Rahat Hossain
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Rahat Hossain December 19, 1989 Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S |
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| Nationality | American, Bangladeshi | ||||||||
| Occupation | YouTube personality, magician | ||||||||
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| Pseudonym | MagicOfRahat | ||||||||
| Channel | MagicOfRahat | ||||||||
| Years active | 2007-present | ||||||||
| Genre | Magic, comedy | ||||||||
| Subscribers | 4,716,357 (2 September 2016) |
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| Total views | 615,296,617 (2 September 2016) |
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Rahat Hossain (born December 19, 1989), also known by his username MagicofRahat is an American YouTube personality, vlogger, prankster and magician of Bangladeshi descent, who produces pranks and magic tricks on YouTube.
Hossain parents are from Bangladesh. He was born and grew up in Virginia Beach, where he showed passion for building things with cardboard and duct tape. Hossain attended Old Dominion University in approximately 2009, majoring in criminal justice. In college, he began uploading videos featuring card tricks. The first-ever video uploaded with Hossain's YouTube account was named, "Maxi-Twist by Rahat". He uploaded almost 50 videos of this genre before filming hidden camera pranks.
Hossain posted his hit video, "Drive Thru Invisible Driver Prank," on January 9, 2013. The video shows him dressed up as a car seat and fooling workers at various fast food restaurants, such as McDonald's and Chick-fil-A. Hossain said he constructed the car-seat outfit in 12 hours after being inspired by an image he found on the Internet of a "guy who'd actually had a car-seat costume similar to what I built".
The prank gained immense popularity and was featured on Fox & Friends, Good Morning America, and The Ellen DeGeneres Show, among others. As of 2014, the video received over 40 million total views.
In June 2014 Toyota featured Hossain in a similar invisible driver stunt in Europe, steering the Toyota Aygo.
In a video posted on March 4, 2014, Hossain gave a homeless man named Eric a winning lottery ticket that was worth $1,000. The cashier was also in on the prank. After receiving the money, Eric said, "I've been doing this for a long time. A long time. And never, never had a friend, had somebody do what you just did back there. Never". Later on his Twitter account, Hossain posted that he was happy to help the man and he "tries to help people as much as he can". The video received an overall positive reception by the public and was viewed nearly 28 million times.
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