Dumping boiling water on someone is a prank? I guess blowing down the twin towers was an elaborate practical joke then.
Putting cold water on a girl could be a prank. Except if the target is a feral black girl, who would consider herself “disrespected”, which in ghetto culture is grounds for killing.
There are youtube videos trying to promote various dangerous things as pranks and the purveyors consider it victory if someone “falls” for it.
Same vein as the people trying to prank SJWs into doing things by saying it is virtue signalling, like the pee on yourself to be in solidarity with rape victims.