Yes, he paid his friends. It's not clear if his friends paid the actors, but presumably they did (or else, they just enjoy spraying glitter all over their car/

Yes, he paid his friends. It's not clear if his friends paid the actors, but presumably they did (or else, they just enjoy spraying glitter all over their car/bed for fun). At the end of the day, the result was that he paid money in exchange for videos of black people pretending to be thieves.