I'm OOtL on this one.. who is he, and what did he do?
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This made my day. He thought he was untouchable and now is in a forced labor camp for 6 months.
Dude is just one of the worst humans.
South Koreans aren't the Japanese... they're not known for playing around.
FAFO 4 U LOL
Good, idiots like this deserve to face the consequences of their actions
Apparently he kissed a statue of a woman that was built as a memorial to all the south Korean women that were raped by the Japanese during their colonial rule. In case anyone was wondering what he did to end up in jail.
I'm willing to bet he knew exactly what that statue was a memorial for.
"and performing lap dances on said statue" per the linked article
He is going in a boy And will come out a hole man
Finally some good news in 2026
Sounds like he deserved it
Norwegian philosopher Arne Ness said it best:
"There is no freedom without responsibility - in fact, the two are intrinsically the same."
Only 6 months tho we think
six months in a South Korean work camp filled with actual criminals that have a great disdain for foreigners. oh, they racists too.
I think he'll leave SK and never come back when he's finally released.
He will also be a registered sex offender and not allowed back.
Ooh, do North Korea next.
Video 1 - "I twerked at kim family's big statue and gave them the finger lol"
Video 2 - "Forced labor camp shenanigans lol"
Video 3, visibly malnourished and beaten - "About to face the death squad, but i'm gangsta lol"
HELL YEAH
I'll be glad when everyone forgets about this guy in two days and I don't have to see his dumb face in my feed anymore.
Literally never heard of them until just now.
"I know for a fact that I'm not going to go to jail. Not one day in jail. I'm going to laugh my ass off when all these motherf***ers are saying I'm going for 30 years, 20 years, five years, 10 years. I'm not even going to do one day, bro. They'll give me a fine and say, 'Don't come back to Korea.' You're the one that's going to look so dumb when I don't get any jailtime or anything. Bro, I'm going to laugh like a f**king villain.
amazing.
He got 6 months, so he wasn't too far off, unfortunately.
at the end of the day, his only crime is being annoying. He didn't kill someone, didn't steal anything, etc. So 6months seems fair.
This guy is like a reverse hostage. Countries will threaten to release him if they don't get what they want.
It's an SCP. The containment procedure is to livestream his location at all times and make it legal for everyone to beat him up.
Until today, I knew nothing about Mr Somali, but a cursory glance at his medium of choice shows him to be...not well liked
Ray William Johnson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhpcyBdt88&t=0
Legal mindset:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbto0N6PkIs&t=0
"What are you, like a professional asshole?"
"Yes"
Mr Somali now joins the ranks of Charlie Zelenoff in the FAFO game.
Perhaps the only shame is that he didn't try his little stunt in Singapore, where public caning is still a thing.
Good, these are the types of guys that go "It's just a prank bro" or "It's a social experiment" except it isn't. It's just you being an inconsiderate jerk.
There are a lot of enablers, the viewers that find all that bullshit funny. Guilty by association, I suppose
yeah, the kind that sets you on fire, shoots your wife and sells your children to Epstein, then goes "it's just a prank bro".
There's tons of light-hearted, harmless pranks out there. A good laugh where everyone goes away a little bit happier.
This guy and his ilk on the other hand intentionally antagonise people to the point where they feel the need to defend themselves. Just because someone is out and about in public doesn't mean they're a free target for you to be shitty with them. Everyone has - or at least should have - the right to be unbothered in public by leeches like him.
A South Korean prison labor camp seems a fitting destination for all influencers and YouTube trolls.
Labour camp is exactly what he needs