Darwinism at work?

[ck80]

This trend of "you tube stars" and staging dumb sh*t has reached critical mass... You'd say it was tragic, but, really, who in their right mind would think what these idiots did was acceptable let alone a good idea?

Tennessee man shot, killed after YouTube video 'prank' goes wrong

A man was shot and killed in the parking lot of a Nashville business Friday night after a robbery "prank" for a YouTube channel went wrong, according to police. When officers got to Urban Air in the city's Hermitage neighborhood about 9:20 p.m., they learned Timothy Wilks, 20, and a friend...

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[pagrunt]

Maybe it's time for You Tube to police their "stars" on what kind of content they could be making. Or they could just let these "stars" do some self thinning of the herd. Really, couldn't the dumb azz just stage it like others do for their videos?

 

[UNGN]

In high school in 1982 we made a "history of weapons" video for history class as our class project, that involved an armed robbery at a bank, but it was 10am on a Sunday morning, and camera's were more obvious back then.

 

[abbey castro]

I like the ones: How to do x the right way. Then proceeds to do it in the gravel driveway using and adjustable wrench!

 

[Supercharged111]

I like the ones: How to do x the right way. Then proceeds to do it in the gravel driveway using and adjustable wrench!

I do enjoy shjtting in the comments section of those videos.

 

[69hurstolds]

It isn't tragic to me. It's friggin' idiotic! If you want to do pranks, let the people that can kill you in on the joke first. Not feeling sorry for them one bit.

 

[64nailhead]

I’d be critical of the prank situation. I’d guess there’s more to it that is being played to us - the hapless media subscriber.