YouTuber slammed for mocking homeless with video stunt offering ‘vagrant’ a free burger then eating it in front of him | The Sun

A YOUTUBER was slammed for mocking the homeless after posting a video stunt offering a "vagrant" a meal before eating it in front of him.

The "heartless" stunt saw Trevor Sellars stuffing his face with a burger in front of what appears to be a homeless man in Los Angeles.

In the footage, Trevon approached the man before asking him if he wanted a meal.

But the stunt he pulled next left people furious, slamming the viral video for being "cruel" and "sick".

Trevon was seen returning to the man with his hands full of Wendy' s takeaway bags before pretending to offer the meal to him and eating it himself.

Trevon responded to the outrage on Monday, when he made a post claiming the man who featured in the clip was a "friend", and that the entire video was staged.

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But viewers were still left fuming, with one person asking: "What was the purpose of this video even if it was 'staged'?"

Trevon has dozens of videos on his TikTok page and 9,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel.

The majority of his videos seem to show him "harassing" couples, baristas and in one post even a group of Girl Scouts.

Trevon wrote an updated caption to the original video on Monday which read: "I asked him before hand if we could make this video and he agreed to be in it. I gave him some money and food before we even started recording."

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The video which is now receiving backlash, begins with Trevon "sympathetically" explaining the homeless crisis in LA.

"Los Angeles, California, has the third biggest homeless population in the United States and today it's my job to make sure there's one less hungry person on the streets," he said.

He then ran into a man sitting on the floor beside a stack of crates and asked for his name and if he wanted something to eat.

When the man told Trevon his name the YouTuber said he would buy him a meal from a nearby Wendy's.

Trevon is then filmed in the fast-food restaurant ordering a burger and drink before returning to the man.

While unwrapping it, and seemingly getting ready to give it to him he says: "I was homeless myself and want to make sure you get on the right path. You're always able to get back on your feet, I want you to enjoy this."

The man then reaches out his hand to accept the food before Trevon pulled the sickening stunt.

He stuffed the burger into his mouth and walked away, telling the man: "This is really good. Alright, take care, have a nice day."

An extra clip from the original video which didn't go viral showed Trevon returning to the spot with another meal in hand – but the man had left.

He then filmed himself taking the meal to another group of men who were crowded around tents on the side of the road.

But in a twist of events, the first person turned Trevon away and said: "Nah, we don't want none of that s**t," but another man then accepted the food. 

Trevon also addressed the backlash in another post where he said: "I have the entire world mad at me over an edited video," and hit back by adding a definition of the term rage bait.

It comes after another YouTuber was slammed after he carried out "fake acid attack pranks" on people.

Arya Mosallah released the videos in 2018 – at a time when there was widespread concern about acid attacks.

He filmed the apparent pranks in London where several of the devastating attacks had taken place.

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