Alexa Rivera facing backlash after \u201cgoing missing\u201d for scavenger hunt YouTube video YouTube: Alexa RiveraYouTuber Alexa Rivera is being met with heavy criticism after uploading a video claiming she was \u201cgoing missing\u201d for 24 hours as part of a scavenger hunt for her friends. Alexa Rivera, who currently has over 5 million YouTube subscribers, uploaded a video on December 26 that boasted a fun scavenger hunt for four of her friends and a winning prize of $1,000. However, the scavenger hunt has gone viral for all the wrong reasons \u2014 mostly due to the video\u2019s title and part of its premise, which included Rivera going \u201cmissing\u201d for 24 hours. The purpose of the scavenger hunt was to \u201cfind\u201d Alexa, and while that alone might not seem outrage-worthy, it even featured a series of mock \u201cmissing persons\u201d posters with her photo on them (not to mention the video\u2019s thumbnail). While her friends ran around town solving her scavenger hunt, Rivera stayed overnight in a hotel room to better \u201csell\u201d her missing status. The winning team eventually discovered Rivera hiding in a festively-wrapped box in her driveway, and although everyone seemed in good spirits after \u201cfinding\u201d her, the internet is decidedly less than amused. Rivera\u2019s video soared to the top of YouTube\u2019s trending page on December 29, with commenters decrying the upload\u2019s title and premise as being disrespectful to actual missing persons and their families. \u201cPretending to be \u2018missing\u2019 isn\u2019t a joke,\u201d one commenter wrote. \u201cThere are people who go missing for real every day, some of whom are never seen again. No one should ever be making fun or light of real-life situations like these. If I were you, I would take the video down.\u201d \u201cWow this is so funny, oh my gosh this totally doesn\u2019t hurt families that deal with missing people and family members,\u201d another said. \u201cThis is horrible.\u201d \u201cCouldn\u2019t it just have been titled \u2018Sending my friends on a scavenger hunt\u2019 or something that isn\u2019t, like, a serious problem?\u201d yet another wrote. Thus far, Rivera has yet to respond to the outrage surrounding her latest upload, which has garnered over 7 million views at the time of writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Alexa Rivera facing backlash after \u201cgoing missing\u201d for scavenger hunt YouTube video YouTube: Alexa RiveraYouTuber Alexa Rivera is being met with heavy criticism after uploading a video claiming she was \u201cgoing missing\u201d for 24 hours as part of a scavenger hunt for her friends. Alexa Rivera, who currently has over 5 million YouTube subscribers, uploaded […]<\/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-43876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43876","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=43876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}