Story By: Kathryn Quinn, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News
Video Credit: CEN/ Inscope21
This Instagram influencer has been slammed online after posting a prank video apparently showing him eating a baby dolphin – which he later revealed was made by a 3D printer.
The prankster, 24, with 1.6 million Instagram followers on his ‘inscopenico’ profile from Stuttgart the capital of the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, had thousands of followers as well as animal activists thinking he had killed, cooked and eaten a real-life baby dolphin with his very life-like video.
In the video he can be seen chopping up the life-like dolphin before putting it in a pan, frying it and eating it.
After mass outrage he admitted that the dolphin was not real and that he had the dolphin made in a 3D printer before placing the silicone dolphin in the freezer and filming the video.
He said: “I am playing with my reputation here. It was a risky stunt and I don’t know how it will end.”
He admitted the video was a collaboration with the organisation ‘followfish’, which works to protect the seas and protect endangered or rare species.
He said: “I wanted to make people think. I am not a vegan but I have started to think about what I eat. People should think about what they eat and not just eat the cheapest meats and should inform themselves more.”
His followers were not so impressed with his video, with one user commenting: “You are a sick idiot. Dolphin is also full of quicksilver and a quarter of all dolphin breeds are endangered. Regardless whether real of fake, you are still a complete idiot.”
Another wrote: “Inscope ate a rare baby dolphin how disgusting has YouTube become.”
But others saw the funny side: “A dolphin made of plastic and everyone is flipping out.”
Another commented that: “Surely his followers are used to his humour by now.”
After the outrage, he followed up with another video explaining his actions and showing that the dolphin was not real but indeed produced using silicone from a 3D printer.
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