Rather than his actual pet, the influencer said he had used a sack of potatoes in the clip to mimic the dog, according to US Magazine.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to create entertainment. And that\u2019s what I\u2019ve been doing for you for one week, but I did it really in the worst way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Schreiner had built a career making content featuring his pets, gaining a whopping 8.5 million followers on TikTok.<\/p>\n
He blamed the pressure to make \u201centertaining\u201d videos for the questionable caper, pointing to his declining satisfaction with content creation.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn recent years, what I was doing on social media pleased me less and less. I was enjoying it less. I was making videos almost automatically\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n
He also alluded to struggles in his personal life but said he would not elaborate further online.<\/p>\n
According to PEOPLE, the star went on to claim the videos had ultimately had the opposite effect than intended, causing him to lose money and potential partnerships.<\/p>\n
\u201cCreating all of this cost me a lot of money and brought in almost nothing. Social media doesn\u2019t pay like it used to.\u201d<\/p>\n
Schreiner claimed he will be donating the revenue generated from the prank videos to animal welfare charities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rather than his actual pet, the influencer said he had used a sack of potatoes in the clip…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[16489,74,52687,1558,17756,9539,125551,58204,157155,9213,156,69677,69674,2082,679,11775,64800,8235,20925,111,139,69,1642,45604,52039,102,6730],"class_list":["post-280549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-admits","tag-after","tag-apologise","tag-been","tag-boredom","tag-content","tag-creation","tag-cure","tag-dogkidnapping","tag-dogs","tag-entertainment","tag-faked","tag-faking","tag-for","tag-forced","tag-french","tag-hoped","tag-influencer","tag-kidnapping","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-online","tag-prank","tag-stunt","tag-with","tag-would"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}