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> Others tried to mimic what they did by being more bold, or gross, or edgy There was a while there where it was genuinely upsetting to see some of those peopl

> Others tried to mimic what they did by being more bold, or gross, or edgy There was a while there where it was genuinely upsetting to see some of those people. They really didn't understand the difference between pranking a friend that's opted in to the behavior and random people in public, and what's acceptable as a prank in both instances. I'm sure Jackass had a few misses in this department too, but at least by the time they were famous the public stuff seemed more along the lines that might leave public people that saw it or were unwittingly involved thinking "WTF did I just see" or a story that later they would start with "You wouldn't believe the stupid person I saw today" and if the person realized it was a prank would generally think it was rather funny since it didn't affect them. Contrast that with youtube "pranksters" of the time when they first started being popular physically assaulting people, or stealing things, or tricking someone into thinking they had lucked out and then making them feel the loss of that when it was shown to be fake as well as humiliating them in front of the world. "Haha you thought that $100 bill was real? Psyche! It's fake, you didn't find anything! Hey everybody, look how sad he looks now. Why are you sad, bro? It's a prank, be happy, the whole world is watching!" I remember having to very carefully counsel my young son who kept stumbling on them and watching them on why these people weren't being funny, they were being mean, and this wasn't how people should be treated.

JauntyHatAngle 5y ago
It really is that, most Jackass pranks the joke is the jackass people themselves, with other people's reactions being part of the humour but usually not at their expense. The central source of the humour is the jackass people acting silly or humiliating themselves somehow. CKY had a few bad ones though (throwing a life-sized doll off a motorway in front of cars is a good example of a bad one...) but they seemed to grow out of it.
asiachick 5y ago
Meh, a few were funny when they only pranked each other but * taking a dump in a hardware store was not funny to me or to the people in the store * their antics in Japan were horrible. Snorting wasabi and throwing up might be funny if you do it in your own apartment but it's not funny when you ruin every other diner's night. They even put people in harms way like when they blocked the escalators at train stations. If you ever seen someone get mutilated by an escalator you'd know how irresponsible it was of them to block it. I laughed at some of the jokes on each other but the ones involving innocent bystanders were almost all just horrible.

JauntyHatAngle 5y ago

It really is that, most Jackass pranks the joke is the jackass people themselves, with other people's reactions being part of the humour but usually not at their expense. The central source of the humour is the jackass people acting silly or humiliating themselves somehow. CKY had a few bad ones though (throwing a life-sized doll off a motorway in front of cars is a good example of a bad one...) but they seemed to grow out of it.

asiachick 5y ago

Meh, a few were funny when they only pranked each other but * taking a dump in a hardware store was not funny to me or to the people in the store * their antics in Japan were horrible. Snorting wasabi and throwing up might be funny if you do it in your own apartment but it's not funny when you ruin every other diner's night. They even put people in harms way like when they blocked the escalators at train stations. If you ever seen someone get mutilated by an escalator you'd know how irresponsible it was of them to block it. I laughed at some of the jokes on each other but the ones involving innocent bystanders were almost all just horrible.