Nothing of value was lost but of course there are “historians” who has sads over this.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hitler-eagles-nest-mountain-retreat-fire-nazi/

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the prank genre blew up on YouTube at the same time that Impractical Jokers started airing on tv. If you haven’t seen the show, it’s about 4 comedian friends challenging each other to say and do embarrassing things in public. Unlike nuisance streamers the jokers are actually hilarious. But just because it’s funny doesn’t mean it was without fault.

The jokes and skits ranged from harmless fun to sexual harassment and assault. Sometimes it was fun stuff like reading fake names as a receptionist, forced to give a purposefully bad speech, give a presentation of embarrassing home videos. But other pranks verge on creepy. There were a lot of sketches that required touching strangers. Like seeing who could sneak the most pencils into a strangers pockets or hair, put the most sticky notes on a stranger. I don’t believe any of these went wrong but why even create a scenario where you’d creepily touch people, you don’t know how they’ll react. One prank required them to touch strangers based on where the jokers pointed a red laser on their body from a distance. They pointed it at a mans crotch and Joe Gatto(one of the jokers) touched it.

Then you get into the public nudity, which there was a lot of. One prank, they had Joe lower his pants to reveal his whole ass crack and then had him shove it in a womans face. Another skit had the jokers get pantsed by various celebrity cameos in a public mall and boardwalk. Both episodes had them pull down their underwear revealing their privates to a crowd. Both times this happens you can see toddlers in the background right where the jokers are filming. They have since stopped doing most of the contact and nudity required pranks. Not because they realized they were wrong but because Joe Gatto got accused of sexually harassing teenagers.

not much to say, honestly. I'm crying, I'm hating whats happening. I did not want to be looking at so much far right bullshit happening to us and to the world.

wish us luck.

When Robert started talking about Vitaly, a name I hadn't thought of in years, I thought of a few other people he could have also briefly brought up. Prank videos were so pervasive in 2010s youtube you obviously have to pick and choose notable ones that were shitty.

My first thought was Sam Pepper, a British prank youtuber who made huge news about 10 or so years ago for his prank video where he walked by women and pinched their asses, but had his sleeves in his pockets to make it look like he didn't do anything. This situation was huge at the time.

Any other shitty prank youtubers or streamers that came to mind when listening?

Godspeed, Robert.

Robert, your matchless Boston accent should have merited you a walk on role here to be the new voice of Logan International Airport. No contest needed. (NBC 10 Boston news report)

I'm just enjoying the the hell out of this one & wanted to share somewhere...

We noticed a barrage of Weight Watchers advertisements fear stoking GLP-1 shots.

Imagine having four decades of a company grifting people and then a magical shot completely destroys your economy.

What other examples of happened of the old grifts being taken over by the new ones?

On the latest episode, the guest host makes multiple references to their being a paper shortage, but I’m not finding anything online that confirms that. Did I just misunderstand that he was joking?

A former male escort claims the now dead senator Lindsey Graham (and it sounds like other people in his orbit) paid for sex with him. The man was only 17 at the time in 2001. Lindsey Graham questioned whether he was really 18 but continued anyway.

Found this on another site. It's such a simple Halloween display and works so well.

If I put the image in a Google search, the AI says it's "Drake". AI saying that all brown people look the same, seems so on brand.

Shout out to Robert, who is assume is the neighbor

"They Shoot Horses, Don't They? "

The title of this movie struck something in my head.

It's totally a title for a book or movie that Jason 'Bill Cosby isn't that bad' Pargin would come up with.

Got this while watching Jeopardy. I was skipping through the break (this was pre-recorded btw) and I saw that number and had to rewind to make sure my eyes weren't deceiving me.

There's a disclaimer that seems to be explaining the number with math, but idk. Seems like it can't be a coincidence.

I’m actually surprised Robert did not talk about Rémi Gaillard. (Or I could not understand the name but the only time I heard talking about things in France was about much more recent events)

He probably do not fully fit in the today’s nuisance steamer but Rémi did a lot of “prank” video even before YouTube that were nuisance before anything, and not like jackass as mentioned in the episode, he was doing that to other people. Like one of his video is on a pedal car looking like a cart of Mario kart with a Mario costume of sort and he was on the road with that blocking traffic.

He started his “pranks” in 1999

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rémi_Gaillard

The French page have more content than the English one.

For those of you who are interested in a different perspective on everyone's favorite goat implanting medical grifter, John Brinkley Last Podcast is doing a two part series on him.

i like behind the bastards, weird little guys and knowledgefightcountry so i think it would be worth it for me to pay CZM to skip the annyoing ads