Undercover YouTuber joined the KKK to pull off elaborate 7-month prank
Some YouTubers often go to extreme lengths to prank others, but few can say they actually joined the KKK in order to dismantle it from the inside, as this video that was months in the making shows off.
Some might be naive enough to think that institutions like the Klu Klux Klan (KKK) are a distant memory in America, but you might be shocked to find out quite how many versions of the far-right white supremacist hate group still exist across the nation.
One YouTuber found this out when he went to visit the 'most racist town' in the United States and stumbled upon an interview with the Grand Wizard of the Knight's Party – the KKK's modern rebrand – yet another creator took it up a level when they attempted to prank the organization from the inside.
MindSquire is known for its wild and often risky pranks, where they have previously trolled popular streamers and visited some of America's strangest cities. They're known in particular for targeting racists and far-right individuals though, and one of their most recent jokes involved initiations into the KKK.
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While the Knight's Party is still the main 'branch' of the KKK, there are a number of splinter groups that can be found across the country and the internet, with the Exalted Knights of the KKK being the one they tried to join first.
They managed to get through after creating a fake identity, and hopped onto a phone conference call with nearly 50 different people, and that's where the fun began.
Not only did they pretend as if they were having an argument while unmuted on the call, but they also simulated the sound of urination, which prompted them to either get kicked off the conference or the call to end early.
After a short failed induction interview with white nationalist group Patriot First, they managed to stumble onto a Telegram group led by notorious neo-Nazi known as 'Dave', making it the perfect opportunity to cause some chaos.
Known as 'Operation Dave', they realized that the 50-member strong group provided an open invite link, but they no doubt didn't expect that to be plugged into a bot farm which subsequently caused over 20,000 accounts to swarm into the group, effectively shutting it down for good.
Finally, after months of waiting they managed to find a KKK group that had an in-person meeting, which conveniently took place in the parking lot of a Walmart in Kentucky.
Sending two friends undercover there with a petition and BLM stickers, they went around asking people in Klan and 'White and Proud' t-shirts what they thought, and predictably it caused quite the fuss.
Fearing any further escalation they backed off before the cars drove away to the real meet up, but it shows that these far-right organizations are not only more prevalent than you might think, but they're not afraid of showing their views in the current political climate.