“*Good. F*** him.*” -The Majority of people who have been forced to learn about this man against their will.
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FordMaleEscort3 days ago
+268
Schadenfreude > Justice
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Auravendill3 days ago
+94
Schadenfreude ist die schönste Freude
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JaneksLittleBlackBox3 days ago
+53
"If only there was a word to describe the pleasure I'm getting from your shame!"
\- spoken by a German character
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schrankenstein3 days ago
+9
My favorite joke from Community.
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SoftlySpokenPromises3 days ago
+14
At this point I have no idea who they are but seeing one of my own countrymen being a nuisance is no longer shocking.
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drdisney4 days ago
+3627
Not only was he given a 6-month prison sentence, but he will have to register as a sex offender as well.
Most importantly, when he is deported back into the states, he will need to register as a SO as well. When that happens, Interpol will link his name into the International SO database and he will no longer be able to visit most countries ever again.
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James-W-Tate4 days ago
+1330
So now we're stuck with him in the US?
Can we deport him to the moon?
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TParis00ap4 days ago
+624
I hear there is another dude with weird sex shit going on trying to go to Mars rn.
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NeroRomanusAugustus3 days ago
+149
Actually he pivoted to the Moon. Because it is more reasonable timeframe to get there.
Years after joining the choir of those who criticized NASA for having the return to the Moon and creation of infrastructure there as a prerequisite for a Crewed-Mission to Mars.
Even showing public support to the Mars Direct initiative.
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SteveJobsDeadBody3 days ago
+47
He pivoted to the moon because that's "reasonable" enough that he gets to keep grifting people that want to buy shares of Spacex when it goes public. The moon is a TERRIBLE spot for a "jump point" to further into space for MANY reasons that google can tell anyone who wishes to spend 5 seconds asking.
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porcinechoirmaster3 days ago
+13
Of course the moon isn't great. It's a hostile ball of rock. It turns out that bootstrapping space infrastructure is _really hard_ and every option sucks, but if you refuse to invest in partial measures to help you get to a better spot and insist on waiting until you have the best possible option, you're never going to get where you want to go.
The moon offers:
* A shallow gravity well, for easier departures
* A deep enough gravity well to improve human health
* Close proximity to earth for communications, rescue, and resupply
* A large pile of rock to hide from radiation behind
* A large number of research opportunities to help secure funding and advance the human condition
* In-situ resource generation, as we can extract water from hydrates and the shadows in the polar craters and building materials from the ground
And yes, the dust is abrasive and it's awkward to launch from. Nowhere is perfect, but the moon beats the shit out of a nonexistent space station.
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NeroRomanusAugustus3 days ago
+26
I mean as in the tech used for Artemis will be the test for systems used to get to Mars.
If they want to try send stuff from the Moon to Mars, that's not what I was trying to say.
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stonersh4 days ago
+66
The moon doesn't deserve that.
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dandn0ten4 days ago
+48
We should whoop his ass everywhere he goes
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mimaikin-san3 days ago
+30
just like Sun Tzu wrote: when your enemy is making a mistake, let them
this guy is f****** up his own life voluntarily
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lFightForTheUsers3 days ago
+24
"When you see an lolcow like Johnny Somali, whoop his ass as a public service."
- Sun Tzu
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keddren4 days ago
+22
> Can we deport him to the moon?
Might I suggest the sun instead?
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RealisticIncident2614 days ago
+223
Yeah public nuisance really undersells it
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Leif_Henderson3 days ago
+212
It's not even technically correct. The charges that actually got him prison time were the deepfakes he made of a Korean streamer kissing him, which led to her basically getting cancelled. That was by far the most serious charge and the one that got him put on the registry as well.
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AstroBonsai3 days ago
+57
I saw a video talking about the trial and unlike most countries, Korea allows the prosecution to appeal the sentence if they think it is too light, which they might do as they originally requested the sentence to be 5 years.
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snksnksnk3 days ago
+15
Article says 3
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AstroBonsai3 days ago
+9
You’re right, I misremembered from pre-sentencing information I’ve seen before.
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MaddMax923 days ago
+48
And I think someone mentioned it's six months of hard labor too. That definitely has the capacity to change a person.
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wutfacer3 days ago
+138
It's labor, South Korea doesn't do hard labor (eg. breaking rocks) but he could still be doing something like factory work or farming or maintenance or vocational training. Either way, rough punishment for a streamer, being forced to get a j*b
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Buttermilkman3 days ago
+53
According to Legal Mindset on Youtube if he plays up and refuses the work then he goes straight to solitary confinement. I totally see the little shit doing that.
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Vegetable-Board-55473 days ago
+22
Probably a toss up between getting beat up every day and solitary confinement.
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Hrmbee4 days ago
+1877
Some lowlights:
>American livestreamer Johnny Somali, who caused outrage in South Korea by kissing a statue representing World War Two sex slaves, has been sentenced to six months in jail.
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>Seoul authorities charged him for public nuisance in November 2024 after he posted a clip of himself kissing and performing lap dances on the statue while visiting South Korea. He has been barred from leaving the country since then.
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>The 25-year-old, whose real name is Ismael Ramsey Khalid, is known for his provocative content which has led to him being banned from several streaming platforms.
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>He has also been accused of harassing people while travelling in Japan and Israel.
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>On Wednesday a South Korean court convicted Khalid of multiple charges, including for being a public nuisance and distributing sexual deepfakes.
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>"The defendant repeatedly committed crimes against unspecified members of the public to generate profit via YouTube and distributed the content in disregard of Korean law," the court said, according to South Korean media.
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>...
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>Khalid, who has around 5,000 followers on YouTube, had apologised in November 2024 saying he "didn't understand the significance of the statue". But many users expressed scepticism of his sincerity.
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>While investigations were ongoing in South Korea, Khalid had challenged locals to fight him. Several videos on social media show him being punched and chased along the streets.
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>Earlier he had caused a scene on public transportation, vandalised a convenience store, and streamed obscene videos in public.
It's good to see that there's finally some accountability here at least. It remains to be seen though whether this individual will learn anything from this, or whether he will return to his ways after release.
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+524
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Excludos4 days ago
+80
He would probably have more if he didn't keep getting banned from each platform in turn
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chevybow4 days ago
+56
He used to have way more. I’m honestly surprised he’s still around I thought all his accounts got nuked a year or two ago.
His “fans” will donate decent chunks of money for him to do stupid shit in these countries which is probably how he gets by.
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milkonyourmustache4 days ago
+16
They're using his current YouTube accounts subscriber count, he has already been banned from the other major livestreaming platforms. His Wikipedia says his subscriber count was at 20.7 thousand at one point. For livestreaming that's very good, but it also matters how many are concurrent, whether they're paid subscribers, donators. If you had 5,000 regular livestreaming followers that were all subscribed or contributing monthly, you'd very quickly be making half a million a year at minimum
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Wes___Mantooth4 days ago
+277
Lol this clown only has 5,000 subscribers??
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Floggered3 days ago
+124
He's a twitch/kick streamer, not a youtuber. Sounds about right if he isn't even using the platform.
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BeIgnored3 days ago
+83
He's been permanently banned from Twitch for quite some time now. I believe he's also permanently banned from Kick.
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sanctaphrax3 days ago
+114
> permanently banned from Kick
Wow, that's almost impressive.
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seriousbusinesslady3 days ago
+50
is Clavicular banned yet? He almost streamed a snuff film of himself this week ODing on some gas station GHB in a restaurant booth while that one lackey that rocks the hat/toupee combo tried to revive him with Adderall (i hate that i know all of this)
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fogleaf3 days ago
+17
Good thing he doesn't waste his time with alcohol.
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Batmanshatman3 days ago
+16
r/brandnewsentence
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TumblrInGarbage3 days ago
+37
I was about to say that he's probably on Rumble, the far-right streaming platform, but I looked it up and he was banned from there as well, alongside some website that mines crypto in your browser while you watch streams(??).
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BeIgnored3 days ago
+15
Yeah, I honestly couldn't figure out where he streams now so didn't even address that in my comment lol. But you know it's bad when even Rumble doesn't want your ass.
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UltraLNSS3 days ago
+24
He sounds less like an influencer and more like a mentally-ill person who's followed as a lolcow.
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kingmanic3 days ago
+11
Both platforms banned him.
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+727
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Ryoken0D4 days ago
+596
He won’t need to learn, because of the sexual crime conviction, most countries would refuse him at the border and not issue a visa.. he’ll it’ll follow him in the US too cause of how the US treats convictions from SK..
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Tenko-of-Mori4 days ago
+202
wow the justice system does work from time to time
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Beena224 days ago
+166
If you're not rich.....
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[deleted]4 days ago
+70
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drscorp3 days ago
+69
He was calling emergency services and getting arrested for like 50 USD at one point. All the big streamers (also nuisances, don't give them any points) started ignoring him. He's got 0 motion and has been stuck in Korea for the past year to resolve these charges.
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[deleted]3 days ago
+23
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digitalmofo3 days ago
+36
My 12 year old makes videos about plushies going on adventures and has more viewers.
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[deleted]3 days ago
+40
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digitalmofo3 days ago
+9
Really is a good kid.
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bighootay3 days ago
+8
That's funny and adorable, actually
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Germanofthebored3 days ago
+36
Yeah, with only 5000 followers you are not going to get that sweet presidential pardon
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Margoth_Rising3 days ago
+7
The prosecution recommended 3 years. The system kinda worked. 6 months is to light. iirc the max allowed under Korean law for all charges was 12 years.
Should have been 2 year minimum but the judge went easy on him for whatever reason. At least they did go through with making him register as a SO.
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Low_Witness50614 days ago
+46
God I hope you are right. People who are willing to try and intentionally upset others and then insincerely feign remorse deserve to face permanent consequences. Maybe having a punishment that follows him home will take the fun out of being a shithead for a while. Either way at least prison will be a shit time for him.
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OutlyingPlasma3 days ago
+7
> intentionally upset others and then insincerely feign remorse deserve to face permanent consequences.
I'd be all for this. And I would start with people that drive around with no muffler on their car. They are doing it to intentionally upset others.
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R_V_Z4 days ago
+26
Don't worry, the US elects sex-offenders to the presidency.
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whk19924 days ago
+39
Try N. Korea.
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violentsushi4 days ago
+48
He showed absolutely no remorse. He was an absolute sociopath and naked admitted to being offensive for clout in his videos with such nonchalance. He is an absolute embarrassment of a human being but I hope he can make better decisions in the future.
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RickyalldayTD3 days ago
+22
Him getting beaten up by SK dudes was great, he fucked around with the wrong people and found out.
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violentsushi3 days ago
+17
Especially because he called Koreans weak and said he wasn't scared. There's some pretty interesting videos of a forced apology he did in Japan with who I am fairly sure are Yakuza adjacent individuals. It seems the man was born with a mutant ability to not learn lessons even the hard way. Won't Learn Lessons Man: The Worst Avenger.
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Adam_Ohh4 days ago
+62
Spoiler alert: he will not learn anything, and be right back to his garbage as soon as he is able.
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bulbusmaximus4 days ago
+23
He might end up learning some Korean prison lingo.
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Previous-Height42373 days ago
+10
The sex crime conviction means he cannot enter many countries now
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Adam_Ohh3 days ago
+7
Good.
I’m sure the people of the world want to deal with him about as much as the people of South Korea wanted to.
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JerkfaceMcDouche4 days ago
+28
I don’t understand (based on the article text you’ve quoted) what this guys content actually is. Who would watch that?
And just 5000 followers? That seems rly low to get any sort of monetization from videos
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cpMetis3 days ago
+34
It's basically paying them to be a clown, but with hate and violence. He'd put himself in obviously primed locations then let people "donate" (pay) him to do heinous shit to/around people on camera. It's violence via proxy, and the people paying can do it without ever getting in trouble.
The crowd is always small, but lucrative because it includes plenty of sociopaths that will pay plenty of money to see fucked up shit.
He wasn't a YouTuber, mostly. He was a live streamer. But they sued that number probably because he's been permabanned from the big streaming services for this stuff.
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SonOfMcGee3 days ago
+10
Merely saying he’s “known for provocative content” in the article feels like the author either is being way too polite or just can’t wrap their head around the actual depravity of his and his audience’s motivations.
I’m a bit out of touch with Zoomer trends myself, but based on what I’ve read I think it’s completely accurate to describe him as a “Public Nuisance Streamer”. He isn’t a “provocative artist” or a “prankster” whose work has been declared a public nuisance. His actual goal is to commit textbook public nuisance and other crimes because that’s what his audience wants to see.
I think my fellow elder millennials have a tough time even discussing this because we grew up with things like Tom Green and Jackass, which pushed the limits of public displays of poor taste in order to perform their brand of comedy. There was no doubt they were creative, but there was debate on if it was worth offending the public with their shocking behavior.
This new generation of public streamers don’t even try to wrap what they’re doing in the veneer of artistry. They’re just filming themselves making people angry because that’s the point.
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Nanto_de_fourrure3 days ago
+6
Mind you, with Jackass while the boys were wild, there was an actual TV crew and producers with them. They got permits, the businesses in the pranks were in on it, etc. Shocking, but harmless (excluding themselves obviously).
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SonOfMcGee3 days ago
+11
There were certainly members of the public that weren’t aware of their gags until after they were surprised.
But I believe they all had to sign waivers at some point for their faces to be used on the finished show.
So even if you saw someone look really grossed out by their antics, they were ultimately okay with it if their face was visible on aired material.
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Saidagive4 days ago
+21
Wasn't this an Orville episode?
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explosivecrate3 days ago
+8
I'd vote for him to get his brain zapped.
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chownee4 days ago
+35
He can’t be making money at this with only 5000 followers. Is he just an asshat for no reason?
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Mispeled_Divel4 days ago
+48
The way he really made money wasn’t even on YouTube, he was on twitch before he got banned, then he was on kik, I think he got banned from there to at some point. The money from livestreaming on those platforms where people payed money to have loud disruptive messages play over loud speakers (I think there was a preset list that included several slurs) or make suggestions for offensive actions he could take.
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bros4024 days ago
+31
How do you get banned from f****** Kik?
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Mispeled_Divel4 days ago
+19
Apparently by getting famous for being an international menace
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chrisshaffer4 days ago
+11
He doesn't make his money from YouTube; he makes it from livestreaming on apps like Kick and Rumble. But he's gotten banned from almost every platform by now.
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Steve_didit4 days ago
+25
I don’t think he is capable of learning from it. Not that he chooses not to but he might lack the capacity.
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xChoke1x4 days ago
+448
“I’ll never see a day in jail in South Korea.”
That….was false.
Enjoy that labor camp my dude. With all the other South Korean criminals that know how you treated their country.
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pokeybit3 days ago
+61
I think them goofy teeth won't last long
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sorestgore3 days ago
+6
It's always r*** in the first comment.
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Scalar_Mikeman4 days ago
+3925
Good. Give him 5 years and then deport him and ban him from ever entering Korea again
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English_Charles4 days ago
+1775
He got six months of prison with hard labour and an additional twenty days of detention.
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saihuang4 days ago
+807
He got very lucky
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Blarg01174 days ago
+586
He's not going to be able to make it 6 months without committing another crime, even while in prison.
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amateur_mistake4 days ago
+637
There was also a period of time when various Korean folks were tracking where he was so they could show up and punch him in the face. I don't imagine the people in prison will be much kinder to him.
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Draknath4 days ago
+125
I think that was Japan. But considering his behavior, I wouldn't be shocked if same thing happened in Korea prior to this moment.
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BlackoTaco4 days ago
+358
His behaviour in Japan led to Korean streamers putting bounties on him basically as soon as he arrived in Korea.
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itsprobablytrue4 days ago
+164
He was an idiot before the trial. He was an idiot during the trail committing more crimes and threatening the judge. He will be an idiot in prison and after he gets out
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Ghaelmash3 days ago
+19
Then why only 6 months and not maybe 2-3 years?
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itsprobablytrue3 days ago
+46
My only guess is they want to punish him but also get him out of the country ASAP
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DecipherXCI4 days ago
+208
Not sure about Japan but definitely happened in Korea.
A former Korean navy SEAL guy[tracked him down and smacked him](https://youtu.be/qA22wH5JTQE?si=6agUOtgsdyxOfQAq) Public then crowd funded the guys fines 😂
Was also a bunch of other guys that chased him around a [few times as well trying to fight him.](https://youtu.be/UKfVbq4KiAk?si=4SuED5JeRRmzLDLB)
Edit: added some vids
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InfinityTuna3 days ago
+43
He got cornered and made to prostrate himself on the floor apologizing for his behavior live to his viewers by actual Yakuza, while he was in Japan.
A bunch of Japanese livestreamers also tracked him down to scold him for his behavior, but I don't think that got physical either.
Can't remember if it was Japan or Korea, but someone knocked his ass unconscious live on stream. Could be a thing, which happened both places.
I generally think he got his ass beat more in Israel and Korea. The Japanese just wanted him to f*** off, because he was mostly just being a public nuisance, whereas the South Koreans were out for blood, after he defiled those memorials to the "comfort women" of WW2.
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underpants-gnome3 days ago
+12
What the hell is this guy? I hate giving attention to attention seeking dolts, but I honestly can't wrap my head around this dimwit's motivation. Everything I've read so far sounds like he is suffering from a grab bag of severe mental illnesses.
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InfinityTuna3 days ago
+18
His motivation, put simply is "money and clout." He's an untreated personality disorder with legs, who I genuinely believe views the world like some kind of game, where if he says the right words and bow his head just so, he'll always get away with being a racist, misogynistic, overall repugnant, bottomfeeding, LOLcow troll in the end. So far, he hasn't been proven wrong, though South Korea has certainly done more to make a dent in his delusional worldview than anywhere else.
Still, I don't think there's anything, which will get through to Ramsey. 6 months isn't nearly long enough to break a guy this totally high on his own supply back to objective reality. Dude's a lost cause and will likely still be trying to grift for attention until he gets locked up properly or shot dead. He's ruined his chances of ever finding steady employment, so that's all he's got left now.
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mscomies3 days ago
+21
Koreans were calling him a real life loot goblin. Guy was like Jack Doherty except without the self-preservation to hire a bodyguard to hide behind.
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Miami_Mice20873 days ago
+8
Found this one: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psoTtP6OLN4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psoTtP6OLN4)
A Japanese channel in English that talks about the Yakuza, reviews the dipshit's crimes in Japan and how the Yakuza caught up with him.
It also makes the point that Yakuza are in the jail he's being sent to. And they are all networked and consider him punchable, if not worse.
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Trmj_lego723 days ago
+24
It was Korea
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xv_boney3 days ago
+21
I can confirm it was korea. Or at least, *also* korea.
I work from home and Atozy is one of the youtubers i keep on repeat in the background.
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Dutchmondo4 days ago
+45
Let’s hope.
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InvadrZimm4 days ago
+21
That's the spirit!
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LastClassForever3 days ago
+5
He bout to get served some Korean Bulgogi in prison.
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HatefulDan4 days ago
+76
Oh I don’t know. It could be longer-true. But 6 mos of prison with labor won’t be kind.
But he’ll be out here streaming afterwards. Capitalizing on his experiences.
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JOHNNYB2K154 days ago
+79
It CAN be longer. In Korea, the prosecution has the option to appeal for a longer punishment. Six months is the start as of now.
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Ryoken0D4 days ago
+68
Also this man has not once missed an opportunity to dig his hole deeper.. something tells me he won’t be a model prisoner.
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Ginger_Anarchy3 days ago
+19
He was still lives treating during his trial and talking shit about the judge, the prosecution , and Koreans in general. I'd say it was him trying to intentionally stack the deck against himself as some weird legal strategy, but I don't think he has the mental capability to think more than 5 seconds ahead at a time.
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Talmaska3 days ago
+10
If he lives. Koreans hate this c***.
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HatefulDan3 days ago
+5
Well, this is also what I meant by”won’t be kind”. Without American intervention he’s going to get busted up pretty badly in there.
Edit: to say that he is still part of the Man ‘o’Sphere. Which means that he could find a sympathetic ear within America’s current administration. Who might reach out—-through Back channels—to ensure that he comes to no harm.
But he is also brown, so.
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xxKEYEDxx4 days ago
+3
Yeah, but how many countries will deny him entry now that he's got a criminal record?
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ScruffsMcGuff3 days ago
+5
Most, since he'll be a registered sex offender.
Pretty much any country with a extradition agreement with Korea is going to stop him from entering their country.
He'll do his time, get sent back to the States, and pretty much be there the rest of his life.
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xv_boney3 days ago
+163
He didnt.
Its difficult to overstate the degree to which the korean people f****** hate this man. There were message boards to track his movements and associated bounties for punching him in the face, which happened several times.
And now he is in a korean speaking prison without a translator (he speaks no korean), a reputation for being a weaselly prick with a big mouth **who cannot back it up in any way** and well documented problems with authority.
That part is important. He shit talks like a champion mma fighter with the body of a malnourished child. And now he is in prison, doing hard labor, with actual for real dangerous men.
Also, and we shouldnt bury the lede on this, hes a brown skinned man who is literally in prison for insulting Korea, a country that is, and i mean this, **very very racist.**
There is a non zero chance he does not survive six months.
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asuka_is_my_co-pilot3 days ago
+25
He literally threatened the judge, he got sooooo lucky
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2Scarhand3 days ago
+25
He's alive. And received a sentence of 6 months instead of the decades we were hoping for.
He's *astoundingly* lucky so far.
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sesh_gremlins4 days ago
+77
And put on the sex offender register.
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ExpiredExasperation4 days ago
+11
Is he a sex pest on top of everything else??
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stircrazyathome4 days ago
+74
He’s on the registry because one of the charges he was found guilty of was creating and distributing sexual deepfakes of local Korean streamers, obviously without their consent.
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Gumbarkules3 days ago
+42
He also played sex sounds in public around children.
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Laringar3 days ago
+16
I feel like that one is more the issue. The deepfake stuff is stupid already, but playing p**** soundtracks in a children's theme park is so far beyond that. In terms of "level of offense", I feel like it's right up there with playing pocket pool next to a playground. He earned his spot on the registry.
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UserCheckNamesOut4 days ago
+13
Well, hang on now. The prosecutor is still able to appeal for more time added to the sentence. It ain't over yet
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Daren_I4 days ago
+177
> then deport him
Somewhere other than the US, please.
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Rex_Vagene4 days ago
+130
Well, he does go by “Johnny Somali, so Somalia is looking pretty good right now.
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kingmanic3 days ago
+42
Allegedly he chose the name because he hates Somalians. Hoping that his antics slander that group. He's Ethiopian-american.
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E-M50214 days ago
+26
He’s Ethiopian funnily enough
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BeIgnored3 days ago
+18
Yup, Ethiopian family and American citizen. He's called Somali people monkeys in the past.
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Orion141594 days ago
+15
Meet in the middle (Pacific Garbage Patch)
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Daren_I4 days ago
+8
That's a fitting place for much of his content.
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Ritaredditonce4 days ago
+24
He should also be banned from Japan.
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Mokmo4 days ago
+13
Pretty sure he got kicked out of there before all this happened in Korea
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Smileboy674 days ago
+30
He loves NK so much send him there.
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KimJongFunk4 days ago
+654
When he started doing this, my mom (an elderly Korean woman) got harassed by some punk kids in her neighborhood who were copying him and who thought it was funny. She cried when she saw what he did to that statue.
He deserves every minute of that hard labor sentence and I’d give him even more if it were up to me.
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SaveFileCorrupt4 days ago
+178
Jfc. Hope your mom is doing OK, bro.
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KimJongFunk3 days ago
+160
She’s a tough old lady and can handle the kids (kids will always do dumb things), but the statue was too far. My grandmother died without ever receiving an apology for what happened to her and that trauma spans generations.
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GermanShephrdMom3 days ago
+10
Damn. Hugs from a Canadian lady.
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Zardotab3 days ago
+15
Live-stream his rock-breaking "job" and give the ad proceeds to his victims.
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MisterMarsupial3 days ago
+10
If the prosecutors appeal the sentence (6 months is way too low in my opinion) email Legal Mindset on youtube and have your mother write a letter explaining how it upset she was, if you think it won't upset her more. He can forward to to his 'Somali Conviction Team' to pass onto the prosecutors.
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Royal-Illustrator7474 days ago
+390
I think jailing rage-bait “influencers” is an excellent idea. They also jailed their ex president for attempting a coup. We could learn a thing or two about accountability from Korea. Also, bibimbap.
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CKBear4 days ago
+90
To be fair they jail all their ex presidents
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HauntedCemetery4 days ago
+42
SK and Illinois could start a club.
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crazypyro233 days ago
+9
I still wish they'd repurposed those "Sponsored by Rod R Blagojevich" signs over the highway and put them in his prison wing.
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DjProfessorOak4 days ago
+199
This little shit. Please stop making dumb people famous.
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Namika4 days ago
+64
Article says he has only 5000 subscribers
So he's not even famous, he's just an a******.
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TheGlassHammer4 days ago
+42
Another comment mentions he at one point had over 20k followers. His accounts keep getting nuked. I never heard of him until now.
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Bugbread3 days ago
+26
He's not primarily a YouTuber, though. That's like judging the reach of an actor based on the sales of their rock band side project.
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Absurdist024 days ago
+51
He messed with a statue for comfort women in south Korea? That topic still causes diplomatic problems. What a dumbass.
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Painbow_High_And_Bi4 days ago
+30
He's getting off light. This guy is public nuisance by anyone's definition. Literally goes around f****** with people just for attention. He should have 10 years, he's not gonna learn shit with 6 months.
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OsosHormigueros4 days ago
+62
> On Wednesday a South Korean court convicted Khalid of multiple charges, including for being a public nuisance and distributing sexual deepfakes.
He was making illegal p*** too...?
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Street-Swordfish17514 days ago
+65
It was using a deep fake to make it look like he was making out with a real life Asian influencer. I don't think he created it, but he did share it and spread the fake clips so that gave him a 5 year sex offender listing. Which, good.
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Ocelotocelotl4 days ago
+40
South Korea classifies kissing as a sexual act, and he created a series of deepfakes of himself and a Korean streamer named Bong Bong.
More critically, he'll have to register as a sex offender when he returns to the US, so this is going to follow him around. As a convicted sex offender he's also going to struggle to get into a lot of other countries, so unless he tries to go somewhere insane like Cambodia, there might not be much else out there for him.
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wtfElvis4 days ago
+9
First time I heard they were sexual. They did mention deepfakes were taken very seriously there. I think that’s where most of his time came from.
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pyrhus6263 days ago
+4
More than most countries South Korea has been struggling with deepfakes thing so yeah they take it a lot more seriously.
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Odd-Argument23974 days ago
+44
Great! People don’t realize how much freedom they have to be an a****** in the US. Other countries don’t play that shit
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Confident_Hunter75064 days ago
+23
The fact this guy has fans tells you how fucked society is
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ierghaeilh3 days ago
+7
Fans is a stretch, most people were following him to watch Koreans kick his shit in.
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Huh_well_we_are_dead4 days ago
+20
1. This has been ongoing for months
2. Good riddance. There needed to be proper consequences for this
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Bubbly_Engineering884 days ago
+16
You had the privilege to travel and this how you f*** it up
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WaterOk60554 days ago
+16
They should send him through the DMZ and tell him to go livestream in the north.
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kosmokramr4 days ago
+16
I did love all the videos of koreans kicking his ass while trying these stunts
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NetZeroSun4 days ago
+11
Hopefully this will be the last we hear of this garbage of a human being.
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nicane3 days ago
+10
Yay. Can we start jailing the rest of these stupid social media "influencer" ass wipers?
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Honeycove914 days ago
+83
America needs to take a lesson from these guys
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Walmartian_Beta4 days ago
+56
Oh I know - I was working retail at the height of whatever TikTok trend was sending teens into the stores to destroy things.
Someone dumped a few gallon jugs of laundry detergent in the aisle, and then slid through it. Another person took a baseball bat from the sports section and busted a tv screen before throwing money at the associate in electronics. Another time, they took fart spray and sprayed it all over the candy vending machines in the front entryway. They also sprayed the disability carts with it. I can't even tell you the number of times the bathrooms got destroyed.
The police were basically useless; most of the kids were from wealthy families.
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whyacouch3 days ago
+10
the police were useless? what a surprise
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GamingWithBilly4 days ago
+17
Mace. Mace does wonders as a detterant.
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ThreeMarlets4 days ago
+29
I mean here in the US a concealed carry owner shot a nuisance streamer who was harassing him live on stream and the jury found him not guilty.
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Ohuigin4 days ago
+111
America re-elected a convicted felon and child rapist who tried to overthrow the government.
We don’t learn lessons here. We find Facebook groups that tell us “we’ve been right about everything the whole time.”
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quequotion4 days ago
+10
Good.
Enjoy the hard labor.
May your entire genre of content disappear with you.
This could only be better if he were locked up in *North* Korea.
Edit: *six months*? I was really hoping for something better, but at least he gets to enjoy an unairconditioned, overcrowded cell for the summer.
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Angelcstay4 days ago
+8
Good riddance to bad garbage
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Swordf1sh_3 days ago
+9
I’m so tired of content creators/influencers.
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Biologyboii3 days ago
+10
Public nuisance is the definition of most youtubers
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Sergovan4 days ago
+9
"American livestreamer Johnny Somali, who caused outrage in South Korea by kissing a statue representing World War Two sex slaves, has been sentenced to six months in jail.
Seoul authorities charged him for public nuisance in November 2024 after he posted a clip of himself kissing and performing lap dances on the statue while visiting South Korea. He has been barred from leaving the country since then.
Khalid, who has around 5,000 followers on YouTube, had apologised in November 2024 saying he "didn't understand the significance of the statue".
Is it weird that there is an Orville episode of this scenario?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ8rNFOXHQM
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No-Screen13693 days ago
+7
Only 6 months is a crime against humanity..
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noonehasthisoneyet3 days ago
+7
finally some uplifting news
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Shadow2934 days ago
+6
Good riddance. Dumbass picked the wrong country to pull his antics with. Japan might be too tolerant to do anything, but South Korea doesn’t f*** around.
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ctauer4 days ago
+8
I wish all countries would enforce this justice. Too many idiots doing this stuff.
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BBDBVAPA3 days ago
+7
I wish America would jail American YouTubers for being a public’s nuisance.
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50calBanana3 days ago
+6
Easy to build a case when you film all your crimes and post it online
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Hellstorm9013 days ago
+8
This guy went to Japan and harassed people there including small business owners and trying to go onto a women only carriage of a train to harass women there on top of deliberately exposing children to sex content
He got arrested, bearing in mind Japanese police have to actually be pushed hard to arrest anyone, and was deported from the country
He then went to Israel and sexually harassed a female soldier then tried to claim his American citizenship meant he could do it when police and IDF detained him
Then he got kicked out of Israel and went to South Korea where he again sexually harassed a prominent South Korean female streamer
The guy is a sexual predator
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2wcp4 days ago
+11
6 months is not enough. come on
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Famoustractordriver4 days ago
+5
Chuck him into the DMZ
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Lisshopops4 days ago
+6
Johnny somali isn’t going to learn from this either he is a genuine addict
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chad0014 days ago
+6
More like "South Korea jails criminal and public nuisance who happens to be a YouTuber"
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JameEagan3 days ago
+7
He only got six months? I was really hoping for at least a year. Hopefully six months is long enough for him to question his life choices.
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1aysays13 days ago
+6
Finally some good news.
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WhiskeyPeter0073 days ago
+7
Good. Should do it to all of them morons that thinks they can just do whatever they want.
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minna_minna3 days ago
+7
Why did our society allow people like this to become “popular” instead of just letting them realize they make stupid “content” and fade
Into obscurity.
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jmaclondon3 days ago
+5
May this be the last i ever have to read/hear about this shitstain. (Not calling for harm to him, just irrelevance so he fades out of memory)
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wanderingpeddlar4 days ago
+17
Good for them, I would suggest Japan learn from their example.
Idiots like this thinking they are immune to local laws would be less of a problem.
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IchirouTakashima3 days ago
+5
This should have happened with Logan Paul, unfortunately, Japan was too lenient. This Somali guy wanted to be the next Logan Paul, and I'm glad it backfired towards him. Korea took it into their own hands.
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SoloMotorcycleRider3 days ago
+5
Who in the f*** is giving that degenerate money?
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Logintheroad3 days ago
+5
Can they arrest and jail Andrew Tate next?
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AnomalyNexus3 days ago
+5
Could we just throw all the harassment-as-entertainment youtubers in jail?
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jeetah3 days ago
+6
We should be paying South Korea to keep him
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JennyWearsBlueJeans3 days ago
+5
“The 25-year-old, whose real name is Ismael Ramsey Khalid, is known for his provocative content which has led to him being banned from several streaming platforms.
He has also been accused of harassing people while travelling in Japan and Israel.”
Honestly it sounds like he deserved it.
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iszcross3 days ago
+4
I would pay to see this lowlife experience a hard labor camp.
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shayKyarbouti3 days ago
+4
Sentence too light. Should’ve added a bit of caning like Singapore does
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birger674 days ago
+29
6 months of his life for a huuuge amount of publicity
to c****, make it 6 years
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GamingWithBilly4 days ago
+11
for his 5k followers on youtube. 5K! That's like a spit in the bucket. I've got 3k on youtube and it never paid me more than $100 every 4 months. The guy is a stupid menace to society, and society slapped back
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