Thousands Sign Petition To Axe ‘Killing Best Friend Prank’ YouTube Channel


A British YouTuber by the name of Sam Pepper is catching crazy amounts of heat right now thanks to a video he recently posted called ‘Killing Best Friend Prank‘, which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like.

Pepper made headlines last year when an 18-year-old woman made a rape complaint against him to the L.A.P.D., one of several young women to come forward making similar accusations.
He’s been pinged for generally shitty behaviour before, thanks to videos like this one called ‘Insta Whore Prank‘, but all pearl-clutching aside, his newest one is pretty fucking grim. 
Pepper sets it up, with the cold, dead eyes of a sociopath, by explaining that he recently met Viners Sam Golbach and Colby Brook, and decided to play a prank on Sam. 
“Let’s see how he reacts to his best friend of five years getting killed in front of him,” Pepper says.
The video – which can be seen here if you’re genuinely interested – shows the two friends driving through a shady part of L.A. to meet Pepper, before their car is “hijacked”. 
The situation escalates to the point where Brook – in on the prank – is “shot” in the head in front of a terrified Golbach, before the big reveal that it’s all fake.
Needless to say, pranks have come a long way since the days when Ashton Kutcher toppled a Christmas tree in front of Beyoncé and some sobbing kids.  
The video has sparked an intense backlash, with many labelling it “cruel” and “disgusting”, and a Change.Org petition has sprung up, gathering 60,000 signatures and counting, to have it or Pepper’s entire channel removed.
The petition claims that the video violates YouTube’s terms of service in terms of ‘Violent or graphic content’ and ‘Harmful or dangerous content’, although YouTube have said that it doesn’t breach any community guidelines, and will stay on the site.
Golbach has since commented to say that he’s chill with the whole ordeal and it actually brought him closer with his not-actually-murdered buddy.

This has been another day on the interwebs.

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