rant · moment 7 of 19
Burka Pranksters Shot and Culture's Addiction to Outrage
from Kump Joins Team 10 · #78
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
2 minHe tells the story of prank YouTubers in burkas getting shot at in Texas, contrasts real versus fake pranks, and expands into how society's outrage over Logan Paul mirrors its broader appetite for car-accident media like TMZ.
- 15:48Prank videos where people chain up bicycles in the hood to see if they get stolen.
- 16:06Those guys in burkas throwing bags on buses to make people think they were ISIS.
- 16:27Improv Everywhere does shitty pranks like the pantsless subway ride where nobody notices or cares.
- 16:59Jake Paul and Team 10 are nobody checks them in any real way.
- 17:10Logan Paul goes into Japanese suicide forest, finds a guy hung from a tree, blurs the face but you see the purple hands.
- 17:35Backlash starts reasonable but within five minutes goes from critique to completely insane.
- 17:50Culture pretends it's not media-driven and click-driven but we love watching car accidents and reading articles about Whitney Houston in the bathtub.
- 18:07Logan Paul's extreme example isn't that different from everything else the culture already does.
Logan PaulJake PaulImprov EverywhereWhitney Houston