Internet and YouTube, the great digital world in which everything is possible.In which anyone can get a camera (the same as their mobile) and generate all kinds of content.And hang it on the network and share it with all humanity, but that creative freedom, how far does it go? On YouTube, one of the most popular content is the jokes with hidden cameras, a genre that is called prank in English and that triumphs but that much among the youngest ones.Now well, some of these videos have caused real controversies that, as a society, make us reflect.To what extent is it lawful to use certain types of resources?
Jokes in the media
Joking is not a YouTube invention although some millennial can believe it that way.Since the media exists, it has opted for this type of content.Not surprisingly, one of the favorite activities on December 28 is discover fake newspaper and news pranks. Hidden camera television shows or radio pranks have caused a furor among the audience.
The difference with many of the videos we can see now is that these programs are subject (or should be) to an editorial line by their communication group. They try to be fun and humorous , but never offensive or degrading.Audiovisual companies are very careful to broadcast any type of content that crosses certain limits and that, immediately, can be identified with the way they work.But, who sets the limits when it is a teenager who, on their own, decides to generate this type of videos?
Hunting for a "like"
Recently, it has become popular a case that even cause blushing to tell.So we will do it very quickly.A youtuber called ReSet fed a homeless biscuits with toothpaste.And I recorded it to then hang it on his channel, of course.ReSet receives requests from his followers that encourage him to practice difficult, compromised or extravagant challenges and he carries them out to please his fans, because this is one of the great causes of the proliferation of these contents.Some boys, attracted by popularity that gives YouTube, are able to reach any end to get more likes, more views, more comments ...
Before we asked ourselves who put the limit to this kind of thing.Well, fortunately, society.The ReSet video became popular but not for the reasons he wanted. The negative comments regarding his action they became viral .Internet users criticized him and gave voice to the action, to prevent behaviors that go unpunished and that someone who humiliates another person may think that this is fun.Such have been the criticisms, that the boy was forced to apologize a couple of days ago.That is not the first time this youtuber is involved in the controversy.In his eagerness to gain followers, has also been accused of animal abuse , because he does not hesitate to make his cats the protagonists of his videos, although these consist of producing electric shocks.
The famous «caranchoa»
Although, surely, the most famous case of the last months was the one starring youtuber MrGranBomba.Yes, you all know that we refer to the «caranchoa».This youtuber is also popular for the videos of jokes with hidden camera that stars and share on his channel.Or we should say "was" because after that popular event, the boy deleted all his videos on YouTube and his Twitter account .
You will know that the video will go but we will briefly tell you, in case someone has just landed on this planet.The boy approaches a person from the street and insults him (this, supposedly, is the germ of grace ).The thing was complicated for MrGranBomba when the passerby did not react very well that we say and gave him a smack.But it was even more complicated when the youtuber made the video public thinking that the Internet community would share his outrage against the person who starred in the video He didn't have the popular response he expected. Internet users positioned themselves, yes, but, mostly, on the part of the victim of the joke .What is called, commonly, shooting out the butt.
Complaints and courts
And these "jokes" that for their protagonists can be totally innocent, can cause more than one problem to the authors of those videos.In 2015, youtubers of the TrollStation channel, of British origin, decided to play everything for the whole with a joke in which committed a robbery and a false kidnapping both in the National Portrait Gallery and in the museum Tate Britain of London In May of last year, a court sentenced these boys to prison sentences of between four and five months for "attempting to create social panic" and "provoking violence outside the law ».
Another viral trend in a similar line is that of the so-called "killer clowns" .It is, neither more nor less, people who disguise themselves as a terrifying clown and, with a weapon in the hand, like a knife, is dedicated to walking through the streets to cause fear in people.The thing is that the clown impersonators have multiplied by many countries in the world and some cases have had serious repercussions.In October, A young Swede was stabbed by one of these clowns .Last Halloween, the panic spread in some cities, such as London, to the unpredictable actions of some people hiding behind a mask.of security before the fear that more incidents related to this fashion happened.
A moment for reflection
Do we live in the society of banalization? Are we so deceived in the culture of the viral that we lose sight of moral limits? Does anyone have the right to make an innocent and alien individual a protagonist of a joke just to try to win more visits in your account? Visits that he hopes to monetize later, of course.
The world of the Internet is a wonderful jungle full of creativity, originality, enthusiasm and talent.Many are the artists, humorists, authors, singers...that we have met and that have left anonymity on account of a network profile social But we can never confuse irreverence with an easy resource that consists of offending others.Netiqueta or, as we have learned since childhood, a little common sense, it may be enough.
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