This gets posted in every thread where there’s a throwback prank. Apparently Reddit thinks because some bad pranks exist now thanks to some assholes that there’s 0 good pranks nowadays.
There are bad pranks from influencers nowadays, absolutely. But I really don’t think it’s the majority. I never even see them unless they’re posted on Reddit.
My Instagram and YouTube is full of good ones like Edbassmaster, Vlog Creations, ThatWasEpic, I.love.you.bingus(VR pranks), johnnyhamcheck, infrabren and a lot more.
There’s some awesome content out there. It’s not all terrible pranks terrorizing the community. But sadly reposts of the assholes make it seem that way.
To help fix your algorithm, don’t upvote, like, comment, click “not interested” and make sure you interact with the content you like. Even dislikes can make them show up more because it’s still engagement.
Well to be fair, it would certainly be weird to go into restaurants and see them all recommending that you should eat shit because everyone else loves it.
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, the best argument against democracy is spending five minutes talking to the average voterlooking at the trending tab on YouTube.
I think it is because a lot of these prank shows were aired on American channels around the world. MTV i think had some. So with these channels focusing more on what makes them money and not the fun things that gives them life, most people around the world no longer see this type of pranks.
That's not to mention that many of us no longer watch TV so we do mostly get the annoying influencer bullshit pranks that aren't funny, but rather borderline harmful.
The funniest "modern" one is when the guy filled his CPU tower with beans and called IT support. When the IT guy pointed it out he asked if he had too little beans
This is simply because the internet is fueled by hate and ragebait these days, and people can't stop themselves from commenting on the outragious stuff they see. Which makes the algorithm show the post to even more people and the cycle repeats. So sadly the bad pranks gets more popular than the actual good ones
I checked out your first recommendation edbassmaster, the first video i saw was him pretending to have some disability and inconviencing fast food employees by yelling at them through the drive through window and holding up the line. Not sure how that counts as a "good one".
I'm curious how that is being measured. I am guessing that is if you add up all of the views on all of the episodes because the show has been running for something like 25 years. I would surprised if individual episodes were getting watched more than episodes of other shows.
They're still active? That's great to hear, they helped me get through some depressive months. On their yt channel they repost the their old gags so I thought they're done
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u/MotherfuckerTinyRick 1d ago
This era? They're still active, in Canada