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In June 2018, a harrowing video purporting to show two men fending off a crocodile (or maybe an alligator) racked up millions of views on social media: The footage is real in the sense that it was not digitally edited, but the crocodile (or the alligator) is actually just a remotely controlled prop. It was taken from a much longer video that was originally posted to a YouTube page called Jay Karl's Hidden Camera & Practical Jokes. The original video started with the host showing off his prop (calling it an alligator, not a crocodile) before he began using it to troll and prank various unsuspecting swimmers and boaters: The original video even linked to the Amazon products that were used to create the prop. Jay Karl uses a floating alligator head decoy and a remote controlled toy boat: In other words, it appears that the elbow drop move was actually a real, good-faith, and quite courageous response to an uncomfortably realistic and relatively low-effort prank. Either way, though, the video's description is not accurate.
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