YouTuber and prankster Niko Omilana has revealed he successfully managed to dupe Ku Klux Klan leader Thomas Robb.
Omilana has taken on some risky stunts throughout his time making videos, in the past sharing footage of him trying to put a painting of his own next to Leonardo da Vinci's actual Mona Lisa, running for Mayor of London, and even going undercover for 24 hours at a Republican rally for Donald Trump.
He has racked up more than 4.5 million subscribers thanks to his daring ventures for content, and his newest video looks set to be one of the most entertaining and controversial yet.
Omilana took to Twitter last night (12 May) to reveal he had a new video coming this evening, writing a caption which explained: "i pranked the KKK…. tomorrow at 8pm GMT."
In a teaser for the video, Omilana can be seen wrapping up an interview with Thomas Robb, saying: "Thomas Robb, leader of the Ku Klux Klan, has taken this BBC."
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Omilana offers Robb a firm handshake and thanks him before sending him on his way, but it's clear that Robb has been duped as the video zooms out to reveal the rather crude title: "Petite old racist OBLITERATED By BBC".
It's currently unclear exactly what Robb and Omilana discussed during the interview, but it seems likely that the KKK leader did not understand exactly what the YouTuber was referring to when he said 'BBC'.
The fact he was having an interview may have led him to believe it was something to do with the British Broadcasting Corporation, but the title of the video implies a very different meaning given its similarity to a title of many porn videos.
Robb appears blissfully unaware of this particular meaning of the acronym, so it will definitely be interesting to see the ways in which his naivety is used against him in the prank video.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Robb, an Arkansas-based Christian Identity pastor, took over as head of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1980s following the departure of David Duke.
The Thomas Robb Ministries website claims touts the belief that 'the Anglo Saxon, Germanic, Scandinavian, and kindred people are THE people of the Bible', adding: “Our people must … resist the call of Satan, which the Bible says will come disguised as light and love … brotherly – interracial love.”
Throughout his time in the role, Robb has used the internet to try and reach a wider audience and attempted to launch a family orientated Klan camp to create a 'kinder, gentler' image for the white supremacist group.
Emily Brown