Students ‘terrorised’ by ‘panic-inducing’ YouTube pranks at US university, lawsuit says

During one the pair dressed up as characters from the Netflix series Squid Game and in another, the men, along with another unnamed perpetrator, entered a data sciences lecture and escorted the professor out of the room and began lecturing the students about marijuana, according to the Daily Trojan. — Photo by Souvik Banerjee on Unsplash

The University of Southern California has sued two YouTubers over a series of “panic-inducing” pranks the pair staged during university lectures and recorded for their YouTube channel, the lawsuit says.

A Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge issued a temporary restraining order Friday, April 8, that bans Ernest Kanevsky and Yuguo Bai from campus and other university-owned buildings because of their involvement in the YouTube stunts, according to City News Service. The men are not students at the university, which is located in Los Angeles.