STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Joey Salads, the 22-year-old YouTube celebrity and Staten Islander behind several viral videos, has apologized for faking his latest "social experiment."

The original video showed three black men in the Park Hill neighborhood, their faces blurred, smashing a car for displaying a Trump poster.

A witness who captured the staged "experiment" on video called Salads out on Twitter.

Hang on for some more Millennial-speak: Fellow prominent YouTubers h3h3 Productions made a response video, further shaming Salads' fakery. Salads later admitted the video was faked and apologized via vlog.

"I just wanted to apologize to everybody for my last video being fake," he said. "There's no excuse for it, I understand that it made the black community look bad and pushed a certain narrative. Which I do apologize for."

Reached by the Advance Thursday night, Salads said he's received death threats for the video, and his family's home address has been made public by critics.

"For a group that doesn't like that I made them look violent, they sure are making themselves look violent on their own," he said.

Salads -- short for Saladino -- rose to fame for his YouTube videos calling attention to social ills in a hidden camera setting. His YouTube channel highlights videos like the one of him dropping his wallet, and then rewarding homeless men who alert him by giving them the money inside his wallet and the shirt off his back.

Another warns women to be extra careful of men trying to roofie their drinks, showing them what could possibly happen when they look away from their drinks.

His most popular videos rack up tens of thousands of views and have earned him a six-figure salary, he told the Advance in 2015. In the article, he said he'd "do anything for publicity."

Though Salads has amassed many fans of his YouTube career, just as many are critical of the assumptions and tones his videos take on. Most recently, he faced criticism for a video which recorded reactions to a man dressed in a thawb and a head scarf running past bystanders yelling "Allah Akbar" throwing a silver case in their direction.

In the video, Salads then tries the same thing, this time dressed in a T-shirt and saying "Praise Jesus." Salads removed the video after he received harsh criticism and death threats, he said.

Salads posted his off-the-cuff apology for the recent Trump video on his YouTube channel on Thursday.

He said he was always planning on going to "these black communities, homeless shelters and orphanages" and donate "thousands of dollars in food and gifts to these people."

Salads said he will never fake a video ever again and will work to win back his followers. The day after his video was exposed, he created a spoof, in which his white friends tear down a Trump lawn sign. In the video, he gets angry, demanding black people be cast. The spoof had 17,000 views as of Thursday night.

"I will come out back on top," he said Thursday. "I am not going anywhere."