I was implying he should be shot in the balls which would result in the honorary award.

Those shows however are not malicious in nature. These YouTubers are going up to strangers and actively trying to ruin their day for internet points.

Prank shows like Candid Camera and Punk'd have been around long before YouTube, but the TV shows let the victim in on the joke afterwards. I don't watch the YouTube pranks, so I don't know if they do that. 

If you look at old school prank shows - the way to do these and get people to laugh with you at the end is to make *yourself* the joke - that is set the people up to see the bad thing happen to you - and get their reaction - then let them in on the joke.

Or a bit lower and to the left.  At least get a honorary mention Darwin Award out of it if you’re not in the mood for murder.

This is why I showed up

To add on the Impractical Jokers part, they also got a whole behind the scenes crew, and would also assume they got signs saying “filming for Impractical Jokers in progress”. I remember for one prank, I think it involved ice cream. The “special pop-up” version mentioned that for one person, they walked away with the…

Out of all the annoying things on social media prank videos are absolutely among the most annoying. Most of the time they’re just meanspirited and that kind of kills my ability to laugh at them. Instead it just makes me wish horrible things on the prankster.

Posting is his “passion,” he told the news station, so he’s intent to return to YouTube.

The article mentions that Best Buy specifically does have a script for catching scams on customers.

When you go to file taxes here in Australia, the tax filing web app has a big disclaimer: “The Australian Taxation Office will never ask you to pay taxes in Apple Gift Cards or any other form of gift card”.

Not everyone has the cognitive capacity that you do.

It’s called having fucking empathy.

I see how lowering the limit would help with that, but how does changing the format from a card to a receipt do anything?  Isn’t it still just a number they’re giving the scammer?

During my lovely time at gamestop, i only can recall one instance like this. A nice lady came into the store and asked for 1000 in Steam cards, because her grandson was in Africa and “the country is so poor that gift cards are their real currency”. Myself and my boss managed to convince her otherwise, but its always…

And? What does that have to do with this article? Good for you. Neat.

And?

It’s why twitter *had* verified marks. Now scammers buy bluechecks.

It’s wild that Gamestop doesn’t allow its employees to “pry”. When I was working at best buy if someone rolled in wanting to buy a bunch of steam or roblox gift cards, we were trained to ask what they were for and went on from there. Never did us asking that "offend" a customer and we caught a bunch of in progress…

It’s why several social media sites have “verified” or something similar for Celebrities to show they’re the real deal and not a scammer/parody account