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RE: Epic Pranksters Getting Kicked Off YouTube?
I'm not fan of pranks to be honest. Pranks were funny when they are harmless to others but then it got out of control. People staging them like you mentioned but also people kept on pushing the limits to the point where it became toxic. It isn't funny anymore.
I'm happy to see pranks die out on YouTube. If you want an example of a good prank, there is one:
You aren't harassing people and it's funny!
@kenanqhd I think you bring up a good point about pranks. While a lot of stuff falls under the "pranks" category, to me personally there's pranks and social experiments and then there's just trolling and harrassing people, and I agree many people take it too far.
The other thing that turned me off to pranks was how everyone was busted out as using actors. To me the pranks and social experiments are funny to see legitimate reactions sorta like a candid camera type thing but when the reactions are fake and the people are fake its now a skit and not a prank. Maybe some people find it funny still but its not the same thing.
I completely agree however that the concept of pranks has really just turned into fucking with people until you get a reaction
Well it makes you realize as well that probably every show is pretty much fake as well. Like a lot of Candid Camera stuff, Jackass stuff, or even stuff like Tom Green back in the day. It is just so much easier to pay an actor a little bit of money to give an off the wall reaction.
I don't know if you guys remember Scare Tactics. Looking back on that show I feel like the whole thing was staged. It is too much of a liability for someone to go ape shit in a situation and do something to protect themselves.....etc.
Do you remember Chainsy from YOutube pranks? He wasn't around that long and maybe had about a dozen videos or so only but some of his stuff was pretty funny, mean but funny
Yeah I remember those guys. Those little rat bastards. lol. They got big basically from one main video where they smashed milk cartons on the floor of stores and pretended to be hurt. It is pretty funny in some respects and they claim they paid for the milk but who knows.
Off and on again they will upload but the weird thing is even with their huge following they don't seem to really focus on YouTube.
While I have to admit I do find these types of pranks kinda funny, I don't like when people go trash stores and stuff. Some poor minimum wage employee is gonna have to go clean all that shit up, it wastes the stores time and money, etc, etc, etc.
This is a little different but years ago there was a big movement where people would go to drivethroughs, order a bunch of drinks and throw them through the window at drive thru employees.
I was working at Steak and Shake at the time and we had this happen to a couple employees. It sucked because not only are you splashed with soda, you have to either continue working your shift soaked or go home and lose out on money.
Well one day a car full of kids came through, ordered all drinks nothing else and I noticed 2 or 3 of the kids had their phones out. I knew the car and that these kids had done this before. Now Steak and Shake drinks are pretty large size so I took a 4 drink holder of sodas and just threw the whole thing into the car soaking the two kids in the front seat and getting all over everything. The driver immediately started crying, I'm sure that was his moms car and he was gonna be in trouble. I wasn't about to have these little fuckers hit me with 4 large drinks though lol
Yeah, that is a pretty good prank. I do agree with you that the pranks need to be harmless. You can’t punch a grandma in the face and call it a prank.
Some of the pranks certainly can get borderline but I feel like even if it disrupts a class room for 2 minutes it doesn’t actually hurt anyone. Or when NELK pretends to be an employee and says some off the wall thing I don’t feel like it is a big deal but of course Wal-Mart doesnt want people in there pranking customers or building forts in the paper towel sections and staying over night.
The fake pranks where guys were pissing people off in the hood were certainly toxic. Lol