The Berlin YouTuber Marvin Wildhage has been known for years as someone who causes a stir with troll videos, while also uncovering grievances. Now he has pulled off a coup that is seeking attention nationwide: he bypassed all security measures and sneaked into the opening match of the European Football Championship.
Who is that? Marvin Wildhage is a YouTuber known for “prank” actions that are supposed to serve a higher purpose. He doesn’t just throw a suitcase into the crowd, shout “bomb” and jump away, as real rabbits do. Most of the time, he aims to uncover that something is not quite right and how easy it is to manipulate things or people:
- In July 2023 he founded a fake esotericism shop to trick influencers
- In the same month, he sneaked into the influencer football event “Battle of The Socials” dressed as “Knossi”, because he was offended for not getting an entry ticket (via general newspaper)
- He has now done this on a large scale again and infiltrated the highly secured opening match of the European Football Championship between Germany and Scotland in Munich dressed as a mascot. This caused a scandal because it raised the question: If a YouTuber gets into the stadium so easily – couldn’t a terrorist also easily get into the stadium? (via tagesspiegel)
He can be easily tricked, but what about UEFA?
Wildhage faces the consequences: stadium ban, public criticism
These are the consequences for him: As Wildhage says in a new video, he was detained after the action in the stadium while his personal details were recorded and he was “determined” questioned by a public prosecutor. They would have let him go later that night. However, Wildhage doesn’t complain – particularly the police officers behaved impeccably towards him.
After the incident, he lost two cooperation partners who distanced themselves from him. He believes this could be because they might want to work with UEFA in the future. However, he has also received support offers from other partners.
In addition, he himself received a stadium ban after the incident (via tagesschau) and was described as a “freak” by the head of the Bavarian police union. Other media had also criticized him: he defends against the insinuation made in the show “SternTV” that he only does this for clicks and money.
Wildhage seems proud of his action, sees himself in the tradition of Böhmermann
This is how he sees himself: He sees himself in the tradition of Jan Böhmermann with his video on the topic “Sought Daughter-in-Law”: Although his video is entertaining in itself, it also uncovers grievances.
He lists in the video some weaknesses of the security concept that made it so easy for him to get into the stadium.
Apparently, some security measures have now been improved in football stadiums because of his video, as he says.
He says his video with the mascot was even number 1 on the YouTube trends, but he believes there was “some interference” to make it quickly disappear from the trends. Nevertheless, the video has reached two million views.
Even though he suppresses it somewhat, he seems proud of the action and cites several media reports from the “best journalists in the country” who understand what he intended to achieve with his action.
Wildhage had previously mocked the DFB team in early June 2024 and had already gotten into trouble: A YouTuber mocks the DFB team, lawyer sees 3 possible offenses in the action
