In the video, Atwood (we presume he also did the stealing gas prank) sets up the prank: “I’m going to go around and introduce myself in the neighborhood by using the n-word – neighbors.” Atwood is white (like most of the pranksters), with a dirty-blonde Mohawk and tattooed arm sleeve. In general, these prank videos are about black people either freaking out (this seems to be the point of the videos and is presented as the norm) or in the minority of cases laughing it off (but this coolness is presented as exceptional, despite that like all prank videos, they’re being selectively edited for the most extreme reactions).Īnd then there is the popular Youtuber Roman Atwood’s N-word prank, viewed 976,318 times on YouTube. ![]() Take the “Selling Guns” video which ends with victims of the prank punch and, worse, pull a gun on the pranksters.Ī few frustrated commenters suggest some of these pranks are staged. She responds that the man is harassing her, and asks him to stop–yet he continues to make farting noises and engage her.Īt other times, the pranksters appear to celebrate being attacked. In the Ock YouTube farting video, the guy approaches a young woman, asks her where he can find a bathroom and then makes a loud farting noise. The “pranks,” all essentially pass themselves off as “social experiments” to see the reactions of ‘poor black people’ when an outsider threatens or provokes them. Increasingly, the most popular “pranks’ on YouTube all go to the “ghetto”–which seems to translate solely as black, working-class neighborhoods. While the prank genre has always been popular in the U.S.–from the 1990s slapstick humor of ABC’s America’s Funniest Home Videos to MTV’s elaborate Pranked to the latest homemade, endless iterations on YouTube (what we’re writing about now)–a disturbing trend has emerged. These pranks consist of things like fake farting on people, stealing peoples’ phones to check the time, stealing people’s gas, or just yesterday, “ Selling Guns In The Hood Prank!” Combined, the videos have been viewed close to a million times. South Africa currently recognises three types of marriages civil marriages, customary marriages and civil unions (which recognise same-sex marriages).On the Ock YouTube channel, two young men introduce themselves and say “they’re going to the hood” to play pranks. ![]() It was a prank marriage," Deji Yakubu told AFP Fact Check. "We told the contestants to officiate a marriage. ![]() The housemates are gradually evicted, and the audience gets to choose the winner who walks away with the grand prize.Ī spokesman for Empire Entertainment, which produces the show, told AFP Fact Check that the wedding had been part of the game's challenges. The two also posted the clip of the alleged wedding here.ĪFP Fact Check found that the video is part of Nigeria’s “ Empire VIP House on Wheels” reality show in which contestants tour Lagos on a bus and live together in a house for four weeks. She dismissed the misleading claims that she was South African as false, also tagging the alleged twin grooms whose handle is pair are Nigerian celebrity twins Joseph and Emmanuel Etim. ‘Prank marriage’Ī reverse image search with video analysis tool InVID WeVerify located the video on the Instagram account of Nigerian actress Moyo Lawal (see here and here). They include the recognition of polyandry, which would allow women to marry more than one man at the same time.īut contrary to what the misleading posts claim, the draft bill has not yet been passed into law, and a public consultation is underway until June, as local media reported here and here. The claim surfaced after South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs released amendment proposals to the Marriage Act in early May. The same claim was shared on Facebook ( here and here), Instagram ( here, here and here) as well as Twitter. ![]() A screenshot of the false Facebook post, taken on May 25, 2021
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