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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is this real or a joke? I can't tell.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

The fact that you have to ask says a lot about society /s

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Choose your path.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reminds me of this guy who called a store and convinced the owner to call the police on a random customer girl and give her a strip search

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago

It was a McDonald's, the caller hacked into the security camera feed and called one of the managers (male) pretending to be law enforcement.

There was a movie about it called compliance.

True story. The video was making the rounds on the internet for a while.

[–] GratefullyGodless 8 points 1 day ago

What do people expect from an account named "nutty putty cave updates"?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Reminds me of the guy that promised people money for a study over Skype and them people zapped themselves by putting fingers into outlets. But they were adults not kids.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Personally I don't think it gets dumber than the "Crashing Out" challenge (Film yourself as doing as many crimes as possible in the dumbest ways as possible, and try to get as much cash as possible from the views before you're banned from the platform and arrested)

Seriously, one guy's basically in the South Korean version of Area 51 after trying to see how many countries he could do this in..

[–] FlyingSquid 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If he was American, he could have just stayed home and done a lot of things that are federal crimes, like accidentally blocking a toilet in a national park or threatening a circus.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42201868-how-to-become-a-federal-criminal

This book is so good.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

And my therapist wonders why I'm so god damn paranoid, and yes, he was... He called himself Johnny Somali.

I've seen some of his stunts, guy was a Grade A prick.

He dry humped "Woman of Comfort" statues in South Korea (Statues memorializing women forced into prostitution during wartime)

Continuously pretended to need help in order to take advantage of the kindness of strangers so that he could be "funny" by yelling at them for "being useless"

Got fresh cooked ramen at convince stores and proceeded to throw the noodles at passers-by (This was charged basically the same way as if you punched the Mayor of an American town in the god damn face and recorded it)

Signed off his videos by praising the Chinese Communist Party or talking about how "much better North Korea is" (It's worth noting that China, South Korea, North Korea, and Japan are four places that REALLY don't get along with each other.. and that South Korea has acted as a refuge for citizens of North Korea who manage to escape thanks to a law South Korea has that recognizes citizens of any Korean territory as South Korean citizens, which given the cruelty of North Korea is more than a little based)

Walked around on trains with loud speakers that constantly shouted via Text To Speech "I HAVE A BOMB" and "PRAISE KIM JUNG UN" in Korean repetitiously. All while obnoxiously shouting "SORRY, I DON'T SPEAK KOREAN, DON'T KNOW WHAT IT SAYS, CAN'T GET IT TO STOP!"

Smoked weed, in a country where just having THC in your urine is basically the same level of "Guilty as fuck" as American Cops with body cam on watching you do a line in your meth lab after you just casually waived your 4th Amendment rights and invited them in. (Guess one of the reasons why he's locked up now)

What's worse? He CONTINUED to do this shit even after Youtube banned him, and STILL persisted even when he learned he had warrants out for his arrest. He seemed to think that as long as he apologized and claimed cultural misunderstand, he could do whatever the fuck he wanted. To be fair, this "I'm not evil, I'm just dumb, please have mercy." strategy apparently worked in Japan and he was merely "just asked to leave", so he probably thought all asian countries would be so lentient, but still.... I've never seen someone with such powerful anti-survival traits.

But that doesn't explain why the hell he just continued to do this, even after they confiscated his passport and told him he was barred from leaving the country until after criminal investigation. (He was not officially arrested yet for two reasons.

  1. They intentionally held off on arrest so that he would waste the last of his money instead of getting free room and board on the Korean Taxpayer Dime. (Remember South Korea is a much smaller country than America and fleeing for the border just means going to North Korea aka, a giant prison camp pretending to be a country)

  2. His continued misbehavior even when he knew law enforcement was watching his every move made him the best player on the Prosecution's team)

[–] captainlezbian 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It makes sense they have that law. Both countries claim sole legitimate governance of the Korean peninsula and its population

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

I mean, instead of helping Israel kill children, I'd be down for our tax dollars going to give NK to SK.

Course I'd MUCH, MUCH rather we stop funding Israel's Single Payer so we can have one of our own. (That's not a joke)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This looks hilarious and will have to read. Thanks for sharing! Although, it did sort of ruin my plans for importing a pregnant polar bear.

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 1 day ago

I'm about 3/4 of the way through it and I have to keep putting it down because I often read in the evening after my wife has gone to bed and I'll be laughing too hard.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Why are so many people taking this seriously? Lol

[–] captainlezbian 2 points 20 hours ago

Because of the tiktok crime trend mentioned elsewhere in the thread

[–] Pacattack57 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was thinking the same. I was reading the comments and couldn’t help but feel like half of them think this is real…

[–] Serinus 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It might be. It's hard to tell the difference anymore.

[–] A7thStone 52 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] finitebanjo 6 points 1 day ago

For some reason I can hear it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I believe anything after the tidepods

[–] MutilationWave 10 points 1 day ago

Even the tide pods was like 95% a joke from Gen Z on the olds. Just a few people went through with it for shock value. I saw one guy try to smoke one in a bong, it was hilarious.

[–] jacksilver 9 points 1 day ago

Yeah, that really lowered the bar for society.

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[–] teslasaur 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cause most of this community are posts that are serious. You can't blame people for getting confused when an actual meme shows up.

[–] SLVRDRGN 1 points 1 day ago
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[–] trumpetmouth 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

fyi you probably meant something like ![GIF of man saying "I think I kinda want it"](https://i.giphy.com/C0ABsPgkTbdrG.webp). The exclamation mark makes it so that Lemmy embeds the image instead of just linking to it! Inside the square brackets is the alternative text for when the image can't be loaded or when it is read by a screen reader.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 71 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Love how we've fully monetized kids doing stupid shit for attention. This has been a revenue stream we've left untapped for far too long.

[–] aeronmelon 64 points 2 days ago

Somebody wants to get hired by The Onion.

[–] LovableSidekick 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Add "stabbing yourself in the face" to the ever-growing list of things people didn't use to be so stupid they had to be warned not to do.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's political correctness gone mad.

You can't do anything now. The liberals won't even let you slit your own throat. It's madness.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Nah, it's just a legacy of British colonialism, it's forbidden by the state to harm yourself in UK (half joking, because it really is a crime to harm yourself consensually)

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[–] Klear 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Kids, don't play with too many knives.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

I love how tiktuk is so stupid, people actually believe that this is a TREND, when in reality nobody even knows anyone did this (if its even real, which its probably not) this just reminded me of the "set yourself on fire challenge" which supposedly was VERY trend on tiktak. I asked my friends that use the dumpster and no one knew what I was saying.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Apparently Tiktok has like 2 BILLION(!!) users. As crazy as that is, if even 0.01% of users is doing some dumb crazy thing, thats pptentially 200 000 kids injuring themselves or whatever when they wouldn't otherwise. Its not a trend among the majority of users, but it is a trend that was spread by tiktok.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Give it time and they'll have the "shoot yourself in the face with a 9mm because we believe 9mm are pussy guns" challenge.

And they'll do it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Well, obviously you don't start with 9mm. You start with .17 and work your way up to 22 short then 22lr and so on. If you jump straight to shooting yourself in the face with a 9mm of course you're gonna get hurt.

[–] frostysauce 8 points 1 day ago

Yeah, you gotta build up your immunities.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

yeah if you haven't worked your way up, there's no way you're going to have the callouses for a 9mm

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

This could totally be a thing

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