Suren Bharadwaj
Have you seen the Just for Laughs show? That is not fake. And it is at a totally different level.
Not all prank videos are fake. Not sure what you have been watching, so I can't say more on that. Anyway, several of the videos are possibly made with a view to gain a number of hits so that the process can be monetized. Read the guide on the same. Then you will understand that the video doesn't have to be genuine. It just needs a specific number of hits to make the owner's day. I have heard that the thumbnail given for the video, the tags, and so on also don't have to be correct. They are gimmicks to make people watch the video, or at least open it once.
David Frigault
Since I know I have been asked to perform in such videos, as have other people in my life, I know they are not real. In fact, early everybody that takes part in this video was asked off the streets and the person agreed to do it for fun or simply to be nice. The people making such channels also tend to cut off those who do not act out their scenes well enough.
As for the “humiliating” video part — only people who are that insecure of themselves will actually consider it a big deal. Odds are that nobody who sees you on one of these videos is going to recognise you in real life, anyway. And even if they do, they are almost certainly going to know it is staged, unless we are talking about younger children who do not yet understand the difference between reality and fiction.
Veronica Horton
Well the person who is exposed to the prank is firstly, well, they’re being pranked. The psychological experience of, say, a fear-inducing prank, is real to the pranked. Secondly, the video then probably goes online, likely without consent, and then the person’s experience gets to be seen by not just the person who pranked them, but by some unknown other number of strangers. This might make the person have some form of fame for a period of time.
Lastly, if the same person is being ‘pranked’ continually, the pranks have entered the level of harassment.
Pranks or practical jokes are OK with close friends with whom you have deemed it OK to do that sort of thing. Generally, this only happens when there’s a back-and-forth of the pranking. Despite the prank itself being non-consensual, there is a general recognition of consensus from the person who is going to be pranked because they are a close friend and you know them well enough such that they enjoy this sort of thrill.
Some pranks go terribly wrong and are not pranks but horrible acts of bullying or aggression that cause serious damage to a person. Sometimes these videos get portrayed as harmless pranks but are actually horrific acts of abuse. Some people will pull the ‘this is a prank’ for an act of abuse and expect to not get caught for acting abusively.
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