American content creator, YouTuber, and prankster, Charles Ross, better known as RossCreations online, recently faced backlash for launching an opossum into the air as part of an extermination procedure. For context, on November 30, Ross shared an Instagram Reel captioned “Opossum Launcher” showing the contraption in work.
As of this writing, the YouTuber has about 7.5 million subscribers across two channels. His active channel, Vlog Creations, has about 5.7 million subscribers. His latest video was uploaded in September 2025 and featured a harmless vending machine prank. The latest from his Instagram, however, offered some more violent content.
In the Reel, RossCreations sat watching live footage of an opossum approaching his launcher, which seemingly sat in his backyard. Once snared in the catapult’s bed, tense elastic chords activated and shot upwards, launching the animal multiple feet in the air. It then landed away from the machine with a loud thud.
This particular opossum subject did manage to walk away from the cameras, but it is unclear what injuries the animal faced. On the r/LivestreamFail subreddit, netizens reacted, with some pointing out Ross’s lack of humanity:
“Pretty psychopathic behaviour to not care about injuring animals,” said u/noneplayable.
“Cruel and unusual,” said u/HowDoIRotateTextInMS
Others, like u/Dovexshampoo, pointed out how this particular piece of content does not fit in with RossCreations’s overall catalogue:
“such a bummer coming from him. everything i’ve seen from him has been very creative and positive/harmless ‘pranks’. don’t know why he felt the need to do this.”
u/Ok_Temperature6503 mentioned that this style of content “ruined” Ross’s channel for them:
“He’s always done harmless pranks; this was out of left field and ruins his channel for me.”
Looking at some of RossCreations’s greatest hits
While Ross’s second channel seems to be the most active in terms of upload rate, his main channel, RossCreations, which has over 326 million channel views, is home to the YouTuber’s most viral pranks.
It is also home to his oldest YouTube uploads, some of which date back to 2010. His most popular video across both channels, titled “I Trust You“, comes from his 2012-2014 era, and is a prank video involving Ross going around to strangers, hoping they’d catch him in a trust fall.
Other videos involve him jumping over people, drive-thru pranks, and boxing strangers.
In other news, YouTuber WhistlinDiesel was arrested on account of tax fraud. He later followed up, denying any wrongdoing.
Edited by Vishnu Menon
