--- title: True Evil Is This Fake Airpod Stickers Prank Everyone description: This enraging prank involves stickers that really, really look like real AirPods. canonical: https://time.com/5732427/fake-airpod-prank/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-11-19T15:47:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-12T20:38:48.000Z og:title: Trolling Expert Unleashing the Most Chaotic Evil Prank: Fake Airpod Stickers og:description: Shenanigans og:url: https://time.com/5732427/fake-airpod-prank/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7785d052e74de50f/698a063c86f68e28156edede/airpod.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2121 og:image:height: 1193 og:image:alt: Airpod closeup on a black background og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trolling Expert Unleashing the Most Chaotic Evil Prank: Fake Airpod Stickers twitter:description: Shenanigans twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7785d052e74de50f/698a063c86f68e28156edede/airpod.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Trolling Expert Unleashes the Most Chaotic Evil Prank: Fake Airpod Stickers > Sponsored content. 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Introducing AirPods Pro — Apple_ by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Updated: Dec 12, 2023 8:38 PM UTCPublished: Nov 19, 2019 3:47 PM UTC  a close up photo of both airpods on a black solid background a close up photo of both airpods on a black solid background Getty Images by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Updated: Dec 12, 2023 8:38 PM UTCPublished: Nov 19, 2019 3:47 PM UTC Anyone knows that waltzing around with [Apple AirPods](https://time.com/5715432/apple-airpods-pro-review/) can be a dangerous game. People are terrified of losing them. So perhaps it should come as no surprise that people are losing it over this AirPods sticker [prank](https://time.com/5530444/olive-oil-car/). Thanks to one user’s glee at revealing his chaotic evil shenanigans to the world, a photo of it has gone [viral](https://time.com/4718246/april-fools-day-funniest-viral-pranks/). “I made life-size AirPod stickers and stuck them on the ground, all over the city,” he wrote, topping it off with a clown emoji,. Using his talents as an art director, Pablo Rochat printed these extremely realistic looking 2-dimensional AirPods and sprinkled them around San Francisco, California on sidewalks throughout the city. His tweet garnered 75,000 likes since Sunday. Of course, people are reacting strongly to the [stunt](https://time.com/5717565/jimmy-kimmel-candy-prank-2019/) and sharing their traumatic experiences with these flat tech. “Don’t know what’s more evil,” Twitter user Carrington says. “This prank, or not providing us with the reaction videos.” This is perhaps not as misleading as the downright dastardly plot to make battery power-deficient travelers think there’s [unused power outlet](https://time.com/5362602/power-outlet-sticker-airport-prank/) with another sticker like this. See some of the reactions the horrifying AirPod prank below. > [](https://twitter.com/JustBasicDave/status/875069988050284546) People had to give it to him. > [](https://twitter.com/evankirstel/status/1196536643282452489) > [](https://twitter.com/NnamEgwuon/status/1196805064918228992) Proceed with a grain of salt or maybe several. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5732427/fake-airpod-prank/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5732427/fake-airpod-prank/"},"headline":"Trolling Expert Unleashes the Most Chaotic Evil Prank: Fake Airpod Stickers","datePublished":"2019-11-19T15:47:16.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-12T20:38:48.000Z","description":"This enraging prank involves stickers that really, really look like real AirPods.","url":"https://time.com/5732427/fake-airpod-prank/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7785d052e74de50f/698a063c86f68e28156edede/airpod.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7785d052e74de50f/698a063c86f68e28156edede/airpod.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Airpod closeup on a black background","caption":"Airpod","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5732427/fake-airpod-prank/","name":"Trolling Expert Unleashes the Most Chaotic Evil Prank: Fake Airpod Stickers"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Introducing AirPods Pro — Apple","description":"Introducing AirPods Pro — Apple","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/B4aj3Qne/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2019-10-28T16:31:20.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/B4aj3Qne.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5732427/fake-airpod-prank/","duration":"PT59S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5732427/fake-airpod-prank/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```