Trollstation
| Trollstation | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Reality, Comedy, 'Pranks' |
| Created by | DigiDan |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Release | |
| Original network | YouTube |
| Original release | 2013 – present |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Trollstation (previously named TrollStationUK) is a YouTube channel consisting of, as well as collaborating with, numerous British pranksters who perform 'pranks' and social experiments, more recently focusing on the latter. The 'pranks' carried out by members of Trollstation are filmed covertly, often without the permission of those involved; however, they are revealed to be 'pranks' soon after. Some of their 'pranks' have led to the arrest of some members of the group.
The channel suddenly attracted particularly high publicity after a coordinated series of pitch invasions during a UEFA Europa League game between Tottenham Hotspur and Partizan Belgrade on Thursday 27 November 2014. As of October 2016, they have over 850,000 subscribers on YouTube.
In March 2016, Trollstation founder and cameraman 'Digi Dan' was jailed for 9 months after being convicted of staging a bomb hoax and mock robberies in London.[1][2]
In May 2016, four other members of Trollstation were jailed for between 16 and 20 weeks after staging a 'terrifying' fake art heist which caused a stampede at the National Portrait Gallery. Five members of "Trollstation" - some with tights on their heads - burst into the central London art gallery playing a loud alarm and pretended to steal paintings, just a week after the Tunisian beach massacre. The gallery's visitors fled in apparent panic and one woman passed out, while others were trampled on in the rush before the group moved on to Tate Britain where they carried out a fake robbery and kidnapping, a court was told. [3]
'Pranks' include a rap battle between two police officers, a child dropping a wallet in front of strangers to see if it is returned, and a blind man dropping his wallet. An extremely long selfie stick. Other 'pranks' included 'abusing a transvestite', impersonating traffic wardens and giving tickets to police officers, invading the ring at a WWE SmackDown match, a woman approaching men in public asking for sex and pointing a toy gun at police officers. The video involving Daniel Jarvis handing out parking fines to police, confusing the officers involved, featured on Channel 4's Rude Tube.
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