An infamous Spanish YouTuber has made it pretty darn clear the idiot he is, with ReSet pranking the homeless in videos.
Now, the 20-year-old has got himself jailed for his piss-poor not-that-funny video pranks. The youngster has got himself a 15 month prison sentence, for a prank where he filled Oreo cookies with toothpaste, and gave them to the homeless.
The Barcelona judge at the helm of his sentencing has ordered ReSet (real name Kanguhua Ren) pay his victim AU $32,000. Along with his custodial sentence and fine, his YouTube channel must remain deactivated for at least five years.
Ren was born in China, but has lived in Spain for most of his life. Though he has been sentenced to time in prison, the YouTube star is unlikely to face it. This comes down to the fact Spain have laws in place to protect first-time non-violent offenders, preventing him from gaining any actual time inside.
Ren, being the immature and idiotic YouTuber he is, decided he’d create a [since-deleted] video, where he fills Oreo cookies with toothpaste and repackage them as if they were normal Oreos. He then handed the cookie, alongside 2o euros, to a homeless man now identified as Gheorge L, who proceeded to eat them. The man subsequently vomited up the biscuit after realising.
This was in order to impress his 1.2 million followers, most of which found his acts to be senseless and immoral.
In the video, Ren is heard contemplating whether or not he’d indeed gone too far with his prank.
“But look at the positive side; this will help him clean his teeth,” he said. “I think he hasn’t cleaned them since he became poor.”
The Barcelona court responsible for Ren’s prosecution didn’t see the humour. It found Ren guilty of violating the moral integrity of the man.
Gheorge, a native of Romania who fled his country, in escape of the Communist dictatorship was later hospitalised. He said he’d “never been treated so poorly while living on the street,” according to a report by a local newspaper.
After an influx of negative feedback from his followers, Ren filmed a subsequent video where he visited the man again and offered him 20 euros. Another visit was made, offering the man’s daughter 300 euros to prevent her from filing a lawsuit, according to Spanish police.
The YouTuber scored $2,475 from advertisers for the Oreo prank videos alone, something Judge Rosa Aragonés said showed “this was not an isolated act,” as he has posted other videos displaying “cruel behaviours” towards “easy or vulnerable victims,” in the past.
Ren defended his videos to the court saying “I do things to mount a show: People like what is morbid.”
