YouTube Stars Are Getting Rich Making Asses of Themselves by Making Bomb Threats While Live Streaming

YouTube streamer Jammal Harraz walked into a University of Washington sociology department meeting on May 31 with a phone and a selfie stick.



Then one of his viewers paid Harraz to make a bomb threat.



“C-4 has been successfully activated,” a computerized voice said from the phone speaker, sending students and faculty running from the building. Harraz’s phone then beeped a bomb countdown before playing the sound of an explosion.



Harraz didn’t have a bomb or any connection to the university. But now he did have $4.20. That’s how much any of Harraz’s YouTube followers could pay him to make Harraz’s phone speaker play an audio message of their choice.