The death of hitchBOT took the internet by storm yesterday with real life human beings getting legitimately upset over the “death” of a robot. Crazy, I know, but that’s the world we live in now. Well there was some surveillance video released of the alleged iMurderer which showed a man in an Eagles Randall Cunningham jersey beating the shit out of hitchBOT because that’s what you do on the hard streets of Philadelphia at 5:45 in the morning. It was just so perfectly Philly. Almost too perfect…

Well now that seems a little weird… I wonder.. if maybe…well let’s just check in on the last person who was seen with hitchBOT to see if he knows anything about this fake surveillance video.

Oh, nope. Definitely couldn’t be this guy. For a moment I thought this was Ed Bassmaster. YouTube prank star with nearly 2 million subscribers, makes pretty regular appearances on 93.3 WMMR and the Howard Stern Show, and a new hoax show on CMT coming out in November. But nope, this is just Philadelphia resident Always Teste. Good thing 6 ABC really has their finger on the pulse of the city…

But credit where credit is due, Ed Bassmaster and his buddy Jesse Wellen duped us all. We should have really seen this coming the moment that we realized Ed Bassmaster was the last guy seen with hitchBOT but I just wanted this story to be true so badly that I was blinded. I really wanted this to just be some scum off the Philly streets putting this stupid little robot out of his misery instead of yet another internet hoax. But I guess this is why we can’t have nice things anymore. Either way, hitchBOT is actually dead and I’m still happy about that. I hate everything that little piece of shit stood for and hated that he was Canadian. So was the hoax all still worth it? Yeah, maybe a little. But it’s still a sad day when a Canadian hitch-hiking robot can’t even be killed without it being some planned publicity stunt to promote a show on CMT.

For people outside of the city who may not be as familiar with Ed Bassmaster, here are some videos. He’s a funny dude so we’ll give him a free pass on this one.

And of course, some Always Teste…