So, this woman pulls a YouTube prank that's so horrific it ends up unaliving a man and nearly starts an international conflict. Now, her name is CTI. She's 25, she's from Indonesia, but she's working in Malaysia as an escort, and she does that so she can send money back to her parents in Indonesia.
But then, one day she meets a producer. The producer tells her he works for a production company of a huge YouTube channel, and they make YouTube pranks and stuff. He says he can get her an acting gig on his YouTube prank show, and the best part is that it pays pretty well.
She can quit escort work; she can also make all this money and send it back to her parents in Indonesia. Plus, they're going to pay her the equivalent of $96 per prank, which is a lot of money to CT. So, of course, she says yes, and pretty quickly she's introduced to the head of the YouTube channel, this guy Mr Chang.
Mr Chang and the other producers start getting her to pull these pranks on people in public. They'll go to a public place, and she'll walk up to a total stranger and just randomly start holding their hand, or they'll do a prank where they put baby oil on her hands and she'll run up behind a stranger and be like, "Guess who? " which smears the oil all over their face.
It's pranks like that. So, she does a bunch of these pranks over the course of about a month. Meanwhile, the prank channel has also recruited this other woman to do pranks.
Now, her name is D, and we'll get to her. But one day, the producers call CT in to meet them at the airport because they're going to do this big prank there. So, she's there, and she's with Mr Chang.
But Chang tells CT that there's actually another actress involved this time, and that actress will be doing the same thing, and it's D. So, the victim of this prank is actually going to get double pranked—first by CT, then by D. But anyway, Mr Chang pours a bunch of baby oil on CT's hands, and then he points to a man out in the airport that he wants her to prank.
So, minutes later, CT sneaks up behind the man, and then from behind, she puts her hands over his eyes like, "Guess who? " or whatever, and of course, this smears the oil all over his face. Then, about three seconds later, D approaches the man and smears her hand on his face as well.
Then CT and D giggle or whatever, and then they run away to the nearest bathroom to wash the oil off their hands. Meanwhile, the poor man is confused and a little freaked out, and he goes over to the airport security guards and tells them that some random women just smeared something on his face and that now he doesn't feel well. So, security escorts the man to the airport medical center, and his condition quickly gets worse.
It is very apparent something is seriously wrong. They rush him to the hospital, and on the way, he suddenly just dies. So, who was this man?
Well, let's call him N. Now, N is an interesting guy because growing up, his dad was a dictator—the supreme leader of a little country you might have heard of called North Korea. Now, N, being the oldest son, was always first in line to be the next supreme leader.
But as he grew up and became an adult, N grew to be a little more progressive, a little more open-minded to reforming things for the better—something his conservative dictator dad really didn't like. But one day, N is traveling abroad, and he's in Japan at the airport, and suddenly, boom, he gets arrested. Why?
Because he's traveling with a fake passport, trying to conceal his identity. Turns out N was in Japan because he's low-key trying to take his son to visit Tokyo Disney, which in his country is a huge no-no. Once the news of N’s arrest gets back to the dictator, the dictator is pissed.
I mean, the heir to the throne can't be seen going to Disneyland! Tokyo Disneyland represents capitalism, and worst of all, it represents America. It's just everything North Korea stands against.
So, this arrest is a huge source of embarrassment for the dictator, and this Disneyland fiasco eventually leads to N being passed over for the position of supreme leader. When the dictator eventually dies, his other son—N's half-brother, Kim Jong-un—becomes the new dictator. Kim Jong-un hates N, and N's been living internationally for a while in China, but regardless, Kim Jong-un has been trying to have him assassinated for years.
Eventually, he and his regime come up with this elaborate plan: they're going to trick two random women into unknowingly killing N, and the women end up being CT and D. When CT and D are at the airport that day, the producers have both of them touch N's face with baby oil as a prank. But what CT and D don't know is that’s not baby oil on their hands.
No, no. On CT's hands, they put—let's just call it chemical A—and on D's hands, they put what we’ll call chemical B. When you combine these two compounds, it creates a nerve agent called VX, or Venomous Agent X—a nerve agent that has been banned around the world because it's considered a weapon of mass destruction and will kill you instantly, especially if someone smears it on your face.
So, N dies that day right after they touch him, and Mr Chang and all the other producers who set… This up, they're all actually North Korean spies, and they all just flee, and they eventually get away. Of course, North Korea denies being involved in any of this, and this creates tensions between Malaysia and Indonesia. But since those producers all fled, that leaves the only two people connected to the crime: CT and Don.
So, CT and Don are in the airport bathroom washing their hands, and they walk out and look around, and all the producers are nowhere to be found. So, CT and Don are just like, "All right. " Separately, the two women each go home and have no idea that anyone died.
About a day later, they each get arrested, and CT is so clueless as to what's going on; she literally thinks her arrest is part of the prank show. Like, "Haha, yeah right, guys, sure, I'm being arrested. " Okay, but Malaysian police arrest them, and they charge them with murder.
Eight months later, their trial starts, and if CT and Don get convicted of murder, by law, they'll get the death penalty by hanging. So, the stakes in this are really high. This trial goes on for two years, and the Indonesian government has to get involved because CT is technically their citizen, and these women are in jail this whole time.
Then, one day, suddenly, like out of nowhere, the charges against CT are just dropped. Cool! CT goes free; apparently, the Indonesian government was eventually able to intervene, and they negotiated her release, while Don does not get out.
But she does plead guilty to a lesser charge, and eventually, they do let her go. Here's what Don looks like in real life, and here's what CT looks like in real life. Wow, a crazy story!
Shout out to North Korea.
