- Famewhore vloggers earn the ire of netizens for insensitive content.
Several vloggers continue to produce pranks regarding the COVID-19 despite the law prohibiting it.
One vlogger named Zeinab Harake has been highly criticized over her insensitive prank about the pandemic.
In a video uploaded on her Facebook page, Harake pranked her family and pretended to be a COVID-19 positive patient.
Her prank was not received well and her family didn’t like her insensitivity.
Her father didn’t like her antics and said her joke was not funny. Many netizens asked her to delete the insensitive prank.
https://twitter.com/giavii/status/1252103599385018368
https://twitter.com/janwengaspar/status/1252437545092169729
I hope YouTube will take necessary actions with regards to the prank made by Zeinab Harake as a Covid 19 positive. #takedownzeinabharakeaccount
— Our People (@alfonjohnpato) April 21, 2020
https://twitter.com/murabbar/status/1252739371368738817
Zeinab Harake's contents is cancelledt! Positive sa covid19? Sige ah! Ampoi gyod. Gupit keme na prank? Hmmm. Ug sa akoa bitaw to nga alotan kug kalit? Na bahalag muingon pa kag buhok rana mads ug kung giatay ka, giatay gyod ka.
— mashew (@heymashew) April 22, 2020
Where is your empathy for Covid-19 positive patients? @ZeinabHarake11
So sad lang talagaaaaaa. Napaka insensitive. Just think of WHAT THEY'RE GONNA FEEL if they found out someone out here are just making prank of the disease. IMAGINE.— Name cannot be blank (@6tgvr54x) April 20, 2020
https://twitter.com/ChefTrishaC/status/1253413282548875264
https://twitter.com/chichithefoo/status/1249315630458662912
What on Earth—
Bakit ka mag pa prank na positive ka sa covid19 kung ang daming taong namamatay & nag aagaw buhay dahil dito? Yes "issa prank" but damn, @ZeinabHarake11 kahit prank e isipin mo na lang mararamdaman ng mga taong nakikipaglaban dito tapos ikaw prank lang. Holyshiyet.— Name cannot be blank (@6tgvr54x) April 20, 2020
Another on vlogger who earned the ire of netizens was Gell Kendrick. It was originally uploaded last year and the blogger already deleted the video but some netizens are reuploading it, reigniting the hate towards the Negros Occidental vlogger.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3373214032707812&set=a.166400433389204&type=3&theater
In a Facebook post, Kate Aranda shared a screenshot of Kendrick’s now-deleted prank video. Kendrick uploaded a suicide video prank for her boyfriend titled “SOSAYD PRANK CALL TO BOYFRIEND”.
Suicide has always been a sensitive topic especially for those who are battling through personal issues and who have close friends and family members who have taken their own lives. Netizens called out Kendrick for the distasteful video saying she shouldn’t have done it.
Luckily for these two, they were not reprimanded by the authorities for uploading their insensitive and frankly, stupid videos.
However, one vlogger who also did another ludicrous content was admonished by the authorities.
In his vlog, Cagayan de Oro vlogger Antonio Bonitos urged his friends and followers to defy the lockdown and go outside and swim.
“No lockdown, lockdown. Summer na ngayon, walang hiyang lockdown lockdown na ‘yan. Guys, tara, maligo tayo!” said Bonitos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymaZzDXhKOU
Because of that, the Regional Compliance Board Inspectorate team Antonio Resma, Jr., together with the city police, went to Bonitos’ place in Barangay Macabalan.
Resma’s team questioned Bonitos’ intent in creating and uploading his content.
“Are you aware of what you’ve doing? You’re asking people to defy government’s order to stay at home,” Resma told Bonitos.
Although Bonitos said it was only a joke, he apologized to the city government for what he did.
“Mga ka-Wonders, humihingi ako ng public apology guys. Sumunod tayo sa gobyerno. Stay at home lang tayo, guys,” he said.
Resma, meanwhile, reminded Bonitos that since the country is experiencing a public health crisis his call to go out is contrary to the ECQ policy.
“Nasa public health crisis tayo ngayon. Kita niyo naman, sa video niya, siya na mismo nagsabi na bored siya kaya siya lumabas labas,” said Resma.
“Nasa batas na ang mga essential workers lang ang lalabas. Non-essential ‘yung ginagawa niya tapos nang-hikayat pa siya sa ibang tao na lumabas,” he added.
Under Bayanihan to Heal As One Law Section 6, spreading of fake and alarming information are punishable by either 2 months in prison or up to P1 million in fines or both.
