The same black actors that destoryed the car are standing with Joey right behind the camera
as he does his introduction.
What does that mean?
If I have to spell it out ... I guess that means it's fake
Trend It Presents: 10 YouTubers Caught with Fake Content
Everyone that gets involved in YouTube is either passionate about their skills or seeking
fame.
Unfortunately, like with any form of fame, it isn't always so easy to come by.
Some YouTubers have stooped to low levels for the sake of fame and fortune on the video
platform.
From fake pranks to extreme publicity stunts, these YouTubers were caught faking their way
to the top.
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Number 10: Keemstar This YouTuber has come under fire in the past
for controversial videos, comments, and actions.
Keemstar is the host of Drama Alert, a channel that keeps up with the latest gossip in the
YouTube community.
When you take already heated issues and put Keemstar, the master of instigation, at the
center of it – things are bound to blow up.
While many don't agree with the way Keemstar fuels the fire of YouTuber drama, it's nothing
compared to the reaction from viewers when he made a 60-year-old man cry.
The elderly man would spend most of his free time playing video games on Twitch.
He had a small following but he enjoyed what he did.
Keemstar somehow created a rumor that the man was a sexual pedophile.
Keemstar's troll immediately hopped on Twitch and blasted the old man for his alleged actions.
He swore that he had no idea what they were talking about, and he even began to cry as
he pleaded that he was innocent.
With a little snooping from mature, responsible views the truth was revealed that the man
WAS innocent.
The pedophile that Keemstar was talking about was, not only a completely different person,
but was also incarcerated meaning he had no access to the internet.
Everyone immediately bashed Keemstar for not knowing the facts, and spreading a lie like
wildfire.
Luckily, gaming YouTuber "Scarce" put his YouTube following to good use and not
only got the older man countless new Twitch viewers, but he got his side of the story
and generally made him feel better.
Scarces' viewers and anyone who heard of the story ran to the Twitch account and interacted
with the man, which is all he ever wanted.
As for Keemstar, not only his this a huge blemish on his already questionable career,
even Drama Alert made a statement claiming they were unaffiliated with his claims – and
they did not support spreading lies just to make views.
Especially if that meant hurting an innocent man.
If you'd like to support the man Keemstar made cry, he is known online as RS Gold and
Glory, and his social media accounts will be linked in the description.
QUESTION: Do you think Keemstar did this on purpose, or was he just mislead?
Let us know in the comments below!
Number 9: RichKidsTV In early 2016, this YouTuber started a raffle,
where people would send in money to raise about 100,000 dollars.
As raffles work, that money would then goto the winner.
Just as the raffle was coming to an end, though, RichKidsTV owner Drey, posted an update saying
that he got into some legal trouble for trying to host a raffle.
He explained that he would have to donate the money instead, to avoid legal backlash.
Drey claimed he would donate the 100,000 dollars to a charity known as the "Live Your Dream
Foundation".
Almost immediately people began researching the foundation but found nothing even similar.
When watching the video more carefully, he clearly says "My Live Your Dream Foundation",
implying that he somehow suddenly owned this charity.
Even worse, he never explains what the foundation does, and he inaccurately describes how the
money will be split up.
In the first video he claims that 90% of the money raised would be given to the winner
and only 10% would be shared with this obscure charity.
However, in the video where he announces the winner he switches the story so that 90% goes
to the charity.
Roughly 60,000 dollars was raised meaning that 54,000 of it would be going to the "Live
Your Dream Foundation" which actually was just Dreys' pocket.
If you aren't already unsettled by this he used that mass amount of money to buy himself
a new sports car.
Later he posted an apology video while holding a puppy and playing sad music, which was a
bit comedic.
Don't be fooled though, he doesn't actually apologize or explain the situation in this
video.
All he does is direct viewers to an app called Groopie where they can follow him and then
see the video.
Again even this apology video just seems like a cheap way to get new followers on a social
platform.
Not only did Drey use the power of YouTube to put 54,000 dollars into his hands, he also
used the controversy of the ordeal to gain views which we all know gave him even more
income.
A fake raffle and a fake apology, is not an honest way to use the platform.
Let this be a lesson to all to be skeptical when entering a raffle or donating to a charity
you know nothing about.
Do your research so you aren't helping rich kids buy new cars.
Number 8: Adrian Gee and The Blind Man Experiment Adrian Gee is a YouTuber that focuses on pranks,
"social experiments" and vlogs.
In November 2015, one of his alleged social experiments went viral, since it apparently
showed the darker side of strangers in the streets.
The video consisted of Adrian wearing sunglasses and holding a walking cane, while he pretended
to be blind.
He would walk up to random people in the street, whose faces would be censored, and ask for
change for a 5 dollar bill.
He would then hand them a bill much larger than a 5 just to see what would happen.
A surprising amount of people either gave him a short amount or completely walked off
with the larger bill.
Of course, people were shocked to know that so many hateful bystanders out there would
steal from an innocent blind man, and the video gained countless views almost overnight.
Just a few days later, though, the video was shown on the Australian show "Today Tonight,"
and was exposed as fake.
The host told Adrian that he had seen headshots and resumes for all of the actors in his Blind
Man video on a website called Star Now, and that one of the actors even listed the video
as experience on his resume.
One actor from the staged video even reached out to Today Tonight, and explained his side
of the story.
He claimed that he was shocked and even hurt that he was portrayed as a real thief because
he had a very distinct scar on his arm, that family recognized immediately.
Family and friends alike contacted the actor asking why he would do such a thing, since
Adrian offered no disclaimer to the video being staged.
When Adrian Gee shared his side of the story he basically said he didn't see it as a
bad thing, and that at the end of the day it was just entertainment.
Painting innocent people as thieves, and using a complete lie to gain fame, views, and income
doesn't sound too innocent though.
Number 7: Lonelygirl15 While this video wasn't faked will ill intent,
it is still a golden example of how you never know if what you're viewing on YouTube is
true or not.
The LonelyGirl15 series started out with just a teenage girl named Bree, vlogging from the
comfort of her home about mundane teenage troubles such as school and boys.
The more that Bree vlogged, the more it became clear that a story was unraveling.
Before viewers knew it, Bree was being hunted down by an obscure and evil force known as
"The Order".
Viewers flooded to the story to see what would happen, and to try and determine if this was
real or not.
Eventually the creators were exposed and it became clear that the series was a staged
film project, but that didn't stop the views from coming in.
In fact, after being exposed as fake the viewer count nearly tripled.
The story led to 3 spinoffs and the creators opened their own studio.
This is one of few examples where a fake video is totally forgivable.
Aside from that many viewers knew from the beginning that it was staged, so no harm no
foul.
Number 6: Sam Pepper This prankster is most well-known for the
controversy surrounding him that deals with sexual assault.
Many viewers and other YouTubers agreed that some of his videos were moving from innocent
pranks to flat out sexual harassment.
After this dispute began several underage girls came forward claiming that they knew
Sam Pepper and that he had either raped or molested them.
A few of these claims even came with proof of filed charges.
Recently, though, Sam has claimed that his videos could not be seen as sexual harassment
because they were staged and all the women involved were actresses.
After a spree of deleting every video he ever made, and every tweet he ever posted – he
published a video saying that not only were his videos fake, but the persona he portrayed
was fake as well.
Pepper claimed that he knew controversial videos would get better views so he did his
best to come off as a "douche" and created content even more questionable.
There's no way to prove if this is the truth or just another sad attempt by Sam Pepper
to save his name.
It can be said though that this apology video was made in February 2016, and his content
since then has been playing it safe.
While it's not unlikely some pranks or "experiments" could still be staged, at least women aren't
getting groped and harassed anymore.
Number 5: SoFlo Antonio SoFlo is best known for the content he posted
to Facebook, where he literally stole other people's videos and just put a short clip
of himself in the beginning.
After months of controversy and a very heated, yet hilarious dispute with Ethan Klein from
h3h3 productions, SoFlo changed his platform from straight out stealing content, to producing
his own.
His recent work is a combination of private investigation, social experiments, pranks
and more cutesy things like wedding proposals.
The only problem here is that most of it is clearly fake.
The actors aren't putting their best foot forward and it's obvious the storylines
are set up.
To top it off, in a recent interview with the prank reviewer SoFlo admitted that most
of the content
is staged.
He claimed they were all hired actors and that he felt he shouldn't even have to tell
anyone it's fake but it should be obvious.
Even if it is undoubtedly apparent that the videos are fake, it seems almost ethically
correct to disclaim that information before or after a video.
Most of these videos have well over a million views and shares on Facebook.
It's certain that hundreds of thousands of those viewers may not be aware it's fake.
Some of these videos such as one where a fake veteran is mistreated at a McDonalds, could
really shape peoples opinions of others.
Despite his new and horribly faked content, he actually continues to steal other creators
videos in the same way he did before.
SoFlo has yet to make a positive name for himself in the community and only continues
to rub other creators the wrong way.
If you'd like to watch the full interview conducted by The Prank Reviewer it will be
linked below!
Number 4: Fousey Tube In January 2015 YouTuber Fousey created a
prank video, that quickly went viral.
The video features Fousey allegedly jumping into stranger's cars, and asking for an
Uber ride.
The drivers reacted with anger, or sometimes laughter.
The bogus idea immediately gained over 7 million views.
The sad thing is that it was completely fake.
Danny Duncan posted a video where he interviewed an actor from the Uber Prank Video.
The actor claimed that he didn't even know it was supposed to be a prank for YouTube.
He apparently thought it was going to be part of a sketch show or
something similar.
Fousey also admitted that he faked videos later one, when ranting about another prankster.
Although this was one of the less offensive pranks posted by a pranking YouTube, FouseyTube
has nearly 10 million subscribers and finding proof that his videos are staged is one step
further in breaking apart this prank culture that hurts society and individuals.
Number 3: Marina Joyce Although Marina Joyce has not been caught
with any fake videos, she has been caught encouraging the idea that she was kidnapped,
as part of a publicity stunt.
Which is really worse than a fake prank video, because her fans believed she was in real
danger.
Marina Joyce has been on YouTube for roughly 5 years now, she actually part of the controversy
dealing with Sam Pepper, when she came forwarded and admitted that she was also a victim of
his.
Over the years Marina has changed drastically as far as her personality and behavior goes.
While she used to be a talkative, bubbly young girl, she is now more like a zombie in front
of a camera.
She stutters often, stares into the distance, repeats herself an unnecessary amount of times,
speaks hastily and even seems scared or nervous.
The viewers that had been fans of hers since the beginning already took the changes seriously
and questions Marina's mental health.
Theories went around that she was either using drugs, or was being held against her will,
possibly in an abusive relationship.
Viewers began commenting asking if she was okay, to which she would first respond yes,
but then respond no and delete the comment.
Her fans also began leaving comments saying things like "draw a heart on your hand if
you're in danger" and sure enough, in the next video a heart would be drawn on her
hand.
These weren't the only examples of things like this that occurred, but to make a long
story short Marina had the YouTube community convinced that she was in danger.
Speculation strengthened that she was held against her will and forced to make videos
for the revenue, or that she was in an abusive relationship that was taking it's toll on
her.
The ordeal put Marina's sub-count well over 1 million, at which point she finally came
forth and admitted that it was all a publicity stunt.
In a livestream she admitted that the whole thing was a stunt to gain more viewers, and
that she was perfectly fine.
She also argued that the stunt was performed by her viewers and not by her, but her fans
argue that she fueled the fire with the way she responded to comments and followed instructions
on what to do if she was in danger.
While the bulk of people believed she was finally telling the truth, her behavior in
the video is still very abnormal and her fans aren't convinced she's completely okay.
At this point though, it seems more likely that she's using drugs, suffering from a
mental disorder caused by a traumatic experience, or on medication causing her to behave oddly.
Number 2: Sam and Nia This couple has been the center of drama ever
since their channel took off.
The Christian blogging couple posted a video where Sam announced to Nia that she was pregnant.
He took a urine sample out of their unflushed toilet and dropped it onto a pregnancy test,
which was positive.
The adorable video gained 15 million views and the family quickly had countless eyes
on them.
Just a few weeks after the announcement video they made an emotional update that they had
a miscarriage.
People immediately began speculation that the whole thing was faked for views and that
the couple backed out when they realized they'd had to give pregnancy updates for a pregnancy
that didn't exist.
The reason this speculation occurred is due to several small details such as: 1) When
Sam told Nia he took the pregnancy test for her she responded by "Did you use a dropper
and pull my pee from the toilet?" this was oddly specific for her to known unless they
had planned something ahead of time 2) When tweeting about their lost child they constantly
referred to the fetus as "her" even though Nia was not far enough into her pregnancy
to know the gender of the baby yet and 3) Despite being emotionally distraught in their
update video just a few short days later they were all smiles as if nothing had happen.
It's usually common for families to take some grieving time for a miscarriage, especially
if they were this excited about it.
Although it's irrelevant to the fake baby allegations, Ashley Madison – a dating site
for married men – was hacked into and among the users released was Sam.
They later posted a video with an angry Nia in the background, while Sam explained that
God had forgiven him.
Some viewers stick by Sam and Nia and support the idea that their miscarriage was not a
lie, but many others disagree that even if the miscarriage did occur they shouldn't
have used it for more views.
Number 1: Joey Salads Here we have yet another YouTuber well known
for his pranks and social experiments.
However, this particular faked video has led to the most controversy so far as it perfectly
depicts how fake videos can do more damage than most may consider.
During the recent election the United States seemed split down the middle between those
that supported Donald Trump and those that did not.
Violent acts were performed on both sides and extremists were in the headlines almost
every day of 2016.
This Joey Salads video shows an apparent social experiment where he covered a car in Trump
bumper stickers, and set in in what he described as a "predominantly black neighborhood."
From here he supposedly caught a few black males vandalizing the car.
After the video went viral, however, someone living in the apartments where Joey filmed
took a snapchat of the scene below.
Joey Salads is leaning against a car while someone films, and all of the fake thugs are
standing behind the camera, waiting for action.
After these videos came forward, Joey Salads made an apology video admitting it was fake,
but he claimed that it was the only fake video he'd created which many viewers know to
be false.
Many of Joeys' more controversial videos can be damaging to certain groups of people
such as Muslims, African Americans and other minority groups.
There was enough tension across the nation due to the election and a fake video portraying
violence not something that needed to be created just for a sub count.
There was enough real evidence from both sides and this only fueled the fire.
YouTube certainly isn't an easy platform to get started on, you just have to be honest
and hardworking until you find something that clicks for you and pays off.
While not all faked videos are harmful, it still seems wrong to lie to millions of devoted
viewers just for the sake of fame and revenue.
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