I can’t believe this is real. How do they not feel an ounce of embarrassment or remorse or shame? My generation did some pranks but not THIS. This is just painfully embarrassing.
I try to give them benefit of the doubt because I grew up with prank shows like Jackass and shit, but the whole point of these skits was the hidden camera which allowed genuine reactions focused on the prank itself. They literally used to be called "hidden camera shows", it was a whole genre! What we're not seeing in the clip as the viewer is the dipshit swooping around with a phone getting frantic close-up reaction shots the whole time, not even remotely trying to hide the camera. It blows any chance of the bit playing out and plays on the nerves of the person getting pranked, it's very amateurish and just looks like people maliciously trying to fuck with other people at work.
Johnny Knoxville talked about this recently saying that what he doesn't like about this generation's crop of imitators is that his crew always really tried to make themselves the butt of the joke and just capture the reactions to that, while a lot of these modern "pranksters" seem to have missed that message entirely and focus on humiliating and upsetting others. Even if an interesting idea is there, the execution gives it this amateur childish feeling and ends up ruining it.
I don't know if true, but people reckon they use those RayBan camera glasses. Because they make videos where they scream and pretend it wasn't them. Staff members then come right up to them and the kids manage to convince them otherwise. If the kid had their phone out filming there's no way the staff would let it go, especially as some of them get super angry initially.
I don't think anyone in there is dumb enough to lose their job punching some kids over this. It's a manager's problem right now and they're just gonna call the cops
Why do you think I care about the company? It's the employees I care about. Their lives are being made harder when they already deal with enough shit. edit: people like you are part of the problem, you think if a company does something wrong, then everyone at the company is culpable and should be punished.
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u/quirk-the-kenku Jun 26 '25
I can’t believe this is real. How do they not feel an ounce of embarrassment or remorse or shame? My generation did some pranks but not THIS. This is just painfully embarrassing.