The NELK Boys from Canada haven't posted anything for months and they made all their videos private out on YouTube. People speculated that they probably got two strikes against them and were scared to get a third strike which would get their channel deleted.

Who Are The NELK Boys?

NELK has changed a lot over the years because at one point they were a four man crew then things got switched up and they were a three man crew and now they were down to Kyle and Jesse. They were always pushing the limit and getting arrested for their pranks.

One of their most epic pranks was going down to Mexico and pretending to have "coke" in the back of the car. The cops thought they meant cocaine but they actually had Soady Pop!!!

There have been about 10 of their pranks where I was like ....... Whoa.... that was not just ballzy, that was CraZy! The last one that got uploaded to their YouTube channel back in February was where they pretended to work at Google. It was super epic and they got 1.3 Million views in 24 hours but then they were in deep shit. YouTube deleted the video and gave them another strike.

It's so funny to me because these guys never went to college but travel around the United States and Canada dropping out of University lectures. They are also famous for pretending to be employees at fast food restaurants and stores like Wal-Mart.

The craziest thing about their pranks is they are actually real. They risk their freedom for our entertainment! LOL

What's Next?

Pranksters are having a tough time on YouTube. They hay day was 2012-2014 and caused the rise of the fake pranksters. RomanAtwood, VitalyzdTV, and FouseyTube were staging their pranks but got close to 10 Million Subscribers doing that and made millions.

The ad revenue primarily dried up for most pranksters because it was considered not advertiser friendly. Some of them were able to make it with merchandise. That was mainly how NELK was making it.

My friend @gilstraptv now has over 100,000 subs on his prank channel and he was doing some sponsorships from Edubirdie but YouTube has now deleted those videos. That is a big reason why I registered @pranks . The issue again becomes stake weight here. Without enough power you really can't support a community here. So that is a little bit on hold right now but the pranksters are going to have to take their communities to other places.

NELK is taking everyone to their new website https://www.fullsend.com/

Conclusion

In the end I believe that a tokenized economy coupled with non intrusive ads will win out. Also something that has content that is trending from a combination of factors including stake weight, views, amount of upvotes from accounts that have at least achieved a certain reputation and have a little bit of power to prohibit gaming the system with a large low power bot trails.

I wish the NELK Boys luck with their website but honestly I think they could have success posting some stuff on a platform like this. I haven't been able to get a hold of them. @gilstraptv talked to them at VidCon and basically they will only partner / collaborate with YouTubers with bigger followings than them. It makes sense....... until now when the YouTubers aren't getting paid.

What do you guys think? Will YouTube be able to straighten things out? And no, my crypto channel on there https://www.youtube.com/brianphobos hasn't been monetized yet when I have been waiting for around 6 months at this point.

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