Two influencers ordered off Bali after fake mask video prank
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The pair had shown remorse and apologised through Lin's Instagram video.
A U.S.-based YouTuber and a Russian influencer were ordered off Indonesia's resort island of Bali on Friday after recording themselves defying mandatory mask-wearing with some imaginative makeup. Clips of the video created by Josh Paler Lin and Leia Se and posted two weeks ago show the two duping supermarket guards with a painted surgical mask after they were refused entry because Se was unmasked. “Did you notice like no one's actually looking at you?” Lin exclaimed. “I can't believe it worked!” he said in the video that appears to have been taken down from his social media accounts but has since been reposted elsewhere.
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