“For the last two weeks, people have been sending me videos of their loved ones being told I’m dead. 3 episode of Watch What Happens Live, and the talk show host got heated he actually dropped an f-bomb for the first time in the show’s 13-and-a-half-year run.Ĭohen called out the viral trend during the show’s “Jackhole Of The Day” segment. The celebrity reactions don’t end there: Andy Cohen also voiced has concerns with the trend on a Jan. It must’ve been the home-for-the-holidays boredom that started this trend, but now that the holidays are over, people are beginning to realize the celebrity death prank was never funny to begin with.
It wasn’t long until more celebrity death prank “announcements” went viral, and beloved celebrities like Elton John, Barack Obama, and Jennifer Aniston were caught in the crossfire. 23 in which they told someone that Donald Trump had died, and they did not take it well. (To be clear, none of the celebrities people name in the death prank actually died, but acting as though it happened is meant to get a genuine reaction from the person being pranked.) One of the first pranks to go viral was posted by on Dec. To make the lie seem believable, the prankster acts as if they’re reading a headline about someone’s passing in real time while secretly recording the other person’s reaction. 24, 2022, though it’s unknown who set the trend in motion. Some notable celeb reactions to TikTok’s celebrity death prank call it out for its harmful message and effects on others.Īccording to Know Your Meme, the earliest TikToks from the trend were posted on Dec.
The trend, which involves recording someone while making up a story that their favorite celeb has passed, blew up on the social media app in late December 2022 - but not all the attention surrounding the prank has been positive. If you were scrolling through TikTok instead of spending time with your family over the holidays (guilty), you probably saw plenty of viral celebrity death pranks on your FYP.
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