However, Zdorovetskiy received several offers from surgeons to do the dental work for free. The fundraising campaign was canceled before it was completed, because of Zdorovetskiy's criminal history. The project also included an attempt to raise money to have Martin's teeth fixed, for which Zdorovetskiy was able to raise about $10,000 online. The video posting resulted in a job offer that Martin accepted. On July 20, 2013, Zdorovetskiy released the video "Extreme Homeless Man Makeover", in which he befriends a homeless man named Martin and provides him with new clothes and a hotel room. At the time of the prank, Zdorovetskiy's YouTube channel had only about 100,000 subscribers, but after the incident his channel grew to over four million subscribers within just over a year. Zdorovetskiy was arrested by Boca Raton police department, facing a maximum of 15 years in prison on charges of threatening to detonate a bomb. After Zdorovetskiy revealed the whole thing to be a prank and that there was a hidden camera nearby, the man started attacking him and his partner and called the police. As part of the prank, Zdorovetskiy approached a Boca Raton Resort man and informed him they had 60 seconds to get away from a briefcase he placed on the ground. On June 16, 2012, Zdorovetskiy and cameraman Jonathan Vanegas filmed the "Russian Hitman Prank". A sequel video prank was produced in Columbus, Ohio. By January 2015, the "Miami Zombie Attack Prank!" had been viewed more than 30 million times. In 2012, Zdorovetskiy received his first significant success, with the video "Miami Zombie Attack Prank!" Inspired by the cannibal attack of a homeless man in Miami in May 2012, he dressed up as a zombie and traveled to some of the poorest neighborhoods in Miami to scare random bystanders. Shortly after turning 18, Zdorovetskiy took part in an adult film scene with pornographic actress Diamond Kitty for the adult entertainment company Bang Bros in 2011. After that, Vitaly picked up a job as a bus boy at a restaurant in Miami, Florida. His second job was a sign-spinner dressed as Uncle Sam making $20 for 3 hours of work. In the video titled "Why I Did Porn!", he tells his audience he got his first job at age 15 as a garbage collector making $5.00 an hour.
Zdorovetskiy attempted to become a professional skateboarder at an early age but quit due to injuries.
He grew up in Boca Raton, Florida and attended Park Vista Community High School. Zdorovetskiy was born in Murmansk in 1992.