An exclusive look at how the viral YouTube video tricked the world. BuzzFeed News’ Ryan Broderick talks to Stephen Zhang.
Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed / Via Courtesy of Stephen Zhang
Earlier this month, a YouTube channel called Stephen Zhang Productions released a video called "Drunk Girl in Public," starring Jennifer Box, a 24-year-old model from Los Angeles.
"Today I'm Hollywood Boulevard and I've had a little too much to drink, let's see if anyone will help me get home," Box says in the beginning of the video. Then, in different scenes, men approach Box and attempt to take her home. The controversial video has been viewed over 11 million times.
A week after "Drunk Girl in Public" was posted, however, it was revealed that the men were tricked into appearing in the video. The men have told reporters that they were approached by a 22-year-old producer named Seth Leach and his cameraman Chris Olmedo, who told them they would be acting in a comedy sketch.
The man in the green shirt with dreadlocks is a local street musician named "Ashtray," another one is a local musician named Josh Blaine, and the man who appears at the end who steals Box away from another potential "helper" is Mike "Mokii" Koshak, who works for LA Epic, a party promotion company.
"The video that has me in it that's going around the web was all staged and all of the people in it were acting," Koshak posted on Facebook. "It was staged [and] does not portray myself or any of the other people in it correctly."
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