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YouTube star who humiliated homeless man given prison term
A YouTube star who tricked a homeless man into eating biscuits filled with toothpaste and then posted footage of the incident online has been sentenced to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay his victim €20,000 in “moral damages”.
A judge in Barcelona also banned Kanghua Ren, better known as ReSet, from having any social media accounts for five years.
ReSet, who was born in China but grew up in Spain, was among the 200 most popular YouTubers in Spain and Latin America, with 1.1 million followers.
In 2017 he accepted a dare to scrape the cream out of Oreo cookies and replace it with toothpaste.
He found a Romanian man who was living on the streets of Barcelona, handed him the doctored biscuits and a €20 note, and filmed the encounter. The man later vomited.
“Maybe I went a little too far, but look on the bright side: this helped him clean his teeth,” ReSet, 21, said. “I don’t think he’s brushed them since he became poor.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/03/youtube-star-who-tricked-homeless-man-gets-prison-sentence-oreos-toothpaste?CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1559566896
A judge in Barcelona also banned Kanghua Ren, better known as ReSet, from having any social media accounts for five years.
ReSet, who was born in China but grew up in Spain, was among the 200 most popular YouTubers in Spain and Latin America, with 1.1 million followers.
In 2017 he accepted a dare to scrape the cream out of Oreo cookies and replace it with toothpaste.
He found a Romanian man who was living on the streets of Barcelona, handed him the doctored biscuits and a €20 note, and filmed the encounter. The man later vomited.
“Maybe I went a little too far, but look on the bright side: this helped him clean his teeth,” ReSet, 21, said. “I don’t think he’s brushed them since he became poor.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/03/youtube-star-who-tricked-homeless-man-gets-prison-sentence-oreos-toothpaste?CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1559566896
