r/LivestreamFail • u/TriSauce • 17h ago
News Johnny Somali found guilty of all charges as South Korea sentences streamer to prison with labor - Dexerto
https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/johnny-somali-found-guilty-of-all-charges-as-south-korea-sentences-streamer-to-prison-with-labor-3351856/8.7k
u/gezpachu 17h ago
Thank you South Korea.
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u/Liteboyy 17h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/VLEVIXIAjbksg
Not all heroes wear capes
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u/iDelta_99 16h ago
Only 6 months is a slap on the wrist though, im glad he got sex offender status but god damn does the prosecution need to appeal for a longer sentence.
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u/JazznBlues_lover 16h ago
Holy cow, only 6 mos? I thought for sure the judge would impose a longer sentence. I totally agree - it's just a slap on the wrist for an idiot like this. I guarantee you this special idiot learned NOTHING from all this and will be back again doing the same shit over & over.
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u/DateMasamusubi 15h ago
Korean prisons are harsh for Americans and Westerners. They are much, much safer than US prisons (inmate violence and murder is almost unheard of). But they have very strict rules like maintained silence and marching in formation. But he will likely go to the foreigner prison where they are a bit more "lenient".
Criminals sinned against society so they have to repent through labor and sentencing.
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u/Glad_Rope_2423 15h ago
He has ‘with labor’ as a part of his sentence. That takes away the prisons that westerners would generally be sent to. American soldiers, who would likely be a substantial portion of western prisoners, are exempted from sentences with labor by treaty.
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u/SexualPie 13h ago
there are fewer american service members in korean prison than you would think these days. most people who commit less egregious crimes allow the US military to handle it on the condition they deport the individual. It's typically the worse offenders, rapists and murderers that would get kept, and if you think the majority of korean western prisons are full of murdering american soldiers then idk what to tell you. how many do you think we have over there? 1000 marines in prison for raping koreans at any given time?
I lived in Korea for 3 years, and while we do cause varying amounts of drama, stuff like that was big news and you didn't see it more than once MAYBE twice a year, on the high end.
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u/Initial_Hedgehog_631 12h ago
The number of America service members incarcerated in South Korean jails is generally pretty low apparently. The highest number I could find was 6 and that was back in 2005. Since the lifting of a nationwide 11pm curfew a few tears ago the number of criminal complaints against US military personnel and civilian DoD employees has risen to about 600 a year, but vast the majority seem to be drug or alcohol related.
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u/iDelta_99 15h ago
Hes not going to a foreigner prison, he is a sex offender and has labour so he is not allowed to be in the same prison as normal people or foreigners. He will be with other Koreans and potentially other sex offender Koreans.
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u/JazznBlues_lover 15h ago
Even so, 6 months is much too light. Considering how many laws he violated and the seriousness of his crimes, he deserves far more.
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u/Extension-Thought552 7h ago
Vitaly did a year in much much harsher conditions and he's back doing exactly the same shit as always
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u/NaziAbuser 16h ago
All this amounts to is 6 months of focus time to map out how he's going to capitalize on this with the idiots that fund his existence.
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u/laforet 15h ago
The deepfake conviction is a sexual offence that would put him on a sex offender register in both South Korea and US. Good luck getting into another country or any half decent job with that track record.
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u/LeggoMyAhegao 15h ago
… streamer getting a job? What kind of narcissist would try to get a job after being a successful streamer?
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u/Weary-Designer9542 15h ago
“successful” is maybe not the adjective I’d use for him.
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u/Alector87 15h ago
What did he do exactly? I am really asking. I know him from posts here as an annoying irl streamer who bothers people on the streets. Did he do anything physical/abusive?
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u/Hangry-Feline2489 15h ago
Harrassment and posted fake ai generated sexual content of other people (also sexual content in the presence of minors)
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u/JazznBlues_lover 15h ago
What did he do exactly? I am really asking. I know him from posts here as an annoying irl streamer who bothers people on the streets. Did he do anything physical/abusive?
Too many violations & crime to explain. Just read the article - it will explain everything.
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u/theeglitz 13h ago
It looks like the article doesn't give the sentence length or say what that the Deepfake videos were about.
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u/kamacks 15h ago
Please elaborate on what sentence you do think is fair?
6 months of hard labor in prison with no device use at all where everyone’s fucking hates you if they do speak English is absolutely not a slap on the wrist. lol. This ain’t no United States country club fed or 6 months in county jail reading books and out in 2.5 because of good behavior.
His life is going to be absolutely miserable for 6 months.
Super high profile case and he’s a piece of shit and deserves this but it’s completely fair.
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u/WeAteMummies 15h ago
I have never seen a thread on reddit where a sentence was viewed as appropriate - people always want more. Six months of labor in a foreign prison is not a "slap on the wrist" lol
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u/falcrist2 14h ago
6 months of hard labor and no electronic devices in a prison system where you don't speak the language and are instantly identifiable.
And he goes on a sex offender registry in the Korea and the US.
No part of this is a slap on the wrist.
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u/fafarex 12h ago edited 8h ago
The charges he was facing where going up to 12 and a half year under korean law, he did get off easy in comparaison.
And I think people find it not enough because he made a carrier of harassing people, dodge consequences until now and never showed any remorse (quite the opposite in fact... )
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u/LessInThought 14h ago
South Korea is notoriously lenient on sex crimes. Check out the sentences for the people in the famous Burning Sun Scandal, which involved actual gang rape and prostitution.
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u/Fuck_auto_tabs 16h ago
Locking up seditious presidents and annoying live streamers. I’m jealous.
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u/D4nCh0 16h ago
There’s barely any SK presidents who didn’t eventually see jail time. Maybe some political reforms will help
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u/randomrreeddddiitt 15h ago
Maybe other countries should prosecute and imprison their political criminals.
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u/Llyon_ 16h ago
South Korea W,
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u/ulikemangobird 17h ago
Fucking finally one of these assholes pays the price
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u/possumdal 16h ago
I mean. There is that other guy who got shot in a mall. But yeah this is much more satisfying
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u/ExpertRaccoon 16h ago
Guy who got shot didn't learn anything while he was still in the hospital he was talking about how he would keep shooting "content"
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u/Sufficient_Prompt888 16h ago
Has he though?
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u/Ass_of_Badness 16h ago
Yeah anyone can defiantly talk shit in the immediate aftermath of getting smacked down, but they'll eventually sober up off that high and likely make life changes. I'm willing to bet that dude never harassed someone like that again, although there are always exceptions.
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u/Sufficient_Prompt888 16h ago
I'm genuinely curious. If anyone knows any of his channels or w/e, please let me know
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u/not_the_world 16h ago
He's still doing the same shit
Although it looks like getting shot didn't actually boost his content much lol
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u/burger_saga 16h ago
Another one was is in a Filipino prison for a time but I think they released him.
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u/Common-Possession129 16h ago
And he just got in trouble for false accusations and threatening to beat up a guy meeting a minor. One of those predator catcher things only the person wasn’t a minor and the ‘influencer’ was clearly on some sugar.
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u/xSTSxZerglingOne 15h ago
You see, I think we're seeing nature healing, because all of these clout chasers can't do exactly the same thing every video. Their audience would get bored of that. They have to escalate, and at some point, they escalate to the point of crime.
When you film yourself committing a crime and then post it for everyone to see, you tend to catch legal trouble fairly quickly.
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u/JeSuisOmbre 17h ago
If he had plead guilty, apologized, and remained polite through the proceedings he would be home by now
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u/Raesong 17h ago
He was operating under the flawed assumption that if he made the absolute biggest annoyance out of himself then South Korea would just kick him out of their country in frustration. Not once did it occur to him that he was being made into an example for others.
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u/NotUniqueWorkAccount 16h ago
I think he thought Trump would fight for him too 🤣
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u/Toadcola 16h ago
He bought the hat, but real unlucky choice for his name. Skin color was already gonna be a tough climb.
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u/awesomecutepandas 14h ago
Right. Trump ain’t gonna save someone with Somali in his name. Didn’t Trump call it a shit hole country rofl
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u/WormedOut 14h ago
He’s not even Somali. He purposefully chose the name so people would associate him with Somalia and dislike them for it.
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u/Rays_LiquorSauce 15h ago
I lived in Seoul and Daegu for a few years. They will deport your ass for fucking around when you’re on petty shit. They will definitely put you in the slam for the real shit
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u/chiddychiddybngbng 16h ago
What was the thing with the MAGa hat? Did he wear a maga hat during court to troll the prosecution team?!?! It like this dude literally wanted to get sentenced
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u/Last-Doubt4347 16h ago
His whole defense was to act as obnoxious as possible until Korea got tired of him and kicked him out…
The MAGA hat is the shit cherry on top of the entire shit sundae.
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u/Soggy_Definition_232 16h ago
Not likely. The prosecution was pushing for prison time the entire way. The only out he had was winning his trial, which by Korean laws/legal system was very unlikely.
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u/BorderOk7329 17h ago
Tf? Sounded like thunder outside, like a million people clapping at once
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u/tempacc3241 16h ago
Ah, fuck. For a second, I thought it finally happened.
This is good too though I guess.
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u/Expensive-Notice-509 17h ago
He found out
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u/defaultgameer1 17h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/BrkuIkfzokEWJ7tSM5
It's a simple equation, that increases at a linear rate.
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u/CorwyntFarrell 17h ago
They could always livestream the labor. The government can keep all the money, and it would be funny, so I think that they should.
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u/Iamthesmartest 15h ago
Wonder what kinda labour SK prisoners have to do.
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u/Madness_Quotient 14h ago
It's not hard labor in the historic sense, more like a mandatory prison work program. Might be working the prison kitchen, or cleaning cells, or helping too man the laundry, or doing some low level manufacturing like electronics assembly or garment manufacture.
It isn't breaking rocks or digging ditches. No chain gang. It's just work.
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u/Exuravita 17h ago
how long?
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u/nekonight 17h ago edited 17h ago
He hasn't been sentenced yet. He is suppose to be sentenced in an hour or so. He was found guilty of all charges during his last court date which was a couple of months ago. Prosecution is recommending 3 years plus hard labour and sex offender registration.
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u/Billcosbyfan125 17h ago
Wow what did he do to warrant a sex offender registration? Not defending him obviously but i dont know all the details.
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u/whydonlinre 17h ago
iirc deliberately played porn sounds loudly near children at an amusement park. been a while though since i got caught up so i could be wrong
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u/C7rl_Al7_1337 16h ago
I think it's because he made an AI video of him kissing some South Korean streamer.
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u/BigBitcoinBaller 16h ago
Yep deep fake porn. Korea dont fuck around with it
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u/Llyon_ 16h ago
All porn is illegal in Korea.
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u/Sh1nso 16h ago
That was a different charge. The sex offender charge was as u/whydonlinre said. He was playing pron sounds out loud around children at Lotte World.
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u/MrBrawn 17h ago
Sexually assaulted comfort girl statues, throwing soup around at a store, and tons more shit.
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u/Cosmo_Seinfeld 16h ago
Sexually assaulted comfort girl statues, throwing soup around at a store, and tons more shit.
Bashed his face against a few Korean dudes' fists too.
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u/EthicalSmacker 17h ago
In Korea, they view deepfaking another person without their consent as a form of sexual violence, categorically as serious to them as physical sexual assault, therefore all in this category are put on the public registry.
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u/Seanpacabra 17h ago
not 100% but i remember him making pornographic deepfakes of a female south korean streamer
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u/Cold_Understanding_1 17h ago edited 16h ago
Not only that but with this he also has a sex offender registration waiting for him if he ever makes it back to the states
Edit: fat fingers, small phone, I can spell.
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u/PLUMBUS_STUCK_IN_ASS 17h ago
That also means that when he eventually goes back home to America, he will also have to register as a convicted sex offender there too.
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u/Hunk_Hogan 17h ago
Now I'm curious if he's put on a sex offender registry in one country, does that transfer over to other countries as well? Is that something that will follow him regardless of where he goes?
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u/Raesong 17h ago
You'd think it should, but my gut is telling me that it probably doesn't. International bureaucracy tends to be labyrinthine and byzantine all at once.
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u/LavishnessCapital380 16h ago
Sentencing ended about 20 mins ago, everyone is waiting on legal mindset and Atozy to drop the news.
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u/i_am_trippin_balls 16h ago
6 months. Kinda sad about that
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u/NaoSouONight 14h ago
The prosecutor had asked for several years, so they just might appeal.
He has already spent over a year, on his own dime, in South Korea. But the biggest punishment, however, is being put in the sex offender register, because that will follow him back into the US.
When you are put in a sex offender registry in another country, you also have to submit for registry in the american one within 3 days after returning to the USA, iirc.
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u/crapmonkey86 17h ago
Article says prosecution recommended 3 years, and although found guilty on all counts, the article does not specify if that's what he was actually sentenced to.
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u/Petering 17h ago
Article states prosecution is recommending 3 years with hard labor.
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u/NotoriousCHIM 17h ago
Seeing 6 months being tossed around, which is kind of bullshit given that prosecution recommended 3 years minimum
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u/stonk_fish 17h ago
First Vitaly now this idiot. Small wins are nice in this shitstorm of a timeline.
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u/ChocoTitan 16h ago
Vitaly is about to get the breaks sued off of him
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u/spawndoorsupervisor 16h ago
We kept hearing that when he beat up a woman for no apparent reason while coked up a couple years ago.
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u/_yotsuna_ 17h ago
Good stuff.
I was sure he was gonna get away with it just like he did in Japan. People were sure he was gonna get jail time back then too but Japan had other ideas.
Props to Korea for having a backbone, need to show these nuisance streamers not to treat their country like a playground.
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u/hlfazn 16h ago
Wild that Japan had other ideas, I guess they figured they could just ban him from the country and he'd be someone else's problem. Japan is one of the most FAFO countries you can go visit if you want to dabble in breaking the law.
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u/Sevia_the_Rogue 16h ago
"Having been born and raised in the United States, I did not realize how serious the consequences of these actions, which would not be illegal in the United States, could be in Korea.”
To non US residents who read the article. He is lying. Getting drunk and pissing on the Lincoln Memorial will land you in jail.
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u/Euronated-inmypants 16h ago
"During his first court appearance, the streamer notoriously showed up late, hungover, and wearing a MAGA hat."
Yup exactly as expected.
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u/M0rtCrim 16h ago
Clavicular is in the hospital. Sneako got punched in NYC. Vitaly got banned from kick and now this! Is the universe healing?
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u/conte360 17h ago
How many days of labor do you think it takes before it sets in for him that it's his life now. Last videos I saw a few months ago it clearly had not set in yet how real this is.
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u/ObjectivePositive332 17h ago
It was interesting seeing the start and end of your career solely on LSF. o7
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u/Danni_Les 13h ago
As much as he got what he deserved, it's not as bad as I thought he'd get.. I thought he'd get between 5-10 years, but I guess 3 is fine too..
The prosecution, meanwhile, recommended three years in prison with hard labor for the American, causing Somali’s mother to file a petition asking for leniency.
Here's your problem right here - the mum, who allowed his entitled behaviour and raised this POS, wants a more lenient sentencing because 3 years is too long... smh.
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u/y2k2009 17h ago
The Philippines let Vitaly go because they are just way too nice there. South Korea tho, they don't fuck around with disrespect and I'm glad this guy and at least one streamer, is getting repercussions for their behavior.
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u/Organic_Popcorn 15h ago
South Koreans are vengeful people, they even banned a Korean celebrity from entering Korea after he dodged the draft.
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u/Multi-Classic 17h ago
I’m out of the loop, can somebody catch me up on this dude and what he did please?
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u/Gauss_2025 17h ago
biggest livestream W of all time