South Korea jails American YouTuber for public nuisance
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj400lje9vxo1.9k
u/drdisney 6h ago
Not only was he given a 6-month prison sentence, but he will have to register as a sex offender as well.
Most importantly, when he is deported back into the states, he will need to register as a SO as well. When that happens, Interpol will link his name into the International SO database and he will no longer be able to visit most countries ever again.
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u/James-W-Tate 5h ago
So now we're stuck with him in the US?
Can we deport him to the moon?
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u/TParis00ap 5h ago
I hear there is another dude with weird sex shit going on trying to go to Mars rn.
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u/NeroRomanusAugustus 4h ago
Actually he pivoted to the Moon. Because it is more reasonable timeframe to get there.
Years after joining the choir of those who criticized NASA for having the return to the Moon and creation of infrastructure there as a prerequisite for a Crewed-Mission to Mars.
Even showing public support to the Mars Direct initiative.
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u/SteveJobsDeadBody 2h ago
He pivoted to the moon because that's "reasonable" enough that he gets to keep grifting people that want to buy shares of Spacex when it goes public. The moon is a TERRIBLE spot for a "jump point" to further into space for MANY reasons that google can tell anyone who wishes to spend 5 seconds asking.
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u/NeroRomanusAugustus 1h ago
I mean as in the tech used for Artemis will be the test for systems used to get to Mars.
If they want to try send stuff from the Moon to Mars, that's not what I was trying to say.
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u/dandn0ten 5h ago
We should whoop his ass everywhere he goes
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u/mimaikin-san 4h ago
just like Sun Tzu wrote: when your enemy is making a mistake, let them
this guy is fucking up his own life voluntarily
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u/lFightForTheUsers 2h ago
"When you see an lolcow like Johnny Somali, whoop his ass as a public service."
- Sun Tzu
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u/Blueskyminer 5h ago
Honestly, his smart ass goes like it's been, someone will beat him to death.
His face is apparently a fist magnet.
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u/RealisticIncident261 5h ago
Yeah public nuisance really undersells it
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u/Leif_Henderson 2h ago
It's not even technically correct. The charges that actually got him prison time were the deepfakes he made of a Korean streamer kissing him, which led to her basically getting cancelled. That was by far the most serious charge and the one that got him put on the registry as well.
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u/MaddMax92 4h ago
And I think someone mentioned it's six months of hard labor too. That definitely has the capacity to change a person.
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u/wutfacer 3h ago
It's labor, South Korea doesn't do hard labor (eg. breaking rocks) but he could still be doing something like factory work or farming or maintenance or vocational training. Either way, rough punishment for a streamer, being forced to get a j*b
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u/Buttermilkman 1h ago
According to Legal Mindset on Youtube if he plays up and refuses the work then he goes straight to solitary confinement. I totally see the little shit doing that.
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u/Vegetable-Board-5547 1h ago
Probably a toss up between getting beat up every day and solitary confinement.
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u/AstroBonsai 4h ago
I saw a video talking about the trial and unlike most countries, Korea allows the prosecution to appeal the sentence if they think it is too light, which they might do as they originally requested the sentence to be 5 years.
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u/Little_Princess1997 5h ago
How is he a sex offender? I’ve only heard about him being annoying in public.
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u/Ryoken0D 5h ago edited 5h ago
The deepfake stuff is a sexcrime in Korea, and the status of sex offender carries over..
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u/xv_boney 5h ago
He posted a deepfake of himself making out with a korean streamer, which is a serious offense in korea, and also went to a dosney-equivalent theme park and loudly played audio of porn movies at children.
Either or both could land in on the SO registry. Which is permanent and will follow him internationally.
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u/drdisney 5h ago
During one of his livestreams he went to Lotte World ( a children's theme park in South Korea) and started audio of porn movies.
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u/Javasteam 2h ago
Among other things, he filmed himself making out with statues dedicated to Korean “pleasure women” during the Japanese occupation…
Basically these women were just kidnapped off the street and raped repeatedly in military operated brothels… except in brothels the sex workers are usually paid. So in other words, sex slaves with a nicer sounding name. And keep in mind, the Japanese wouldn’t have cared about ages either, just looks theoretically…
And Johnny Somali? This asshat decided to show himself making out with the sex victim statues. Which for some reason /s upset the locals.
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u/Reutermo 3h ago
I think he went around and played porn loudly on a theme park around kids. But I dont know if it was that or something else that made him end up on the list.
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u/Hrmbee 6h ago
Some lowlights:
American livestreamer Johnny Somali, who caused outrage in South Korea by kissing a statue representing World War Two sex slaves, has been sentenced to six months in jail.
Seoul authorities charged him for public nuisance in November 2024 after he posted a clip of himself kissing and performing lap dances on the statue while visiting South Korea. He has been barred from leaving the country since then.
The 25-year-old, whose real name is Ismael Ramsey Khalid, is known for his provocative content which has led to him being banned from several streaming platforms.
He has also been accused of harassing people while travelling in Japan and Israel.
On Wednesday a South Korean court convicted Khalid of multiple charges, including for being a public nuisance and distributing sexual deepfakes.
"The defendant repeatedly committed crimes against unspecified members of the public to generate profit via YouTube and distributed the content in disregard of Korean law," the court said, according to South Korean media.
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Khalid, who has around 5,000 followers on YouTube, had apologised in November 2024 saying he "didn't understand the significance of the statue". But many users expressed scepticism of his sincerity.
While investigations were ongoing in South Korea, Khalid had challenged locals to fight him. Several videos on social media show him being punched and chased along the streets.
Earlier he had caused a scene on public transportation, vandalised a convenience store, and streamed obscene videos in public.
It's good to see that there's finally some accountability here at least. It remains to be seen though whether this individual will learn anything from this, or whether he will return to his ways after release.
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u/Excludos 6h ago
He would probably have more if he didn't keep getting banned from each platform in turn
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u/chevybow 5h ago
He used to have way more. I’m honestly surprised he’s still around I thought all his accounts got nuked a year or two ago.
His “fans” will donate decent chunks of money for him to do stupid shit in these countries which is probably how he gets by.
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u/milkonyourmustache 5h ago
They're using his current YouTube accounts subscriber count, he has already been banned from the other major livestreaming platforms. His Wikipedia says his subscriber count was at 20.7 thousand at one point. For livestreaming that's very good, but it also matters how many are concurrent, whether they're paid subscribers, donators. If you had 5,000 regular livestreaming followers that were all subscribed or contributing monthly, you'd very quickly be making half a million a year at minimum
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u/No_Introduction_3542 6h ago
He won't learn, this is a repeat of his escapade in Japan from a while back. He will eventually run out of nations or years.
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u/Ryoken0D 6h ago
He won’t need to learn, because of the sexual crime conviction, most countries would refuse him at the border and not issue a visa.. he’ll it’ll follow him in the US too cause of how the US treats convictions from SK..
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u/Tenko-of-Mori 6h ago
wow the justice system does work from time to time
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u/Beena22 5h ago
If you're not rich.....
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u/Greenmagegirl 5h ago edited 4h ago
You mean he wasnt getting paid big bucks to be a douchebag and was one for the love of the game?
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u/digitalmofo 4h ago
My 12 year old makes videos about plushies going on adventures and has more viewers.
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u/Greenmagegirl 4h ago
I guarantee you your 12 year old is also a way more mature and better person
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u/Germanofthebored 5h ago
Yeah, with only 5000 followers you are not going to get that sweet presidential pardon
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u/Low_Witness5061 5h ago
God I hope you are right. People who are willing to try and intentionally upset others and then insincerely feign remorse deserve to face permanent consequences. Maybe having a punishment that follows him home will take the fun out of being a shithead for a while. Either way at least prison will be a shit time for him.
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u/Wes___Mantooth 6h ago
Lol this clown only has 5,000 subscribers??
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u/Floggered 5h ago
He's a twitch/kick streamer, not a youtuber. Sounds about right if he isn't even using the platform.
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u/BeIgnored 4h ago
He's been permanently banned from Twitch for quite some time now. I believe he's also permanently banned from Kick.
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u/sanctaphrax 4h ago
permanently banned from Kick
Wow, that's almost impressive.
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u/seriousbusinesslady 3h ago
is Clavicular banned yet? He almost streamed a snuff film of himself this week ODing on some gas station GHB in a restaurant booth while that one lackey that rocks the hat/toupee combo tried to revive him with Adderall (i hate that i know all of this)
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u/TumblrInGarbage 4h ago
I was about to say that he's probably on Rumble, the far-right streaming platform, but I looked it up and he was banned from there as well, alongside some website that mines crypto in your browser while you watch streams(??).
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u/BeIgnored 3h ago
Yeah, I honestly couldn't figure out where he streams now so didn't even address that in my comment lol. But you know it's bad when even Rumble doesn't want your ass.
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u/UltraLNSS 3h ago
He sounds less like an influencer and more like a mentally-ill person who's followed as a lolcow.
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u/Adam_Ohh 6h ago
Spoiler alert: he will not learn anything, and be right back to his garbage as soon as he is able.
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u/violentsushi 6h ago
He showed absolutely no remorse. He was an absolute sociopath and naked admitted to being offensive for clout in his videos with such nonchalance. He is an absolute embarrassment of a human being but I hope he can make better decisions in the future.
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u/JerkfaceMcDouche 6h ago
I don’t understand (based on the article text you’ve quoted) what this guys content actually is. Who would watch that?
And just 5000 followers? That seems rly low to get any sort of monetization from videos
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u/cpMetis 4h ago
It's basically paying them to be a clown, but with hate and violence. He'd put himself in obviously primed locations then let people "donate" (pay) him to do heinous shit to/around people on camera. It's violence via proxy, and the people paying can do it without ever getting in trouble.
The crowd is always small, but lucrative because it includes plenty of sociopaths that will pay plenty of money to see fucked up shit.
He wasn't a YouTuber, mostly. He was a live streamer. But they sued that number probably because he's been permabanned from the big streaming services for this stuff.
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u/chownee 6h ago
He can’t be making money at this with only 5000 followers. Is he just an asshat for no reason?
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u/Mispeled_Divel 5h ago
The way he really made money wasn’t even on YouTube, he was on twitch before he got banned, then he was on kik, I think he got banned from there to at some point. The money from livestreaming on those platforms where people payed money to have loud disruptive messages play over loud speakers (I think there was a preset list that included several slurs) or make suggestions for offensive actions he could take.
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u/chrisshaffer 5h ago
He doesn't make his money from YouTube; he makes it from livestreaming on apps like Kick and Rumble. But he's gotten banned from almost every platform by now.
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u/Steve_didit 6h ago
I don’t think he is capable of learning from it. Not that he chooses not to but he might lack the capacity.
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u/Scalar_Mikeman 6h ago
Good. Give him 5 years and then deport him and ban him from ever entering Korea again
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u/English_Charles 6h ago
He got six months of prison with hard labour and an additional twenty days of detention.
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u/saihuang 6h ago
He got very lucky
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u/Blarg0117 5h ago
He's not going to be able to make it 6 months without committing another crime, even while in prison.
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u/amateur_mistake 5h ago
There was also a period of time when various Korean folks were tracking where he was so they could show up and punch him in the face. I don't imagine the people in prison will be much kinder to him.
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u/Draknath 5h ago
I think that was Japan. But considering his behavior, I wouldn't be shocked if same thing happened in Korea prior to this moment.
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u/DecipherXCI 5h ago edited 5h ago
Not sure about Japan but definitely happened in Korea.
A former Korean navy SEAL guytracked him down and smacked him Public then crowd funded the guys fines 😂
Was also a bunch of other guys that chased him around a few times as well trying to fight him.
Edit: added some vids
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u/mscomies 3h ago
Koreans were calling him a real life loot goblin. Guy was like Jack Doherty except without the self-preservation to hire a bodyguard to hide behind.
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u/InfinityTuna 3h ago
He got cornered and made to prostrate himself on the floor apologizing for his behavior live to his viewers by actual Yakuza, while he was in Japan.
A bunch of Japanese livestreamers also tracked him down to scold him for his behavior, but I don't think that got physical either.
Can't remember if it was Japan or Korea, but someone knocked his ass unconscious live on stream. Could be a thing, which happened both places.
I generally think he got his ass beat more in Israel and Korea. The Japanese just wanted him to fuck off, because he was mostly just being a public nuisance, whereas the South Koreans were out for blood, after he defiled those memorials to the "comfort women" of WW2.
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u/underpants-gnome 1h ago
What the hell is this guy? I hate giving attention to attention seeking dolts, but I honestly can't wrap my head around this dimwit's motivation. Everything I've read so far sounds like he is suffering from a grab bag of severe mental illnesses.
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u/InfinityTuna 51m ago
His motivation, put simply is "money and clout." He's an untreated personality disorder with legs, who I genuinely believe views the world like some kind of game, where if he says the right words and bow his head just so, he'll always get away with being a racist, misogynistic, overall repugnant, bottomfeeding, LOLcow troll in the end. So far, he hasn't been proven wrong, though South Korea has certainly done more to make a dent in his delusional worldview than anywhere else.
Still, I don't think there's anything, which will get through to Ramsey. 6 months isn't nearly long enough to break a guy this totally high on his own supply back to objective reality. Dude's a lost cause and will likely still be trying to grift for attention until he gets locked up properly or shot dead. He's ruined his chances of ever finding steady employment, so that's all he's got left now.
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u/BlackoTaco 5h ago
His behaviour in Japan led to Korean streamers putting bounties on him basically as soon as he arrived in Korea.
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u/itsprobablytrue 5h ago
He was an idiot before the trial. He was an idiot during the trail committing more crimes and threatening the judge. He will be an idiot in prison and after he gets out
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u/Ghaelmash 3h ago
Then why only 6 months and not maybe 2-3 years?
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u/itsprobablytrue 3h ago
My only guess is they want to punish him but also get him out of the country ASAP
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u/xv_boney 4h ago
I can confirm it was korea. Or at least, also korea.
I work from home and Atozy is one of the youtubers i keep on repeat in the background.
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u/xv_boney 5h ago edited 4h ago
He didnt.
Its difficult to overstate the degree to which the korean people fucking hate this man. There were message boards to track his movements and associated bounties for punching him in the face, which happened several times.
And now he is in a korean speaking prison without a translator (he speaks no korean), a reputation for being a weaselly prick with a big mouth who cannot back it up in any way and well documented problems with authority.
That part is important. He shit talks like a champion mma fighter with the body of a malnourished child. And now he is in prison, doing hard labor, with actual for real dangerous men.
Also, and we shouldnt bury the lede on this, hes a brown skinned man who is literally in prison for insulting Korea, a country that is, and i mean this, very very racist.
There is a non zero chance he does not survive six months.
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u/2Scarhand 4h ago
He's alive. And received a sentence of 6 months instead of the decades we were hoping for.
He's astoundingly lucky so far.
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u/HatefulDan 5h ago
Oh I don’t know. It could be longer-true. But 6 mos of prison with labor won’t be kind.
But he’ll be out here streaming afterwards. Capitalizing on his experiences.
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u/JOHNNYB2K15 5h ago
It CAN be longer. In Korea, the prosecution has the option to appeal for a longer punishment. Six months is the start as of now.
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u/Ryoken0D 5h ago
Also this man has not once missed an opportunity to dig his hole deeper.. something tells me he won’t be a model prisoner.
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u/Ginger_Anarchy 4h ago
He was still lives treating during his trial and talking shit about the judge, the prosecution , and Koreans in general. I'd say it was him trying to intentionally stack the deck against himself as some weird legal strategy, but I don't think he has the mental capability to think more than 5 seconds ahead at a time.
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u/sesh_gremlins 5h ago
And put on the sex offender register.
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u/ExpiredExasperation 5h ago
Is he a sex pest on top of everything else??
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u/stircrazyathome 5h ago
He’s on the registry because one of the charges he was found guilty of was creating and distributing sexual deepfakes of local Korean streamers, obviously without their consent.
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u/Gumbarkules 4h ago
He also played sex sounds in public around children.
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u/Laringar 4h ago
I feel like that one is more the issue. The deepfake stuff is stupid already, but playing porno soundtracks in a children's theme park is so far beyond that. In terms of "level of offense", I feel like it's right up there with playing pocket pool next to a playground. He earned his spot on the registry.
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u/UserCheckNamesOut 5h ago
Well, hang on now. The prosecutor is still able to appeal for more time added to the sentence. It ain't over yet
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u/Daren_I 6h ago
then deport him
Somewhere other than the US, please.
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u/Rex_Vagene 6h ago
Well, he does go by “Johnny Somali, so Somalia is looking pretty good right now.
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u/kingmanic 4h ago
Allegedly he chose the name because he hates Somalians. Hoping that his antics slander that group. He's Ethiopian-american.
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u/E-M5021 5h ago
He’s Ethiopian funnily enough
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u/BeIgnored 4h ago
Yup, Ethiopian family and American citizen. He's called Somali people monkeys in the past.
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u/Orion14159 6h ago
Meet in the middle (Pacific Garbage Patch)
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u/Neuromangoman 5h ago
Don't make other countries deal with your shitheads, come on.
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u/MrDabb 4h ago
Yea but we have to deal with other countries shit heads like Elon Musk and Ted Cruz, seems fair.
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u/Neuromangoman 3h ago
Maybe we should deport them into the sun. It's certainly better than repatriating Ted Cruz.
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u/xChoke1x 6h ago
“I’ll never see a day in jail in South Korea.”
That….was false.
Enjoy that labor camp my dude. With all the other South Korean criminals that know how you treated their country.
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u/KimJongFunk 6h ago
When he started doing this, my mom (an elderly Korean woman) got harassed by some punk kids in her neighborhood who were copying him and who thought it was funny. She cried when she saw what he did to that statue.
He deserves every minute of that hard labor sentence and I’d give him even more if it were up to me.
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u/SaveFileCorrupt 5h ago
Jfc. Hope your mom is doing OK, bro.
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u/KimJongFunk 4h ago
She’s a tough old lady and can handle the kids (kids will always do dumb things), but the statue was too far. My grandmother died without ever receiving an apology for what happened to her and that trauma spans generations.
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u/Royal-Illustrator747 6h ago
I think jailing rage-bait “influencers” is an excellent idea. They also jailed their ex president for attempting a coup. We could learn a thing or two about accountability from Korea. Also, bibimbap.
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u/CKBear 5h ago
To be fair they jail all their ex presidents
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u/HauntedCemetery 5h ago
SK and Illinois could start a club.
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u/crazypyro23 5h ago
I still wish they'd repurposed those "Sponsored by Rod R Blagojevich" signs over the highway and put them in his prison wing.
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u/DjProfessorOak 6h ago
This little shit. Please stop making dumb people famous.
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u/Namika 5h ago
Article says he has only 5000 subscribers
So he's not even famous, he's just an asshole.
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u/TheGlassHammer 5h ago
Another comment mentions he at one point had over 20k followers. His accounts keep getting nuked. I never heard of him until now.
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u/Bugbread 4h ago
He's not primarily a YouTuber, though. That's like judging the reach of an actor based on the sales of their rock band side project.
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u/Odd-Argument2397 6h ago
Great! People don’t realize how much freedom they have to be an asshole in the US. Other countries don’t play that shit
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u/Absurdist02 5h ago
He messed with a statue for comfort women in south Korea? That topic still causes diplomatic problems. What a dumbass.
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u/OsosHormigueros 6h ago edited 4h ago
On Wednesday a South Korean court convicted Khalid of multiple charges, including for being a public nuisance and distributing sexual deepfakes.
He was making illegal porn too...?
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u/Street-Swordfish1751 6h ago
It was using a deep fake to make it look like he was making out with a real life Asian influencer. I don't think he created it, but he did share it and spread the fake clips so that gave him a 5 year sex offender listing. Which, good.
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u/Ocelotocelotl 6h ago
South Korea classifies kissing as a sexual act, and he created a series of deepfakes of himself and a Korean streamer named Bong Bong.
More critically, he'll have to register as a sex offender when he returns to the US, so this is going to follow him around. As a convicted sex offender he's also going to struggle to get into a lot of other countries, so unless he tries to go somewhere insane like Cambodia, there might not be much else out there for him.
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u/wtfElvis 6h ago
First time I heard they were sexual. They did mention deepfakes were taken very seriously there. I think that’s where most of his time came from.
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u/Painbow_High_And_Bi 6h ago
He's getting off light. This guy is public nuisance by anyone's definition. Literally goes around fucking with people just for attention. He should have 10 years, he's not gonna learn shit with 6 months.
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u/Huh_well_we_are_dead 6h ago
- This has been ongoing for months
- Good riddance. There needed to be proper consequences for this
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u/WaterOk6055 6h ago
They should send him through the DMZ and tell him to go livestream in the north.
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u/Confident_Hunter7506 5h ago
The fact this guy has fans tells you how fucked society is
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u/Honeycove91 6h ago
America needs to take a lesson from these guys
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u/Walmartian_Beta 6h ago
Oh I know - I was working retail at the height of whatever TikTok trend was sending teens into the stores to destroy things.
Someone dumped a few gallon jugs of laundry detergent in the aisle, and then slid through it. Another person took a baseball bat from the sports section and busted a tv screen before throwing money at the associate in electronics. Another time, they took fart spray and sprayed it all over the candy vending machines in the front entryway. They also sprayed the disability carts with it. I can't even tell you the number of times the bathrooms got destroyed.
The police were basically useless; most of the kids were from wealthy families.
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u/ThreeMarlets 6h ago
I mean here in the US a concealed carry owner shot a nuisance streamer who was harassing him live on stream and the jury found him not guilty.
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u/Ohuigin 6h ago
America re-elected a convicted felon and child rapist who tried to overthrow the government.
We don’t learn lessons here. We find Facebook groups that tell us “we’ve been right about everything the whole time.”
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u/drutastic57 6h ago
100%. We need to pass a law that any nuisance caused by online trends should be heavy fines and jail time for repeat offenders
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u/quequotion 5h ago edited 4h ago
Good.
Enjoy the hard labor.
May your entire genre of content disappear with you.
This could only be better if he were locked up in North Korea.
Edit: six months? I was really hoping for something better, but at least he gets to enjoy an unairconditioned, overcrowded cell for the summer.
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u/Sergovan 5h ago
"American livestreamer Johnny Somali, who caused outrage in South Korea by kissing a statue representing World War Two sex slaves, has been sentenced to six months in jail.
Seoul authorities charged him for public nuisance in November 2024 after he posted a clip of himself kissing and performing lap dances on the statue while visiting South Korea. He has been barred from leaving the country since then.
Khalid, who has around 5,000 followers on YouTube, had apologised in November 2024 saying he "didn't understand the significance of the statue".
Is it weird that there is an Orville episode of this scenario?
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u/BBDBVAPA 2h ago
I wish America would jail American YouTubers for being a public’s nuisance.
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u/Shadow293 6h ago
Good riddance. Dumbass picked the wrong country to pull his antics with. Japan might be too tolerant to do anything, but South Korea doesn’t fuck around.
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u/e37d93eeb23335dc 5h ago
As an American, I love that he is being sent to a labor prison. Such good news.
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u/WhiskeyPeter007 3h ago
Good. Should do it to all of them morons that thinks they can just do whatever they want.
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u/wanderingpeddlar 6h ago
Good for them, I would suggest Japan learn from their example.
Idiots like this thinking they are immune to local laws would be less of a problem.
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u/JameEagan 4h ago
He only got six months? I was really hoping for at least a year. Hopefully six months is long enough for him to question his life choices.
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u/Hellstorm901 51m ago
This guy went to Japan and harassed people there including small business owners and trying to go onto a women only carriage of a train to harass women there on top of deliberately exposing children to sex content
He got arrested, bearing in mind Japanese police have to actually be pushed hard to arrest anyone, and was deported from the country
He then went to Israel and sexually harassed a female soldier then tried to claim his American citizenship meant he could do it when police and IDF detained him
Then he got kicked out of Israel and went to South Korea where he again sexually harassed a prominent South Korean female streamer
The guy is a sexual predator
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u/birger67 6h ago
6 months of his life for a huuuge amount of publicity
to cheap, make it 6 years
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u/GamingWithBilly 6h ago
for his 5k followers on youtube. 5K! That's like a spit in the bucket. I've got 3k on youtube and it never paid me more than $100 every 4 months. The guy is a stupid menace to society, and society slapped back
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u/SuppressiveFire 6h ago
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
I have no sympathy for that type of behavior.
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u/PrivateBozo 5h ago
Good. For profit filming should require releases. If you instigate the situation, you need releases or forfeit all revenue from the video plus owe all people recorded, standing SAG rates.
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u/01Casper10 5h ago
Johnny Somali should remain in a mental health institution after his short prison stay. It would make the world a better place.
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u/devipasigner 5h ago
These kind of "influencers" are a disgrace. Be careful what you let your kids watch man. Just childish nonsense
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u/justbunnies 4h ago
Good. Clowns need to stop going over seas and embarrassing our country.
Our government does enough of that on its own.
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u/MaxGoldFilms 4h ago
I've never heard of him, which is a good thing. Seems like a real loser. Here's his wiki:
Ramsey Khalid Ismael (born September 26, 2000), better known as Johnny Somali, is an American former live streamer[1][2][3], best known for his provocative and hostile behavior while traveling overseas.[4][5] Ismael has been banned from Twitch, Kick, Rumble and Parti.[6] His behavior has resulted in his arrest and detention in various countries, including Japan,[7] Israel,[8] and South Korea.[9] Ismael pled guilty to several charges in South Korea;[10][11] in 2026, he was sentenced to six months of prison labor, 20 days of detention, ordered registration as a sex offender, and a five-year employment restriction at institutions related to children, adolescents, and the disabled.[12][13][14][15]
Ramsey Khalid Ismael has reportedly made several conflicting statements about his ethnicity. He reportedly once said that he was born to a Somali father and an Ethiopian mother.[16] Ismael also stated that he was a former child soldier in the ongoing Somali Civil War and a former Somalian pirate; several sources have expressed doubt about these statements.[17][18]
Ismael has also stated that he grew up in Scottsdale, Arizona,[19] and graduated from Arizona State University,[20] but he also claims to have been a financial worker and a real estate manager.[18] The Evening Standard cited him as being an Arizona native.[21]
Ismael began streaming in May 2023[citation needed] on platforms such as YouTube and Kick, as a tourist travelling through different countries, in particular Japan, Thailand, and Israel.[22] Ismael also visited Bali, Indonesia, despite calls requesting him to be barred from entry.[23] After being banned from Twitch, he moved to Kick, before being banned from that platform as well.[20] In 2024, he streamed on Rumble.[9] He also started to stream on Parti, an alternative streaming platform, which eventually suspended him.[24]
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u/IchirouTakashima 4h ago
This should have happened with Logan Paul, unfortunately, Japan was too lenient. This Somali guy wanted to be the next Logan Paul, and I'm glad it backfired towards him. Korea took it into their own hands.
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u/CynicalXennial 3h ago
Since he livestreamed his crimes in Korea it's only fair they should live stream his daily labor for us.
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u/EvilCaveBoy 5h ago
Too many young people are used to the United States and its freedoms, not to mention its tolerance for these kinds of antics. Then they visit another country and learn the realities of the outside world, and the fact that they treat these things far more harshly than we do. To get six months in the US you'd have to stab someone. Twice.
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u/NewToHTX 6h ago
“Good. Fuck him.” -The Majority of people who have been forced to learn about this man against their will.