Nasally gobshite Sam Pepper has admitted, shock horror, that YouTube “prank” videos and “social experiments” are, by and large, fake, signaling the beginning of the end for this regrettable YouTube sub-genre.
Pepper’s omission was made in a new video titled ‘i’m sorry,’ in which the YouTuber publicly came to the realization that the online persona he’s cultivated for himself makes him look like a thoroughly loathsome prick. The jury’s still out on whether or not that’s the case, but apparently Pepper is currently experiencing some form of existential crisis and, as a result, removed himself from social media and deleted all of his previously uploaded videos on YouTube.
In the latest and now only video on his channel, Pepper says that he was forced to begin faking his prank videos to keep up with the trends on YouTube, given that his contemporaries were also staging faked videos, too. “I’m not telling you this for any sympathy or whatever,” Pepper began, seemingly unaware that it would be difficult to generate sympathy over a video in which he’s willfully admitting he routinely lied to his audience of 2 million subscribers, adding: “I was one of the first prank channels then all these other prank channels started coming out, and they’d be doing more and more and more crazy stuff … that’s when I worked out ‘all this stuff is fake like we believe it all but it’s really fake.'”
Pepper’s videos consisted of him sexually harassing women on the street by pinching their buttocks, “kidnapping” another YouTuber and pretending to kill him in front of his best friend, and being a colossal tosser for ad revenue. While it became increasingly apparent that he and his fellow YouTube pranksters were staging their pranks given the escalating ludicrousness of their concepts, Pepper is the first to openly admit that they are faked, effectively opening up the eyes of YouTube’s predominantly young audience in a move that will now surely throw their entire worldview into question.
But regardless of the legitimacy of these videos, they still celebrate abhorrent behavior for an audience of impressionable teens and pre-teens. There are videos in which young men are shown forcing themselves upon women on the street, and a large proportion of equally fake “social experiment” videos revolve around dehumanizing homeless people by having some 20-year-old douche force them to arm wrestle (and yes, that’s a real thing that actually happened).
Discussion of these videos typically only results in a derisive snort from right-minded people, but the fact is that these imbeciles broadcast their videos to millions upon millions of people, with their content becoming increasingly troubling as they seek to outdo one another in terms of shock value. The key issue is that none of them are mentally equipped with the ability to pull off shocking stunts that aren’t wildly problematic and harmful, so Sam Pepper essentially putting the entirety of YouTube’s pranking community on blast will hopefully see those still championing these morons coming to their senses.
If Sam Pepper has effectively signaled the demise of YouTube pranks and social experiments in their current state, maybe we can consider forgiving him.
J/K, THAT WAS A PRANK BRO, IT WAS A PRANK!
