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[โ€“] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I remember the transition of prank channels from pranking each other in more or less controlled settings to "pranking" (harassing) strangers in public. Not saying that pranking each other was the pinnacle of comedy, there are definitely still problems with it, but why do people like watching random unrelated people being accosted at all, let alone enough for the prank channels to catch on and start catering to that crowd?

[โ€“] ericbomb 9 points 1 year ago

I remember those!

Heck, I remember mine craft prank wars with h20delerious. They were all happy to participate, stakes were 0, but the best pranks were creative and over engineered.

Did they over react for content? Yes, of course.

Was it fun seeing creative pranks in totally harmless ways anyway? Yes. Yes it was.