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King Harris Catches Backlash After Offering Unhoused Man $50 To Participate In Controversial ‘One Chip Challenge’

<p>Despite Paqui pulling its &&num;8220&semi;One Chip Challenge&&num;8221&semi; products following the death of a Massachusetts teen&comma; it looks like <strong>King Harris <&sol;strong>— <strong>T&period;I&period; and Tiny<&sol;strong>&&num;8216&semi;s 19-year-old son — got his hands on one of the extra-spicy chips and paid an unhoused man to consume it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h5 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">RELATED&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;paqui-pulls-one-chip-challenge-following-massachusetts-teens-death&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">UPDATE&colon; Paqui Pulls &&num;8216&semi;One Chip Challenge&&num;8217&semi; Products Following Massachusetts Teen&&num;8217&semi;s Death<&sol;a><&sol;h5>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">The Roomies React To King Harris&&num;8217&semi; Video&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Homeless People Aren&&num;8217&semi;t Your Entertainment&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>In a video that was recently shared on social media&comma; King presented a homeless man with one of the infamous chips and promised him &dollar;50 if he could go five minutes consuming it without quenching the burn&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As the man eats the chip&comma; King Harris and other bystanders look on in amazement&period; While he chews&comma; King tells him&comma; <strong><em>&&num;8220&semi;Open your mouth when you swallow it&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Shortly thereafter&comma; the man reaches to open a bottle of water&comma; though King declares&comma; <strong><em>&&num;8220&semi;You can&&num;8217&semi;t drink it yet&comma; though&excl; You gotta wait five minutes&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The unhoused man then groans and jumps up and down as he tries to fight the urge to drink the water&period; Someone off-camera notes&comma; <strong><em>&&num;8220&semi;He crying&excl;&&num;8221&semi; <&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The man eventually has to drink the water&comma; and King declares that he &&num;8220&semi;lost&period;&&num;8221&semi; However&comma; he notes he still &&num;8220&semi;gave him a &dollar;20&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Peep the footage down below&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"Cw&lowbar;GgSuSXMz" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Beneath <strong>The Shade Room<&sol;strong>&&num;8216&semi;s upload about the situation&comma; people tore into King&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One Roomie going by <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;daniellejoliee&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">&commat;daniellejoliee<&sol;a> stated&comma; <strong><em>&&num;8220&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s sad watching this child who had a life of privilege self-destruct&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Another person with the username <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;gifted&lowbar;hustler&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">&commat;gifted&lowbar;hustler<&sol;a> focused on the larger issue by penning&comma; <strong><em>&&num;8220&semi;These folks really starting to piss me off&period; Homeless people aren&&num;8217&semi;t your entertainment&period; Tf&period; Better humble yourselves&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As for <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;liittlebiit&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">&commat;liittlebiit<&sol;a>&comma; she declared&comma; <strong><em>&&num;8220&semi;T&period;I&period; &amp&semi; Tiny need to come get their son&period; Like why would u treat a homeless person like that&quest;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Paqui Pulled The Product After A 14-Year-Old Passed Away<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>In addition to the general outrage over King&&num;8217&semi;s conduct&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s worth noting that this development follows a Massachusetts teen losing his life shortly after participating in the Paqui &&num;8220&semi;One Chip Challenge&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As <strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;14-year-old-massachusetts-teen-passes-away-shortly-after-partaking-in-viral-one-chip-challenge&sol;&quest;&lowbar;gl&equals;1&ast;b5uqb0&ast;&lowbar;up&ast;MQ&period;&period;&ast;&lowbar;ga&ast;NzkwMDMyMzY5LjE2OTQ0NDM5ODg&period;&ast;&lowbar;ga&lowbar;V2HX8YP3XL&ast;MTY5NDQ0Mzk4Ny4xLjEuMTY5NDQ0Mzk5NS4wLjAuMA&period;&period;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">The Shade Room<&sol;a> <&sol;strong>reported&comma; <strong>Harris Wolobah<&sol;strong> ate one of the Paqui products at his high school&comma; and the school nurse later sent him home after fainting&period; Later that same day&comma; Wolobah passed away&comma; though his exact cause of death hasn&&num;8217&semi;t been determined&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the wake of the tragedy&comma; Paqui was hit with backlash&comma; and the brand eventually decided to pull the products from shelves while noting that it &&num;8220&semi;continues to adhere to safety standards&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"Cw6AOulyBoY" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It&&num;8217&semi;s also worth noting that Chicago-bred rapper <strong>Lil Reese <&sol;strong>recently landed in some similar backlash after recording a video of himself laughing as a bystander poured water on an unhoused man&comma; as <strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;lil-reese-apologizes-video-laughing-homeless-man&sol;&quest;&lowbar;gl&equals;1&ast;cqqrpd&ast;&lowbar;ga&ast;NzI3MTA1NDEyLjE2OTQ0Mzc3OTM&period;&ast;&lowbar;up&ast;MQ&period;&period;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">The Shade Room<&sol;a> <&sol;strong>reported&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He later issued an <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;reel&sol;Cw6k5HvL90I&sol;&quest;utm&lowbar;source&equals;ig&lowbar;web&lowbar;copy&lowbar;link" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">apology<&sol;a> and pledged to do better before sharing a video of himself providing various homeless people with money&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"Cw9DSzfLUxZ" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h5 style&equals;"text-align&colon; 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