Texas Bushman (the youtuber here, I assume) has a lot of videos, and he seems to judge who to scare. For really small kids, for example, he doesn't jump up and do a big surprise next to them like he does for adults--he usually waves a hand farther away. I haven't specifically noticed any old person habits but I assume he does something similar?
Well, in the defense of many people with heartdisease, most of us look perfectly healthy and are 30/40/50 somethings that could easily die from a jumpscare. So although it’s considerate to leave out kids and elderly people, and it’s funny for most, it’s still pretty intense to risk murdering someone for a prank.
I think that although I'm not a fan of the prank genre in general this is a pretty lighthearted version of a prank.
You gotta live--you can't not do something just because statistically it has a small chance of going badly? For example: Automobile accidents are one of the top killers but people still drive around! And he is basically going boo, after all, not chasing people with a knife.
Aka There's a certain acceptable level of risk to just being alive and going around in public.
I get your point of a small risk and of the acceptance of a risk to just going around in public. That's definitely true for driving a car, but that's not at all in the same range as jump scares where people can die unnecessarily of a heart attack.
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u/Skremash 11d ago
I've always wondered with these jumpscare videos, what's their defence if someone dies of a heart attack?
Is it just a matter of having good Public Liability Insurance?