When you see the headline “Idiot YouTuber Gets Totally Obliterated in Explosion Prank,” you might think that, on some level, this is the best natural order. Play silly games, win silly prizes, and more.
You might be thinking the same thing about the video below, where a YouTuber appears to attack a man in an ATM, then has his nose broken in three places by a stranger looking for what ‘n his mind is People who were beaten.
On closer inspection, however, the story appears messier than it appears. Rather than a YouTuber walking up to a random guy and actually attacking him, this appears to be a prank that has been going on throughout 2014. The Australian YouTuber in question has paid off everyone in the video to be an actor, so the whole thing is staged.
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The only non-performer is a viewer who decides to get in on the action and give the YouTuber a mean right hook. Although the situation seems largely under control, some people’s fight-or-flight can cause them to do unpredictable things, which means that even if a YouTuber believes he has thought of everything, he’ It’s still a stupid idea to film a video in the first place.
