YouTubers who snuck into Royal Wedding spark outrage after holding video hostage YouTube: The Zac And Jay Show \/ Flickr: Mark Jones \/ Wikimedia CommonsA British YouTube duo famous for their over-the-top pranks snuck into the 2018 Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle \u2014 but they\u2019re holding the video hostage until they get a certain amount of subscribers. Plenty of YouTubers have gone viral for shunning social norms and pulling jaw-dropping stunts; who can forget Vitaly infamously streaking across the football pitch in the 2014 World Cup Final, or the one of the NELK Boys\u2019 getting assaulted over a fake sneezing prank? Long story short, pranks are a tale as old as time on YouTube, and generally don\u2019t end well for those involved \u2014 but two influencers decided to take their content to the next level and snuck into the 2018 Royal Wedding, exposing \u201c\u00a330 million worth of security\u201d in the process. YouTubers Zac Daniel Alsop and Jamie Rawsthorne have been sneaking into festivals and pulling pranks since 2016, and have even been investigated by authorities due to their shenanigans. In May 2021, the duo revealed they\u2019d snuck into one of the biggest events in the world by using a fake pass and a false name, but they won\u2019t share their video doing so until they reach one million subscribers in a months\u2019 time. \u201cThe only way that we will release this video is if we get to one million subscribers by June 21,\u201d they explained in a May 26 video. \u201cIf we don\u2019t hit a million subscribers on time, the only hard drive with the footage for the Royal Wedding video is getting destroyed, and I promise you that.\u201d That\u2019s not all; they also asked viewers to refer five new subscribers to their channel. When they have completed this task, the YouTubers will send the successful viewer a private link, where they can watch the video come June 22 if all the other conditions are met. Needless to say, their fanbase isn\u2019t exactly happy with this turn of events, with many commenters claiming that the duo is \u201cmilking\u201d the situation and asking too much from their viewers. \u201cNot gonna lie, I don\u2019t like this practice,\u201d one user wrote. \u201cIf you make good content, I will subscribe. But if you surge me into subscribing, that\u2019s just nasty.\u201d \u201cWhat about those of us that don\u2019t have 5 mates that aren\u2019t subscribed?\u201d another said. \u201cReally don\u2019t rate the way you\u2019ve gone about this.\u201d For now, it seems that Zac and Jay are going through with their plan in spite of the controversy \u2014 but maybe it\u2019s because they know they\u2019re sitting on one of the biggest uploads in YouTube history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
YouTubers who snuck into Royal Wedding spark outrage after holding video hostage YouTube: The Zac And Jay Show \/ Flickr: Mark Jones \/ Wikimedia CommonsA British YouTube duo famous for their over-the-top pranks snuck into the 2018 Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle \u2014 but they\u2019re holding the video hostage until they get […]<\/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-66084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66084","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=66084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}