The videos are 100% fake with willing participants. On seperate occasions, they had a gun and a knife pulled on them and it always cuts away. We also don't see the faces of the people who draw weapons because, fake or not, people get fooled and then you have the NYPD investigating them as a serious crime.
A number of the pranks follow the same pattern where the prankster gets "thrown" or put in a harmless hold. Several others show blatantly pulled punches, slap punches, etc. There's also a lot of bad acting.
If you're still not convinced, then why does one of the guys in OP's video have his face blurred out? Because he didn't sign a release allowing his face to be shown. Why did one angry guy, after finishing assaulting the prankster, walk off in the wrong direction? Cuz it's fake.
These guys found a niche that gets them a ton of hits in the crowded space of Youtube prank channels. Predecessors before them tried doing this "harassing people in the hood" thing for real and found themselves eventually getting assaulted. One of the Simple Pickup guys for exampled got brutally knocked out, suffering a concussion and a nasty gash that needed stitches. A few others took some hard hits for their fuckery. And these were only doing hood pranks on rare occasions. These new dudes are doing a ton of these and knew they'd eventually get beat if any of it were real. So they did the next best thing: stage every damn prank with volunteers. Edit: see post above. Bouncer video is real and demonstrates what DennisCee and OckTV try to avoid by staging their shit.
That's what's even worse about these videos. They're not antagonizing random people and incidentally hoping to capture reactions that may potentially draw certain types (racists) to watch their videos. They're straight up creating/directing these scenarios to captivate their intended audience each and every time.
