One thing that I will probably never understand are pranks that potentially harm people.
*Coughs*LoganPaul*Coughs*
It isn’t hard to see why it gets views, since the methods are not typical and elicit some kind of emotion. It’s meant to make you angry just to click it, and maybe some will find it funny.
But the targets of the prank definitely won’t find it funny if it results in vomiting or being fed cat faeces though. Yeah. Literal cat shit.
In today’s poster boy for arsehole behavior, I present to you YouTuber ReSet, a Chinese-born influencer in Spain who fed toothpaste to a homeless man for the lulz.
ReSet’s real name is Kanghua Ren, but because we’re Chinese as well, we know it’s actually Ren Kanghua. He is currently 21 years old and his YouTube channel has 1.2 million subscribers as of today.
Fed Homeless Man Toothpaste in Oreos
In a YouTube video posted in January 2017 that is now removed, ReSet removed the cream from Oreos and replaced them with toothpaste.
Then gave them along with a €20 bill (about SGD$30.84) to a homeless man in his 50s named Gheorge L, in Barcelona.
A little background on Gheorge L according to InformOverload: he escaped Romanian dictatorship and spent time in a mental hospital for unknown reasons before being homeless.
Gheorge didn’t know who ReSet was, or what was even in the Oreos. He must have been pretty hungry or just too unsuspicious, as it seems he ate five of those Oreos before noticing anything was wrong and threw up five minutes later.
After this, he actually started to fear for his life, and said this encounter was the poorest he had ever been treated as a homeless.
According to Spanish newspaper El Pais, the video earned ReSet about €2,000 (SGD$3,083) from ad revenue.
ReSet dug a hole that went deeper and deeper
And for ReSet? He said, “Maybe I went a little far, but let’s look at the positive side, it will help him clean his teeth, I don’t think he has often brushed his teeth since he became poor.”
Not the best thing to say. At that time, people really didn’t like what was portrayed in the video, so Reset went back to Gheorge and gave him another €20…
…along with another video saying, “If I had done this with a normal person, no one would have said a thing, but as he is a beggar people are complaining.”
It was like he was digging a hole deeper for himself.
He would later go back to Gheorge this time offering €300 (SGD$462.54) to silence him and staying 48 hours to experience what it is like to be homeless.
Which might sound good in theory, if not for the fact that there are still about €1,700 (SGD$2,621) remaining ad revenue that he still kept even if Gheorge accepted the cash.
So deep, he was taken to court in 2018
For what he did, he was actually taken to court for “crime against moral integerity“.
In defence of what he did, he said, “I do things to mount a show: People like what is morbid.”
An earlier video ReSet also involved him offering sandwiches with his cat’s shit to children and elderly people.
Yes. Literal shit. Faeces.
And in case you think that is only just disgusting, it might actually cause you to be sick.
Case settled in June 2019: Jail time and fine
More than 2 years after the incident, the case is finally settled, and we can say that faith in humanity is restored.
ReSet is given a 15-month prison sentence and is required to compensate €20,000 (SGD$30,863) to his victim.
However, Spanish law allows sentences below two years for first-time offenders in nonviolent crimes to be suspended, so he is not likely to actually go to prison.
But perhaps even better, the court ordered his YouTube and all social media to be shut down for five years. In case you think this is light, this basically killed his career, if you can call it that, as a content creator for good.
As someone who frowns whenever I see a prank video in my YouTube feed, I say good riddance.
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