Judge Bans 2 YouTubers From U.S.C. Campus

The 40 college students within the class fled, with some tripping over seats as they ran from “what moderately appeared to them as a reputable menace of imminent classroom violence,” based on the lawsuit.

“I used to be close to the door, and I began operating out,” one pupil, Avery Kotler, advised Annenberg Media, which reported on the stunt. “Everybody simply left in a very huge panic,’’ the coed mentioned.

In one other incident, on Nov. 12, the 2 males stormed right into a classroom dressed as characters from “Squid Sport,” the violent Netflix collection, based on the lawsuit. The boys staged a pretend kidnapping with two different associates who weren’t named within the go well with, the submitting mentioned.

Mr. Bai requested for assist from the professor, saying that “a bunch of individuals with weapons” had been chasing him, the lawsuit mentioned.

At one level, court docket paperwork say, Mr. Kanevsky and one other particular person chased Mr. Bai within the classroom as he yelled, “In the event that they catch me, my household will die!” Earlier than the incident, the fourth affiliate, who was not dressed up, had entered the classroom to be able to make a video of the prank.

Within the lawsuit, legal professionals for the college mentioned the lads’s conduct “quantities to each a private and non-private nuisance,” including that “it has triggered college students to expertise emotional misery and real worry for his or her private well-being” on campus.

Mr. Kanevsky has 111,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel, and Mr. Bai has about 3,000 to his channel. Each channels characteristic movies of pranks on the seashore, at gyms and in shops.