hyderabad dramatic mock kidnappings shot by vloggers and jazzed up with music and memes scroll up mammoth hits on social media and these viral videos end with an educational social message warning children to not take lifts from strangers while absolving themselves of a dangerous joke that puts the life of the child in danger stoi made several attempts to reach these vloggers to understand what made them make such videos but did not get a responseone of the most popular videos in the genre which first went viral and now stands removed from youtube for violating guidelines is from a channel called rider salman with more than 68000 subscribers in the video the driver gives a lift to a boy aged about 12 years and interacts with him the driver then calls someone and informs them that a boy has been found and looks goodthe drivers friends sitting in the backseat take out a syringe to which the scared child pleads them to stop and eventually tries to jump from a moving vehicle screaming for help from passersby though off youtube clippings continue to go viral on instagram with telugu troll pages sharing them as just for funstoi scanned through the video sharing platform and found more than 15 similar videos from various districts like khammam nellore kakinada anantapur and vijayawada with views ranging between 50000 and 5 lakhbizarre the betterthe vloggers are in constant pursuit of bizarre elements for instance a video by the channel kakinada prankster with 2000 subscribers has a shot of lifting the shirt of the boy who was offered lift the young boy who had previously said he was a dropout and wanted to return to school appears terrified the driver talks of desexing him and pushing him into sex trafficking and begging for the next five yearsanother youtube channel upendragani vlogs with 10 lakh subscribers puts a pet dog in a car while giving lift after deploying the same modus operandi a child in one video is seen pleading my father died and i am the only one left for my mom please let me go the men then proceed to buy the child clothes to pacify him the vloggers spice this shot with sentimental music with hashtag ammalove this video garnered 4 lakh views