American YouTuber IShowSpeed Kidnapped: A concerning video of American YouTuber IShowSpeed getting kidnapped in Brazil is doing rounds on social media and the internet is concerned and confused at the same time. The famous YouTuber was live streaming when he was suddenly surrounded by a number of goons, possessing bats and donning masks. The situation immediately turned tense, and the incident scared the life out of the YouTuber, which was evident in the video. However, the gang members suddenly began to jump and dance and the entire thing turned out to be a prank by another YouTuber, Arab. 

As soon as Speed realised it was a prank, he began to express the deadly fear that he felt a while ago as he took a sigh of relief. The post immediately drew huge criticism from people as Speed was evidently shaken even after everything was clear, meanwhile, many believed that it was too risky to be a prank. 

The video was shared on the microblogging platform X (formerly Twitter) by the handle ‘Dexerto’. The post was captioned, “YouTuber ‘Arab’ pranks iShowSpeed by getting gang members to fake kidnap him in a favela.”

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The video went viral and left people confused and even angered some. Most people chastised the prank and dubbed it ‘dangerous’ and ‘mean’, while others commented on the involvement of gang members in the entire thing. The post was shared today and pulled 462K views from people. 

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Taking to the comment section, people shared their take. “It’s just a prank bro. the prank:” said a user. “Bro thought it was over,” commented a second person. “Bro thought he was actually done for,” said a third person. “He was praying for the lord to save him,” added a fourth user. “It's really messed up to use danger and fear for pranks. Why involve gang members in such risky stunts?” asked a fifth user. “Speed never going out without securities again,” commented a sixth user. 

“I think calling Arab a YouTube just shows how he’s successfully switched from streaming in everyone’s eyes, love to see it tbh,” said next. “If that was my friend, we wouldn't be friends after that immediately. No human should go through that level of fright for no reason,” said next.

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