YouTuber Josh Pieters has revealed that he pranked far-right British commentator Katie Hopkins by flying her to Prague and presenting her with a fake award. Hopkins, who is frequently retweeted by President Trump and was recently suspended on Twitter, was awarded with the Campaign to Unify the Nation Trophy, abbreviated as C.U.N.T. And if you think that’s mean, just wait until you hear her hate-filled acceptance speech for the award. The 26-year-old Pieters explained the prank in a new video on his YouTube channel, which has over 1.2 million subscribers. And it was a surprisingly large undertaking to convince Hopkins that she was getting a real award. Pieters organized flights, hotels, a dinner at the Four Seasons, and even hired actors to play members of his fake advocacy group, the Cape Town Collective For the Freedom of Speech. Pieters, who’s originally from South Africa but lives in the UK, set up a fake website to make his organization appear more authentic, though there are some clear hints it might be fake. The photo of the founder that appears on his website is the current leader of the Ku Klux Klan, as just one example. Pieters flew from his home in London to Prague and set up hidden cameras to capture the prank from a number of angles before Hopkins got there.
Hopkins, who has previously echoed Nazi language by tweeting about the need for a “final solution” to the problem of terrorism, never seems to understand that the YouTuber’s banquet is a joke. “We made Katie Hopkins fly 1,600 miles and accept a fake award and put the word ‘cunt’ behind her without her noticing,” Pieters says in the video. “You might wonder if this is a bit mean. For a moment I did too. But then she made her speech and told us what she really thought.” The video delivers a rapid fire assault of Hopkins saying hateful things during her acceptance speech like, “If you call Mohammad in a school playground, 2,000 fucking kids come running and you don’t want any of them,” and “Epileptics are all weirdos. They’re up there with the Asians.” Hopkins can also be heard repeatedly saying that Muslims are “raping their own mother” and she also mocks Arabic names, calling them “retards.” Hopkins can also be heard referring to 17-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg as an “autistic fucking wench.”
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siehe auch: A YouTuber got the inflammatory right-wing commentator Katie Hopkins to fly to Prague to pick up a fake award whose initials spelled out the C-word. The YouTuber Josh Pieters targeted Katie Hopkins, an inflammatory commentator, for his latest social-experiment video. Hopkins, who on Thursday had her Twitter account suspended for hate speech, flew to Prague to collect a fake award this week from an organization made up by Pieters and Archie Manners called the Capetown Collective for the Freedom of Speech. Pieters and Manners awarded Hopkins the Campaign to Unify the Nation Trophy. They told Insider what it was like to stay in character the whole evening, saying Hopkins made a series of racist and hurtful statements in her speech that only further proved she was the correct person to prank. “She has freedom of speech, but so have I,” Pieters said. Hopkins’ management did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment. . The inflammatory right-wing commentator Katie Hopkins probably thought her day on the internet couldn’t get any worse after her Twitter account was suspended for hate speech on Thursday. She was wrong. (…) Pieters has gained a reputation as one of the most original and daring creators on YouTube right now. Over the past few months, he and Manners have made a handful of inventive videos that are essentially social experiments designed to test the limits of what they can get away with.