Controversial YouTuber, ImJayStation, has admitted to faking his girlfriend’s death in a desperate attempt to get more subscribers on their joint channel, Dream Team.
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While some are surprised at this revelation, we should have seen the signs.
It all started when the prankster, whose real name is Jason Ethier, uploaded a video to YouTube titled “My Girlfriend Alexia Died… *Rest In Paradise*”, in which he told his fans that his girlfriend had been killed in a car crash by a drunk driver.
In the video, he said: “Her dream was just to get 1 million subscribers, and we were so close to doing that…Out of respect for her, I should post the remainder videos that we filmed for that channel.”
Honestly, we should have seen all the signs. He’s not even crying in this video, at one point he just wipes his eyebrows. How anyone believed this story is beyond me.
If it couldn’t get anymore fishy, ImJayStation uploads a now-deleted video to YouTube titled “DEAD GIRLFRIEND OUJIA BOARD CHALLENGE AT 3 AM (GONE WRONG)!!”. We understand that people mourn in different ways, but an ouija board? A challenge? At three o’clock in the morning? No, thank you.
Fast-forward to today and all the bullshit was confirmed. In a new video called “ALEXIA MARANO *THE TRUTH ABOUT HER*”, ImJayStation comes clean about staging the aforementioned videos with the help of his very-much-alive girlfriend.
He says: “Guys, I fell in love with this girl, I tried helping her become famous on YouTube, she left me without notice and tried to ruin my life.” Yikes. Well, I don’t know what to believe anymore. He’s clearly a massive liar, so consider me clocked out of this saga.
This wouldn’t be the first time that a YouTuber has taken things a little too far for clout. In November 2015, popular YouTuber Sam Pepper uploaded a video called “Killing Best Friend Prank”. Here, the prankee was forced to take part in his best friend’s death. As you can imagine, the internet had absolutely none of it.
The video was removed after an online petition to have Pepper removed from YouTube gained over 100,000 signatures. Maybe that’s the answer. Is it time to remove ImJayStation? We think so.
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