Social experiments are back in the spotlight on youtube, The Youtube Channel Luxury Pranks
has absolutely blown up recently for their series of videos Called Catching A Child Predator.
Even though the videos on luxury pranks make them seem like the heroes of tiktok, theres
actually something else going on here.
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Luxury Pranks has been completely blowing up lately on youtube.
At the time of this recording, they have 1.1 million subscribers.
And that’s largely to do with the recent social experiment series that they are milking
to the fullest extent, catching a child predator.
They are somewhat taking advantage of the app TikTok and its serious child predator
problem.
If you’re unaware about all of this, I did a story on it a few days ago, that’s clickable
on the screen right now if you’re interested.
But in a nutshell, tiktok is a sess pool filled with underage kids making cringy lip sync
videos, child predators, and trolls.
Definitely a recipie for disaster.
It seems that a Tik Toks reputation has become one big internet joke, but it’s a joke that
honestly isn’t that funny especially when children are being put at risk.
Luxury Pranks videos follow the same format.
They set up a fake tiktok profile where an actor poses as a child under the age of 18.
They invite the supposed child predator to the set, where hidden cameras are watching
the encounter.
They let the actors act out some pretty cringy scenarios, sometimes leading up to some sort
of assault, before the crew comes out of hiding to tell the child predator they have been
very naughty.
But that’s it.
They just let the ‘predator’ go.
And the rest of us are just sitting there like seriously?
You just caught a potential child abuser and you’re just going to let him walk away?
Aw hell naw.
So that’s what gave it away for me.
Luxury Pranks doesn’t ever call the police on these child predators.
Which im sorry, if you really do want to catch a child predator you would call the goddamn
police and put them in jail so that no other child has to ever deal with them.
LuxuryPranks didn’t call the police because they hired an actor to play the role of the
predator.
No crime was actually committed.
But in an effort to make ‘educational’ videos about talking to strangers online,
Luxury pranks left out one very very important lesson.
If these pranks aren’t staged, they literally witnessed a potentially violent scenario where
someone could have been seriously hurt, and they didn’t call the police.
Reporting dangerous predators is already something that isn’t done enough.
When you encounter a predator online, most people kind of just shrug them off and block
them and carry on with their days.
But If you ever encounter a dangerous predator online, you should do something about it.
Show your parents, Report them, either to the app, or the police.
If you don’t, they are just going to keep dming kids until one of them is inexperienced
enough to talk to them.
I guess there is some entertainment value in these staged pranks.
An unsuspecting kid might see a video like this and delete tik tok immediately, or be
much more cautious about the next time they talk to a stranger online.
OR, theres the other route, where they could see how much attention and money luxurypranks
is getting from their series, think that its real, and then try to film their own version
of catching a child predator.
Except they invite a real child predator to their house.
Not good.
And if they were real child predators, they could be armed and dangerous.
A group of young youtubers putting themselves at risk like this just isn’t in the cards.
Unlike other social experiements that are staged, There is no indication in any of the
description of luxury pranks videos that hints at the fact that they are fake.
There is a disclaimer in the description, but all it says is ‘these videos are produced
with the intent to spread awareness.
Do not try to recreate any of the acts you see, as they are extremely dangerous’.
Like ok yeah the word acts is in there, but nothing that transparently says that the videos
are staged.
Yes, they might be made to spread awareness, but Luxury Pranks is blatantly manipulating
their fan base into thinking that they are heroes, when really all they are doing is
hiring bad craigslist actors, blurring out their faces, filming awkward scenarios and
posting them to youtube.
At least the blurring of the faces conceals the bad acting am I right.
Point is, luxury pranks is exploiting real victims of child predatory behaviour because
it generates clicks and views and yeah it can be shocking but they could also be encouraging
kids to create their own social experiements, which would actually contribute to the whole
child predator problem that they say they are trying to spread awareness about.
Oh yeah, and to top it all off, I almost forgot Luxurypranks is using tutorage as a sponsor.
You know, the website that allows you to hire people to write your assignments for you?
Yeah.
Really setting a good example there guys.
Anywhoo that’s all I have for you guys on that it is comment time.
Temas – charlotte can be our second mum after this news.
I prefer the role of teacher than mum.
Mum is too much responsibility and theres 1.1 million of you.
Gracie Boo – how did you lose your bely button
Rudy perez – who else is here to see charlotte and not the news.
I should think you are here for the very important facts.
Mr Potato – tik tok is a pedo’s dream home.
So I have heard.
I will not be making a tik tok any time soon.
I think I can do without making cringy lip sync videos.
Why make cringy lip sync videos when you make your own content.
Ariyon Scotland – ur better than drama alert.
I mean that’s not that hard.
Just kidding.
Guys im kidding.
Ugh I can see keemstar writing an angry tweet right now.
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