cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/news/p/1395876/streamer-troll-johnny-somali-found-guilty-on-all-counts-sentenced-to-south-korean-prison-l
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.
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.
Finally some good news in 2026
HELL YEAH
Sounds like he deserved it
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.
Ooh, do North Korea next.
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.
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.
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.
Now all I want to see is the video of him getting punched.
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.
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.
"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.
A South Korean prison labor camp seems a fitting destination for all influencers and YouTube trolls.
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.
Section 230 prevents this.
Section 230
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.
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!
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?
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.
Oh yes, yes, let’s take things to completely absurd takes
You already did
You just compared a fine for Twitch and YouTube to “throwing everyone in jail”. Touch grass.
You just compared a fine for Twitch and YouTube to “throwing everyone in jail”.
Congratulations! Today you get to learn about hyperbole and exaggeration!
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.
Labour camp is exactly what he needs
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…
