Pranks make for amazing trending videos and pictures, right? Well, sometimes it can be taken too far. As the people of South Africa seem to have done. The newest social media trend blowing up from South Africa is people pretending to be dead, and posting those photos online.Unnerving? Tell us about it! The brain behind this macabre trend is that of a high school student Karabo Mnisi, all of 19 years! There's a barrage of pictures online of people trying out the dead pose. While initially it was just people posing as lifeless bodies, as the trend gained momentum, people started experimenting. And now, it has escalated to a point where people are staging elaborate situations such as grisly murders and sexual assault! One can only gape at the commitment level! It sent a chill down our spine, too.
The latest video of this trend shows a toddler trying desperately to `revive' his `dead aunt', while his mother films the prank. After the heart-wrenching video went viral, outrage has poured in from all over, giving rise to the counter hashtag #deadposemustfall. However, the boy's mother dismissed the backlash by claiming that the little boy was in on the prank.
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