The Limitations and Lawlessness of Youtube’s Prank Culture

Content, views, and subscriptions drive the YouTube industry. YouTubers often think, strategize and execute content that will make people click to watch their videos. For a YouTuber, the more subscribers they have, the more revenue and popularity they gain. With fame and money, nothing seems impossible, right? Well for some YouTubers, fame can make a person lose touch with reality, driving them to create content which are unethical just for views. Even though “new research finds far less violence on YouTube than on prime-time television” (Jacobs), it can't be ignored that unethical content…