Kevin Jackson
What is a prank? Is it going up to a random stranger and stepping on their shoes? Is it going up to a stranger and farting on them? Or is it walking up to random females and groping them?
What is a prank? Is it going up to a random stranger and stepping on their shoes? Is it going up to a stranger and farting on them? Or is it walking up to random females and groping them?
If you think like me and many others in our society, then these are not pranks they are just assaults being masked by the “pranksters”
saying it was a prank and all for jokes. Over the past few years we’ve seen the
culture and climate of pranks shift from harmless fun to actual assaults.
With the creation of Vine in 2013, we have seen people doing reckless and harmful things to themselves and others because they were “doing it for the vine” in order to get vine famous. There was the smack cam and knockout game trend that hurt many people who were not prepared for the “joke." Now there is a trend of prank videos where the pranksters go into the hood and just do obscene things to people in order to get a reaction.
The majority of the time these pranks do not have any actual purpose or meaning behind them that would point something out about our society in a creative funny way. These pranks just generally end in violence and the sole purpose for the creation of them is to get views or go viral. In some of the pranks there have been near death moments, where the person getting pranked pulls out a weapon trying to defend themselves against the prankster.
Is this really what we want? Someone dying or almost dying for what they consider a joke and the hope of some views on YouTube or WorldStar, probably not.
With the creation of Vine in 2013, we have seen people doing reckless and harmful things to themselves and others because they were “doing it for the vine” in order to get vine famous. There was the smack cam and knockout game trend that hurt many people who were not prepared for the “joke." Now there is a trend of prank videos where the pranksters go into the hood and just do obscene things to people in order to get a reaction.
The majority of the time these pranks do not have any actual purpose or meaning behind them that would point something out about our society in a creative funny way. These pranks just generally end in violence and the sole purpose for the creation of them is to get views or go viral. In some of the pranks there have been near death moments, where the person getting pranked pulls out a weapon trying to defend themselves against the prankster.
Is this really what we want? Someone dying or almost dying for what they consider a joke and the hope of some views on YouTube or WorldStar, probably not.
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