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A Michigan sales representative gets sympathy after a pair of pranksters tried to "Apple Pay" prank him. He went viral explaining that he was dealing with burnout and a job he has no choice but to work because he is struggling to raise four children.

Here's a question....

Why do people have to resort to GoFundMe?

Why do white people get more sympathy when they're struggling while non-whites are vilified as lazy, always mooching and taking advantage of the system?

It seems like MAGA back on the bullshit again with this hoarding of Red Baron Pizza to support the struggling father.

Again, if the worker is Black and the pranksters were white, they would laugh at his pain.

If the pranksters were Black, they would call for the jailing and bans from all retail.

Damon Darling would never do this type of shit. He would be more of an annoying good will ambassador than a prankster who would pretend he stole money from random strangers.

Walt Zerod managed to end a lot of these dumb asses this month.

The individuals behind the prank operated under a joint social media channel called ThreeOfAKind (with the Instagram handle @thea.ctiveworld).

I have seen these pranks on X, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube. A random prankster would engage with a stranger and the pretend to tap their phone to extract money.

This is the end of prank culture on the internet? The Red Baron employee video should be a wake-up call Real people have real emotions and they shouldn't have to become content just so someone can get views https://t.co/wFNnVuEA88

— Surajit (@surajit_ghosh2) October 29, 2026

The reaction from the stranger is very agitated and while being recorded, the prankster would like this wasn't a big deal.

A video that circulated online shows the worker, identified in a GoFundMe fundraiser as Walt Z., stocking frozen Red Baron pizzas in a Meijer grocery store in White Lake, Michigan, according to reports. 

The prankster is shown approaching Walt and asking him for the time.

Then, as Walt takes out his phone to check, the person plays a sound resembling an Apple Pay transaction and claims to have stolen $10 from him, thanking him and telling him he needs to buy something.

Walt initially says he plans to report the prankster and becomes increasingly upset as the person insists it was just a joke.

"My life is hard enough as it is," Walt tells the prankster. 

He’s still here. He’s got a fan club. Including us. https://t.co/7oppfnDUfx

— Red Baron Pizza (@redbaronpizza) October 29, 2026

What happened with that viral Red Baron Pizza worker is not a feel-good story, it's a feel-bad story. Everything about it says horrible things about where our society is headed. Some obnoxious prick films a guy working his fingers to the bone for a "prank" hoping to get social media clicks, and the worker flips out at him because his shitty, abusive job had stretched him a hair's breadth from snapping. The video goes viral because people sympathize with a father shouting at a creepy live-streamer about how his shift was supposed to end an hour ago and he needs to get up at five in the morning to do it all again so his family doesn't get evicted from the home he's struggling to pay for, and then a fundraiser is launched which winds up giving the man half a million dollars. Sounds like a happy ending, until you look at it. None of the other Red Baron workers are getting fundraisers to help them make ends meet; they're all toiling and suffering along with everyone else in similar socioeconomic positions, just as the man in the video would have been if he hadn't gone viral. Turns out the guy who set up the fundraiser for the Red Baron employee was himself a homeless veteran of the US military, who received his own far less successful fundraiser when this revelation came out. When you zoom out, this is just a story about how incredibly bleak life is for ordinary people in the heart of the US empire. And yet capitalism proponents have seized on this story as an example of the system working perfectly while portraying it as a victory in their weird culture war theater. Conservative media platforms like The Daily Wire, The New York Post and Barstool Sports have framed the worker as a people's champion standing up to an entitled coastal liberal while working hard for his employer as Judeo-Christian God intended. Red Baron posted on social media that they are part of their employee's "fan club" and that he is their "employee of the month", causing conservative figures like Laura Loomer, Benny Johnson, Kevin Sorbo and Tim Burchett to swoon with approval. They want you focusing on this one particular instance where it all worked out fine so that you don't think about the exponentially greater number of instances in which it doesn't. Billionaire corporations are exploiting workers around the world for appallingly meager wages, causing a combined amount of suffering too vast for the human mind to comprehend. People resonated with that worker pouring his heart out into that click slut's Meta glasses because so many of us have been there and know what it's like to be stretched to the breaking point just trying to feed your kids. The capitalist class squeezes the life out of workers, and then they manipulate working people's thoughts at mass scale so they don't understand what's happening to them. They tell them their suffering is because of immigrants, or welfare recipients, or an amorphous cabal of "elites" who always conveniently belong exclusively to the opposite political party. They feed them media convincing them that the system is working fine and that if they can't hack it it's because something is wrong with them. They offer them the occasional "feel-good" viral story about someone who got lucky, like feudal serfs listening to fairy tales imagining that they too might one day marry a prince or discover that they are a member of the royal family who was lost at birth. They pour all this energy into convincing workers to accept the status quo because they are at all times acutely aware that as soon as the workers stop accepting the status quo, it's over for them. The most under-discussed political reality in the world is that there are a whole lot more people suffering under the status quo than there are people profiting from it, and that the sufferers are fully capable of overturning the status quo by force whenever they decide to. Our entire society is built around the need to manipulate our attention away from this political reality. All our mainstream culture. All our news media. All our politics. All our education systems. It's all designed to direct our gaze away from the reality that there are a whole lot more of us than there are of them, and that they need us infinitely more than we need them. They don't want us to look at this reality. They don't want us thinking about it. But we really, really should.

— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) October 30, 2026

Buying Red Baron pizza isn’t going to help that man, but ending the Iran War will.

— James Fishback (@jamesfishback) October 31, 2026

So what’s the deal with the MAGA accounts and the Red Baron pizza….did I miss something? https://t.co/eaiBXnji2S

— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) October 31, 2026

Lmao so MAGA sees a guy getting exploited by a company that’s overworking and not paying him a livable wage and they’re all like ok let’s go buy products from that company because that will definitely help the worker 🙄….btw the company that owns Red Baron pizza is from South Korea

— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) October 31, 2026

This broke me. Find this man. Find him and I will personally fundraise for him. https://t.co/hwdHT8hJvI

— Sarah Fields (@SarahisCensored) October 28, 2026

Almost $400,000 has now been raised for the Red Baron Pizza @redbaronpizza employee who went viral this week after being harassed by a lame prankster while on the job. A company called Higgsfield AI @higgsfield_ai made a $30,000 donation to the Go Fund Me. Incredible! I hope the employee is able to pay off his mortgage and take a nice vacation with his kids. I love stories like this.

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) October 30, 2026

🔥 JUST IN: THOUSANDS of Americans are now saying they will be buying Red Baron pizzas and supporting the business after the company PUBLICLY BACKED the hardworking patriot instigated in a now-viral video "He’s still here. He’s got a fan club. Including us." HUNDREDS of thousands of dollars have now been raised for him as well 🙏🏻 This is America! 🇺🇸

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 29, 2026

We got your back Walt. 💪🏽 https://t.co/QLZZtC5R8k

— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) October 30, 2026

Constant Fraud 🙈 $500,000 already raised for the Red Baron worker who was pranked on the video that went viral. It was a scam make money Well the scam has extended and is even more outrageous Read this, $8000 already for a guy who set up the page but he is homeless and now a page has been set up for him 😂 Can people not see this is money laundering and fraud Luke Oakenshield is the homeless veteran who started the viral GoFundMe for Walter Zerod and helped raise a quarter million dollars for Walter while Luke himself was homeless. Luke is a friend who has been carrying more than anyone should have to carry alone. After dealing with relationship issues and being out of work for a while, Luke is now homeless and sleeping in his car. The reality is that he is in a very difficult place and needs support right now. Most of the world is having their pants pulled down daily and they can not even see it #harrythesoulcoach #scam #donation #fraud #truth

— Harry The Soul Coach (@harrysoulcoach) October 30, 2026

Watching the right try to capitalize on this viral moment is hilarious. Red Baron pizzas are ultra processed and full of absolute slop. I don't care if you want to support that likely underpaid delivery guy, eating that garbage or feeding it to your family is taking an immediate L. Pepperoni and sausage varieties utilize cured meats containing sodium nitrite and preservatives like BHA and BHT. The crust and sauces also contain refined flours, palm oil, and added sugars or corn/soy protein isolates. One pizza is 140% of your daily sodium intake and 1500 calories. On top of that, it's owned by a South Korean food conglomerate. Buying that shit doesn't support Walt lmaoooooo

— Bobby Sauce (@takenaps) October 31, 2026

@ClayTravis This was a PR stunt coordinated with right-wing social media and designed to sell Red Baron Pizza and everyone knows it. https://t.co/u76tn7XHeo

— Marla Seraphine (@marlaseraphine) October 31, 2026

🚨ATTENTION: Please Help Me Find This Father. This hardworking dad of four just trying to make a living was harassed at his job by a nuisance TikTok influencer. He was then posted online to be mocked by the public. America is facing a crisis and people are going to start snapping. People work too hard in this country and deserve better than this. This man's main priority is providing for his family and we want to help him do that. Too many use the internet for bad, let's use it for good so we can help make his life better. I want to set up a GiveSendGo for him. If you can help me get in contact, shoot me a DM.

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 28, 2026

He explains that he was already an hour late getting home, his children had already gone to bed without him and he would have to get up at 5 a.m. the next day for work. 

He also mentions that he is struggling to pay his mortgage.

"I don't need this in my life," he exclaims as others try to step in.

The footage went viral on social media this week, and people bashed the prankster and rallied behind the struggling father of four for pushing back on the cruel joke. 

"There’s a guy like him in every grocery store in America, grinding through the shift nobody sees," one X user wrote. 

"Turning one of them into the punchline isn’t edgy. It’s lazy."

"God bless the working man," another commenter wrote.

Fox News Digital attempted to reach Walt Z. and also reached out to Red Baron. 

As of Saturday, Oct. 31, a GoFundMe campaign had raised more than $679,000 from over 19,000 donations.

The fundraiser says donations will be sent directly to Walt.

Red Baron also publicly backed its employee after the video circulated. 

Carter Robert Porter is the alleged prankster.

The company posted on X, "He’s still here. He’s got a fan club. Including us." It was posted alongside a graphic announcing that "employee of the month nominations are closed. You know why," suggesting that Walt might be selected for the honor.

Red Baron told Fox News Digital the incident took place in August and involved a member of its Direct Store Delivery team. 

The company said it had checked on the employee’s well-being, continues to offer support and is working with retail partners to help maintain a safe and respectful workplace.

While internet users feared Walt could lose his job over his reaction to the incident, the company said, "We are pleased to share that he is doing well and remains a valued member of our team."

Red Baron added that Walt is grateful for the support but has requested privacy.

In an update posted to the fundraiser, Walt thanked those who donated, shared the campaign or sent messages of support. 

He said he and his family are doing well and asked that their privacy be respected.

"I wanted to take a moment to personally thank everyone who has donated, shared this fundraiser, or left a kind message," Walt Z. wrote on the fundraiser page.

"The kindness and encouragement you've shown me and my family have meant more than I can put into words."