Watch: Katie Hopkins brilliantly pranked by South African YouTuber

This might be one of our favourite videos ever. Online hate-preacher Katie Hopkins – also a frequent critic of Mzansi – has been royally stitched-up by a South African YouTuber. The clip has gone viral, with millions of views and shares since it was uploaded on Thursday evening.

Josh Pieters on YouTube

Josh Pieters, who has over one million subscribers on the platform, staged an elaborate rouse to make Hopkins look like a first-class chump. He created a fake organisation, which held a fake award ceremony, to give her a fake award. The execution was perfect, as was the name of the accolade.

Katie Hopkins was officially presented with the “Campaign to Unify the Nation Trophy”. Now, those of you who know your anagrams with realise that there’s a certain four-letter word you can get from this. Never has an award – fake or otherwise – been more fitting for its recipient.

How Katie Hopkins was tricked into accepting a fake award

Pieters exchanged a series of emails with Hopkins, pretending to champion her as a hero of free speech. He hired a group of actors to pretend they were part of the “Cape Town Collective”, an organisation which allegedly appealled to racists and hate-mongers of a similar ilk.

The YouTuber got the rent-a-gob personality to meet them in Prague at a hotel, offering her an all-expenses-paid trip. She was invited to a dinner, and the stitch-up soon followed: Katie Hopkins posed with her “trophy” in front of this background:

I CANT BELIEVE JOSH PIETERS FLEW KATIE HOPKINS OUT TO CAPE TOWN TO RECIEVE A FAKE AWARD W THE ACRONYM “C*NT” 😭😭😭😭 everyone please bow down to the king he did it pic.twitter.com/GKRBiNBlhh

— millie 21 (@almostmillie) January 30, 2020

Who is Katie Hopkins

It hasn’t been a great week for Katie. She was also suspended from Twitter due to her multiple breaches of hate speech regulations. Although, it has to be said, they certainly took long enough to come to this decision. Hopkins spews hatred on religious, racial and LGBTQI+ matters – and obviously, she has a problem with Caster Semenya. Her acceptance speech for the “c***-trophy” summed up exactly why she has been given the boot.

Hopkins was also declared bankrupt last year. Still, at least she has Brexit to celebrate on Friday. We’re not sure what money she’s going use for it, though. And no pub in England will accept a “c***-trophy” as currency.