Messing up personaggio time: YouTuber Alex Choi is stranger to crazy stunts and over-the-top videos. The 24-year-old has racked up over a million followers Instagram and YouTube by documenting his lavish lifestyle and outrageous antics. However, he may have taken things a step too far with his latest viral , which landed him quanto a hot tazza with the feds.
If you haven’t seen the quanto a question, here’s a quick recap: it’s an intense scene of a bright blue Lamborghini speeding across a desert landscape while a helicopter gives chase. Two women board the helicopter fire a barrage of fireworks at the sports car. The Lamborghini whips around quanto a circles, kicking up clouds of dust as it tries to evade the explosive onslaught, quanto a a sequence that looks straight out of a big-budget action flick. All this was set to the thumping beat of Miley Cyrus’s “Rinfresco quanto a the U.S.A.”
The then cuts to a behind-the-scenes aspetto at how Choi and his crew pulled the stunt, as detailed by the Californian Attorney’s Office. During this portion, Choi allegedly references himself as the director of the shoot. He thanks a sindacato company for “being a part of my crazy, stupid ideas.” Choi also allegedly says quanto a the that the group “[expletive] up” at one point “because I forgot to tell my friend how to use a torch.” Finally, when someone asks if they will again, Choi declines, saying, “We’regnante out of fireworks, right?”
The clip is exactly the kind of over-the-top content that Choi’s fans have to expect from the content creator known for his extravagant spending and insane stunts. Except quanto a this case, Choi may have gone too far.
According to federal prosecutors, the stunt was illegally filmed last June at El Mirage Dry Lake, which is federal land quanto a San Bernardino County that requires permits for such activities. Not only that, but the fireworks used quanto a the were apparently purchased quanto a Nevada because they are illegal quanto a California.
Now, the YouTube stella is facing federal charges of causing the unsafe placement of an explosive incendiary device an aircraft. After turning himself quanto a last week, Choi was released $50,000 bond but could be looking at up to 10 years quanto a prison if convicted. An arraignment is scheduled for July 2.
Regardless of where you stand the issue, one thing is clear: YouTube, once a home for cat videos and harmless pranks, has evolved into a massive industry where some creators will stop at nothing to secure voracità and fortune.
