YouTuber under fire for dramatic Coronavirus prank kmoorethegoat, YouTubeYouTuber and prankster \u201ckmoorethegoat\u201d has sparked backlash across social media after uploading a \u201cpractical joke\u201d video capitalizing on current panic surrounding the Coronavirus. The current Novel Coronavirus outbreak, which was first reported in Wuhan, China in December 2019, was recently declared a Global Health Emergency by the World Health Organization on January 30. With countries like the United States imposing travel bans on those making their way from the Chinese Wuhan province, citizens worldwide have begun to panic about potentially contracting the virus, which has claimed a reported 634 lives. Despite the severity of the situation, some online content creators are taking advantage of the hysteria surrounding the illness, including YouTuber \u201ckmoorethegoat.\u201d Kmoore uploaded a video \u201cpranking\u201d bystanders in public on February 5, where he and a group of actors rushed to \u201capprehend\u201d other performers who pretended to be infected with the virus. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=frBRftVpBro Although he prefaced his video by claiming that his \u201cpractical joke\u201d was merely for comedic purposes and not intended to offend, commenters across the net are sounding off in shock that he would make light of such a serious situation. \u201cNot a good look bro,\u201d one critic wrote. \u201cThis one hits too close to home. People are actually dying from this, and you think it\u2019s a joke.\u201d \u201cNah bro, this ain\u2019t it,\u201d another commented. \u201cYou\u2019re gonna offend a lot of people with this. A lot of people are dying from this.\u201d Drama Alert\u2019s \u201cKEEMSTAR\u201d likewise posted a screenshot of the video, which caught similar flack across Twitter. \u201cDisgusting,\u201d gaming icon and streaming star Tyler \u201cNinja\u201d Blevins said of the matter. \u201cThat\u2019s just wrong, making a prank out of a Virus that\u2019s killing people,\u201d another user chimed in. That\u2019s just wrong, making a prank out of a Virus that\u2019s killing people. \u2014 ?????? ??????? ?? (@AngeloMessina02) February 6, 2020 Kmoore isn\u2019t the only YouTuber coming under fire for a Coronavirus \u201cprank\u201d video, either: Instagrammer James Potok caused a plane to return to the airport after claiming he had traveled from Wuhan and was \u201cnot feeling too well.\u201d Hoping to make a viral video, Potok was met with outrage, which has since earned him a charge of mischief and breach of recognizance \u2014 a punishment that acts as a valuable lesson for those who might hope to copycat the idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
YouTuber under fire for dramatic Coronavirus prank kmoorethegoat, YouTubeYouTuber and prankster \u201ckmoorethegoat\u201d has sparked backlash across social media after uploading a \u201cpractical joke\u201d video capitalizing on current panic surrounding the Coronavirus. The current Novel Coronavirus outbreak, which was first reported in Wuhan, China in December 2019, was recently declared a Global Health Emergency by the […]<\/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-66039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66039","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=66039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}