Going against the grain: people don’t steal candy bowls because of poverty. The majority of trick or treaters will live in the same neighborhood and therefore also live in McMansions.
The video is mostly for fun, being derivative of his larger series where he pranks porch pirates with glitter/stink bombs. Porch pirates affect everyone, not just McMansion grillpilled people, it happens in poorer neighborhoods too.
This same guy also has a series where he helped bust a scam call center in India that was duping elderly Americans of their savings. I’m sure there will be Hexbears who say “the Americans deserved it and the Indians needed the money more” but I don’t think scamming working class grandparents is the bleeding edge of revolutionary action.
This same guy also has a series where he helped bust a scam call center in India that was duping elderly Americans of their savings.
Was this the one where he once again deployed stink bombs to choke out an office full of people?
For some reason, all of these videos seem to have a theme. The goal is to make one particular person as miserable as possible, on camera. And the pretext always seems to be “who can I find that I can justify doing this to?”
It’s all just spectacle. And the targets are, incidentally, almost always
for some crazy reason.Like those videos where the youtuber leaves a tethered down bike and waits for someone to steal it and face plant while riding off. They always set them up in low-income neighborhoods.
I won’t argue that it is spectacle. It clearly is for entertainment purposes—basically justice porn without involving the police, excluding the call center case.
I never got the vibe he was specifically targeting minorities or even poor people. I mean yeah if you’re in poverty then you might be more likely to steal, but stealing from other people in your neighborhood (ie same class) makes everyone hate them. You might be onto something with him though, maybe a general NIMBYism, but I think many people can relate to the frustration of having their package stolen, and I struggle to equate that frustration with some sort of class warfare when it impacts everybody who shops online.
The goal is to make one particular person as miserable as possible, on camera
The mantra on Hexbear is that bullying works. People are group shamed in the comments here with the aim of forcing reflection on actions/opinions. It’s fair game as long as the misery is kept in proportion, which IMO is true for a glitter bomb.
The mantra on Hexbear is that bullying works.
We’ve also got a strong “shoplifting is cool” sentiment and a long-standing “crime wave politics is media bullshit” standing view.
The fetishization of porch piracy cuts across both. It fuels the hysteria and paranoia of suburban life. It villainizes poor people, particularly people of color, who always feature prominently in these series - whether they’re indian call center workers or black porch pirates. And the “pranks” grow increasingly vindictive over time - escalating from honking horns to glitter bombs to stink bombs and even on to pepper spray and fireworks in some more extreme examples. There’s no sense of retributive justice or proportional response, its just an escalating game. And in an era of people just firing shotguns through their front doors at strangers, I shouldn’t need to explain why this shit has a corrosive effect on public opinion.
it’s revenge porn not justice the fantasy is of retaliation.
bullying works I disagree with but the concept is more based around social ostrasisation for certain behaviours not just mean pranks
Yeah Mark Rober is a bit of a cringe lib but his content’s fine. He only targets people who are being assholes and the ones who are being mild assholes only get a mild punishment. I mean the video in the OP is just about mild pranks, the kinds of things it would be acceptable to do to trick-or-treaters who hadn’t even been jerks
Saw something that actually pissed me off this Halloween. Walking around, there was this house of teenagers with their light on and a paper sign saying they weren’t handing out candy. Okay, that’s fine. But then their friend’s car keeps speeding up and down the road, where they’re literally just dumping people’s bowls into their bags and bringing it into the house. These teenage assholes were essentially ruining trick or treating in the neighborhood because everybody’s “take 1” bowl was being emptied for this house party where the only thing I heard at the door was “PICKLE RIIIICK”. IDK, I just think it’s a real dick move to purposefully try to steal every open bowl in the neighborhood for a house party of teenagers/adults acting like children. I got pissed when my kids came across 4 empty bowls in a row super early in the night. Like it’s trying to ruin a holiday for kids.
Plus, it’s “trick or treat”. People love a good prank for Halloween. When someone’s hand comes out of a bowl from seemingly nowhere on Halloween, it’s cool special effects.
it’s antisocial behaviour
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They were literally 80’s after school special villains. All but 2 of them wearing something with Pickle Rick on it managed to only be a cherry on top for how straight out of a parody these people were. My kids and I walked around the culdesac to look for candy bowls, only to be met with empty bowls and loud ass "PICKLE RIIIIIIIICK!"s at every house.
Sometimes my life is literally just a bad 4chan copypasta.
Yeah but in poorer neighborhoods you can use that to your advantage, my friend got a free xbox series x from Microsoft by claiming the first one they sent him got stolen off his porch then returning one of them
Nah, stealing amazon packages is almost always a victimless crime. Amazon insures the packages which is why they are doing a psyop to make us care when they lose a small amount of monry
even if I’m not financially impacted, I still care if someone steals my package. I think anyone would. It’s a hassle to get the merchant to rectify the situation, and sometimes that isn’t possible if the item was limited or sold out. That doesn’t even get to situations where someone really needs their package timely, like medication.
Looting from big box stores doesn’t bother me, but it’s not as harmless to take things from regular people’s doorsteps even if they might be made whole after arguing with customer support.
The two aren’t mutually exclusive. Petty theft is bad, but it’s a fraction of wage theft, which is a fraction of the surplus value/rent. This type of media is fucked because it ultimately promotes policies of over-policing and harsher sentences than the more harmful forms of theft.
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lmfao “candy thieves” this reads like a
comments be like “going against the grain” and then get 200 gorillion upvotes proving they were saying what everyone else believed
I’m actually going to go against the grain here and say that all of this guy’s content rubs me the wrong way. I don’t care if they’re bad people or something, it’s just revenge porn and I hate it.
gorillion
fair point, I really should not use that word
I mean it’s pretty easy to come up with a fictitious “-illion” number of your own
I know I’m coming across as a Nazi here
But please believe me, I literally just subconsciously picked it up as a habit to describe large amounts of things, probably after seeing it in a Nazi Star Wars subreddit or something
Then I guess I kind of got emboldened to continue using it after people started using it in Holodomor memes etc
Bad habit
Just don’t put out candy wtf
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There are cat food dispensers that do this
I would simply not buy candy tbh
Also people coming up to your door FUCK that why would you invite that
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seppo brainworms tbh, but have fun ig
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It’s yank brainworms. the idea we need to export or celebrate more america is brainworms. Also inviting children to your door for candy yeah nothing sus about that.
As I said, have fun. Let me not have fun, I guess lmao
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Are you seriously pedojacketing over giving out candy on halloween?
Yankees gonna yank. Bacically every christian country celebrates the 1st november in this or that way, but the halloween is uniquely US thing, way more than even current iteration of consoom christmas, and its spread should be worrying since its only spreads on the wave of US cultural offensive.
Like we even have this in Poland now ffs despite (or rather thanks to) our version of that holiday is probably the most boring and awful of entire world. We should get the LatAm version instead, but the TV drilled the pumpkin shit into heads for good now.
the idea we need to export or celebrate more america
TIL, having fun by dressing up is a uniquely American tradition that nobody else in the world has ever done.
seppo?
abbreviated rhyming slang. seppo = septic tank = yank
aren’t they supposed to knock on the door and ask for candy
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So…creepshotting on families? Including children?
How tf does
say he’s tough on crime with a straight face, he sounds like a potential criminal himself? Worse yet, a criminal who commits crimes for the fun of doing something bad like he’s an overgrown teenager.
Doesn’t this guy stage the vids like this (and he also ran a fundraiser for a sham “autism AwArEnEsS” org too)
his kid is autistic so I really hope not…
I remember back in my college public speaking class there was a woman that did a presentation on autism because her two children were on the spectrum. I remember nothing about her presentation other than her weird side note that using the r-slur is totally fine because she uses it and calls her kids her “little r-slurs.” Always found it kinda weird even when I was a lot younger.
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