pretending

“There are so many people pretending to be Native, so I do think people who are claiming it, who are building their careers on it, should have to prove it.”

The only work you will do in a tux is pretending to laugh at a fellow partygoer’s bad jokes.

The Fresno impersonators’ social media stunt comes two weeks after apparent YouTube pranksters pulled off a fake raid of their own at San Francisco City Hall by pretending to be Department of Government Efficiency workers.

"There have been people pretending to be relatives of the deceased, it's hard to tell them apart when it gets crowded, and it's hard to manage," he said.

By pretending it was all just a game, they could avoid dealing with the fact that they were doing real harm to real people.