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The man behind one of America's biggest 'fake news' websites is a former BBC worker from London whose mother writes many of his stories. Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 35, runs YourNewsWire.com, the source of scores of dubious news stories, including claims that the Queen had threatened to abdicate if the UK voted against Brexit.
Momo Challenge hoax. The " Momo Challenge " was a hoax and an internet urban legend that was rumoured to spread through social media and other outlets. It was reported that children and adolescents were being harassed by a user named Momo to perform a series of dangerous tasks including violent attacks, self-harm, harming others, and suicide.
The site used a similar prank for 2018's April Fools' Day – this time, changing its name to Hornhub and displaying videos about women blowing horns instead of pornography. [ 74] Rickrolling: The meme grew out from a similar bait-and-switch trick called "duckrolling" that was popular on the 4chan website in 2006.
PrankvsPrank, also known as PvP, is a YouTube channel created by Jesse Michael Wellens [ 3] and his then-girlfriend Jennifer "Jeana" Smith. [ 4][ 5] In 2007, the two began to play pranks on each other and post videos of the pranks on websites, eventually forming a channel on YouTube. They became one of the most-watched channels. [ 6]
In YouTube's sixth April Fools' prank, YouTube joined forces with The Onion, a newspaper satire company, by claiming that it will "no longer accept new entries". YouTube began the process of selecting a winner on April 1, 2013, and would delete everything else. YouTube would go back online in 2023 to post the winning video and nothing else. [157]
Swatting is a criminal harassment act of deceiving an emergency service (via such means as hoaxing an emergency services dispatcher) into sending a police or emergency service response team to another person's address. This is triggered by false reporting of a serious law enforcement emergency, such as a bomb threat, murder, hostage situation ...
Rahat Hossain. Rahat Hossain (born December 19, 1989), also known by his username MagicofRahat, is an American YouTube personality, vlogger, and prankster who produces pranks and magic tricks on YouTube. As of April 11, 2024, Hossain's YouTube channel has amassed over 7.45 million subscribers, and over 1.5 billion views.
DM Pranks is an Italian YouTube channel created by Matteo Moroni. In 2013, he began to play pranks , and post videos on a channel on YouTube. [ 2 ] As of May 2020, their channel has nearly 5 million subscribers and more than 215 million video views.