"Prank" youtubers, how do they avoid getting beaten up

[Exoticlover]

For scientific purposes I have been watching several hours of "sneer and stare at LA ghetto gang members" youtube videos.

How do the creators avoid getting stomped into the ground?

[littleowl]

They probably don't.

But those don't get posted on YouTube, TikTok etc...

[popegregory]

Those with a brain know the people they’re “pranking”

[Spare tyre]

Ally law and disco boy are cringe with their pranks, however they have the subscriber numbers so are doing something right

[pquinn]

There's got to be some mileage in a channel that just involves the curb stomping of YouTube pranksters. Tricky to monetise directly but I guess there's always merch or souvenir sales.

[Exoticlover]

You could go short on a spread bed fred of their health insurance company.

[gotoPzero]

Its BS. Or the ones I have seen are. Just well scripted and if not for a few $$$ most people will go along with it.

On a similar note the bounty hunter guy Patty Mayo whatever his name is.
What a tool. People seem to think its real, yet its all set up and scripted.

95% of his "arrests" end up with him using his "special MMA skills" to get his man.
Meanwhile in the real world he would be picking his teeth up off the floor.

[smithyithy]

The short answer is that almost all of them are/were fake. The YouTube 'prank' scene seems to have died off now and has been replaced by scripted videos on TikTok that the simple types believe are genuine.

There's some Youtube channels that do videos on topics like this, like 'what happened to X?' or the 'the rise and fall of Y' - style videos..

This is one about the rise and fall of the fake prank scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRZCT5XamfA