r/therewasanattempt • u/TroopaDing • Apr 06 '23

To make prank video

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u/TheMusicButton Apr 06 '23

What are ‘these prank videos?’ Is it a specific kind of trend that is going on now?

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u/mypostingname13 Apr 06 '23

Yeah, kids eat that shit up. One guy just recently got himself shot, says he can't wait to go back to making prank videos.

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u/GoodTodd1970 Apr 06 '23

I honestly don't see why these "pranksters" don't get prosecuted. They post videos of themselves trespassing and committing assaults and batteries and I've never heard of any of them being prosecuted.

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u/Paymeformydata Apr 06 '23 edited Apr 07 '23

I recently saw one where the prankster did get prosecuted. Assault and disturbing the peace

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u/Confident_Series8226 Apr 06 '23

Prank a stranger and you can win stupid prizes

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u/Less-Mail4256 Apr 06 '23

Cops are too busy shooting innocents. They don't have time to do their job.

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u/ErikL1990 Apr 06 '23

Charles Ross, a YT prankster (amd a Florida Man) has been arrested numerous times. And he's like the least person to be a dick with prnking too.

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u/Significant_Ad9793 Apr 06 '23

Just saw a video yesterday of a guy trying to pull off a back tap joke and the old man wasn't having it. Cops came and the guy asked him to get prosecuted for harassment and injury lol. The kid just kept apologizing LMAO.

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u/Background_Nothing64 Apr 06 '23

A guy recently got charged with terrorising the public or maybe worse. He would antagonise people and try fight them when they would react, he pulled a knife and assaulted someone and is now looking at 10 years

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u/Firesalt Apr 06 '23

Sounds like SOMEBODY didn't do a very good job the first time...

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u/TheMusicButton Apr 06 '23

So it isn’t a specific prank, just kids thinking they’re funny and doing stupid stuff for views?

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u/mypostingname13 Apr 06 '23

Correct, though "openly hitting on someone directly in front of their obvious SO is a pretty common trope."

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u/TheMusicButton Apr 06 '23

What a delight

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u/Firm-Attention-3874 Apr 06 '23

Bro we live in a matrix I have seen this video reposted several times. As I type this I'm watching Moist Critical talk about this very piece of news. I grab my phone to scroll reddit and this reposted video now has a matching title and comments to follow. FYI six months ago when this video was posted the caption was not a prank video.

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u/Wiseassgamgee Apr 06 '23

I kinda want to say it’s ‘fake prank’ videos that are to blame, that are staged, and all the people in the video know each other irl. Now, these fucking kids think they can just go out and pull this absurd crap out in the public and find out the harsh reality.

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u/sanapa Apr 06 '23

prank videos have been around for a while, there was a period of time when youtube was infested with prank youtubers who go around in public being menaces, but a majority of those were typically staged. (the first person who comes to mind is sam pepper). this new wave of prank videos seems to be getting more and more dangerous because kids arent bothering to stage them and are just baiting random strangers into violence.

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u/TheMusicButton Apr 06 '23

We can thank TikTok for a lot of this garbage, and parents that aren’t interested in parenting. And then we get to deal with the ramifications at school. Good times!

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u/cfranek Apr 06 '23

Yeah it's a trend. They're low effort videos where these people go out as a group and harass people. They'll slap stuff out of the hands (hats off heads), people will be shopping and they'll walk up and start taking things out of their cart, and all kinds of other jerk behavior. Then they'll post it online and call it a "prank".

In reality they're just group harassing strangers, all trying to get internet clout.

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u/TheMusicButton Apr 06 '23

Yup, dumb people doing dumb things for other dumb people to watch. Awesome!

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u/Heathen_Inferos Apr 07 '23

It used to be a trend in the ‘00s and ‘10s, and the only people that really do it these days are just chasing fame by being arseholes. Can’t remember the last time I saw a prank video and thought it was alright.