YouTuber Lauren Love banned from Walmart after \u2018firing\u2019 employees in cruel prank video Lauren Love, Instagram \/ Mike Mozart, FlickrLike many video sites across the internet, YouTube is a hive for hilarious skits and pranks \u2013 but sometimes, these practical jokes take things too far. Popular YouTuber Lauren Love is one such prankster, who decided to dress up as a faux CEO of Walmart in a bid to \u201cfire\u201d store employees during their shifts. \u201cSo, I\u2019m going to be going up to Walmart employees and basically observing them, and then I\u2019m going to be, like, \u2018You\u2019re fired. Let me see your badge,\u2019\u201d Love explained in a now-deleted video, titled \u201cCEO Firing People Prank.\u201d In the video, Love \u201cfired\u201d an array of employees \u2013 one of which claimed that she had been working for the company for over six years, who held back tears as Love assured her that her \u201ctermination\u201d was merely a prank. The worker in question, Maria Leones, told a Houston news outlet that she felt \u201creally so crushed, I felt so little, I felt so powerless,\u201d explaining that her husband was recovering from triple bypass surgery. Walmart has since expressed solidarity with Leones, decrying Love\u2019s actions as \u201cbullying,\u201d and asking YouTube to remove the offensive video altogether \u2013 even banning Love from their stores due to the prank. \u201cWe\u2019ve taken actions on behalf of our associates, including asking YouTube to remove the video and calling their attention to the bullying nature of this hoax,\u201d a Walmart spokesperson said of the debacle. \u201cOur associates work hard every day to serve our customers. They do a fantastic job, deserve better than being subjected to such disrespect, and will continue to have our full support.\u201d https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BxYWhXMHCHl\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_linkLove has since published an apology video to YouTube discussing the matter, where she claimed that the prank was meant as a \u201csocial experiment\u201d and a means to \u201cgo viral\u201d to provide for her children. Love wouldn\u2019t be the first YouTuber to publish such a prank video, either; in fact, popular YouTuber Cassady Campbell garnered mass backlash for his own \u201cCEO Firing People Prank\u201d video in March 2019, which similarly took place at a Walmart store. Other pranksters have undergone scrutiny on the site for various, over-the-top videos, such as \u2018Prank Invasion\u2019s\u2019 multiple kissing videos with women posing as his family members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
YouTuber Lauren Love banned from Walmart after \u2018firing\u2019 employees in cruel prank video Lauren Love, Instagram \/ Mike Mozart, FlickrLike many video sites across the internet, YouTube is a hive for hilarious skits and pranks \u2013 but sometimes, these practical jokes take things too far. Popular YouTuber Lauren Love is one such prankster, who decided […]<\/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-65927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65927","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=65927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}