A group of YouTubers are facing major backlash after visiting an ‘uncontacted tribe’ – and introducing them to vaping. The NELK Boys, made up of Kyle Forgeard, Aaron Steinberg and Salim Sirur, travelled to a Pacific island near Fiji to make contact with a tribe, accompanied by adventurer and fellow YouTuber Forrest Galante.
Image Credit: Metro [Backlash to YouTubers who infiltrated indigenous tribe and then introduced them to vaping YouTubers the NELK Boys have come under fire after releasing a video in which they visited an 'uncontacted tribe' and introduced them to vapes. The content creators, made up of Kyle Forgeard, Aaron ?Steiny? Steinberg and Salim Sirur, posted their video titled 'NELK Visits a Dangerous Uncontacted Tribe!' towards the end of December, and have so far racked up more than 4.5 million views. The video features clips of the NELK Boys encountering members of the isolated community as they teamed up with adventurer Forrest Galante, who warned the tribe might view the group as a 'war party'.]
The nearly 40-minute long video, uploaded on Christmas Eve, has racked up about 4.8million views so far. But their decision to interact with the isolated group and share vapes and bourbon with them has sparked a mixed reaction. During the video, the NELK Boys come across the tribe, and Forrest warned they might see their group as a ‘war party’.
Image Credit: Metro [Backlash to YouTubers who infiltrated indigenous tribe and then introduced them to vaping YouTubers the NELK Boys have come under fire after releasing a video in which they visited an 'uncontacted tribe' and introduced them to vapes. The content creators, made up of Kyle Forgeard, Aaron ?Steiny? Steinberg and Salim Sirur, posted their video titled 'NELK Visits a Dangerous Uncontacted Tribe!' towards the end of December, and have so far racked up more than 4.5 million views. The video features clips of the NELK Boys encountering members of the isolated community as they teamed up with adventurer Forrest Galante, who warned the tribe might view the group as a 'war party'.]
They were immediately surrounded by tribe members using bows and arrows, but eventually were given permission to enter the community by the tribe’s chief. They spent some time learning about the tribe’s way of life, going hunting with them and trying some of their food.
Image Credit: Metro [Backlash to YouTubers who infiltrated indigenous tribe and then introduced them to vaping YouTubers the NELK Boys have come under fire after releasing a video in which they visited an 'uncontacted tribe' and introduced them to vapes. The content creators, made up of Kyle Forgeard, Aaron ?Steiny? Steinberg and Salim Sirur, posted their video titled 'NELK Visits a Dangerous Uncontacted Tribe!' towards the end of December, and have so far racked up more than 4.5 million views. The video features clips of the NELK Boys encountering members of the isolated community as they teamed up with adventurer Forrest Galante, who warned the tribe might view the group as a 'war party'.]
In return the NELK Boys handed over a bottle of bourbon for the chief to try, with other members of the tribe also drinking from the bottle. They also gave them packs of cigarettes before commenting ‘watch if they find out about vapes’. At this point, they offered a cherry apple flavoured vape pen to tribe members, who took a puff, with one of the YouTubers commenting: ‘He’s about to get hooked on them.’.
Image Credit: Metro [Backlash to YouTubers who infiltrated indigenous tribe and then introduced them to vaping YouTubers the NELK Boys have come under fire after releasing a video in which they visited an 'uncontacted tribe' and introduced them to vapes. The content creators, made up of Kyle Forgeard, Aaron ?Steiny? Steinberg and Salim Sirur, posted their video titled 'NELK Visits a Dangerous Uncontacted Tribe!' towards the end of December, and have so far racked up more than 4.5 million views. The video features clips of the NELK Boys encountering members of the isolated community as they teamed up with adventurer Forrest Galante, who warned the tribe might view the group as a 'war party'.]
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![[Backlash to YouTubers who infiltrated indigenous tribe and then introduced them to vaping YouTubers the NELK Boys have come under fire after releasing a video in which they visited an 'uncontacted tribe' and introduced them to vapes. The content creators, made up of Kyle Forgeard, Aaron ?Steiny? Steinberg and Salim Sirur, posted their video titled 'NELK Visits a Dangerous Uncontacted Tribe!' towards the end of December, and have so far racked up more than 4.5 million views. The video features clips of the NELK Boys encountering members of the isolated community as they teamed up with adventurer Forrest Galante, who warned the tribe might view the group as a 'war party'.]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_234839256-c40b.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
![[Backlash to YouTubers who infiltrated indigenous tribe and then introduced them to vaping YouTubers the NELK Boys have come under fire after releasing a video in which they visited an 'uncontacted tribe' and introduced them to vapes. The content creators, made up of Kyle Forgeard, Aaron ?Steiny? Steinberg and Salim Sirur, posted their video titled 'NELK Visits a Dangerous Uncontacted Tribe!' towards the end of December, and have so far racked up more than 4.5 million views. The video features clips of the NELK Boys encountering members of the isolated community as they teamed up with adventurer Forrest Galante, who warned the tribe might view the group as a 'war party'.]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_234839266-d69c.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
