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
In every content creation, there is limits to the kind of contents that a creator should practice. Anything that has to do with infringing on people's rights as well as traumatizing people should not be considered as content creation. Some content creators go as far as instigating fights amongst people in the name of creating content or causing violence in the name of creating content. For example, we've got content creators that would prank bikemen and taxi drivers amongst others while those people are running their day-to-day business trying to fend for themselves and make an ends meet. While driving those vehicles, a prankster can just infringe on them and spoil their day with some nonsensical Pranks.
This is where government should also come in to continue to, through the Federal Ministry of Art, Culture and the Creative Economy, role out guidelines to enlighten people on the level to which content creation should be practiced and the type of contents that are allowed within those spaces, especially as far as pranks are concerned.
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.
Before, we used to have comedians who do pranks, but those pranks are considered harmless to those that are used for it. Sometimes it could be staged so that the person who is meant to be pranked would have an idea of what they intend to do, that it doesn't end up causing psychological trauma to them.
But these guys go out there to the street without consent, without permission, to prank people, committing dangerous scenarios. I think advices are meant to be given to them and the government really needs to play their role, not arresting them, but giving them guidelines to the limits they have in pranking others. You can't derive joy, happiness, money and content by traumatizing somebody else.
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