- YouTuber Joey Salads posted video of Trump car in 'black neighborhood'
- Said he put Trump stickers on car in order to see what reaction would be
- Video purports to show black people destroying the car after 45 minutes
- Salads, a vocal Trump supporter, concluded the video by saying 'the black community is very violent towards Trump and his supporters'
- The 'social experiment' has been viewed nearly 1million times in 24 hours
- But aerial view footage emerged online, exposing the men as actors waiting off to the side while the cameraman shot Salads' scenes
- Eagle-eyed viewers also noted a mysterious metal rod appeared after a jump cut; the rod was later used by one of the actors to hit the car
- Twitter users slammed Salads for 'perpetuating hate' with fake videos
A 'social experiment' set up by a YouTube star showing black men destroying a car with Donald Trump stickers all over it has been exposed as a hoax.
Joey Salads set up the video, which has already racked up nearly 1 million views since it was posted on Monday, to show what happened after he got a car, put Trump paraphernalia on it, and 'parked it in a black neighborhood'.
After five black men destroyed the car, Salads made a gross generalization and concluded: 'As you can see from this video, the black community is very violent towards Trump and his supporters.'
But video footage from another angle exposed the 'vandals' as actors waiting patiently on the sidelines while a cameraman first trained the lens on Salads.
Salads, whose real name is Joseph Saladino, hails from Staten Island, New York, where he has repeatedly come under fire for his controversial and misleading 'social experiments' and prank videos.
Salads has been vocal about his support for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, and many of his followers on Twitter were quick to conclude the men in Monday's video were Hillary Clinton fans. Many expressed racist sentiments.
Others slammed Salads for falsifying the events, with one Twitter user writing: '#JoeySalads doing America another disservice by making fake a** videos to perpetuate hate.'
A YouTube 'social experiment' by Joey Salads (upper right hand corner) was exposed as a hoax after 'vandals' who trashed a Trump car were revealed to be actors standing on the sidelines (bottom left corner)
Salads (pictured) said he wanted to capture the reaction after he got a car, put Trump paraphernalia on it, and 'parked it in a black neighborhood'
A comparison of the aerial footage (inset) with Salads' video (main) shows the five men wearing the same clothes (noted in color coordinated circles)
In the video, Salads does not specify where he is and what demographics make up a 'black' neighborhood.
Salads establishes the premise of the experiment by stating that 'a lot of black people don't like Trump'.
After the YouTube prankster steps out of the frame, suggesting he let the camera roll for 30 continuous minutes 'to see what happens', one man approaches the car before returning with four others.
But eagle-eyed skeptics were quick to point out that a metal rod mysteriously appears in the bottom right hand corner of the shot after the '30 Minutes Later' title screen about 17 seconds into the video.
With no explanation of how it got there, the editing suggests the metal rod was planted there since it serves as a useful prop later on.
The rod was conveniently available to one of the actors, who used it to hit the car a few times, while his friends threw rocks into the windows and tore off Trump banners.
Another video, which appears to be taken from inside the building overlooking the parking lot where Salads' was filmed, emerged online.
The aerial shot showed the five men in the same clothes, standing off to the side, while the camera was trained on Salads as he appeared to be giving his opening monologue next to the car.
The video showed one man approaching the car before returning with four other black men to tear at the Trump signs, break windows, and throw rocks at the car
The video claims 15 more minutes elapse before the man returns with a group of people. The group then appears to begin destroying the in perfect unison
Then, before all fleeing in unison, a man says: 'Get out of here with that Trump bulls***'. Salads claims the video shows how violent black neighborhoods are toward Trump and his supporters
When Salads first posted the video, many of his 61,000 Twitter followers denounced the vandals thinking the events shown in the social experiment were real.
Many of the Twitter users piled on a barrage of racist abuse, while others tried to use the video as 'proof' that the vandalism was typical of Democrats, liberals and Hillary Clinton supporters.
Social media users soon pushed back, with people calling out Salads for his misleading message.
Some admitted they initially believed the video, while user @DeadNed88 wrote: ''#JoeySalads doing America another disservice by making fake a** videos to perpetuate hate.'
When Salads tweeted a post slamming Miley Cyrus as a 'role model to the liberal world', user @willburt31 wrote: 'Who are you to talk about role models? You're making fake social experiments portraying black people to be a certain type of way'.
Salads has made his support for the Republican presidential candidate very clear, echoing Trump's sentiments that the media is 'rigged' while slamming Clinton.
Some admitted they initially believed the video, while user @DeadNed88 wrote: ''#JoeySalads doing America another disservice by making fake a** videos to perpetuate hate.'
Salads has become notorious for his controversial videos. A previous 'social experiment' sought to contrast people's reactions to a 'Muslim terrorist' compared to a Christian one.
Salads posted shocking footage showing a man in a thawb running past people yelling 'Allahu Akbar' and flinging a silver case at their feet.
Their terrified reactions were wildly different compared to the responses after another man wearing a t-shirt did the same thing, saying 'Praise Jesus' instead.
Many commenters were appalled that the 'Islamic terrorist' was portrayed as someone simply donning cultural clothing.
Posted one day after the nightclub shooting in Orlando, outraged viewers accused him of trying to use the horrific deaths of 49 people as clickbait to make money for his YouTube channel by tagging it with the keywords 'Orlando shooting' and 'Orlando gay club'.
YouTube videos, by default, don't make money. Users have to 'enable them for monetization,' which gives permission for YouTube to put adverts on videos and channels.
Having at least one video approved for monetization makes that user a YouTube partner.
Google, which owns YouTube, takes around 45 per cent of the earnings from advertisements based on what's known as CPM, or cost per 1,000 ad views.
This means a YouTube channel owner doesn't make money until at least 1,000 people have clicked on a video running an advert - but once that happens, the YouTube partner can earn anywhere from 60 cents to $7 per CPM.
According to the website Social Blade,[4] Salads' annual salary from his YouTube page is estimated to be anywhere from $42,500 - $679,800 a year.
Salads, who joined YouTube in 2012, has nearly 1.5million subscribers with a total of more than 208million views.
References
- ^ Jessica Chia For Dailymail.com (www.dailymail.co.uk)
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- ^ Social Blade, (socialblade.com)
