S2 E18: Online Harassment, Charleston & Putin Theme Park: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Season 2, Episode 18, June 21st, 2015. John Oliver explores why online harassment is so prevalent but rarely prosecuted, a tragedy in Charleston, and a Russian military theme park.
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[@Izandaia]

Not only had I completely forgotten about about the rickrolling, after the first one I thought "I'm pretty sure he does this again later this episode." But then I forgot about that by the second one, and I got hit again. Well played, good sir, well played.

[@teamarie123]

The kayaking buddies was so funny because my dad literally was on several kayaking forums when I was younger and went to meetups in Virginia

[@HerrCron]

Your da had, and I hope still has, a very active sex life, so good for him!

[@RoboCoconut]

"Russia, a country that will continue to be funny until it suddenly isn't". Holy crap.

[@ingridakerblom7577]

It's never been funny bcs the people have suffered forever.. People don't want to see putins true colors before he invaded Ukraine. Putin, to come to power, ordered bombings of civilian apartment buildings, blamed some fake terrorist & started a horrific war based on the lie. He never cared about the Russian people. It's all props for his insane selfish goals..

[@bluebelle8823]

I really felt that one. There have been moments in these older eps that are oh damn... Russia losing it's low level fun side is one of them

[@broastedgarlic7354]

Since that's a full quote, you must place the terminal punctuation inside the quotation marks. "Russia, a country that will continue to be funny until it suddenly isn't."

[@Sam-Cain]

​​@@broastedgarlic7354AFAIA that's actually just a regional difference. The US puts the quotation mark before a full stop and the UK (and probably other countries) puts them after the full stop. (i may be wrong but this is what i was taught in school... which means it's probably incorrect)

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

​@@Sam-Caini has always assumed it depended on whether you were quoting a full sentence or including a quote on a sentence

[@Matt.Thompson.1976]

Thanks for adding the original air date guys. Much appreciated.

[@ryanstarrfish]

Okay but my dude definitely put "manslaughter" in quotes to emphasize that it was 100% full-fat murder.

[@pineapplesandjellies]

I thought he did it because it was a woman he slaughtered.

[@fathertimegaming17]

You didn't get me with the second Rick roll. It was obviously coming because there is no one in Congress remotely capable of delivering a speech like that.

[@Jcewazhere]

Mississippi got a new flag in 2021. Took em a while. The confed flag was removed in 2015, but there are still asshats all over the state flying them on their own. While searching I came across a bunch of stories about a dude flying it on I-85.

[@jessaminemanchester]

Glad Mississippi finally changed their flag and removed the confederate flag from the state house, but it's still so appalling to see just how many (white) people are still so comfortable displaying it. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania, a state that was very much NOT the confederacy and would never be considered "the south" no matter how general you're being, but I still saw some version of the confederate flag on probably one tenth of the houses I'd pass on the way home from school.

[@agiar2000]

@@jessaminemanchester Yup. I live in Ohio, and I have seen them around here, too. I remember hearing that even some folks fly it in Europe. Why? Presumably because in those parts of Europe, the Nazi flag is illegal.

[@leaganelle2962]

@@agiar2000I’m in Tx and half the houses and trucks on my street are flying confederate flags 🙄

[@beth12svist]

@@agiar2000 Can confirm having recently seen it in someone's garden on a train from Prague to Plzeň. I do occasionally see it, and it's always weird. Once upon a time (about the time these episodes first came out) I chalked it up to ignorance, but these days, I'm not so sure about that...

[@LyonsM]

@@beth12svistwe’d like to say that it’s “ignorance” but I think it’s much more sinister than that. It’s intentional in your face, racism.

[@aussiecricketfan9729]

The sad part about the russian military park is the kids climbing over them back then are probably on the front line in the Ukraine now

[@randomgarbageuploading]

And then the $10 change didn't even happen because of the popularity of the Hamilton musical.

[@jasonjimerson7046]

They should have put Rosa Parks on the 20 dollar bill.

[@faithstea]

lin manuel miranda's fanfiction continues to plague us

[@jgunn03]

@@jasonjimerson7046 Some people already using the Harriet Tubman rubber stamp on it.

[@mitchellnelson3433]

I am really enjoying these full episode uploads. Hats off to JO for putting everything on youtube!

[@jturtle5318]

The Uvalde shooter harassed girls online with threats of raqe and murder, and when they complained about it they were told to "just ignore him" and "it's only words", and no action was taken despite a well-established connection between misogynistic threats and harassing or "creepy" (Nikolas Cruz, the Parkland shooter) behavior or expressions and school shooters. Despite that clear pattern, they ignored him until a Border Patrol team took him down. Just like they'll ignore the next one.

[@zachgoldwater957]

It's a hard thing to police. Virtually everyone, especially children, have made thinly-veiled (or otherwise) threats over the internet. Saying "it's only words" may seem irresponsible in retrospect, but they had like a 99.99% chance of being right. It's not like news outlets are constantly reporting on stories where "someone made a threat, and then nobody did anything, and then nothing happened", but that exact scenario happens all the time.

[@jturtle5318]

@@zachgoldwater957 persistent threats of direct harm to individuals who are local and thus "within reach" are a little different than the generic adolescent huffing and puffing.

[@Rowsy91]

if you want every kid thats made several mean threats online arrested its gonna be a pretty packed prison system haha

[@jturtle5318]

@@Rowsy91 it wasn't just a few threats, and they were directed to girls he knew from school. That's different than you anonymously yapping at an @ on KZbin, for example. The school took no action, they never made any attempt to talk to him. Eerily similar to the response when he was slaughtering children.

[@zachgoldwater957]

@@jturtle5318 I'm not able to find any source that the threats were made towards girls he personally knew from school. From the Texas Tribune: "But these threats hadn’t been discovered by parents, friends or teachers. They’d been seen by strangers, many of whom had never met him and had found him only through the social messaging and video apps that form the bedrock of modern teen life." I think the threats were something that only really occurred online with strangers, and they only really came to light after the event. They were fairly explicit, although I'm not sure they were exceptional; it's been a while since I've been in high school but I do remember me and my peers making some pretty egregious jokes about you-know-what (rhymes with hull bootings). As always, see something say something.

[@ToddBlackToddTalk]

And sadly, online harassment of women and others today is arguably even worse.

[@Onigirli]

Arguably?

[@glovesforsocks4603]

Bro they had Anita Sarkeesian on this show to talk about it do you not remember her getting exposed as a liar?

[@victoriaeads6126]

As a person who lived in Russia for over two years, that theme park is just about the MOST Russian thing I have ever seen. It could only get more Russian if it was associated with Russian Standard vodka the way that Hershey Park is associated with chocolate.

[@anoisano275]

I'm so mad I just got rick rolled in 2024 😭😭

[@elphieofkiamoko]

TWICE! XD

[@anoisano275]

@@elphieofkiamokoYep, I lost again from that reply, I'm 30 now, pls stop 😭😭

[@Gambit22003]

What a cream puff 🤦🤣

[@jasonjimerson7046]

I laughed... I love the classics!

[@TheRealSkeletor]

@@anoisano275 I just lost the game. :(

[@fathertimegaming17]

Ha! What do you know Lin-Manuel Miranda is still on the $10 bill.

[@Gambit22003]

I have yet to see this, who??

[@filthybonnet]

@@Gambit22003 It's 2024 and someone is still coming in like "What'd I miss?"

[@Wankomancer]

@@Gambit22003 the guy who wrote (and played the titular character) Hamilton (the stage play).

[@marc21256]

That typing like he was running his fingers down venetian blinds made me laugh, I'm glad it was called out in the outtakes.

[@djtundra8011]

It’s sad how relevant some of this stuff is still to this day

[@Izandaia]

i dont know why but i always picture john oliver as a puffin

[@victoriaeads6126]

Still waiting on those redesigned currency notes 😕

[@filthybonnet]

That $10 isn't happening. You can thank Lin-Manuel Miranda.

[@brettdeccy9897]

Watch his hands. His fingers are like creepy spider legs.

[@mitchellnelson3433]

So glad JO is putting all this on the platform

[@DeadInsideDave]

Lmao k

[@Onigirli]

@@DeadInsideDave What's so funny?

[@PQRDG]

After being on the Internet for almost a decade, it took me until now to understand why John Oliver talked about Online Harassment and included an interview clip with Anita Sarkesian. I am very glad a younger me was blissfully unaware of Gamergate and every other terrible thing happening on the internet at that time.

[@Allie-fk6om]

You know, I actually like the idea of a male figure and a female figure sharing a dollar bill. We should do that for all of the bills. Each dollar value and coin should have legitimate versions for both a male and female figure. That would be a great way to accomplish equality. However, while that's nice to think about in theory, there would probably be issues in practice. For instance, the female version of the $1 bill would probably only end up being worth 93 cents...

[@AG-ld6rv]

Tucker Carlson would be so juiced up to say Patriot Park finished in 2016. "Wow, in Russia, they sometimes release stuff ahead of schedule. This is insane."

[@VanessaChats]

I am definitely not alone in that I had to re-check the 'date' of this full episode as 2015 when it came to "the internet" portion. Sadly, it's only become worse with the online harassment for women (and the law still hasn't truly caught up and the police are still absolutely useless and traumatising). We now have to contend with AI deep fakes. The younger generation is really screwed up (and there's actual suicides happening because of it) due to "people" scamming them to send pornographic photos to the scammer/blackmailer. Plus the old line "date better men" is still be trotted out to women when the most abusive men "appear" to everyone else "as a good guy". Oh... and lastly... let's not forget "just don't send nudes" when in this day and age you don't even have to send anything with the advent of AI deep fakes.

[@technopoptart]

lolol, it is cute you think ai is needed. people have been using photoshop to be absolute monsters for twenty+ years. cut+paste is good enough to harass and traumatize people, remember; it doesnt have to be believable it just has to be salacious

[@Onigirli]

@@technopoptart Cute?

[@Rowsy91]

there is a difference i think we can agree though between deep fakes being created by weirdos and people putting themselves in potentially bad spots with choices of sendding nudes out not saying they 'deserve" it guy or girl but people DO need accountability in knowing you created a situation where this was a possibility by taking and sending those pics

[@SparkimusPrime]

Watching all these episodes in 2024 is wild. Also, RIP to the Harriet Tubman.

[@kateuhler7803]

Obviously, consent by the person IN the pic should be required for pics like that to be put up, like with everything else sexually.

[@RBlue118]

It feels so weird to be watching this now knowing we didn't even get the $10 because of a rap musical

[@chrisfratz]

I think the Confederate flag should be retired since it only lasted 4 years. The Annoying Orange has lasted longer. The fucking Annoying Orange

[@zdelrod829]

It lasted as long as the Trump Presidency.

[@jlev1028]

We get it. You watched Doobus Goobus too.

[@chrisfratz]

@@jlev1028 what? What's that?

[@asamlos]

@@chrisfratzA youtube animator who made a similar point about the confederate flag being stupid lol

[@RodrigoRodrigues-mc4oq]

@@zdelrod829 That is what he meant by Annoying Orange, no?

[@jnmsks6052]

I'd argue even $5 and $1 are more "prestigious" than the $10, if we're considering visibility.

[@bluebelle8823]

I wonder what John's opinion of the third Hemsworth brother would be. Luke is older than Chris and a whole lot different to Liam.

[@Gwen-em3jm]

Thanks for the full episode!

[@FlanCakes]

THE BEST TUCAN REPORTER

[@lyndonwesthaven6623]

Or puffin!

[@arp711]

THE RETURN OF CARLOS DANGER

[@jackkroll1963]

The woman calling in to suggest Princess Di on the ten dollar bill hust reinforces my dismay in this country. A small thing that indicates so much more.

[@Onigirli]

What does it indicate?

[@LizzyAnn_Comedy]

How does he make me laugh and be outraged at the same time?

[@jaymanaventurier]

Fun fact, the painting in the spoof internet ad says "Vallauris, La semaine dernière ce soir" "La semaine dernière ce soir" is "Last Week Tonight" in french. And Vallauris, as far as the Internet tells me, is a French commune with a nudes beach.

[@Chris_winthers]

This only got uploaded 3 weeks ago, but you can still tell when it's from

[@tokenblackwoman127]

Did I actually just get rickrolled in 2024 🤦🏾‍♀️🤷🏾‍♀️

[@VanessaAbeyawardena]

Wow I have seen this episode so many times and I only just realised that's Colin Hanks in the skit

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

yessss thank you, I recognized his face but couldn't place it.

[@mika17884]

And now I am watching with hands 😂

[@LyonsM]

Exactly, hadn’t paid a lick of attention to them before. 🥸🥸

[@djtundra8011]

Huh we still didn’t get any women on the dollar bills

[@andalilbitqueer]

April 2016 they announced Tubman would replace Jackson, you can guess what happened next lol Anyway, the Trump admin said production of dollar redesigns would go ahead in 2030, but didn't clarify if it would include Tubman in the $20 bill. Later, the Biden admin confirmed Tubman would occupy a redesign, but also put the date at 2030.

[@Izandaia]

Your avatar fits perfectly with the year this season was made.

[@Rowsy91]

i dont think its the most pressing issue the country has

[@andyharris3084]

What's funny in is that the guy typing into the computer in the sketch near the end is the religious nutjob bad guy from Dexter season 6.

[@carterf3585]

It's a shame Brianna Wu decided to make her entire post-gamergate career about grifting to the same toxic, violent people who harassed her in the first place

[@dreuxbenson6017]

Tom Cruise on a depression medication ad 😂

[@shanegau4402]

I think we should put Lindsay Lohan on the ten dollar bill.

[@megamihestia4049]

You can laugh however much you want, but I want to go to that military disneyland, it looks awesome.

[@jones8041]

"Russia, That will be funny until IT ISN'T!" Damn that aged so well it's sad.

[@DrewSavo]

12:03 And he brought it back. God damn it John!

[@mouktikamangipudi5826]

Watching this in 2024 has given me a maddening reminder that nothing has changed. Now, people are using Chat GPT to create AI generated fake pictures of women instead.

[@browncloudchronicles]

I wish LWT kept the format of providing a quick recap of the week.

[@oxen3856]

For the record Anita Sarkisian and Briana Wu were both kinda assholes to people online and Wu in particular made fake accounts to harass herself. What they were claiming was false and most gamers (bar people playing call of duty and league of legends, they’re all insane) don’t care about your gender. Most of the sexism stuff in video games is in game development companies and how people were treated there.

[@MusicfromMarrs]

If 2022 John Oliver could visit 2016 John Oliver, 2016 JO would probably break down crying in his office. Anybody else get a Tubman stamp for their $20 bills back in the teens? It's a sweet act of rebellion to stamp each $20. Also, shout out to John on calling out Scientology in so many different ways in so many episodes. Xenu is my home boy!

[@kryw10]

I just liked this for the Rick Roll. 😂

[@Parsilious]

Got rick rolled from a video from 10 years ago…

[@MitchellTF]

The only people who use $10 bills, are Cashiers asking "Do you want change for a $20"...

[@artemixern5796]

i decided to check in on the "Giant SpaceKat" studio from 15:45 and learned their offical twitter has gone dark since 2017

[@WebberLowe]

Watch his hands, his fingers are like creepy spider legs

[@martinjrgensen8234]

That Patriot Park… wonder how many of those tanks are now in Ukraine…

[@brokeboi6079]

Did I actually just get rick rolled

[@DrMcFly28]

Some of those kids joyfully playing in the army amusement park are now corpses in the battlefield

[@seanrizzle]

Almost sounds like a "special military opertion" of a theme park...

[@LylaKittn]

The best part is the blooper reel, which proves that normal people can't even keep a straight face talking about what these whackadoodles think is a fun thing to do. LMAO

[@BlackCatGamingWasTaken]

bro has spider fingers

[@BittaSweetJP]

Thanks

[@TheDubastro]

Andrew Jackson also tried to dismantle federal money

[@SpecialBlanket]

Re worst ppl in the world-- grew up in tx and genuinely had no idea was considered racist til my 20s. I thought it was just southern pride.

[@insidejoke3223]

They photoshopped my family member's linkedin photo onto a kink model, so yeah, "don't take photos" doesn't work

[@DANNYonPC]

4:26, i dont understand that joke :( ELI5 please, lol

[@rachelgeorge2098]

Looks like he's dismayed by the MS flag because of the slavery/racism theme?

[@Mwilliams8573]

Referring to the 3/5ths compromise in the Constitution where slaves were only counted as 3/5 of a person when tallying representation in Congress

[@DANNYonPC]

@@Mwilliams8573 thanks

[@andalilbitqueer]

the 3/5ths compromise was agreed to, in order to get the northern states to join the union. since the enslaved made up a large amount of the southern population, northerners believed that if they were counted in the census, the south would get more political power when the enslaved couldn't even vote. as a compromise, they made it so 1 enslaved person was considered 3/5ths of a white person, one of the bigger hypocricies during the american revolution.

[@neemz9361]

Harriet Tubbs 🙃

[@nebulan]

Lol bing still has no love

[@podracer35]

8:02 or a country... Also where is this redesigned Bill? Been hearing about it for almost a decade and still nothing

[@stevedixon9734]

“What’s twitter” is perfectly valid

[@nebulan]

How has Harriet Tubman not gotten onto the $20 yet??

[@nebulan]

Ok Wikipedia says 2030.

[@Rowsy91]

Not sure its the #1 issue in america right now lol who cares who is on money

[@veggigoddess]

John should have put it in context that to some people the swastika means this other thing that isn't about racism, but it doesn't matter what your misguided wrong interpretation is of a symbol that's literally all that matters!

[@damianskiba4876]

Honestly? John Oliver as a puffin? I kinda see it

[@valentynolenyev9232]

Harriet Tubman.

[@retep2041]

You know I wonder if that park still exists or did it drove to Ukraine.

[@eddyvluggen]

Good advice, but even clothed foto's are dangerous; AI can undress. And Google does remove "upon request"? How does that help?

[@jeredgibb5064]

Man was rick rolling, and showing anita sarkeesian in the online harrassment and revenge porn policy episode.

[@happysheher]

This is insane, what's happening today politically

[@Aralis21]

What is the 3/5th reference about? (At 4:20 )

[@TheJeffOfficial]

Slavery. 3 out of every 5 slaves were counted towards the total population for legislative representation.

[@Aralis21]

​@@TheJeffOfficial thank you

[@bluebelle8823]

Thank you for asking I was hoping someone had

[@bluebelle8823]

@@TheJeffOfficial Thank you for being so polite in your answer. As a 'not an American' there are some things that just aren't general knowledge for us. It nice to see someone not speak down upon that lack of knowledge.

[@Satsujinki1973]

@@bluebelle8823 It might not be clear in Jeff's reply but what that means is that Slave owners could cast votes based on the number of slaves they had at that ratio. If they had 100 slaves they could cast 60 extra votes.

[@GuitarSlayer136]

they'll

[@liquiddenmark1315]

well looks better then Disneyland 😀

[@robkitchen5344]

The answer. Can be simple.....send nothingwith your face..... thenyou know any claim its not you.....or just dont.... dont take naked photos that include your face......and give em away ...in person ..... So you can deny that naked photo is actually yourself........ Because when your ever pressured by anyone to send naked photos.....download photos of porn acto ..then photo shop any identifying things like face or tattoos out and send those to them.........

[@JosephCarven]

How are things turn out after all this years with revenge porn and harassment?

[@ruckusrevolution9475]

Now everyone puts revealing photos on line so no one cares.

[@Amocles]

Sacagawea for sure

[@albertalvarado7644]

Awe! Fuck you, Jon! You got me 😒

[@fanaticforager6610]

Data 📊 goes in » Integrity Out📈 #schwabtest #wildcat #causeandeffect #rosakiore 29:31

[@samuelmcclellan8625]

Based on how Jon is speaking, I'm assuming that he is not aware that america does the same thing. It's at joint base Andrews. Septembers, i believe. Though, this year is cancelled. It's ground vehicles, aircraft, and it used have a massive selection of weapons that kids could hold, but not anymore. I've definitely held a javelin rocket launcher, and sat behind a mark 19 grenade launcher, because of that show. Oh, and it's free. It's meant to give Americans the ability to see what some of their tax money is going.

[@raghi99]

The 3rd one is not even a woman

[@allanwidner9276]

Russian military theme park, celebrating Russia's military might - and no in 2024 here we are, learning the Russian military is a bigger, soggier paper tiger than Saddam Husein's WMDs.

[@PauliusBaronaitis-lr7mf]

Thumbs up Johnyy🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@gspendlove]

Given what happened this week, I'd nominate Stormy Daniels for the $10 bill. She's a hero. Michael Cohen can be on the five, and Drumpf's picture can go on sheets of toilet paper.

[@sir_saltsalot]

Let's not forget that on a piece on online bullying and harassment, showing a particular victim was enough to make the original video the most disliked on LWT's channel. You still see idiots calling out Anita Sarkeesian like they think they're making some salient point in the year 2024. She's not a liar, she's not a fraud; she made the most milquetoast, art criticism-101 video series on gaming and people seriously nearly ruined her life over it and evidently some of them *still* can't drop it after *10 years*. Man, GamerGate was a fever dream. Poor woman.

[@loljk233]

23:27 I love John Oliver, but this is such a terrible analogy. You have to live somewhere, you don't have to take nude photos of yourself. I actually agree with the news anchors sentiment; that the best way to prevent this is by not taking and sharing these pictures. We SHOULD teach young people NOT to do this. It's not victim blaming, it's preventive action. Obviously, it's awful that it happens, but people that do this don't really give a shit about other peoples feelings. It's great that laws are created to punish this, however, such photos can be impossible to remove from the internet and when uploaded, the damage is done. Even if the uploader gets convicted. Taking photos like these are never worth the risk.

[@decrozi]

According to the Wiki (grain of salt), as of two years ago the first new bills with women on them will not be for another two years (2026). Progress?🤷‍♀

[@kylapineda6499]

As a banker, the comment about the $10 bill being the most widely used. Total bullshit. No one ever comes to the bank asking for $10s. Ever. They come to exchange $10 for other bills.

[@richarddavis3980]

Richard Gere nails that hairstyle in the same way the gerbil nails well you know Plus I agree Andrew Jackson should be replaced with a woman but I do think it's a hilarious burn to put him all over the 20 specifically because of the reason he hated it

[@gyinagal]

Look at his hands. They’re like creepy spider legs.