15-year-old YouTuber reveals why she faked her own pregnancy Danielle Cohn, Instagram15-year-old YouTuber Danielle Cohn shocked the internet after announcing her pregnancy and wedding in early April \u2013 but some fans were skeptical that the announcements were merely a prank. Cohn later came out with a statement confirming that both her pregnancy and the wedding were faked, claiming in an Instagram video that she and her boyfriend Mikey Tua had only meant to prank their parents and friends during a trip to Las Vegas after being inspired by Netflix series \u201813 Reasons Why.\u2019 That\u2019s not all; Cohn likewise stated that the prank was meant to draw awareness to body-image issues and shaming around teen pregnancy, while also hoping to \u201cgive the haters something to talk about.\u201d View this post on InstagramWe never meant to hurt anyone. It was for entertainment like all youtubers do. We got inspired by 13 reason why and wanted to do a series. To spread awareness to young girls. Being called fat and pregnant everyday. I wanted to give the haters something to talk about. In the end people got hurt. Mikey and I are truly sorry. Explaining their pregnancy prank \u201cNever in a million years thought that it would be on news articles, it would be on Twitter\u2019s most trending,\u201d Cohn said of the debacle. \u201cI never thought it was going to go that big. I just thought of it as a prank that we were doing for fun.\u201d That\u2019s not all; the duo appeared in a separate video on Tua\u2019s Instagram account, where they made a statement on teen pregnancy and claimed that 15% of their earnings from their four-part YouTube video series on the prank would be donated to Planned Parenthood. Backlash against the teen pregnancy practical joke However, the final video out of Cohn\u2019s four-part series is missing from her YouTube channel, as are a few of Tua\u2019s Tweets on the matter \u2013 and some fans aren\u2019t happy with their explanation of the prank, despite their promise to donate and spread awareness. \u201cIt\u2019s not funny to do that, there are people out there who would do anything to have a baby and you just shat on them, fuck you both,\u201d one user wrote of the issue. 500\u201c\u2026she deserves to lose all her subscribers and followers and fans, another Tweeted. \u201cSorry, it\u2019s harsh but it\u2019s true. This is so offensive to people who can\u2019t have kids and like, wtf, use your head next time you plan a prank.\u201d you\u2019re really fricken stupid if you think this is funny. she deserves to lose all her subscribers and followers and fans. sorry, it\u2019s harsh but it\u2019s true. this is so offensive to people who can\u2019t have kids and like wtf use your head next time you plan a prank. \u2014 madison (@CRAZYFORDREW_) April 18, 2019 Cohn has since posted a slew of positive messages regarding the incident to her Instagram story, appearing to \u201cblock out the haters\u201d in response to the backlash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
15-year-old YouTuber reveals why she faked her own pregnancy Danielle Cohn, Instagram15-year-old YouTuber Danielle Cohn shocked the internet after announcing her pregnancy and wedding in early April \u2013 but some fans were skeptical that the announcements were merely a prank. Cohn later came out with a statement confirming that both her pregnancy and the wedding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}