When sam pepper changed his tick tock description to the two words lottery winner then claimed to have purchased an island in thailand for 8.9 million dollars. It was certainly bizarre and suspicious. I have a budget of around 10 million. I can drive my my speedboat directly in here.

Put a panoramic window right in here. I shook his hand 8.9 million great deal. What was even strange was that sam hadn't provided any evidence for this. Unexpected lucky win: no receipts, no specification as to how much he had won no news articles about a tick tock or winning the lottery.

The only evidence he had was his own personal anecdote chap. When you buy the lottery, when you win the lottery, aren't you by a lot required to show up, somewhere and and and climbing and like you're, absolutely half 100 right? Otherwise, how could you ever say that it's real or not in some states guys? How could you, how cause you're gon na trust, some people that it's not rigged and or whatever i recently won the lottery, as some of you know, and a seven million view tick tock of him, looking at islands in a small wooden boat. So when sam pepper was unable to provide any evidence to support the fact that he had any money at all, it was hardly a surprise. As those who know the past of sam pepper from his active persona on big brother to his fake pranks on youtube know that his entire career has been built on lies in a similar fashion to dan bilzerian, who he, unsurprisingly happens to be an acquaintance of.

Judging from an instagram photo taken out the front of bilzerian's la mansion, this video will cover the story of a man who faked frauded and swindled his way to social media. Why is amanda yeah and tick? Tock success they've been exposed at every single point in his journey, yet still managing to maintain his relevancy over a 10-year period, albeit with one of the worst reputations in internet history, uh-oh history. All this stuff is fake, like we believe it all, but it's really fake. Before he would fake his way to success on tick tock with videos like this one in which he'd gotten someone to dress up as justin bieber justin bieber yeah - oh my god, what do you call a gal from canada that can't sing justin bieber sam pippa? Had a prolific reputation on youtube as one of the fakest pranksters on the platform dating back to the early 2010s.

So i watched how oh okay, i can do these pranks that these other channels are doing, and i can just fake them. I can just like make fake videos, however, prior to even this sam pepper had already begun to show his fake persona to the world in 2010, when he would appear on the show big brother uk for the very first time in his big brother profile. He claimed to particularly dislike girls who put on a dumb act, yet this is seemingly what sam began to gain a reputation for in the early days of his online career. However, one advantage that he did get out of his appearance on big brother was traffic to his brand new youtube channel, where he began to do pranks at a time when there were barely any other youtubers doing pranks on the platform and there's like three channels that Made pranks there was me there was like prank versus prank, who knows ed bassmaster, really they were the only kind of known prank channels out there and in the beginning it was obvious that they were real.

The reactions felt authentic and there was way too many people in each video for sam to have been paying all of them. I remember that was like cringe or whatever it was not harmless and kind of chill. I feel like most of the time anyway. Really sorry guys, i've just had good pranks they're, actually good and thought out guys.

I just fight, you should have better respect, yeah, sorry man, i couldn't hold it in what kind of government do you think you are? I know i'm sorry i did say i did say sorry. Sorry. However, in 2014 and 2015 sam ran into a problem, he began to experience massive levels of competition from other youtube pranksters who were faking their videos. Then all these other prank channels they started coming out and they'd be doing more and more and more crazy stuff, because i come from doing pranks i'd be like there's no way they could be doing that and that's when i worked out all this stuff is fake.

This was clearly a defining point for sam pepper and his social media career at some point in their journey. Each of these fake pranksters have this similar awakening where they realize they can get way more views if they simply fake, whichever reaction they desire and that there's no actual requirement or guidelines saying that their pranks need to be real. Each justify their actions by saying that a bunch of things on tv are fake, or this is fake, or that is fake and as a result, there's no reason as to why their pranks can't be fake either now faking stuff for social media is a high risk. High reward strategy sure it increases the quality of the videos massively as you're going to get that exact reaction, which will make the video perfect.

However, this only lasts until the audience inevitably discovers that the videos are fake, making it optimal. Only in the short term, we discussed this in the video talking about how vitaly destroyed his reputation as soon as the audience discovers that you faked even one video. They assume that every single video you've ever made is fake completely removing all of your credibility in the space of about a month. The point at which sam pepper's audience discovered that his pranks were fake is pretty damn obvious on his social blade.

He went from gaining a hundred thousand subscribers every single month, consistently between january 2013 and september 2014. However, one month later, in october 2014, the growth not only stopped, but it began to lose around 10 000 subscribers every single month. The catalyst for this massive dive in viewership was a video titled fake hand, ass pinch, prank and after receiving a barrage of criticism from other youtubers. His most recent fake hand, ass pinch, garnered the most negative attention because he was grabbing women's bottoms without their permission, as well as a trending hashtag on twitter stating report sam pepper.

He had no other choice but to admit that the video had been faked. I want to say that all the videos were staged and scripted. It goes without saying you can't go around touching people's bums without asking it was a double whammy or two for the price of one. Not only had he been exposed for faking pranks, but he also had his name dragged through the mud.

As a result, he has a backlash from the video sam yeah. Let's say this was another topic and it wasn't something as bad as that right, technically right, um, i'm posting real pranks again following the expose, in the hope that it would fix his reputation. However, as mentioned previously, once your audience knows you technically you're doing a video or not doesn't matter, does it here's another topic entirely like um, touching somebody's shoulder or whatever? So? No, no, you don't have to do anything baked. Even one video, they assume they're, all fake.

Switching back to real pranks fail to stop his declining subscriber count. So sam made a decision. It was time to go back to faking his videos, i'm still making videos making videos, and then it gets to a point where i'm like. What i'm saying is that i'm just asking you since, since it's fake right, people are saying holy man report, this guy do this whatever right, whether you say that it's fake or not at that point, does it matter? Okay? Well, i've made fake videos before and they've done well and they've got like decent views.

Why don't i make you know another video, and that brings me on to making the best friend killing prank the best friend killing prank, arguably one of, if not the most over-the-top insane youtube pranks of all time, certainly crazy enough to put sam pepper's name back on The map involved in the video was the fake kidnapping of two friends, after which one of the friends is apparently killed right in front of the other, with the premise of the video being. How will someone react if they watch their friend get killed? Let's see how he reacts to his best friend of five years being killed in front of him. Obviously, the whole thing was fake. All three people were in on it even coming up with the idea together.

Sam's channel, like he just came to us and wanted to get a viral stunt and like okay, cool, we'll help you out with this viral stunt. So we actually all three came up with the idea together before we even filmed it. However, while everyone knew that the prank had been faked, it had a similar effect to the previous scandal. Did you know making this type of prank uh would be so controversial? All it did was once again reveal to everyone that sam pepper was the kind of guy to fake his videos, reducing his credibility even further.

With this in mind, it's no surprise that almost all of his audience bailed on his youtube channel. From that point onwards, he managed to stop the decline of his subscriber count for a couple of months in late 2016, as shown on screen, however, he'd throw in the towel only a couple of months later uploading. His final video on the 5th of march 2017, before departing with a legacy as one of the most deplorable fake pranksters in youtube history. Around a year later, he'd show up on the six network.

Doing some irl live streams alongside ice poseidon, we're literally just showing sam the ropes of irl streaming and just you know we're gon na just throw him in the deep end here and just see how he does with the reputation of sam pepper, being so downtrodden that The top comment on the video praised ice poseidon by stating love how you don't judge people or care about reputations sam, had some successes in irl streamer in the sex network. However, he was ultimately dropped after an argument with ice poseidon, which had partially been fueled by sam pepper's, lack of integrity. He's like oh, it's okay, to lie as long as it doesn't affect anything yeah. Did he actually watch this though moist his reputation was completely and utterly destroyed? He had nothing left to offer and it seemed as though the sam pepper saga was finally dead and buried alongside the many other failed youtubers that had come along before him.

However, it would be when sam pepper found a new audience on a new platform that his fraudulent antics would continue. Okay, chris i pulled out some of my savings. I've clipped it onto these balloons. This is a trust exercise.

Turn around. I'm gon na go three. Two one go, you've got ta turn around and quickly grab them. Don't let this go.

This is my statement three two one chris chris, i don't want it. You said this video, which was clearly set up and probably used to stack up tomorrow now. The most interesting part about sam pepper's tik tok blow up is that it follows the exact same trend as his youtube journey. He blows up with a genuine heartfelt video about saving some duck.

Eggs from a restaurant then progressively makes his content more and more staged and by the end, he's claiming that he's won the lottery with absolutely zero evidence. Now to sam pepper's credit, as we mentioned previously, a lot of his tick tocks were genuine authentic creative ideas, especially in the beginning. However, with videos such as this clearly fake one gaining over 18 million views open this hey. Let's do that.

It's really no surprising to begin to make his videos faker and faker. I know this is really crazy, but if i play you rock paper scissors and i win, can i like rip this down the street rock paper scissors shoot? Let's go you you've got to get in the passenger, i'm scared all right. People who think this is real. The countless fake viral videos receiving massive view, counts and minimal backlash likely gave sam pepper the idea that he could literally just say whatever.

Regardless of how unbelievable it happened to be leading to his completely fictitious claim about winning the lottery when you, google, sam pepperwins lottery or sam pepper lottery, the only results that come up are his tiktok video, the same video posted to his instagram and an old forum Post titled as follows: scam pepper, living a life of luxury after scamming, his followers for millions and fleeing the us he's claiming to have won the lottery while shopping for islands and a new fan base to scam. This refers to the whole, save the kids scandal. That was exposed by coffeezilla back in july 2021.. In the final episode of this series, coffeezilla discovered that sam pepper was potentially at the heart of the entire scam and had fled the usa to move back to the united kingdom.

It looks like sam pepper is fleeing the united states to escape legal accountability for what happened, but i asked him about this and he of course denies this categorically. Therefore, this post dating scam, pepper living a life of luxury after scamming, his followers for millions assumes that he does actually have the money. Only that he's covering it up by saying that he won the lottery as opposed to the truth being that he might have received it from the save the kids crypto scam. Although, in order to be buying an 8.9 million dollar island in thailand, you're probably going to need around 50 to 100 million in order for it to be a comfortable purchase, while sam pepper has had a fairly successful social media career, i doubt he has access to That kind of money, obviously the easiest way to put all of this to rest, would be for sam pepper to simply provide some kind of evidence for either winning the lottery or the purchase of the island.

Would even do it an island like this. You have access to nothing, however, with a track record like sam's filled with fake video after fake video, it seems pretty obvious that, like the rest of his entire career, this is nothing more than yet another hoax, interesting mine for diamonds. I'm sorry what yo that's kind of whatever tonight.