Ownage Pranks

Russell (born: ), better known online as Ownage Pranks, is an American YouTube prank caller who usually calls businesses including restaurants with poor ratings on Yelp, quirky Craigslist advertisers, tow truck companies and fans who want to prank someone they know by request. He also uploads songified remixes of his prank calls, animated versions of his prank calls and Omegle conversations where he is dressed up as one of the characters from the channel.
Russel's style has changed dramatically over the years - from being far more edgy in his pranks early on and calling with guns blazing right off the bat, to a more calm style where he gradually feeds the victim's anger by opting to say/offer very shocking, ridiculous things to them, revealing the prank afterwards in most cases. A few of his earlier videos released in late 2000's also featured an unidentified man who went by the pseudonym "Donald Trump" pranking the victim with him.
==Characters==
Russell has many different character personalities that he uses during his prank calls. Some are used more than others, with Buk Lau being the most popular character, and John McCain being the least. Apart from his notorious crew, he also does a few random voices for specific pranks or occasions such as a British, West African, and Russian accent. A lot of his characters share some similarities, such as having a fetish for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (or other forms of fetishes linked to defication), as well as having an unusually weak stomach always getting sick from food.
===Buk Lau===
Buk Lau is Russell's Asian character who on some occasions has also been portrayed as female (mainly derived from being often called female due to his relationship with Tyrone Biggums and his feminine sounding voice). He is well known because of his Condom Prank Call(s) and the Angry Antenna Removal Prank, with most of Russell's popular prank videos playing him as prominent role.
Buk Lau's heritage is half Chinese and half Vietnamese as revealed in some videos, but he has claimed it to be that of another East Asian country in a few pranks.
Buk Lau has been portrayed as a stunt double for the tv show "The Simpsons" as shown in Animated Episode 0: The Next Chapter - Ownage Pranks to earn money for more Ownage Pranks animations, and has been a babysitter as shown in "Asian Babysitting Nightmare Prank". Buk also owns a Chinese Restaurant and claims to have a son named "Neelo" suffering from cancer (IRS scam prank call).
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===Tyrone Biggums===
Tyrone Biggums is one of the most featured characters played by Ownage Pranks; most people do not realize a change in Russell's voice due to the extreme difference between his other characters, as well as Tyrone's stereotypical speaking manner, allowing Ownage to easily fool his victims. Tyrone is the second-most popular character after Buk Lau.
Tyrone has been a police officer, a DJ, and is often portrayed as a robber; he was also featured briefly on Barack Obama radio, saying something quite off-putting, and was quickly disposed of. He is sometimes also referred to as "Tyrese" by some prank victims, and is known to have a son named "(Little) Jabari" on several occasions, including the KFC prank and the cheating girlfriend prank. He is also often portrayed as being roommates with the other characters.
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===Rakesh Cristoval===
Rakesh Cristoval is an Indian character from Bangalore who was born on October 2 (or October 10, depending on the source), 1972. His last name was made up in a prank call with an Indian restaurant when a police constable asked for his last name. He first named it Qor, but then later changed it to Cristoval, probably to confuse the police officer. He later stated in the IRS Scam Prank, where he pretends to be a coworker of scam artists in India, that his last name was Panjeet. Apart from that prank, he is also well known for his prank call with an Angry Indian Restaurant Owner and is known to be the third-popular character after Buk Lau and Tyrone. Like these two, he is used when prank calling random people. Rakesh's occupations range from a stereotypical Indian call center representative to a goat farmer to a worker with the food company Sysco. Like Abdo, he has a lot of problems with food in restaurants, though he has appeared in many other calls as well. He is mainly used for calling places of service.
Rakesh's voice has undergone arguably the most changes over the years of all the characters - going from a nasally, overly pushy voice similar to Russell's, to being calmer yet changing timbre from rather high-pitched to very deep when angry, to a more average-sounding Indian male voice and accent as of writing this.
His most prominent feature is his use of the word "motheryucker", "mutharyar", or "mother ugly" or a word close to it and claims that it is not a bad word simply because of the letter substitution. Apart from actual Hindi cuss words, also tends to use the phrase "not gord/goord" when he is upset about something.
Rakesh is a big fan of the Indian dish Chicken Tikka Masala and always talks about making and eating it, as well as using it as a body part euphemism for penis much like Abdo uses "kaboobies" to refer to cleavage. Rakesh also enjoys eating "hot doggies".
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===Abdo Kaboobie===
Abdullah "Abdo" Kaboobie is a Middle Eastern Egyptian character who often has problems with bad food. His main catchphrase is to ask for "Combensaytion" because it is what he needs. He often asks for a ridiculously high amount of a product in exchange for his problem. He can evidently speak Arabic but chooses not to because he promised his wife to practice his English. He tends to say "ya styoobid" when people don't cooperate with him or simply piss him off. Abdo loves using the word "habibi" (boy) or "habibti" (girl) when referring to people he talks to on the phone. This often outrages people as it's used in a condescending manner, as well as due to the fact that the word habib(t)i is considered a very personal term of endearment and should not be used to refer to strangers.
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===Juan Martinez===
Juan Martinez is Russell's Hispanic character. He has a married Guatemalan man with a very large family. Juan works in construction, like Billy, and has appeared in quite a few calls. His most prominent feature is his constant and random repetition of "Si" in his many appearances. When he is offered to have the phone conversation in Spanish instead, he claims to be "practicing" his English like Abdo.
He is best known for his role in the Mexican Restaurant Saga prank, which has since been taken off YouTube by Ownage following the manager's discovery of the prank videos and possibly due to legal reasons as well. In the prank, he goes by the name of "Juanito" and has been to (and escaped) jail for scamming and stealing raw meat from restaurants.
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===Billy Balls ===
Billy Balls is a blond/redneck hillbilly who lived in Nebraska for most of his life. Billy works in construction, like Juan, and often calls ads on Craigslist for massages or love services and is known for his low-balling and singing skills. His most outstanding feature is that he has a foot fetish and will usually ask for some service in relationship to this. He is also married and has even more extreme fetishes.
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===Chris Floyd===
Chris Floyd is a flamboyant homosexual male character who appears in a few pranks. He speaks with a very stereotypical, yet mostly listless voice which makes him stand out as a character. He has not appeared in many videos, similar to John McCain, but usually appears in the gay hotline videos. Chris disappeared for the most part in Ownage's videos for a long while, but reappeared in a Russian iPhone X prank as a performer in a gay bar, HunkOMania.
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===John McCain===
John McCain is a nerd that has a strange squeaky voice and always seems to be more of a younger man. He is one of the more unpopular characters in Ownage Pranks' videos, and therefore isn't used as often.
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===Russell Johnson===
Russell Johnson is a Caucasian character who sounds very professional with many calls he appears in. He is based off of Ownage's real voice and often pretends to be an employee of a company (e.g. bug extermination service, detective service), being used for pretending to be a customer service rep or as someone calling from a big company's corporate office.
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===Alexander Mutitbo===
Alexander "Alex" Mutitbo is a Nigerian character who is from Lagos and has a thick Nigerian accent; he is also Tyrone's cousin. He debuted in the Crazy Congressman's Son Prank as a minor character playing as Tyrone's cousin visiting from Africa and also briefly appeared in some of the Gay Hotline prank videos; he became an official character on February 4th, 2018, in the 7-Eleven Ugandan Knuckles Prank. In the small number of prank videos he's been the main character, he has been portrayed as a Canadian citizen who immigrated from Nigeria looking for employment at a local bakery, a scammer, a filmmaker, and a random customer trying to find his way to a 7-Eleven.
==Identity==
On June 16, 2019, Ownage Pranks finally revealed his face, saying that he's been wanting to do so for years but didn't exactly know how he was going to do it. Ownage is revealed to be a young Egyptian-American man who can also speak Arabic.
==Video View Milestones==
*1 billion views: June 15, 2019
==Trivia==
*Each character has different colored subtitles that have been consistent throughout almost all of Ownage's prank videos.
**Buk Lau's are yellow
**Tyrone's are dark purple
**Rakesh's are dark blue
**Abdo's are dark orange
**Juan's are orange
**Billy's are turquoise
**Chris's are pink
**John's are green
**Russell's are lime
**Alex's are purple
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