They have a racism problem, too, as evidenced by the many white YouTube pranksters who use “black people as props,” as Dave Schilling wrote for Vice. In the end, though, social media pranksters don’t just have a homophobia problem. Of course, many Americans still get uncomfortable when they see gay men kissing or holding hands so perhaps the sizable audience for these “gay hotline” prank videos should be expected. “The conversations can definitely be pretty weird so viewer discretion is advised.”īut the conversations are only “weird” if you think sexually aroused gay men are strange. “The people on here typically like to immediately jump into some sexual conversation, but I’m usually talking to them about something completely irrelevant,” a title card at the front of one of the videos explains. The humor in these videos-if you can even call it that-comes in part from the stereotypical racist voices the prankster uses but mostly from putting overt gay male sexuality on public display. The most popular purveyor of this format is the four-million-subscriber channel Ownage Pranks, which has done this prank many, many times. But unlike YouTubers, they don’t get to pull back the curtain, call it a “joke,” and share a reassuring laugh with their loved ones.Īnother disturbingly beloved YouTube prank is to call a phone sex hotline for gay men and talk in a “funny” voice. Many of them experience familial rejection, some to the point of becoming homeless. In reality, of course, people who aren’t semi-sociopathic YouTube pranksters have to come out as LGBT to their family every day and suffer the sometimes devastating consequences. One YouTuber even “came out” to his mom using Yerv’s favorite technique, texting her the song lyrics “I am gay, I like men.” His view count? Well over two million. He got over four million views for the stunt, which other YouTubers have done with their own girlfriends, siblings, and parents. In March, YouTuber MysticGotJokes told his girlfriend he was gay even though he’s not gay. One of the top “gay prank” genres on YouTube is to pretend to come out to your friends, family members, and significant others.
In fact, using homosexuality as a prop is one of the most popular ways to prank people online. It is now Yerv’s third most-viewed video of all time, right behind the time he pranked a sex worker and the time he sent his “hot teacher” the words to a Drake song.īut in the disappointingly vast ocean of YouTube pranks, Yerv’s latest viral hit is just the tip of the homophobic iceberg. This weekend, LGBT websites and other news outlets started noticing the video’s spread on social media and roundly condemned it as homophobic. Yerv’s video was originally posted in late August but it recently went viral, accruing nearly one and a half million views as of this writing. There’s nothing funny about a gay man receiving an apparent invitation to have sex and responding in kind.
#GAY HOTLINE PRANK NUMBER FREE#
Here’s some free advice: If hitting on gay men makes you want to gag, you don’t have to hit on gay men. The imagery was getting way too fucking gross for me.” When the gay man tells Yerv, “You know I always wanted a piece of that sweet ass,” Yerv loudly exclaims, “Ugh!” And when the gay man implies that they should have oral sex, Yerv spends five seconds on camera pretending to vomit.Īt the end of the video, when Yerv receives a banana emoji from the “Gay Dude With No Chill,” he tosses his phone across the room as if it’s contaminated and tells his audience, “And that’s where I stopped responding guys, man. Yerv narrates the resulting text exchange for his hundreds of thousands of YouTube subscribers, reacting with theatrical disgust when the gay man interprets what appear to be obvious come-ons as, well, obvious come-ons.
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