completely blurred. That's one of
the best parts of being a kid. Blogger David Dobrik did it and got his entire family to make his little brother feel
like he was going insane.
Fortunately, they filmed the reveal showing the brother that was all a prank and he seems to be okay.
Video: "Can I tell you something? We saw you the entire time. We took the picture earlier."
Justin Willman retweeted doe bricks video and wrote "I guess it's a thing now.
Hashtag magic for humans challenge."
But some people think the laugh might not be worth the emotional damage it could do
to a child. @WhiteWolfEM wrote "can someone explain to me why making a child
violently sob with a prank is funny? This invisible thing going around all I've seen is kids getting really upset, I
can't be the only one that doesn't think a kid crying is funny." And @chessieNC
tweeted "okay but as someone who struggled with getting enough attention
as a child, am I the only one that thinks these make your child feel like they've literally turned invisible pranks are
like f**ked up?" But Mikayla Cunningham, who plays the trick on her little sister
said she doesn't regret doing it despite her sister's reaction.
Yeah, no duh. Cause they're sisters. The whole point of like being a sister is
inflicting emotional harm on one another. She wrote "after recovering, she was able
to watch the video and laugh at the situation. Thought it was funny, and then
continued blowing her bubbles. She's not traumatized and quite alright." But not
everyone's convinced, Geri Carlson wrote "this is your proof she's okay? Naive or ignorant? Very sad family. I feel
horrible for this girl. For all the people who reposted or laughed at her, this is a child." My problem with these
situations with regard to kids is that, yeah you act like it's all fun and games, but it's obviously a traumatic
experience for these little kiddos if they're crying and when it comes to
trauma sometimes, you can't actually tell whether there's been a lasting effect
until you've taken some time to see if there's a lasting effect. And you never
really know how it's gonna show up in weird ways later on in life. I have a slightly traumatic experience that
happened to me as a kid. My sister, I used to sing all the time, I loved singing. And
I was very comfortable singing in front of everyone, and I was little, and my sister had a friend over and asked if I
would perform for her friend, and I was not comfortable doing that and so she
was like okay don't worry about it she's gonna go to the bathroom will you perform for me? And they asked me to
leave the room for a second and I was again little, so I didn't get it and I
came back in and she's like 'okay, can you perform for me right now?' and I did, I
stand for her and at the end, she had her friend jump out of the closet and be
like 'haha I was here the whole time and I heard you. Now, as a little kid okay, not
a huge deal, but for me I've never really felt comfortable singing in front of my
family since. How sad is that? Bottom line is, with this situation, the kids trust their families and then their
families use them as a laugh. Which should be then post online for millions
of other people to laugh at them too. I think that's kind of sucky. We want to know what you guys think.
Is this a harmless prank or something that could scar a kid for their entire
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I just want to include in here that my sister and I have a really great relationship and
I love you and you know all's in the past.