A GAMESTOP employee was reportedly fired after being a victim of a prank that was recorded in a TikTok filmed at the store.
Over the years, the retail chain has been the target of several jokes on the platform with pranksters visiting their local stores to troll the workers.
A popular prank includes TikTokers trying to trade in a fake video with a humorous title or strange box art to get the employee’s reaction.
Most of the videos end with the GameStop employee being unamused by the joke and some even calling the police.
A recent video showed Seth Meiring, who has nearly 800,000 followers on the platform posted a TikTok where he tries to trade in a fake video game called Cousin: Kisser The Game for the Xbox One.
The “game’s” box art featured the GameStop employee – a TikTok creator known as Dawesome – along with a picture of Lucy Hale’s character from Pretty Little Liars.
While most employees act annoyed in these videos, Dawesome played along with the joke and said, “That’s actually my cousin, I don’t know how you got that one.”
It doesn’t appear that Dawesome had planned the joke with Meiring but instead, he simply went along with it and found it funny.
At some point in the video, a GameStop customer realizes what’s happening and blocks the camera to stop Meiring from “filming employees without their consent.”
Meiring joked that the customer was “definitely a cousin kisser” before exchanging words with the other person.
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Meiring eventually left the fake game with Dawesome and left the store.
At the time of writing, the video has gained more than 3.1million views and 515,000 likes.
While there are several of these videos on the platform, this video in particular got Dawesome fired from his job.
He stitched Meiring’s original video to confirm that he was let go from his job after the customer reported him to corporate, saying that he didn’t do anything to stop the recording.
“It sucks but what can you do,” said Dawesome.
Meiring said that he was aware of the situation and he is “definitely going to do something.”
“If you guys thought I was just gonna let this happen to my man and I wasn’t gonna take my part in it, then you’re wrong,” he said.
“Because I definitely gotta take some responsibility for this.”
A GoFundMe was created to support Dawesome with Meiring saying he was going to donate some money as well.
“A few weeks ago I was filming a YouTube video in multiple different GameStop stores and one of their employees ended up getting fired because of this,” read the description of the fundraiser.
“He was by far the coolest and nicest GameStop employee I’ve ever met, and he definitely did not deserve to be fired. I’m trying to raise some money to help him out!”
At the time of writing the GoFundMe has raised $764 of a $1,000 goal.
The U.S. Sun has reached out to Meiring, Dawesome, and GameStop for comment.
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