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Hi dudes, I'm Brooke, and I hate pranks, especially the way that they're done for social media.

The idea of making somebody the butt of the joke has never sat right with me, and the definition of what is considered a prank now seems to be extremely vague and all -encompassing.

So like, a bookie cushion is a prank, but felony assault can be as well, depending who you ask.

And don't get me wrong, I love a silly little bit and an LOL and a ha ha ha,

this video, rebranded bullying.

Pranks have been around for hundreds of years and even animals play pranks.

Like my dog, Navy Blue, pranks my dumbass every single day.

Sometimes she swears she has to go potty and I take her outside and then she barks at the air instead.

And then she runs back inside waiting for a treat.

Like, "Got your dumbass.

Reward me, please." And I do.

But while joking and teasing are normal and common, pranks can be taken way too far.

Especially these days when a lot of people are willing to do just about anything to go viral.

Is there a door dasher?

I thought so, but I don't think so.

I guess there isn't a door dasher.

Yeah, man.

I can't hear.

No, I didn't seem like it.

Weird.

I guess it was just the wind.

And in that pursuit of virality, some have turned to fucking over or humiliating their loved ones, recording it, and then posting it for the world to see.

And there are levels to this, but I hate all of them.

Now, I've been toying with the idea of making this video since around last November, actually, and that's because I was inspired, derogatory, by a video that was going really viral of a family

the sister -in -law of the person being pranked that posted it and she said, "Convinced my brother's fiance that we're an intense turkey trot family and that we run a full 10k every Thanksgiving,

including matching t -shirts and a special costume just for her." - One, two, three.

two three we're kidding Are you scared?

We're matching shirts!

But most of the internet, myself included, didn't feel like this was a harmless prank.

They had like matching shirts made fully

and have her in like a turkey hat and a tutu

and everything and I feel like this would have been funny

if it was like a little gag in the moment where for like two minutes they go, "Oh yeah, we're doing a turkey trot on Thanksgiving.

We always do." And then after like a minute or so be like, "Just kidding.

You don't have to worry about it."

to convince somebody that they're about to run a 10k on Thanksgiving morning just to make them feel dumb is weird.

And when they do tell her, she looks like she's like in shock.

And if I'm not mistaken, she looks like she starts crying.

And a lot of people online were also wondering if she trained for this, because if she's being told

that she's about to have to keep up in a 10k with her fiance's family and that they do this every year, most people assumed that she would have trained.

That could be totally reaching though, because that is just conjecture from the internet.

But either way, which is just super mean.

It's also just a super fucking corny prank.

No pun intended, you know, like Thanksgiving.

Like, yeah, you got me.

Now we're all up early as fuck on Thanksgiving in running clothes for no reason.

Good one, guys.

Like, what now?

the another thing about pranks to me is

that a lot of the time it's just somebody being really irritating to be irritating

and then calling that a prank have a great day can you hand it to me

it don't work i need you to hit me oh it don't work

always stop playing with me don't play with somebody else i

don't feel like playing with nobody please i don't i'll just

send it up like why are we pestering a customer service

worker she has to deal with the most insufferable people all day

and walmart is surely not paying her as much as they should be as it is

so why make her job harder than it already is i feel like pranks

irritated me.

They said, we just wanted to celebrate Alexia for earning her master's degree.

you like

you aren't celebrating her you're giving her a chore i don't blame her for being like okay

so do i leave like can i go home

because like what is she gonna do just sit there and loudly pop

isn't the end of the world

but it's just annoying like she just finished her master's degree she's probably tired

and i'm sure there are exceptions but co -workers are not your friends

and it's things like this that put that into perspective

but the most heinous part of this entire video is the

absolute ludicrous amount of printed out ai images of this one

guy they really ran this one guy's one picture through chat gpt 14 times i counted

and have it decorating their entire office from the balloons

and the four oceans worth of water used up to make

these i think this office actually needs to be locked up for their environmental crimes

but whatever that's beside the point aside from

that a stupid prank like this is annoying at worst

but it's not a huge deal

but trust me they get worse a lot of these

that i would consider just irritating are couples pranks

which makes me wonder if they're staged for content

but who knows there genuinely are couples who prank each other like this

and i don't want to yuck anybody's yum

but like in this one he says i don't want to

get my hair wet fun for a second regret forever my hair wet please okay babe

what the fuck did you say don't get my hair wet

you absolute girl it's gonna be hard to get through this video

because i'm already pissed off i understand the idea of like

if you're in a pool or the ocean

or whatever there is a chance that you'll get splashed but

if i've told somebody that i'm trying not to get my hair wet

and they dunk me it would genuinely ruin my day like the prank is just you ignoring my wishes Huh?

And also something that has always driven me crazy about this is the idea

that us girls don't want to get our hair wet

because we're just so vain and shallow and we think we'll look ugly.

But that's just not what's happening.

I'm sure there are people out there who avoid getting their hair wet for looks, but for the most part it's because salt water and chlorine are extremely damaging.

Not to mention that now instead of showering quickly after, you're adding in a hair wash day.

I have tape and extensions, so it's super annoying to wash my hair.

I wash it like every three days because I absolutely hate the feeling of having any oil in my hair, but it is good for your hair your hair to not wash it too frequently.

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Anyway, when I'm going swimming or just like going in a jacuzzi or something, if I don't care to get it wet, it's not worth the extra like 45 minutes it's gonna take to wash it and dry it and everything.

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And not to mention in my case, like if I already had it curled, now I have to recurl it.

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It's just so annoying and inconsiderate.

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There's a much larger conversation to be had though about men being extremely inconsiderate of their partners in the - No,

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I don't believe it.

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- Like what's the joke?

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That she's fucking sticky now?

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That's not funny.

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If this happened to me, no joke, I'm going home.

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I'm way too OCPD for that, dude.

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I'm not walking around fucking sticky all day and with

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that drink all in my hair and like messing up my makeup and on my clothes, like, ugh.

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Like it's just so inconsiderate.

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And it also goes back to the weird humiliation from the Thanksgiving prank thing.

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An actual like fun prank is supposed to be something where when you reveal the prank, everybody's laughing together.

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Not just bullying one person for your entertainment.

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But this sticky fucking nightmare reminds me of one of my least favorite prank traditions that there is, which is people smashing someone's face into cake.

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I'm sure we've all seen this a thousand times.

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Like it's somebody's birthday and they finish singing happy birthday, they blow out their in the top of the cake.

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It's stupid, it's gross, and it's a waste of good cake.

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Or you know how when you wanna smash the birthday girl's face into her cake, but you're facing her, so instead you just rip her by her hair into the cake?

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You know, you know when that happens?

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I'm not even joking.

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I think this is legitimately assault.

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And the man getting in there to help?

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Like, dude.

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Also, why even buy a nice expensive cake if you're not going to be able to eat it?

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the fucking clowns.

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The thing about smashing somebody's face into cake is

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that not only is it mean and gross and ruining their hair and makeup, you could also literally take their eye out.

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A lot of cakes have dowels or similar support rods holding them up inside, so you're giving them a fucking Mortal Kombat finisher on their birthday for no fucking reason.

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And you can call me paranoid

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Like guys, this is already bad, but it could have been so much worse.

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Also, why are we laughing still?

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It's not fucking funny.

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She just got hurt.

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This is gonna be me at any event that serves cake from now on.

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Cake isn't the only food that gets wasted in these stupid ass pranks though.

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No sweet is safe, apparently.

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Like in this stupid piece of poopy shit ass video, he says, "Pranking my wife by smashing her ice cream." "Eat it.

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It looks so funny, don't it?" "Deeve !" "She started crying.

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Package has been secured." Oh my fucking god, it's not a prank to just fucking hit people.

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And of course she's fucking crying.

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Her husband just fucking smacked her ice cream out of her hand and got it all over her and wasted it.

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world.

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This genuinely pisses me the fuck off.

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Like literally this whole video is just me rage baiting myself.

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I'm pissed the fuck off.

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Like maybe I'm just the fun police, but this would have pissed me off so fucking bad.

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I would have been seeing red.

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You know, those cartoons where they like make the cartoon like a pressure cooker

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and like the red comes up here and they're like steam comes out of their ears.

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That would have been me if you fucked with my fucking soft serve, dude.

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Oh my God.

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I love soft serve so much.

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I'm literally going to order soft serve after I film this.

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That sounds so good.

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What's even worse is that there's also a whole trend of men eating Like this one he says, finishing my girlfriend's pregnancy craving to see her reaction.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Babe, okay?

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It's not...

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Babe.

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Wait, no. I didn't know it was that small.

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Wait, Delia, wait, no. Don't cry.

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That, I'm sure it's staged.

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It has to be staged.

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If it's not...

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Also, if it is staged, like, what is the fucking point?

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I hate rage bait, it's so stupid, like.

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- Oh!

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- What am I?

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- Why would you do that?

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- I'm sorry, it looks so...

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Why would you do that?

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Again, with the soft serve.

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Is any soft serve safe?

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I'm so fucking pissed off.

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Navy's pissed off too, can you hear her?

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I'm, Navy's sensing my energy from the other room.

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she feels it i genuinely i hate sharing as it is

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so these piss me off

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so bad i'm sure a lot of them are just rage bait

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or like staged or whatever

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but like dude i'm someone who like does not share food

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i don't like sharing food at all i grew up with siblings i don't like to share now

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that i don't have to even as someone who's not pregnant like

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if i was getting my food with as like a bit

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ha ha ha oh my god jump out the window also your girlfriend is pregnant with your child so are you from a baby.

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Literally and my stupid ass pregnant wife.

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But as far as like pranking pregnant women, at least he didn't leave her in the middle of the fucking ocean.

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Like this woman posted, "12 weeks pregnant

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and trying to face my phobia of deep blue sea when I hear the saxophones getting louder." And side note, I was confused what she meant by deep blue sea.

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I thought she meant the movie like with the sharks that just glimpses into how shark -pilled my mind is.

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She's actually talking about like when you go out to open ocean

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or whatever and it's not crystal clear waters like you can't see through so it's you Bye.

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The good news is that she did have a follow -up story time where she confirmed

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that he is in fact her ex now.

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I was with Mates boyfriend at the time.

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I said to him, "Please promise she won't leave me in the sea." No, no, no, I won't leave me.

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I should have known who was gonna because that's just a wind -up person that he is.

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But the idea of leaving someone out in the middle of the fucking ocean in any case

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but especially when you know they're particularly afraid of that

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and just mustered up the courage to face their fears is so fucking cruel.

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And then I heard the engine start was underwater

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and I thought no. She said that to this day when she goes out on a boat on vacation or whatever, that she won't jump in the water again.

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Because this was her one time trying to face her fear and he fucking drove the boat away from her.

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I just hate the theme of pranks that are just giving people anxiety for no reason, even if it's just for a minute.

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Now back to me.

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Like in this TikTok that I'm gonna show you, she makes her mother -in -law think that her son just lost his job as an April fool's joke.

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Um, have you spoken to Tom?

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No, why?

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He got fired.

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Why? Because he...

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They all breath -out tested them. On Monday?

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and He still had alcohol in his system.

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from the weekend.

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- And they fired him.

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- Yeah, and they fired him.

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Yeah, so he doesn't-- Yeah, because he's the only one that had alcohol in his system.

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What's in my book in there?

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Thank you.

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I know, so now he doesn't have a job.

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Oh my god.

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Oh no What's the date today?

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Five, six, two.

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- 'Cause I'm like, you dickhead.

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- You dickhead.

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- I'm so sorry.

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Like yeah, April Fools dude, you got her.

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She believed that her son was unemployed for a second and got really stressed.

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Like, huh?

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Good one.

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I fucking hate April Fools in general too because it's like just

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because the first day of April you have to fuck with me?

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"Please don't fuck with me." But speaking of fucking with me, do you guys fuck with me?

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'Cause if you do, I would really appreciate it if you subscribed.

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We have actually all been working together to beat MrBeast's subscriber count as it's due exclusively to misogyny

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that he has more subscribers than I do.

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So please subscribe for feminism.

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#SharksBiteBeasts.

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Thank you.

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There was a prank trend that went really viral a while back where parents were cracking eggs on their kids' foreheads.

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- And I crack one egg.

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- Yes boy.

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- Hey!

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Stop.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Thank you.

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One, two, three Those are very nice.

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That wasn't very nice.

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- Thank you to you.

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Okay.

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Like why are we hitting our kids?

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It's just so fucking sad and mean.

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Like I'm sure you've gone out of your way to teach your child

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that they're not supposed to hit other people

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and then you hit them in the face and they're supposed to like understand the difference there.

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It's just cruel.

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Like it's just so fucking mean.

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Obviously I blur kids faces on my channel.

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I'm not showing kids, but like

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so many of them literally just like lose all of the like happiness immediately

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that they were having from cooking with their parents.

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Like so many of them were very clearly excited to help in the kitchen

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and then they just got hit in the fucking face with a super hard object

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and then got laughed at by the person who's supposed to keep them safe.

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I know it isn't supposed to be that deep but it is that deep.

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Some of these kids are so little too and

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when I say there were like thousands and thousands of videos of parents doing this I am not exaggerating.

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It is insane.

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I've also seen a lot of accounts on social media where they do pranks on the general public and it's just harassment.

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"Spraying people with water prank." What the fuck?!

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like just so fucking annoying dude and also what

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if one of the women down there was one of the mermaids from the hit show h2o just add water

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and now she has to go jump in the ocean before she transforms in front of everybody

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because you got water on her but you didn't think of

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that though did you no you didn't think at all or there's this guy who said my favorite night activity

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Thank you.

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you Not

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to be a fucking narc, and this whole video may be just me being the fun police, but that's assault.

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Throwing liquid on a person is assault.

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You can't just do that.

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This looks Bill, fucking stop.

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Oh my God.

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And there's this one where he says, throwing water balloons at strangers.

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That's just so fucking annoying.

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It's also like nighttime in the last one too.

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Like, why are we throwing things at people in general?

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Just leave people alone.

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The general public did not consent to be in your stupid fucking prank.

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I'm gonna genuinely lose my sanity if I watch any more of these fucking videos, dude.

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They genuinely rage bait me so bad.

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I don't know why you guys forced me to do this.

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me to do this topic.

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You guys, that was really mean.

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But there are pranks that I do like though.

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I genuinely enjoy like harmless pranks that are just stupid.

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Like this one the butt of the joke, nobody's day is ruined, nobody's humiliated, and most importantly, nobody's sticky.

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All right guys, I'm gonna call it right there.

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For more videos, check out my second channel, Brooksharks Bites, where I post beauty and lifestyle content.

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A lot of you guys comment asking if I have a makeup or hair tutorial, and I do on my second channel.

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I also always put whatever lip I'm wearing in the description of these videos for those of you that are curious.

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You can also follow me on Instagram and TikTok, and you can join my Patreon.

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I post some extras over there, and I also have a Patreon exclusive Discord.

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Don't forget to beat the shit out of the like button and murder the subscribe button.

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crazy, you can crank the bell.

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And I'll see you soon with another video.

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Engaging with the video "Pranks are Just Rebranded Bullying" offers a unique opportunity to enhance your speaking skills. The informal and conversational style of the speaker, Brooke, enables learners to hear authentic language in a relatable context. By practicing shadow speak—where you mimic the speaker's intonation, rhythm, and expressions—you can significantly improve your English pronunciation and conversational skills. Utilizing a shadowing app to follow along can also help reinforce your learning, allowing you to repeat phrases and interact with the content actively.

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“has never sat right with me”: This idiomatic expression is used to indicate discomfort or disagreement with a situation. It teaches learners how to express feelings about specific topics.
“a little gag in the moment”: This phrase illustrates the concept of spontaneous humor. Understanding how to frame jokes in a casual context can be useful for learners wanting to engage in light banter.
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“pranks”: The 'pr' sound can be difficult for non-native speakers. Practice saying it in conjunction with other words like “rebranded” to improve fluency.
“turkey trot”: The ‘t’ sound linked with the word “turkey” and the vowel sound in “trot” may pose challenges. Shadowing this phrase can help solidify your pronunciation of similar sounds.
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Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	is considered · can be taken · was inspired
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	has never sat · have been · have turned
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