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YouTube 'Pranksters' get their come-uppance :-)

Genuine question - this pranking seems worse to me (more mean spirited, misogynist and plain old dangerous to the public) than You've Been Framed, Punk'd etc - but isn't it just an update of that format / sort of humour in a way?
(i'm still cackling at the ones being banged up and rightly so though)

More of an escalation. Although 'you've been framed' isn't a prank show. There was game for a laugh, satirised by NTNON...

 
Those 'ghetto pranks' are just racist bear baiting.

Youtube would be wise to pull funding for 'prank' videos before it bites them.
 
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Proper pranksters set the whole thing up so it looks good and no bystanders really get hurt.

Then fuckwits come along and try the same thing for reals:facepalm: and try to use its a prank as a defence.
The art theft thing might have been funny if set up properly pity the judge didn't have a reaction video :D. Getting jail for you tubing must be pretty low down the criminal tree.
Tempted to send the twats a smartphone in a cake so they can make "hilarious" in jail videos so get more jail time.
 
That is one of the most depressing things I have ever seen.
Yep, there's so much wrong with it, isn't there.

That people are so desperate for YouTube fame that they resort to rude, racist and dangerous behaviour. That people are so quick to resort to violence. Everything...
 
I made it to the first 'joke' and then bailed. If I walked up to a black man in the street and told him that 'joke' I would expect and deserve a slap. Thats not even remotely in the spirit of a prank, a humerous little trick that hurts no one. Why the fuck would you do that?
 
Yep, there's so much wrong with it, isn't there.

That people are so desperate for YouTube fame that they resort to rude, racist and dangerous behaviour. That people are so quick to resort to violence. Everything...
in many, many cases, i don't think the resulting punch is anything but justified. when someone is grossly racist to your face in a provocative manner, a stern talking to is just not going to do.

but also seeing those knifes/guns coming out, equally as :(

just a horrible video and imo they should be nicked for inciting violence, or somethign.
 
Yep, there's so much wrong with it, isn't there.

That people are so desperate for YouTube fame that they resort to rude, racist and dangerous behaviour. That people are so quick to resort to violence. Everything...

the internet gives everyone a platform. Bottom feeders, included. that's the pay off i guess.
 
I made it to the first 'joke' and then bailed. If I walked up to a black man in the street and told him that 'joke' I would expect and deserve a slap. Thats not even remotely in the spirit of a prank, a humerous little trick that hurts no one. Why the fuck would you do that?
Yes, the 'prankster racist'. Fucking hell.
 
pranking done well



I think with THTV (and good pranking in general) there's an element of the surreal - the prankee is confused, not really insulted or threatened. The art is in setting up a bizarre but borderline believable situation.

These youtube types just seem to doing obvious things that will get an obvious reaction, in a particularly shitty way.
 
I think with THTV (and good pranking in general) there's an element of the surreal - the prankee is confused, not really insulted or threatened. The art is in setting up a bizarre but borderline believable situation.

These youtube types just seem to doing obvious things that will get an obvious reaction, in a particularly shitty way.
Nailed it, v true. It has to have charm and wit, not humiliation and degradation.
 

Nailed it, v true. It has to have charm and wit, not humiliation and degradation.

The escalator one's a bit of a dick move tbh.

ETA: And one of the women in the cinema he made get up (twice) looked like she was quite arthritic or had just had a hip done or something.
 
has this one been posted up yet -
also big up the revolution can be televised crew for the MI6 vid they did (it was a kind of fetish bondage party outside the vauxall gates making fun of the old torture extraordinary rendition thign)
i do wish anti-spy stuff could get beyond the "viral video" protest though , but none of the "post occupy" lot are gonna call an anti-spy demo are they.,...
 
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