Just as Jimmy Kimmel has reporters take to the streets and ask unwitting Americans whether they’ve heard of a nonexistent celebrity—to often humorous result—a team of pranksters in China has dressed up a Korean boy band and walked the streets of a large Chinese city on March 30.
The phony team consisted of security guards, cameramen, a boom operator, an assistant, and the band members. The most prominent had white hair and a flamboyant leopard jacket. Crowds soon swarmed to take photos with their iPhones, rush to hug the band members, claim they had bought non-existent albums, and hum songs that never were.
