Social media has empowered everyone, making us all potential creators and global stars. Fame doesn’t always require agents, auditions, or book deals. Attention-grabbing videos, podcasts, and posts can make you a household name. However, some social media stars cross a line into criminal territory. Here are 5 shady influencers who were involved in crime cases:
Jake Paul
Jake Paul, the pugilistic prodigy turned YouTube sensation, knows how to seize the limelight. He and his brother Logan forged a path to stardom with their audacious content, but their fame collided with a May 2020 incident that left Scottsdale, Arizona, reeling. Accused of involvement in looting and rioting following George Floyd’s death, Jake faced potential incarceration. However, like a master illusionist, the charges vanished, leaving the public bewildered and questioning his true intentions.
Mizzy
Bacari-Bronze O’ Garro, also known as Mizzy, is a London prankster whose antics transcend humor, and descend into illegality. His devious videos, replete with faux thefts and sinister taunts, propelled him to infamy, culminating in a stern two-year criminal behavior order. In his most infamous exploits, he and his companions recorded themselves engaging in disturbing acts, such as feigning dog theft, entering strangers’ homes uninvited, and asking women if they want to die. As a result, he was handed a two-year criminal behavior order that explicitly prohibits him from sharing videos on social media without documented consent from the individuals featured in the content. Additionally, he faced a court appearance for admitting non-compliance with a community protection notice.
Trevor Jacob
Trevor Jacob, a daredevil of the skies, plummeted from grace with a harrowing stunt involving a plane crash. In 2021, the pilot, skydiver, and YouTuber deliberately crashed a small single-engine plane over California’s Los Padres National Forest. He later faced a prison sentence of up to twenty years. Jacob bailed out of the aircraft using a parachute, capturing the incident on a YouTube video that went viral. Initially, he asserted to investigators that his plane had experienced engine failure. Nevertheless, aviation experts and federal authorities raised suspicions about his account. Jacob eventually admitted in court that he deliberately filmed the video for views and profit, but also that he lied to investigators about the accident and the power the plane falsely lost.
Charles Ross
Florida’s own Charles Ross emerged as a skateboarding jester, igniting humor while trespassing on the precipice of legality. His pranks, though harmless in nature, eventually led him to face the law, casting a darker shadow over his antics. Ross danced precariously with the law, surviving encounters with police officers by the skin of his teeth, but fate’s tides can be fickle, and the price of his jests steadily escalated.
In 2012, at just 18 years old, he filmed himself flipping over two park bench-seated police officers, resulting in their immediate response of tackling and handcuffing him. This video garnered over 10 million views. Initially charged with a misdemeanor for negligence, the case was dropped upon his compliance with the prosecution’s terms. In 2019, Sarasota County Police arrested him for impersonating an officer in another video, marking his sixth Florida arrest linked to attention-seeking stunts.
Trollstation
Lastly, the elusive collective known as Trollstation emerges from the depths of London’s underground, an enigmatic force orchestrating social experiments that push the boundaries of civility. Their notoriety knows no bounds, with infamous pranks that disrupted public order and instigated fear and violence. Their tenure as social provocateurs eventually caught up to them, leading them down a path of accountability as the Metropolitan Police sought justice for their brazen escapades.
The influencers now famous for crime faced legal issues, notably a nearly £12,000 fine for a pitch invasion at a Tottenham Hotspur match in 2014. However, their most notorious run-in with the law occurred in July 2015 when they staged a controversial prank. Trollstation pretended to steal paintings from The Tate Gallery and The National Portrait Gallery, causing panic among visitors captured on CCTV. This act led to the Metropolitan Police charging them with public order offenses and Section 4 offenses under the Public Order Act, citing fear and provocation of violence.
In this swirling vortex of chaos, where the line between entertainment and crime blurs, a group of Social Media famous faces their reckoning. So the Creepywriter, as the observer of the human psyche, peers into the dark web of YouTube mayhem, seeking to unravel the twisted motivations behind each enigmatic soul. In this narrative of delusion and desperation, one must ask, how far will they plunge into the abyss before the void consumes them? The above influencers though, are not the only ones involved in crime cases. So stay tuned for the next parts.
