Social media pranksters are engaging in anti-social chaos for clicks with street routines that result in innocent pedestrians being accosted, intimidated and delayed while going about their daily lives.
On social media sites like TikTok and YouTube, young content creators are uploading videos with titles using flippant titles like ‘stab witness prank’ as a way to achieve notoriety and online status.
The videos are in the same vein and style to those of teenage tearaway Mizzy – real name, Bacari-Bronze O’Garro, 18 – who was arrested for sharing videos showing him stealing dogs and trespassing in people’s homes.
Now wearing an ankle tag and banned from uploading videos without the consent of those featured in them, Mizzy’s ‘pranks’ have hit a fork in the road – but it seems O’Garro is merely a symptom of a wider issue surrounding online ‘prank’ culture.
As Britons find themselves falling victim to the antisocial new ‘click clout’, MailOnline reveals other social media pranksters sharing videos for online notoriety…
In one of his videos posted online to TikTok, social media prankster ‘Mizzy’ can be seen saying: ‘Walking into random houses, let’s go’
Harle Jordean (pictured), 19, is the sidekick of TikTok tearaway Mizzy, 18, whose real name is Bacari-Bronze O’Garro and films himself punching walls
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Harle Jordean – Sk1tz
One of the most prominent is O’Garro’s sidekick is Harle Jordean, 19 who was Britain’s youngest CEO but who now goes by the handle Sk1tz on Twitter and films himself punching walls.
In one recent video, Jordean is seen approaching a man on the street and asking him to hold his phone.
The confused man agrees to hold the phone and Jordean begins his video announcing proudly that ‘pain is an illusion’ before punching a brick wall and collecting his phone with his swollen hands
Before becoming obsessed with becoming a social media star, Jordean was hailed as the ‘ideal kid’ and for his stunning business acumen, with many dubbing him the ‘tiny tycoon’ after establishing Marble King, which sold marbles across the world.
The young tycoon ran the thriving marbleking.co.uk website for almost five years, selling anything from tubs of marbles to £599 limited edition Duke of York solitaire tables, however the company no longer operates.
Arya Mosallah – 1tsarya
Arya Mosallah has caused controversy before with his shocking prank videos, some of which show him harassing strangers on the street.
One is entitled ‘Do you wanna die’ and revolves around two ‘pranksters’ approaching a man on the street and asking him if he wants to die.
The panicked man immediately backs away from the men and says loudly to ‘give me space.’
Undeterred, the men continue approaching their target and repeat their question asking him if he ‘wants to die.’
Eventually the tense situation is deescalated when one of the men pulls out a box of hair dye.
This tactic – deliberately confusing a target with something which sounds like a veiled threats but is actually a play on words – is a common practice in the subculture of online pranking as it commonly leads to highly charged situations.
In 2018 Mosallah was forced to apologise after he posted videos in which he threw water at strangers on the street, which many likened to an ‘acid attack’.
YouTube removed his previous channel, which had more than 650,000 subscribers, in response.
He told the BBC at the time: ‘I’ll push the boundaries until I get a million views.’
In the video the man can be seen being approached by two men who ask him if he wants to die
After he demands they ‘give him space’ the men continue to follow him
Frogz
Frogz has 57,000 subscribers on YouTube where he posts films of himself ‘pranking’ people in the street.
In one ‘prank’, Frogz pretends he is a wheelchair user and asks passers-by if he can borrow their phone to call a relative.
However once they have handed over the phone he suddenly gets up and sprints away, only telling the victim he is a prankster after they have sprinted after him.
One man even tripped over the wheelchair as he tried to grab his phone back, and appears to hurt himself in the process.
Frogz later tells his fans: ‘That’s why I’m the best YouTuber on the scene, people are getting mad for no reason. It’s kicking off!’
‘Frogz’ approached members of the public in Leicester Square while pretending to be a wheelchair user
Once the person had handed over their phone, he then ran away in a ‘prank’ which enraged his victims
Frogz (left) approaches members of the public in London and asks for directiolns
A more recent video shows him approaching members of the public in London and asking for directions.
He tells viewers: ‘I’m going to act like they [members of the public] are being aggressive towards me even though they’re not. I’m just going to act like they are and make a commotion and a scene.’
The video shows Frogz, who is reportedly 20, asking for directions and then confronting the confused subject of the prank, asking: ‘Why do you want to fight me?’
He accuses them of being ‘aggressive’ and ‘rude’ as he told one man: ‘I know karate man.’
Lesther Charming – _lesther
A prankster who goes by the name of Lesther Charming has published a series of videos where he follows strangers and describing what they look like making cryptic references to ‘making sure the boys are ready.’
In one video, he is seen following a man and describing how he is wearing a Trespass jacket.
Deturbed the pedestrian stops and confronts him asking him who he is and why he is following him.
After a tense few seconds, the ‘prankster’ finally concedes that is a joke and that he is not planning to set ‘the boys’ on him.
The account, which has almost 560,000 followers on TikTok, has published a series of videos in the same vein that play off awkward and confrontational encounters with strangers.
In one grim video, the man and his accomplice pretend to stab each other in front of a stranger causing him to flee panicked.
The account describes it as a ‘stab witness prank.’
The prankster often wears a mask whilst carrying out filming.
G_hender09
Elsewhere other impressionable young people have also had their eyes turned by the allure of instant fame on social media and are uploading reckless and antisocial behaviour disguised as ‘pranks.’
In one series of videos, a teenage boy films himself wreaking havoc on his neighbour’s from the anonymity of his high rise tower block.
In one now deleted clip the anonymous teenager is seen using a slingshot to launch an apple directly at his neighbours window which then shatters.
In other clips, the teenager is seen lobbing an apple at a car and trespassing in the back of a McDonald’s and a Five Guys.
The anonymous account holder hides behind celebrity names including basketball players Gerald Henderson and Kemba Walker.
In another TikTok account an anonymous teenager can be seen lobbing water balloons at strangers
Before it was deleted, an account named g_hender09 proudly displayed a video of blatant antisocial behaviour
In the now deleted video, the teenager launches an apple at a neighbour’s window
The impact of the apple shatters the glass and the video cuts out
Danaldo – lifewithdb2
One London-based prankster, Danaldo, who appears to be close friends with Mizzy, posts videos under the alias of lifewithdb2 on TikTok.
Like Mizzy, many of his videos revolve around him behaving anti-socially in public places.
In one video, the young prankster can be seen excitedly running onto a tube where a commuter is sleeping.
He then roars in his face causing the shocked man to wake up and stare at him.
In other videos, he can be seen dancing on a counter at McDonald’s to the confusion of fellow customers and the disgust of the security guard.
Bahredin Abdulrahman – s1_funny
Bahredin Abdulrahman, who goes by the handle s1_funny, approaches a security guard in London and asks him if he wants some beef – playing on the street term for violent grudges.
‘Oi big man’, the prankster hollers before approaching the man and beginning his routine in which he accuses him of ‘chatting to his girl.’
Not in the mood to play ball, the security guard instructs the prankster to ‘walk on’.
However rather than take the hint and respect the man’s space the prankster continues speaking about beef.
Only after thirty seconds of the tedium is the big pay off revealed: he meant beef as in the meat.
The channel, which has 291,000, followers has a host of other pranks including falling asleep on people on the tube.
In another video, a man who goes by the handle s1_funny approaches a security guard in London and asks him if he wants some beef – playing on the street term for violent grudges
Ali_jokyy
Ali_jokyy has over 50,000 YouTube subscribers and promises ‘pranks smoke pranks.’
The last five videos uploaded by the account involve the prankster challenging ‘gang members’ to fights on the streets of Liverpool, Manchester, Bradford, Sheffield and Leeds.
In each video the prankster explains that when he asks people if they want to get ‘smoked’ he is referring to a cigarette, however this is not conveyed to the targets of his ‘prank’ who are often unnerved and defensive.
In one shocking video in Bradford, the man films himself approaching a group of men and things quickly spiral.
As the men circle each other, a mother is seen diverting her children’s eyes away from the frightening scene.
Only after the target has followed the ‘prankster’ into the road does he finally admit that he is joking.
In the strange video the prankster films himself approaching strangers on the street and creating aggressive situations
Only after his targets have become suitably enraged does the YouTuber finally reveal he has been ‘pranking’
Jayden King – Canking
As well as having more than 500,000 YouTube subscribers, Jayden King’s page has a video entitled: ‘Robbing people’s coats then giving them a new one.’
In the video, three balaclava-clad men can be seen approaching pedestrians in subway tunnels in Birmingham.
The prankster claims his stunt is a ‘reverse robbery’ and many of the people he stops seem unnerved by the situation he has created and filmed.
Other videos on his channel include asking people to say the N-word for £100 and ‘picking up girls using Andrew Tate’s advice.’
In the latter, the man approaches a woman and tells her she is giving off ‘milf vibes’.
After being approached by MailOnline, the prankster claimed that he had no defence for his videos, claiming they are all ‘fake and scripted.’
In another video three masked men approach a passer by and ‘reverse rob’ his coat
King_ar4
This prankster specialises in approaching members of the public in supermarkets and targeting unsuspecting shopkeepers.
King_ar4, who describes himself on his YouTube channel as a ‘local menace’, has a string of videos on his Instagram, where he has more than 230,000 followers, where he sneaks up behind people doing their shopping and moans loudly in their ear.
Many of his victims are clearly disturbed by the moaning, but that doesn’t stop the content creator, who is seen pursuing some people around the shop.
Other videos feature him mocking shopkeepers as he asks them questions and then imitates their responses.
In several videos he pretends to be a traffic officer or security guard and threatens to clamp cars unless the owners do things for him, such as give them their phone number.
One man in the video simply made the same sound back at King_ar4
King_ar4 (right) pursues a man around a supermarket, moaning loudly
Endrit Ferizoli – Trollstation
Popular YouTube account Trollstation features videos from a range of pranksters, but is run by Endrit Ferizoli. One of its clips shows two men having a pretend argument outside a London pub.
Suddenly to the shock of fellow drinkers, one of the men hits the other over the head with a fake glass bottle and he falls to the ground.
It is unknown if the pedestrians featured in the video were aware that the prank had been staged.
In one video posted by popular YouTube account Trollstation a man appears to bottle his friend
The ‘victim’ then lies prone on the ground in front of shocked onlookers
Although annoying, distressing or even upsetting to the victims of these ‘pranksters’ these stunts are, whether or not they are technically breaking any laws is more complex.
Talha Salzany is a social media legal expert at Freeman Harris solicitors and told MailOnline that due to the nature of the pranks it can be hard for those targeted to press charges.
He explained: ‘There is no real specific law that prevents filming someone on the street.
‘If someone was to post a video alleging that someone had engaged in inappropriate behaviour then that could be grounds for defamation proceedings – providing they could prove it.
‘You can also go after your image rights and revoke them although this can be an expensive process and is typically only used by celebrities.
‘Some of the more high profile pranks propagated by the likes of Mizzy fall under a section four offence of breaching the peace, so if the target called the authorities they could have a claim.
‘However the nature of these ‘gotcha’ pranks often involves the prankster de-escalating the situation and people invariably chalk it up as a weird thing that happened to them and move on with their lives.’
Perhaps due to the lack of consequences for many of these incidents, pranks on the public are highly popular with certain sections of the online community.
According to Millie Woodman, Head of Talent at EdHopkinsPR, algorithms on the internet are dependent on a variety of factors and coincidences that can make them hard to track or police.
Speaking to MailOnline, she explained: ‘It often begins with a small group of individuals creating and sharing content that catches the attention of others. When the content goes viral and gains widespread attention, more people are motivated to replicate or participate in the trend, further amplifying its reach.
‘The cycle continues as others join in, seeking validation, recognition, or social connection.’
Ms Woodman continued: ‘Disturbing prank trends gain traction among youth due to factors like virality, attention-seeking, peer influence, and a lack of consequences.
‘Platforms like TikTok can combat these trends by enhancing moderation, implementing educational initiatives, providing reporting mechanisms, and collaborating with experts and youth organisations.
‘By taking these steps, platforms can help create a safer and more responsible online environment for young users.’
