Topic: Nigerian street pranks and its effect. (Read 462 times)

Omo Nigeria content creator dey over do although e dey funny o and crazy but sometimes dem dey over do and dem dey cause some people high BP instead to reduce am even when dem dey make some people happy, some no dey happy too, but dey supposed understand say street pranks no be for everyone, because e get some people wey dey just waka for street dem no dey alive, dey just dey find wetin go kill dem, because of the stress and pressure wey person dey pass through for this country no be for another person go just come dey prank person unknown because dem fit die in the process or enter sick wey dem no fit survive am so I go like to advice say mk dey reduce the way dem dey do the street pranks mk e no go land dem for problem.

That’s some serious stuff there, to them they might see it as a joke but they don’t know the health conditions some people might be so playing some pranks on them might be bad for their health. Some pranks are just too much but people don’t mind the effects it may carry all they are after is just clicks and number of engagements on their posts.

I watched a video of some people trying to prank someone where one of them disguises as a dead person in a coffin and when someone tries to open it he suddenly wakes up and try to grab the person, it was after every thing that they later told him it was a prank and the acting dead body removes his costume. i think they went too far on that also as some people might feel shock and may fall down and die from the shock of seeing a dead body moving. Such silly pranks should not be encouraged at all because i feel they are deviating from making comedy.

Smashing of phones self na less, nothing those people no fit do again. Although the reason why I no dey too put eye for most of those things na because most of them dey scripted and staged. Them go plan am finish, practice everything word to word before them come outside come capture am on camera.

So the aspect of smashing of phones, maybe the phone self fit no dey good again, them fit carry phone wey don spoil then smash am to make am look like say the phone dey okay or even if the phone dey okay, them fit don back up all the phone's data before them begin act.

Some of this content they creat are risky. Just imagine this one you are talking about. I can't blame the military man for beating him up. Did he knows who he was speaking with. Imagine he was on call with his boss. How will the military man explain this to his boss when he get to barrack. In anything we do, we should learn to do it with sense so that our act of senseless won't push us I to trouble.

In every content creation, there is limits to the kind of contents that a creator should practice. Anything that has to do with infringing on people's rights as well as traumatizing people should not be considered as content creation. Some content creators go as far as instigating fights amongst people in the name of creating content or causing violence in the name of creating content. For example, we've got content creators that would prank bikemen and taxi drivers amongst others while those people are running their day-to-day business trying to fend for themselves and make an ends meet. While driving those vehicles, a prankster can just infringe on them and spoil their day with some nonsensical Pranks.

This is where government should also come in to continue to, through the Federal Ministry of Art, Culture and the Creative Economy, role out guidelines to enlighten people on the level to which content creation should be practiced and the type of contents that are allowed within those spaces, especially as far as pranks are concerned.



Before, we used to have comedians who do pranks, but those pranks are considered harmless to those that are used for it. Sometimes it could be staged so that the person who is meant to be pranked would have an idea of what they intend to do, that it doesn't end up causing psychological trauma to them.

But these guys go out there to the street without consent, without permission, to prank people, committing dangerous scenarios. I think advices are meant to be given to them and the government really needs to play their role, not arresting them, but giving them guidelines to the limits they have in pranking others. You can't derive joy, happiness, money and content by traumatizing somebody else.

I have seen such pranks of persons having their phones smashes just to be handed a new one, probably an iphone and the victim just become flustered with emotions that they forgot to recover the old smashed one.

I have often thought that these pranks go too far many times and although I have not been pranked, I don't wish to go through the emotional confusion I may experience at the time of being pranked because just like you said, e no go too funny for the person wey start the prank o. I know just wan know weda na prank or not, e go collect slap first and small uppercut just to calm down and re-explain why e be me e come prank.

Omo the them dy do am it’s very scary and bad.not considering someone mental health and society we are in. This can cause trauma to people which can even lead to suicidal thoughts and depression which is bad and all this content need to be addressed and given code of conduct and ethics on how this done.because not all this content creators have sense and even staging a lot of this stuff and not considering how our society is and which others will like to do it for real to others without considering some content creators stage of this content.

Like I'll always say I love the fact that most Nigerian youths are in content creating to earn a living from their viewers and subscribers rather than indulging in one criminal/illegal means of making money.Now Nigeria street pranks has grown so widely by content creators.There is this Nigerian content creator that pranks celebrities popular known as @Untouchable_comedy,I was home feeling relaxed, watching videos on Facebook and I came across this expensive prank.And after watching that prank I was like Jezzzz how would @Destiny Etiko feel after that scenario.I'm not a huge fan of prank kind of stuff because victims feel depressed after been pranked.The effects of prank are enormous like mentally disorder, anxiety, trauma,fear etc.And the annoying thing is these content creators don't even care how fit the person is medically before pranking them all because they want to please their fans.

This matter if prank is getting at of hand hard it been our government is doing what is right by bringing good policy most of this would have stopped, I created a post about the highest prank on the month of April this was as a result of what a friend did to me that nearly gave me high blood pressure the the tenament apartment I am staying catch fire as a result of my air conditioner as NEPA brought light that a spike erupt from there if a Truth I did not switch of the item I was shock this is what I even take excuse in my work place rushing home as I have no body to contact at that point but all this was prank.

 This could be personal prank but in a nutshell our government need do something before this get out of hand what we are seeing now may be a start it will getting a point where it will be uncontrollable let their be a privacy laws to the citizens because I don't think there people infringe other people privacy with any sanction this apply even to the way our arms force hand people privacy the government need bring the law that can restrict many of this attitude towards others.most on the social media.

Nigeria take every little thing as an avenue to make money, prank in Nigeria don be come wetin every body wan do, our young ones on the internet are all prank star.
The funniest thing is that they don't consider the health condition of someone before pranking them, in Nigeria today not everyone you see on the street are medically fit, some are high blood pressure patient, some are diabetes patients, why some are high blood pressure patient + diabetes patients, those that on this category are no go area in pranking business, if try to prank any of them you may end of someone father life.
Pranks has sent some many people to their early graves.

That's what fits him so that in his next life he won't try to mess up with people's things just for content creation.

Come to think of am, how on earth would someone go overboard in destroying someone else phone wey be army, and fear no catch the peso to take such a stupid step in destroying peoples phone wey them no buy for the peso.

In this life, There are things wey peso no need to do to their fellow being and expect to go scout free just like that, because of sae they get new phone to give out as a dash. Meaning wetin? Sae dem don arrived or wetin?

I believe after this drilling by the army officer, the content creator plus other content creator go see this and learn a lesson from this, sae "no be everyone go like to be prank in a way dem no go fancy am"

Op I have not seen that part of the prank from my end. Taking someone's phone and smatched it on the ground. Men that one na expensive joke ohh. As for me you go buy new phone then still repair that phone for me so that I go transfer the data and the documents from the old phone to di new one. Then you go still settle me with some amount of money for using me to cast your pranks. Oboy if all these things are meant then you can come and use me to cast your pranks everytime. Because na him don turn to part of the life hustle. Really I have not seen that in any of them.

Funny enough I've observed that the rate of these prank contents has drastically reduced due to the side effects and the level of trouble these content creators/pranksters land themselves in.

I witnessed a near death experience of one of these content creators who snatched a lady's purse and attempted to run away, before he could take 5 steps, the angry mob was already all over him, that was the very first day I witnessed real life jungle justice, they so messed this guy up, before his videographer could get through the angry mob, the young man had already been beaten to stupor lol... We could barely hear the young man's faint voice screaming,  na prank o, na prank o, na prank o...

Lol it was funny and pitiful at the same time. Inow, nothing wey no be content again, I thought to myself, what if this whole thing was actually staged and planned by the content creator and he was ready to receive the beating for the money... Nothing wey no fit happen again for this country.

Well I won't blame them because everybody is looking for what will give them money while some are looking for popularity because they already have the money. Since it doesn't involve fraud or ritual it's cool after all we Nigerians love entertainment. Most prankster are actually selfish while some are not, those that are not selfish don't cross their limit, they have an extent they can go so that they don't create problem but those ones that are selfish they cross their limit, they go extra miles because they so concerned on the outcome of the prank that is why you see prank go wrong sometimes because they don over do am. Prank is also nice because sometimes it help reveal what some persons truly are/is.

You are very right @op, I actually spend a lot of time on Twitter most of the time, watching some of this pranks, and trust me, in as much as I enjoy watching most of those videos, many a times, I've actually paused and asked myself, how is possible to carry out such a prank on people and get away with it?

Cus I know that, there is the kind of mood I will be in, and if some content creator does any sort of such prank on me, omo, he or she go collect wotowoto from me ooh.

So, this is something we all should really caution this so called content creators about, instead of engaging in pranking people, it's better much safer to do arrangee skits/pranks.

I have even stopped watching some of these prank video online, because I see no reason why a fellow human being would take a joke so far that it can even give someone an instant increase in high blood pressure which could lead to death, I remember one prank video I watched, it was created by untouchable comedies whereby he scammed a nollywood  actress Destiny Etikok by displacing a dead corpse in her car boot, and someone was pressuring her to report to the police, if you saw her reaction you would observe that they went too far, after that prank she refused to talk to dem as she was angry and never liked prank in the first place, they still went further to prank her by buying a car to make up for the emotional damage they caused, at the end it was all prank. Indeed some prank has lead to the destruction of relationship between couples, fiancee etc.
I don't support risky pranks, so I don't find them entertaining, before a person could recover from such an emotional prank it could take up to a month, and after that I don't think our relationship would be effective any longer because you broke my trust, how am I not sure such person would do a lot more worse than this. Another thing again, some of this content creator if you observe very well are just acting movies, untouchable comedies taught me that. After all the quarrel he got from his boy, the end story was a complete mess, and because of that I stopped watching frank comedies.

Seems your not getting the point. Apart from being a soldier it is an expensive joke to take someones phone and just smashed the phone on the ground. If you watched the video again. That soldier man might be having an important conversation with his loved one that has to do with health issues or something very important and from no where someone broke the phone. At least there are other way of doing the prank instead of doing it that way.

On the look of that soldiers face he would have dealt with that guy if not for the intervention of the other soldiers who recognized him. This life is lived once it won’t be nice if we risk ourselves to the outcomes of dangerous pranks like that all in the name of fame or clout. Well am not too surprise. There is nothing people don’t do for fame on the trending social media apps. If you go through Tiktok and Instagram you will see a lot.

It’s a called a prank for a reason, soldiers are fellow humans like us out that uniform he his just a commoner, they are no god and can be approached at anytime. If they can prank the president of France who then is a common soldier. Some of us just have this fear when we see a man in uniform, that is why even at the point of distress we don’t meet them for assistance. Prankster at times goes extreme in their content. Some of them even lack content all they just want is to post for the gram. If all this was regulated we should be seeing more educational content rather than this rubbish we have circulating the internet.
 People feel is that once day have a good phone the next thing is to to be a content creator. Gone are the days where there use to write scripts for skit. Writing skits down before actually acting usually has this message it send to the viewer, content creators should be more advanced, they can use their creativity to pass information about bitcoin and it’s benefits more of educational content rather than heartbreaks and either kissing or grabbing. Internet is where we ease our tension from the country’s wahala. Content creators should step up their game and do some thing useful for humanity and our country a whole

In fact my guy what you just said is the truth there is this guy on TikTok all he does is break peoples phone one of my guy was a victim they broke his phone and gave him a new iPhone this guy has the money to buy phone but just because he likes  Samsung he didn’t get an iPhone the worst part of it he easily forget password and the phone they broke can’t be fix till today that guy is still struggling to retrieve some of his email and small of his file,like you said Entertainment is not bad I also love watching comedy and pranks but the way they do it this days is really turning into something else one of the most painful prank is when they call you to mention the guy or girl that gave you a gift now what if you have a lot of them you call the run girl at that point that relationship is ended.
This prankster really need to be educated on how to run all this stuff.

Nigerians always take things for granted, just imagine pranking a soldier, don't you think it will be suicidal, it will be so bad for you as a person to
Prank on serious things knowing fully well that this can be dangerous and it can portray a big problem, how will you even prank a soldier knowing that these people are not smiling, Nigerians always takes things for granted, this is not good, some persons see this actions as as a skit, but to me is not, is it that they don't longer write skit before bringing it to the public notice, everyone was ts to be a skit maker, not minding if they can do the work or not, this is just unprofessional, I think there should be regulations on this, in other to prevent this events from happening.