Nigerian street pranks and its effect.

[Richbased]

It is very sad how our society is gradually turning into a lawless society. Everyone behaves the way they like in this country, peoples privacy are being intruded and all we do is laugh and call it fun. For crying out loud everyone is entitled to their privacy as you can't just bump into someone's life without their knowledge or approval.

Well, I put the blame on our government because had it been they create an enabling ground for her citizen, some ridiculous acts would have stopped. One major problem that this country has is that nobody wants to create anything on their own again, they prefer following trends anything that is trending thats where everyone focus their energy with the beliefs that what is working for others can as well work for them thereby doing everything possible to gain attention and recognition from people.

Our society has become so porous that what one person is doing that is what others will also want to do without generating new ideas that will profer solution to people's problems.

[DubemIfedigbo001]

me personally have never believed that those pranks are real because I see a lot of acting in the Entertaiment industry. Thie things are often scripted and made to look real. If not, we might have heard of them being shot or even terribly molested cos you cannot keep doing these humiliating things to people and be getting away with it like that. I believe it's all about entertainment and not just real-life activity cos if not, they are really crossing their bounds and it is not entirely safe especially in the Nigeria of today where people are really frustrated.

[Chilwell]

me personally have never believed that those pranks are real because I see a lot of acting in the Entertaiment industry. Thie things are often scripted and made to look real. If not, we might have heard of them being shot or even terribly molested cos you cannot keep doing these humiliating things to people and be getting away with it like that. I believe it's all about entertainment and not just real-life activity cos if not, they are really crossing their bounds and it is not entirely safe especially in the Nigeria of today where people are really frustrated.

It doesn't look real to me, but I dey still comfuse about am, at the beginning I thought it was real the way they are acting it but I started doubting them when dey dey involve actors and actresses of nollywood which I been think am say this one no be real again, because they have to inform them before the to it.

I think this prank is of two types which are real prank and script prank, real prank are normally for the poor people because they can not harm them, in this regard they are not doing justice, people don't care any more they are after themselves, all in the name of popularity dey care about people life, while the script prank are for rich people because they know they can mess with them

[SmartCharpa]

As content creation gains popularity and people start making it big from YouTube/ Facebook monetization, content creators are becoming increasingly desperate and are willing to do any content to gain followers.

Pranking people on the street has become a common order with no consideration of the victim's emotional/psychological state of mind.

While we watch these videos and enjoy the entertainment part of it, some of the people pranked are left emotionally drained, some relationship/ couples trust has broken because they were pranked to check there faithfulness to each other and some people have lost so much useful information from there phone because a popular prankster smatched it on the ground and gives the victim a new one, not considering some important information in the phone that might be lost in the process.

Of course, some of these guys have landed themselves in trouble because they pranked the wrong person but others are yet to learn there lessons.

Entertainment is not bad, as a matter of fact I enjoy watching them alot but when you ridicule or take advantage of the ignorance of others just to create your content, it becomes a problem.

That is the most biggest things that Nigerian content creator have been doing around, they will be pranking anybody they like without being scared of what may happen after it, always think about how they will keep on getting more followers, they can also frank soldiers now, but anybody that prank soldiers no dey ever see am as an easy thing except they watch their skits and they know that you are doing that to make money, they fit use that one take am easy with you, if not na from where u start am you go start chopping beating, dey go beat you to the extent you will not like yourself too. I can't be looking for money and still be risky myself again

If you dey watch this guy skits @iamtrinityguy that guy prank no be for here, the guy just dey prank anybody he likes, young or an old ages no dey bother am, na so the go just dey prank anybody he even got caught by police but couldn't stop because that is where he can make money. But that prank is very risky, a different kind of prank you go see some people they do prank with man private part just that everybody wanted to become a content creator with risky.

[DaNNy001]

Hmm, at least I am not the only one who is on the same opinion about the recent flood of these types of  content, because the rate of content is just too much and the worst part of it is that the victims that are being targeted are no longer considered. A lot of so many marriages and friendships have been destroyed all in the name of creating content. Although I agree that the whole thing is entertainment, at least the negative effect is now becoming alarming. I mean the shock that some of these victims experience during the shooting of this content alone is enough to actually destroy their emotional wellbeing and the so-called content creators are not concerned about it whatsoever.



There was this particular content about a particular girl being exposed to habits that could damage the social life of the girl to the extent of her being seen as an evil and unwanted person if actually what is being portrayed is true and this can lead to her marriage life being damage and still yet there was no consideration to this as the content was still made public to the whole society to actually witness the flaw and error of this particular victim.

[sokani]

Them don dey over do, the pranks on family and couples don dey too much. I sabi say oyibos dey do something like that but na for shows wey dem organise well and with couples approval to reveal whatever.

I watch one wey prank somebody say land wey him buy another person don buy am and carry caterpillar enter begin dey do work there. Omo you need to see real fight for the site, the person wey rebuy am na force officer so him dey brandish gun say him go waste the original buyer wey dem dey prank.

Make dem easy so dat deir money go fit last, let Dem not cut deir joy short.

Most of them no dey consider the mental health of the person wey dem want prank, e get some things wey dem no supposed dey do but dem dey too push am extreme all in the name of hustle. The person wey dem dey prank, dem kno no wether the person get high BP or other health condition, na when dem don kill person and parade don change, na there e go clear for their eyes. E get one prank wey dem dey call missing object prank and the reaction of some of people ah no find am funny ooo, some people fit run enter road and motor fit kill person.

Also, another area wey our content creator dey fail na the area of recording and uploading of personal video without the person consent. I don see some videos wey some people go dey fight content creator because dem post their video online, and the content creator go still post the second video of the fight without taking caution or rethinking their actions. Nigeria na one country wey lawlessness na the other of the day, but if you check this thing, na serious crime for other part of the world and the accused if found guilty go pay monetary fine or fit go jail.

[Spaceman1000$]

As content creation gains popularity and people start making it big from YouTube/ Facebook monetization, content creators are becoming increasingly desperate and are willing to do any content to gain followers.

Pranking people on the street has become a common order with no consideration of the victim's emotional/psychological state of mind.

While we watch these videos and enjoy the entertainment part of it, some of the people pranked are left emotionally drained, some relationship/ couples trust has broken because they were pranked to check there faithfulness to each other and some people have lost so much useful information from there phone because a popular prankster smatched it on the ground and gives the victim a new one, not considering some important information in the phone that might be lost in the process.

Of course, some of these guys have landed themselves in trouble because they pranked the wrong person but others are yet to learn there lessons.

Entertainment is not bad, as a matter of fact I enjoy watching them alot but when you ridicule or take advantage of the ignorance of others just to create your content, it becomes a problem.

Omo the whole content creating of a thing has turned to in epidemic in Nigeria, from eating of food, to swimming in gutters, to nakedness, on social media. This entertainment pattern is becoming irritating nowadays.
The other day, I was just walking into the Spar mall, a guy just approached me with a mic 🎤 that he has a question to ask him, that I should give him five minutes of my time with a camera man beside him, I just look am with my vex mind, i just tell am to commot for my front, when him see my countenance say I no get joy, Baba just give me my way. Everything don turn content for naija.

[Bitcoin-ATH]

As content creation gains popularity and people start making it big from YouTube/ Facebook monetization, content creators are becoming increasingly desperate and are willing to do any content to gain followers.

Pranking people on the street has become a common order with no consideration of the victim's emotional/psychological state of mind.

While we watch these videos and enjoy the entertainment part of it, some of the people pranked are left emotionally drained, some relationship/ couples trust has broken because they were pranked to check there faithfulness to each other and some people have lost so much useful information from there phone because a popular prankster smatched it on the ground and gives the victim a new one, not considering some important information in the phone that might be lost in the process.

Of course, some of these guys have landed themselves in trouble because they pranked the wrong person but others are yet to learn there lessons.

Entertainment is not bad, as a matter of fact I enjoy watching them alot but when you ridicule or take advantage of the ignorance of others just to create your content, it becomes a problem.

Disclosure of one's privacy to the public in the name of entertainment or prank is very wrong and unacceptable. On the other hand, concerning broken marriages, relationships and friendships I think the victims are responsible for their break-ups because they promote these content creators or pranksters by inviting them to prank their partners knowing fully that the pranksters will post the video to the public to gain followers, likes and for the video to be shared which is the primary target of every prankster. What baffles me a lot is that others do not want to learn from these victims rather they would like to be involved in the same issue and the end they will look for whom to blame. These victims should take responsibility for their actions since they want to learn the hard way.

[Belarge]

me personally have never believed that those pranks are real because I see a lot of acting in the Entertaiment industry. Thie things are often scripted and made to look real. If not, we might have heard of them being shot or even terribly molested cos you cannot keep doing these humiliating things to people and be getting away with it like that. I believe it's all about entertainment and not just real-life activity cos if not, they are really crossing their bounds and it is not entirely safe especially in the Nigeria of today where people are really frustrated.

I vouch for the fact that none of the occurrences mentioned on social media are true as well. When one looks closely, it appears to be real, but when one investigates further into the system, they will find that it has previously been assigned and executed by a certain number of people. All of the viral content videos that are released on social media are just intended to be appealing to individuals who want to become famous quickly. The reason I give them credit is that it's not relatively easy to write scripted jokes and transform them into acting for the purpose of entertainment. I've seen many instances where content creators go to tremendous lengths to ensure that they shoot visual interesting content.

[Mr.suevie]

As content creation gains popularity and people start making it big from YouTube/ Facebook monetization, content creators are becoming increasingly desperate and are willing to do any content to gain followers.

Pranking people on the street has become a common order with no consideration of the victim's emotional/psychological state of mind.

While we watch these videos and enjoy the entertainment part of it, some of the people pranked are left emotionally drained, some relationship/ couples trust has broken because they were pranked to check there faithfulness to each other and some people have lost so much useful information from there phone because a popular prankster smatched it on the ground and gives the victim a new one, not considering some important information in the phone that might be lost in the process.

Of course, some of these guys have landed themselves in trouble because they pranked the wrong person but others are yet to learn there lessons.

Entertainment is not bad, as a matter of fact I enjoy watching them alot but when you ridicule or take advantage of the ignorance of others just to create your content, it becomes a problem.

One thing about human beings dem be say so far as the thing dey give dem watin they want, they no really dey concern again about the other person way actually dey involved for the matter because e no dey easy because no be everyone go fit handle the shock wey some of these prank-stars or comedy skit makers  dey put their target through, I mean just imagine how person go dey so naive as to use snake scare person even if na fake e no still comot the fact say the person wey dem prank go still dey for shock and fear and if the person sef na the type wey dey fear well well then maybe other fatalities sef fit dey involved for the matter. This skits dem, although most of them are funny but when e cross or breached the convenience of the  person den the whole thing don turn to another case entirely making it not funny at all.

[Agbamoni]

This thing about street pranks and all that in Nigeria is very risky. I watched a video where a popular prankster pranked a soldier. He took the phone of the soldier and stoned it on the ground. You need to see the reaction of the soldier man he beat the guy before the other solderless came the prankster has collected a lot of slaps. His intention was to give the soldier a new iPhone 14. Yes, the intentions were good nut what if in the process of the prank he fainted or something bad happened to him.



I have the source to the video link you can check it out here - https://youtube.com/shorts/mVoSOsFrNVQ?si=hpWXcSG0avM9Kgm_

[Odohu]

This thing about street pranks and all that in Nigeria is very risky. I watched a video where a popular prankster pranked a soldier. He took the phone of the soldier and stoned it on the ground. You need to see the reaction of the soldier man he beat the guy before the other solderless came the prankster has collected a lot of slaps. His intention was to give the soldier a new iPhone 14. Yes, the intentions were good nut what if in the process of the prank he fainted or something bad happened to him.



I have the source to the video link you can check it out here - https://youtube.com/shorts/mVoSOsFrNVQ?si=hpWXcSG0avM9Kgm_

That serves him right because that prant was joke taken too far. How can you smash someone's phone because you want to give him a bigger phone. He could loose sensitive data that is worth more than the iPhone 14. Most times, the information we have in our phones is more valuable than the phone and it will be painful loosing such information to mere iPhone 14 under prank.

If people are not careful, they might enter into serious problem in the name of creating content. There are better ways of getting good content that will not put anybody at risk.

[Promocodeudo]

Nigerians always take things for granted, just imagine pranking a soldier, don't you think it will be suicidal, it will be so bad for you as a person to
Prank on serious things knowing fully well that this can be dangerous and it can portray a big problem, how will you even prank a soldier knowing that these people are not smiling, Nigerians always takes things for granted, this is not good, some persons see this actions as as a skit, but to me is not, is it that they don't longer write skit before bringing it to the public notice, everyone was ts to be a skit maker, not minding if they can do the work or not, this is just unprofessional, I think there should be regulations on this, in other to prevent this events from happening.

[Philpsticks]

In fact my guy what you just said is the truth there is this guy on TikTok all he does is break peoples phone one of my guy was a victim they broke his phone and gave him a new iPhone this guy has the money to buy phone but just because he likes  Samsung he didn’t get an iPhone the worst part of it he easily forget password and the phone they broke can’t be fix till today that guy is still struggling to retrieve some of his email and small of his file,like you said Entertainment is not bad I also love watching comedy and pranks but the way they do it this days is really turning into something else one of the most painful prank is when they call you to mention the guy or girl that gave you a gift now what if you have a lot of them you call the run girl at that point that relationship is ended.
This prankster really need to be educated on how to run all this stuff.

[Youngkhngdiddy]

Nigerians always take things for granted, just imagine pranking a soldier, don't you think it will be suicidal, it will be so bad for you as a person to
Prank on serious things knowing fully well that this can be dangerous and it can portray a big problem, how will you even prank a soldier knowing that these people are not smiling, Nigerians always takes things for granted, this is not good, some persons see this actions as as a skit, but to me is not, is it that they don't longer write skit before bringing it to the public notice, everyone was ts to be a skit maker, not minding if they can do the work or not, this is just unprofessional, I think there should be regulations on this, in other to prevent this events from happening.

It’s a called a prank for a reason, soldiers are fellow humans like us out that uniform he his just a commoner, they are no god and can be approached at anytime. If they can prank the president of France who then is a common soldier. Some of us just have this fear when we see a man in uniform, that is why even at the point of distress we don’t meet them for assistance. Prankster at times goes extreme in their content. Some of them even lack content all they just want is to post for the gram. If all this was regulated we should be seeing more educational content rather than this rubbish we have circulating the internet.
 People feel is that once day have a good phone the next thing is to to be a content creator. Gone are the days where there use to write scripts for skit. Writing skits down before actually acting usually has this message it send to the viewer, content creators should be more advanced, they can use their creativity to pass information about bitcoin and it’s benefits more of educational content rather than heartbreaks and either kissing or grabbing. Internet is where we ease our tension from the country’s wahala. Content creators should step up their game and do some thing useful for humanity and our country a whole

[Agbamoni]

Nigerians always take things for granted, just imagine pranking a soldier, don't you think it will be suicidal, it will be so bad for you as a person to
Prank on serious things knowing fully well that this can be dangerous and it can portray a big problem, how will you even prank a soldier knowing that these people are not smiling, Nigerians always takes things for granted, this is not good, some persons see this actions as as a skit, but to me is not, is it that they don't longer write skit before bringing it to the public notice, everyone was ts to be a skit maker, not minding if they can do the work or not, this is just unprofessional, I think there should be regulations on this, in other to prevent this events from happening.

It’s a called a prank for a reason, soldiers are fellow humans like us out that uniform he his just a commoner, they are no god and can be approached at anytime. If they can prank the president of France who then is a common soldier. Some of us just have this fear when we see a man in uniform, that is why even at the point of distress we don’t meet them for assistance. Prankster at times goes extreme in their content. Some of them even lack content all they just want is to post for the gram. If all this was regulated we should be seeing more educational content rather than this rubbish we have circulating the internet.
 People feel is that once day have a good phone the next thing is to to be a content creator. Gone are the days where there use to write scripts for skit. Writing skits down before actually acting usually has this message it send to the viewer, content creators should be more advanced, they can use their creativity to pass information about bitcoin and it’s benefits more of educational content rather than heartbreaks and either kissing or grabbing. Internet is where we ease our tension from the country’s wahala. Content creators should step up their game and do some thing useful for humanity and our country a whole

Seems your not getting the point. Apart from being a soldier it is an expensive joke to take someones phone and just smashed the phone on the ground. If you watched the video again. That soldier man might be having an important conversation with his loved one that has to do with health issues or something very important and from no where someone broke the phone. At least there are other way of doing the prank instead of doing it that way.

On the look of that soldiers face he would have dealt with that guy if not for the intervention of the other soldiers who recognized him. This life is lived once it won’t be nice if we risk ourselves to the outcomes of dangerous pranks like that all in the name of fame or clout. Well am not too surprise. There is nothing people don’t do for fame on the trending social media apps. If you go through Tiktok and Instagram you will see a lot.

[Makus]

I have even stopped watching some of these prank video online, because I see no reason why a fellow human being would take a joke so far that it can even give someone an instant increase in high blood pressure which could lead to death, I remember one prank video I watched, it was created by untouchable comedies whereby he scammed a nollywood  actress Destiny Etikok by displacing a dead corpse in her car boot, and someone was pressuring her to report to the police, if you saw her reaction you would observe that they went too far, after that prank she refused to talk to dem as she was angry and never liked prank in the first place, they still went further to prank her by buying a car to make up for the emotional damage they caused, at the end it was all prank. Indeed some prank has lead to the destruction of relationship between couples, fiancee etc.
I don't support risky pranks, so I don't find them entertaining, before a person could recover from such an emotional prank it could take up to a month, and after that I don't think our relationship would be effective any longer because you broke my trust, how am I not sure such person would do a lot more worse than this. Another thing again, some of this content creator if you observe very well are just acting movies, untouchable comedies taught me that. After all the quarrel he got from his boy, the end story was a complete mess, and because of that I stopped watching frank comedies.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

You are very right @op, I actually spend a lot of time on Twitter most of the time, watching some of this pranks, and trust me, in as much as I enjoy watching most of those videos, many a times, I've actually paused and asked myself, how is possible to carry out such a prank on people and get away with it?

Cus I know that, there is the kind of mood I will be in, and if some content creator does any sort of such prank on me, omo, he or she go collect wotowoto from me ooh.

So, this is something we all should really caution this so called content creators about, instead of engaging in pranking people, it's better much safer to do arrangee skits/pranks.

[sotelorene]

Well I won't blame them because everybody is looking for what will give them money while some are looking for popularity because they already have the money. Since it doesn't involve fraud or ritual it's cool after all we Nigerians love entertainment. Most prankster are actually selfish while some are not, those that are not selfish don't cross their limit, they have an extent they can go so that they don't create problem but those ones that are selfish they cross their limit, they go extra miles because they so concerned on the outcome of the prank that is why you see prank go wrong sometimes because they don over do am. Prank is also nice because sometimes it help reveal what some persons truly are/is.

[Gormicsta]

As content creation gains popularity and people start making it big from YouTube/ Facebook monetization, content creators are becoming increasingly desperate and are willing to do any content to gain followers.

Pranking people on the street has become a common order with no consideration of the victim's emotional/psychological state of mind.

While we watch these videos and enjoy the entertainment part of it, some of the people pranked are left emotionally drained, some relationship/ couples trust has broken because they were pranked to check there faithfulness to each other and some people have lost so much useful information from there phone because a popular prankster smatched it on the ground and gives the victim a new one, not considering some important information in the phone that might be lost in the process.

Of course, some of these guys have landed themselves in trouble because they pranked the wrong person but others are yet to learn there lessons.

Entertainment is not bad, as a matter of fact I enjoy watching them alot but when you ridicule or take advantage of the ignorance of others just to create your content, it becomes a problem.

Funny enough I've observed that the rate of these prank contents has drastically reduced due to the side effects and the level of trouble these content creators/pranksters land themselves in.

I witnessed a near death experience of one of these content creators who snatched a lady's purse and attempted to run away, before he could take 5 steps, the angry mob was already all over him, that was the very first day I witnessed real life jungle justice, they so messed this guy up, before his videographer could get through the angry mob, the young man had already been beaten to stupor lol... We could barely hear the young man's faint voice screaming,  na prank o, na prank o, na prank o...

Lol it was funny and pitiful at the same time. Inow, nothing wey no be content again, I thought to myself, what if this whole thing was actually staged and planned by the content creator and he was ready to receive the beating for the money... Nothing wey no fit happen again for this country.