(slurps)
- Ah.
If this was tea, I'd be spilling it.
You know, I've been on TikTok for about three months now,
and it's a really good time,
I make a lot of content on there,
and it's fun to see how creative some people can be.
Lots of good, jolly laughs on there.
(giggles)
But I'm starting to see this disturbing trend on there
that reminds me of the early days of YouTube,
and I gotsta talk about it.
Remember the early days of YouTube,
when it was cool to do fake pranks,
but people just for some reason
would not acknowledge that they were fake?
Like fouseyTUBE's pranks, Roman Atwood's pranks,
uh, everybody's pranks.
And these videos would get tens of millions of views.
Not just millions of views, tens of millions of views.
And I never understood it,
because they're so flagrantly fake.
And then I go onto TikTok,
and now I'm seeing the exact same thing happening,
and I just gah,
gotsta call it out.
Look, I get it, a lot of people on TikTok
are of the younger caliber, let's say.
Lot of young people on there.
They see something, they go,
"Ooh hoo hoo, that's funny, I give it a like."
The thing is, these likes add up really quickly,
and the views add up really quickly,
and these people end up trending for these videos
that are so clearly fake and it hurts my brain.
I don't know if it's 'cause I'm in my 30s or I'm just, um,
how do I say this, a developed-brained adult?
But there are so many of these videos
that are unbelievably fake,
and I cannot believe that they get the views
and the likes that they do.
And that's not to put the creator down.
'Cause don't get me wrong,
if you're on your hustle, do your thing, I get it.
Get those views, get that money.
I'm happy for you.
But if you're gonna make something that is so clearly fake,
I gotsta call you out for it.
So I made a list of some of the most flagrantly fake
TikTok pranks of all time that I've seen so far,
and today we're gonna be reviewing them.
So let's just jump right into it.
Okay, we're just starting off with one of the worst, here.
This guy orders a pizza, which I believe that he really did,
but then he gets a little, um,
how you say, special message in the box.
Which of course was put there
by the pizza employee and not him.
Oh, totally real.
So the guy orders a pizza with online instructions.
Put one slice in the box.
Okay, sure, sure.
First of all, I don't think they would do that.
Second of all, fine, give them the benefit of the doubt.
But then the guy shows up, the pizza shows up,
and he gets this message in the box.
"Stop putting us on your TikTok, bitch!"
Let's just dissect that.
Who in their right mind would jeopardize their job
by putting "Stop putting us on your TikToks, bitch!"
Really?
Does anybody think that this really happened?
That the pizza people were like,
"Oh, I know who this guy is, Sincerely Jared.
"Oh, I watch all of his TikToks."
"Oh, me too, I watch 'em too."
"You do too?"
"Yeah, they're terrible."
"I know, why do we watch 'em?"
"We should put a message in the box."
"We could lose our jobs."
"That's okay, it's not like it's
"almost impossible to find a job these days."
(laughs)
That would never happen.
2.2 million likes, and almost 15 million views.
Are you kidding me?
That's all that it takes?
So what you're telling me is I could have ordered a pizza
and did this exact same thing,
and just written on the inside of the box,
and people would believe it enough
to give it 15 million views?
I, I, pwhoo, this hurts my brain.
Moving on to the next creator, Topper Guild.
He's a little bit popular, with 15 million followers,
so there's just a few people watching his content.
This video is brutally, brutally fake,
and I'm gonna explain why to you.
It's got 29,000 views,
which actually is one of his lesser-viewed ones,
so maybe people are starting to catch on
to the fact that a lot of these are fake.
And it's got 8,000 likes.
Let's watch!
Okay, so he's got a fake mask.
Oh, what's he gonna do?
Is he gonna creep somebody out?
Oh, I don't know, oh my goodness!
Puts the hoodie on.
So think about this scenario in real life, okay?
He's standing at the fridge.
- Hey, Top, what are you doing?
- And his mom,
first of all, let's just pause that really quick.
Clearly this was being filmed, for a couple reasons,
that would make it so obvious to the person being pranked.
Number one, the lighting is perfect,
and there's clearly a camera there, meaning that,
I don't know, the mom would see the big-ass ring light
and the camera in her face as she went towards the fridge?
Second of all, you can see
that there's a little pause there,
right before they say action,
where she just waits, and then she goes.
Like, you could see it, you could see it right there.
But let's continue.
Okay, she's putting things away.
- Can I get you something? - "Darlin',
"what are you doin'?"
(door closing)
- Topper.
You can't just leave this open.
- "Topper!" - What are you doing?
(growls) (screams)
- That was the fakest reaction I have ever seen.
Really? "Topper, what are you doin'?
"Why aren't you movin', Topper?
"Topper, let me just pull this back
"and completely ignore the camera that's right there
"with the light shining in my face.
"But Topper."
(screams)
The next video is by Lance Stewart.
Lance makes a lot of pranks.
He's been doing it for a long time on YouTube,
and he cleans up on social media,
especially with these pranks.
On Instagram he gets millions of views,
and on TikTok, no exception.
12 million followers this guy's got,
and every single video he makes,
1.7 million views, 2.7 million views.
This one, honestly, I could pick any one of these videos,
because they are just painfully fake,
but we're gonna pick this one in particular,
because, well, hey, it's a good, old-fashioned poop prank.
His grandma is in almost all of his videos.
- Oh my God!
- Okay, all right.
(sighs)
First off, that's not what puke looks like.
Let's just put that out there right away.
That's not what puke looks like.
She put some milk in her mouth.
Second of all, the concept
of trying to get people to believe
that you had your grandmother stick her finger
in your butthole is even more disturbing.
Smuckers hot fudge should sue him for this,
'cause that is not only nasty, but fake.
So fake!
Why are we rewarding these people?
I don't get it!
Next up we have one of the most notorious people
on the internet, Lele Pons,
with a total of 11.3 million followers on TikTok,
and many, many more on every other social media platform.
She's incredibly popular.
And for those that don't know her,
a lot of people would argue she makes
some pretty cringey content, pretty cringey comedy.
Comedy.
And this is no exception.
This video went viral on Twitter
because people were calling her out for it being fake.
It's got 8.8 million views on TikTok and 1.1 million likes
because they thought it was real, I guess.
I don't know.
I'll let you be the judge.
Okay, she's Latina, I get it, oh, she's shaking her butt.
Mm, now all the guys got all their attention.
Okay, she's dancing a little bit.
Oh, oh my God, she lost her balance.
Oh my God, she broke through a glass door!
I hope she's okay!
(Batman music)
First off, that is not real glass.
This is a prop door.
Lele Pons would not fall through a real glass door.
And you can tell she purposely fell backwards.
Second of all, that sound of her breaking the glass
(door breaking)
I'm about 95% sure was added in post.
(door breaking)
God!
I can't make this stuff, because it would hurt me.
It would hurt me to think that I could try to insult
you guys to watch this stuff
and even think that it was real.
You know, Twitter is a super-toxic place,
but thank God that it calls out people like this at least,
because this went super-viral on Twitter,
and people were calling her out,
and then they were calling out her past on top of it.
They were like, "This video is super-fake.
"Also, remember that time when
"she fake-donated hair to a cancer victim?
"Yeah, that was pretty awful too."
Yeah, if you haven't heard about that,
feel free to google it.
Next up we have another super-notorious person
on the internet, Sam Pepper.
If you don't remember Sam Pepper,
he's the guy from back in the day on YouTube
that would do social experiments
that originally was just a prank,
one of them of which that he was the most notorious for
was grabbing a girl's butt without her consent.
And that was before cancel culture,
and he was canceled back then.
So he was an early adopter to cancel culture,
so good on you, Sam.
This one in particular is so brutally fake.
I'll let you watch and find out why.
By the way, 27.7 million views on this.
"I just got pulled over.
"Imagine getting pulled over.
"I can't believe it, that this happened to me."
Okay, okay, first off, first off,
this guy's clearly not a cop.
Look at his facial expressions,
look at the way he walks up, hands on the belt.
Like, how stereotypical cop is that?
This is so fake right off the bat.
And by the way, Sam takes out the keys
before he even says "keys out."
Whoopsies!
- Does that look like the way
that a copy would present himself?
"At 80 miles an hour?"
It's like he waiting to say the lines
that he's been told to say.
This guy's clearly not a police officer.
- "I was going to the doughnut shop."
- Sir, get out of the car.
- Oh my God.
4.3 million likes, 18,000 comments.
Are you kidding me?
This is by a creator called Goubtube on TikTok.
6.8 million followers.
That's a lot of followers.
22 million views on this TikTok, with 1.1 million likes.
Oh, he stole his pizza!
Oh, he stole his phone!
Totally real, oh my God!
Better run up the stairs to try to get it back!
Listen to that laugh.
That is the most put-on laugh I've ever heard in my life.
(man laughs)
(laughs)
And he so freely gives over the pizza,
almost like it was set up.
Like he's just holding it, like la, la, la.
I'm telling you right now, if I ordered a pizza,
that bitch'd be right here.
I don't just let go of things because somebody grabs.
Are you kidding me?
What world do we live in, where people just let go,
especially let go of their phone?
That's the other thing, he's filming the prank,
and then the guy that he's pranking,
pranking,
grabs the phone, and he's just like ha ha ha, got it.
Really?
You try to grab my phone, you're gonna catch some hands.
This is by a creator called brandonconner18.
He's got 1.2 million followers on TikTok, which is a lot.
That's a lot of people.
So this is actually one of his most recent videos.
It's got 16 million views,
1.8 million likes, and 5,000 comments.
- What do you want?
Dude, for real?
- "What do you want?
"Dude, for real?"
Come on, it's Christopher Walken.
Why you got a bottle of water in my face?
Wow, I know that my son does pranks for a living.
I can't imagine what he might be doing
with the water in my face.
Better continue to find out while I'm on the phone.
- What's in there?
Is there a fucking goldfish in there or something?
What do you want me to do with that?
- Is there a goldfish?
You can clearly see there's no goldfish in there.
First of all, how do you even get
a goldfish in a bottle of water?
Second of all, you can see.
He can see.
It's a clear bottle of water.
What, is there a hand in there?
What, is there a severed fist in there?
What, is there a ballsack in there?
What, is there a foot in there?
What, is there a squirrel in there?
What, is there a fish in there?
See, this is what I'm talking about.
Like, that is, 16 million views,
is that really all that it takes on TikTok
to get 16 million views?
He's got other ones too.
He does a lot of these with his dad,
and you would think by now that his dad
would be used to the fact that his son pranks him.
But mysteriously, he just always forgets.
He somehow just always works out that his dad gets pranked.
So weird how that works.
Okay, this one is a lot more innocent.
It's more family friendly.
It's not any less cringey,
but this is by someone named jasoncoffee.
Great name, Jason, I love coffee too.
19.4 million followers.
So this guy is very popular,
and this in particular video, 13 million views,
2.3 million likes, 10,000 comments.
Now, you have to understand
this is kind of his thing on TikTok.
He does experiments with his kids, and granted,
a lot of these experiments are really interesting.
I'll give him that.
And he could be way worse.
He could be like a Sam Pepper on here.
This, I just had to call this out, because it is so cringey,
because it is so clearly a setup, fake reaction
to the chemical experiment that he does.
I'll let you watch.
- [Jason] Hey guys, new experiment.
Ready? - Yeah.
- [Jason] All right, add some salt.
- "Okay kids, new experiment."
"Okay, Dad, we're ready.
"I didn't know you were about to record."
- [Jason] Keep adding salt.
- "Keep going with the salt." - Okay, now add
two scoops of this. - "Keep goin'.
"Add two scoops."
"Oh, two scoops?"
- Two scoops?
Two scoops?
- Yeah, that's what he just said.
Why are you overacting?
Just do it.
It just so happens that they have the exact ingredients
in front of them as they're just going about their day,
just "Oh, I'm just gonna check my texts really quick.
"Oh, baking soda?
"Wow, snow!"
Why are you pointing at your kid?
It's snow!
Isn't that crazy?
I think he'd be better off just having his kids
genuinely just doing their thing, and then saying hey kids,
come over, I want to show you something,
and get them to genuinely have a reaction.
Don't set it up.
The next creator is wianmagic.
Weean? Wyan? I'm not sure.
He's following 666 people.
9.2 million followers, so he's got a lot of followers.
He does magic, and I'm sure that
a lot of this magic is very genuine.
(coughs)
Oh my God.
Okay, first off, as a runner, I run every single day,
I would never just stop
because a guy is randomly sitting there.
This was clearly set up.
They clearly got a guy that was like,
"Hey man, you wanna be part of a TikTok?"
And the guy was like, "Yeah, okay."
"So I need you to run by, and as soon as you get by,
"and he sits down, I need you to pull out your phone,
"like 'wow, how's he doing that?
"'That's crazy.'"
But the reactions get way faker.
Watch this.
(men exclaiming)
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
"check it out, check it out, whoa!"
Okay, all right, see that wasn't too bad.
That was a little bit more realistic
of how someone would react in real life.
If you saw someone just sitting on nothing,
you'd probably look over and glance
and maybe just keep going.
You would not do what these people are about to do.
- [All] Whoa!
- "Okay guys, as soon as you do it,
"all at once I want you to react very fakely.
"Ready? Do it.
"One, two, three."
"Whoa!
"I can't believe it!
"Here, let me put my hands underneath, oh my God!"
That wouldn't happen.
♪ That would not happen ♪
♪ That's not how people react ♪
♪ To things like that in real life, doo doo ♪
Moving on, this is one of the fakest things
I have seen on TikTok in my entire time on the platform.
It's by Topper Guild.
This is the same guy!
This is the same guy that did the mom
with the hoodie thing that was so fake.
First off, there's just two random girls
just sitting there, no context.
He just happens to be sitting behind them.
They don't notice the guy filming them,
and then he's gonna go up behind them
and tie their hair together,
which they're not going to feel, by the way,
as if their hair isn't attached to them.
Okay, perfect.
"Hey, could you just?"
Okay, all right.
That's not how people react.
That's not how people react!
"Hey, uh, could you just come here for a second?"
"Okay!"
And she just gets up, just like that?
Think about any time somebody's ever called you.
"Hey babe, could you come here for a second?"
Do you immediately just jump?
"Yeah, yeah?"
No, that's not how people react.
The way that a regular person in real life would react is,
"Hey babe, can you come here for a second?"
"Why?"
"'Cause I need you."
"For what?" "Can you just
"come here for a second?"
"Fine."
And then she would get up.
Doesn't that make more sense?
"Ow, my hair, it's attached to you!
"I can't believe you pranked me so well.
"Oh, you're a master at pranks!"
And finally, this is by a creator called dontstopmeowing.
First off, great username.
Can't fault her for that.
She's got 97,000 followers,
and it appears that most of her videos are done with cats,
hence the username.
She does the occasional video in her car.
This one, it popped off.
5 million views, 885,000 likes,
almost 7,000 comments.
The caption is "How my TikTok turned into
"the most embarrassing moment of my life."
Watch how set up this is.
Now, keep in mind she hates water.
- [Man] Oh!
Are you serious?
- Did you see the car pull up with perfect timing?
It even hesitated before it pulled up,
just to make sure that it got there in time.
And look at her reaction.
(pants)
- [Fifi] I'm so sorry.
- "I spit on you!" - Are you serious?
- "I'm so sorry." - I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry.
- Why is she opening the door?
Why is she opening the door?
What is she doing that for?
If I spit on somebody,
and they got out of the car like this guy did,
you best believe I'd be rolling the window up,
locking the door, and being like,
"Bro, I am sorry, but, like, I gotta go."
And I would be gonzo.
- Dude! - "Dude!
"You spit on me."
- I'm so sorry. - "I'm so sorry.
"But I'm so sorry."
So those were the fakest TikToks that I've seen so far.
And believe me, it was hard to whittle this list down
to just 11 TikToks.
This list was like 20 TikToks long.
And believe me, it could have been a lot longer.
But for the sake of the length of this video,
I had to pull it down.
There is no shortage of fake stuff on TikTok.
Even people like Jason Derulo are doing fake TikToks now.
It's unbelievable.
And don't get me wrong, I get the entertainment value.
I don't want to be one of those guys
that you think is like,
"Oh, you should be real fun at parties."
No, I am fun at parties.
You know why?
'Cause I'm authentic.
I don't try to do stuff like this
and try to set people up when it's fake.
Fake!
So in any event, I hope you guys enjoyed this.
If you did, leave a like, leave a comment,
let me know what you think.
Also follow me on TikTok if you haven't yet,
'cause I have a lot of fun on there.
I'm probably the most active on there
out of any social media network, including YouTube,
but I'm trying to change that.
I'm trying to get better at making more videos, baby.
I'll see you guys later.
Thanks for watching.
Bye!