Streamer 'Troll' Johnny Somali Found Guilty on All Counts, Sentenced to South Korean Prison Labor Camp For Public Nuisance Crimes
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from FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 16 Apr 02:49
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from FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 16 Apr 02:49
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Ramsey Khalid Ismael — better known as Johnny Somali, the infamous American streamer arrested in Japan, Israel, and South Korea for his provocative behavior — has been imprisoned in South Korea.
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Now that he’s convicted, an interesting question might be “is there enough evidence to convict him in other countries who have extradition treaties with South Korea?”…
I have limited sympathy for people who make their living by bothering people.
Probably, but that’s generally not done. He’s been convicted and after he serves his sentence he’ll be deported, which means he probably won’t be given a visa to enter any other country.
Japan probably won't do anything more. I believe he has an entry ban for some time here (probably 5 years from whenever he was gone), but I don't recall the exact details.
Mf was so annoying they sent him to the gulag
If they do a prisoner exchange with North Korea anytime in the near future, they should send this guy to them. Just because. Maybe it will teach the arrogant US citizens to behave better in other countries.
Note, I’m not saying that about the US citizens that are considerate human beings.
As a prank.
Exactly. It’s just the natural consequences of a social experiment.
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.
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.
People should also have the right to fight back with extreme prejudice if these morons lay hands on them first.
100% - but I meant the self defense part when they haven't actually touched you, just gotten to the point where their actions can constitute harassment.
The defence would be that they felt their lives were being threatened by the persistent harrassment.
And given there was no physicality, that court case could go either way...
The point I’m trying to make is that people should be free of prosecution if they are being aggressively harassed, both physical and verbal. It used to be, you ran your mouth, you would get a punch in the face to knock some sense back into you. Immediate consequences for stupidity.
Used to frequent a streaming site for telestreaming robots. I remember the owner getting excited when Ice Poseidon contacted them because of his popularity, thinking it would help traffic. Community warned her it was playing with napalm. She invited him anyway. It only attracted a shitload of griefers, incels and filth that never fully went away after he quickly became bored and left. Site was never the same.
This piece of shit was somehow even more annoying so you love to see it.
Keep in mind, it’s only 6 months. Hollow victory.
He has to register as a sex offender when he eventually gets deported to the US… lmfao
So you’re saying he has a future career in government?
Nope. The orange man only like pink people.
Spending 6 months of your life in prison is not insignificant. Incarceration is a serious punishment.
Dude’s like all you hate about social media craze and tourist’s exceptionalism in one person. Find out part may seem sweet at last, but he is a mere symptom waiting for reproduction unless there are enough barriers in place he won’t be able to fall through. Barriers in not taking him behind the bars alone or at all, but educating, demotivating, ostracizing and deplatforming.
Just cut his balls off and send him up North.
I don’t think north Korea would keep him as prisoner. Unlike Otto Warmbier he has no fans or sympathy from anyone, so no Western politician would gain anything from negotiating his release with North Korea.
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.
Maybe outlawing people needs to come back as a penalty.
The great tragedy is that S Korea commuted his 3 year potential sentence to just 6 months.
Appeal is still possible and likely. But yea I agree, it’s a crazy low sentence
“Legal Mind” YouTube channel is apparently working within the 7 day appeal window to try to increase that to 2 years.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbto0N6PkIs&t=0
Wow, I never even knew that was a thing
There’s a reason these little piss bucket streamers don’t pull this shit in places like UAE or Saudi Arabia. You won’t get six months. You just don’t come back. Ever.
Good riddance to the little cunt. I hope he gets his asshole resized real good.
Always find it absolutely fucking bizarre when people wish rape on others in the context of justice or social decency. Like rape is a suitable punishment or something.
“You did crime/bad thing! Hope you have crimes committed against you in prison!”
Somali is a shitbag but no where near as bad as a rapist.
His crimes are literally insulting victims of rape
So? Not being an arsehole here, in relation to my reply, what is your point?
Since when is insulting the same as actual physically raping someone?
Because they are slave states with no regards for human rights?
You have an insanely distorted view of the world.
Yeah, especially when the penalty is reduced or waived according to how closely related you are to the king.
You should inform yourself about the Japanese justice and prison system
Serial killers in the same prison might say that it is against the Geneva convention to have a person like him in the same cell block.
Labour camp is exactly what he needs
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:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhpcyBdt88&t=0
Legal mindset:
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.
Now I used to like RWJ, but it did become a bit cringe and corporate over the years, so I’m genuinely surprise how watchable that video was.
Now all I want to see is the video of him getting punched.
A South Korean prison labor camp seems a fitting destination for all influencers and YouTube trolls.
Get rekt.
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.
Norwegian philosopher Arne Ness said it best:
“There is no freedom without responsibility - in fact, the two are intrinsically the same.”
Swedish philosopher Ane Nuss once said, “pffft”.
Norway took credit for that comment and as a result we have the “puffin”.
From the country that brought you Klarna and “The Capitalist Manifesto”, everyone.
They should also seize all his revenue from streaming, as proceeds of crime. And fine all the streaming platforms for aiding a criminal based on how many viewers they gave him/how much they paid him for being a criminal nuisance. They profited by his criminal activity drawing views to their platforms, and they generated ad revenue off of those criminal activities.
We should then imprison everyone who watched his videos for contributing to his crimes, and everyone who talks about him for providing advertisement to him helping him do his crimes. And at least fine the people whom he offended for allowing for there to be a crime to begin with.
Just throw everyone in jail!
Oh yes, yes, let’s take things to completely absurd takes, once someone suggests that the guy shouldn’t be allowed to profit off his crime (which he did, clearly), and that the tech companies that have also been profiting off his crimes should also be accountable. It’s not like confiscating wealth as ‘proceeds of crime’ is an actual legal thing in most places or anything!
Defend those corporations! Tech overlords are always innocent!
Twit.
You already did
I’m assuming you’re just a troll, much like the asshat you’re defending. “Drug dealers should be allowed to keep the money they earned by dealing drugs!”, no, they shouldn’t, and they generally don’t get to. “Streamers should get to keep the profits they made by committing crimes for their audience!”, again, no, they shouldn’t, but for some reason they generally seem to get to. Guys got a net worth estimated at about $3million, money he’s earned by committing criminal acts and recording them. Money that he’s paid by American corporations as a benefit of him committing crimes in foreign countries, for the amusement of a (generally) American audience.
Calling that out isn’t absurd.
You just compared a fine for Twitch and YouTube to “throwing everyone in jail”. Touch grass.
Congratulations! Today you get to learn about hyperbole and exaggeration!
Witnessing and talking about a crime isnt a crime. Providing infrastructure to commit a crime is a crime.
So the DPW is responsible for people who speed or drive drunk? Or is your understanding of the law laughably stupid and childish?
Idk what DPW is. Web platforms are responsible for users posting illegal content. That has always been the case. This is no different.
Section 230 prevents this.
Yes, yes, please tell me how USA laws apply everywhere, and are the greatest laws ever to exist, while your president shits all over your country, disregards all your laws cause he’s got the supreme court in his pocket, brags about committing war crimes at your state of the union, and is off threatening genocides etc. Please, do preach on about USA’s special exceptional status, while the USA is a total dumpster fire.
I’m sure the south korean court was like “Shit guys! We gotta make sure we try this person by American laws here in South Korea!” and all the other foreign countries in which this asshat has operated. This fucker got paid by American streaming companies to commit crimes in foreign countries. If a foreign country’s businesses were paying people to commit crimes in America, I’m sure the Americans would be totally cool trying that foreigner by foreign laws too! They totally wouldn’t just gitmo the guy out of existence, or deport him to El Salvador with ZERO due process.
You may be on to something! They SHOULD emulate America! Deport him to North Korea without due process and let the North deal out whatever Justice they see fit. They execute people for merely WATCHING social media there, I’m sure they’d love to have this dipshit.
Ooh, do North Korea next.
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.
Sounds like he deserved it
Finally some good news in 2026
HELL YEAH
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.
FAFO 4 U LOL
Good, idiots like this deserve to face the consequences of their actions
He is going in a boy And will come out a hole man
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.