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[@QueerTay]

My favourite prank is telling my partner that there’s lots of dishes to do. Then they go into the kitchen and realise I’ve already done the dishes.

[@alexia3552]

Now THAT'S my kinda prank

[@WolfDKody]

My favourite prank is telling my dishes I have a partner.

[@Sofia2crazy]

That's a prank that leads to a happy ending

[@thefoolishjester5125]

I don’t know why but I imagined your partner finding no dishes, turning around confused, and seeing you doing an evil pose as you monologue about how you pranked them…and it made it funnier to me

[@njc1304]

@@WolfDKody 😂😂😂

[@JOwen-sj2rr]

good prank: i taped a picture of nicolas cage to the bottom of my brother's computer mouse. the sensor didnt work so when he turned over to check it, BOOM! nicolas cage

[@kaliru1]

😂😂

[@hernameispekka_Rebecca]

Perfect!

[@cassandracornwell7595]

See stuff like this is the only acceptable pranks imo. Cuz that would have made me laugh so hard😂

[@kerolokerokerolo]

LMAO that's funny. You could've even rickrolled him. Maybe that'd be too much though

[@Emmy-ql6wr]

Yessss

[@tanyastacy-haws993]

I pulled a prank on my new roommate this semester. I hid 98 tiny ducks around our apartment for her to find. I told her there were 100. She thought it was hilarious, especially when she couldn’t find the last 2 and I told her “oh yeah, there’s actually 98”. She burst out laughing and I gave her a cookie for “winning the game”

[@f.i.r.e.5119]

I thought this was going to be like that one James Veitch bit, but I think this might be better.

[@BlackLotusFlame]

That's cute

[@tanyastacy-haws993]

@@f.i.r.e.5119 that’s where I got the idea lol, got the ducks on Amazon

[@higoodbye7545]

W roomate

[@summerskull9379]

Aww I love that 🐥

[@skylerdas181]

The chair one left me speechless... God the gaslighting the person had to endure is insane. I'm glad he stood up for himself

[@TheMynameis90]

I would say he actually sat down for himself.

[@skylerdas181]

@@TheMynameis90 That was a good one lol 😂

[@kyraweaver3442]

I was gonna say he only could stand up for himself because he never had a chair

[@hadipirzada1790]

he had to

[@Mehp2]

There were like five more updates they didn’t reas

[@traupman84]

People really don't know what pranks are anymore. A prank is convincing your co-workers you booked a Marvel movie, not feeding them baby poop on toast.

[@JamesJones-ts5fl]

I thought you were being hyperbolic, then I reached that part of the story…

[@philipmckinnon3833]

Yeah. Feeding someone, baby poop is not a prank. It's attempted murder.

[@davidwarlock2376]

Yeah it's like Angela's experience with cat food, but without knowing you were getting shit. And the levels it reached.

[@TheGhostofAbigailMills]

First of all, thank you for that callback to Arasha's prank on Let's Do This. Second, YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. The primary points of a prank are to confuse, delight, bamboozle, maybe get people to question their reality a little bit. Most of the "pranks" in these stories are about hurting and/or humiliating others.

[@demoneon9527]

Oh god I just started the video AAAAAAAAA

[@nica8791]

You don't know how much it heals me that the three understood the person with his chair, and see that it wasnt about the chair. My heart stung while listening to this story.

[@tortillachips3911]

YEAH. i was already typing a comment about how it wasn't about the chair because I'm so normalized to the "you're overreacting" thing...

[@yukiharu9726]

Also, I don’t get why they would bully them about it? Like, it’s such a simple thing, I don’t get their issue with them bringing a chair. Also, their family is so weird they let the bullying go on for so long.

[@awesumtoast97]

Me too and the window!? Are you fucking serious!? My mind works like damiens too and I was always the butt of the joke now when my brother hosts thanksgiving or something If i dont have a room I can isolate myself in with people free to come in/out to talk to me or whatever then I dont go. Last thanksgiving my brother let me bring my playstation and chill in his office/game room and i was so thankful just playing my games.

[@RosesAndTea66]

Dude I so related to that story! "We'd stop picking on you if you weren't such an easy target!", "We only do it because we get a rise out of you", but then if you pretend like it isn't an issue they call you a spoil sport! Like... Why do you derive joy from seeing your child or sibling in duress? Someone's GENUINE emotional distress, actual anger, actual hurt, actual tears, is funny to you??? You made an 8 year old cry because you told her she wasn't worth the spot she took on the floor (I never really got a chair) and you tell her to "toughen up" and that it's "just a joke". Genuinely if someone is "overreacting" or being "butt-hurt", I usually just assume whoever is calling them that is the asshole in that situation. I haven't been wrong once.

[@TheNobod3]

@@yukiharu9726 Like, after the second or third time they show up with their own chair, you'd think the family would realize "oh, this legitimately bothers OP to the point that they've spent their own money to safeguard against it, we should probably ease up on this"

[@MiniKitty27]

ultimate prank guideline: _CONFUSE DON'T ABUSE_

[@JamesJones-ts5fl]

Yuuuuup

[@Izzy41630]

Agreed. Like Shayne's alt on the gnome prank? Absolutely perfect. You come out to head for work, your yard is covered in gnomes, that's weird, what the hell, you haven't got time to deal with it, but you'll probably think about it all day, and then you come home and they're gone. Ultimate confusion.

[@scytheslash]

I don't think you mean this in a bad way but this isn't helpful. Confuse is an emotion, abuse is an action. A lot of abuse also involves confusion and distraction. A good prank guideline is do it to make someone you're really close to, if at all and end it quickly at most within a day. People project a lot and you don't need your pranks to disillusion them out of their idea of reality. Don't like setup a prank which you can't pay off and don't break anything which can't be replaced.

[@faeri_]

@@scytheslashwhen you think about it on the surface, it’s not as bad as you’re leading into. Confusion isn’t necessarily an emotion. A prank should aim to scratch heads, not beat someone’s head in. It’s all colloquial when it’s surface level at least from my perspective.

[@nommnincsa]

exactly. Shayne hiding a bunch of bananas in the office is a silly prank. Causing physical or emotional harm is something totally different.

[@missjillmars]

My coworker used to change my desktop wallpaper to David Hasselhoff if I forgot to lock my computer. So funny

[@beabeabea3]

That’s hilarious 😭

[@beabeabea3]

Why David Hasselhoff 😭

[@giggle_snort]

​@@beabeabea3Why NOT David Hasselhoff? 😂

[@JoanieDoeShadow]

When the three of us still lived at home if one of use forgot to log out of their facebook account my young brother, twin sister, and I would write really sappy posts about our sibling. Like if my brother forgot to log out I would post from his account as if I were him why Jo is my favorite sister. Usually the way the posts were written all of our family and friends could tell who had actually written the post. One time though I wrote a post in my sister's account that appeared like it had been written by my younger brother. And then I post from my own account as if my sister had gotten into my account. It had both of my siblings side eyeing each other for a minute. Even our mutual friends were surprised how well I had mimicked my sibling writing styles. Both siblings became far more cautious about logging out of their accounts before stepping away from the computer after that.

[@codymeneke]

@@JoanieDoeShadowgood prank with a good lesson lol

[@mrinc2007]

That husband who kept pranking with various bodily fluids, committing multiple crimes, pisses me off to no end. Feeding your wife actual poop, feeding your guests breastmilk, feeding a friend marijuana and inducing a panic attack, “letting” his wife’s pet bird “go.” A certified psychopath.

[@Gemini-Lion]

Each one of those were crazy. I feel like the one that’s the least bad is probably the breast milk one, but she said that she had trouble pumping, meaning that it risked the wellbeing of their child. Each one of those pranks would be grounds for divorce if not prison time.

[@bueb8674]

As someone who's had a severe panic attack from an edible, I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Feeling like you're dying mixed with reality collapsing is a supremely unpleasant experience. Anyone who laughs at causing that is actually evil. And the poop toast is just fucking disgusting, sounds like some sick fetish almost.

[@saralauridsen5302]

@@bueb8674 I have experienced it too, wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy - he is clearly a psychopath

[@bobbii]

And she reproduced with him, so she's stuck having him part of her life forever 😢

[@ZaZo1996]

I just can't get over the fact that she married AND had a kid with that dude... HOW??? (I can actually see how it could happen, but still...)

[@TiberiusRex182]

“My husband drugged a guy before a flight almost a decade ago and laughs about to to this day” and you married him?!

[@D415h4n34]

And had a baby with him. Sending All the prayers and good vibes her way😢

[@invertedLOL]

My guess is that he had been doing this stuff for so long and gaslighting her about it to make her think it was normal. Luckily for her, he let the facade slip and she realized he was a psychopath.

[@JBT_On_YouTube]

Right?! That poor woman, she might have been super naive and sweet and thought he just needed to mature or something.

[@em.val170]

RIGHT!?!? I feel so bad for this woman and she deserves way better, but you saw all of this and said he’s the one for you!?

[@Amzzyyo]

Its not exactly fair to place blame on her when psychopaths are notorious for seeking out naïve people and manipulating them to their advantage. Not everyone has street smarts.

[@IsaacMayerCreativeWorks]

“Pay for the damages or I’m divorcing you” lady if he thought that *breaking a window in rage* was a reasonable idea in the first place you should divorce him anyway, that man is a danger

[@mcwjes]

That was my thought too. That was a such a violent over reaction. I'd be scared to live with him.

[@tonsilromancer]

Hey, it's the guy that did Steamed Hams!

[@daanachmad4032]

I was never pranked myself. But, I definitely have had experiences with psychologically abusive “jokers” who got really angry at me for not finding their mean “jokes” about me funny.

[@jocomfiresin6982]

As someone whose had that moment throwing a chair out of anger as a teenager... I was so upset because my teacher tried to catch the chair causing me to hit her hand. The sheer idea of just in that moment choosing to aim at a window? Even if you aiming at a sturdy surface knowing you wont damage anything just trying to vent the anger the sheer idea that you damaged something in the childish outburst would be deeply upsetting.

[@srose1088]

​@@jocomfiresin6982 lol, why would you try to catch a flying chair? Maybe they thought they were protecting other students? Chairs aren't for catching. Let it take its corse. 😂

[@IrinaGreenman]

Damien is so right about the lack of safety in the chair story. OP was told over years, through the actions of their relatives (note, I don't use the term "family"), that they don't have a place, that they aren't respected, and their family values making them a target for laughter over having an actual relationship with them. This is family bullying, cut and dry. I'm reminded of the idea of "either you're on the gallows or you're part of the execution," when it comes to humor. Siblings are definitely running an execution, especially BIL. And THEN. Then BIL throws the chair through a window?! This elevates everything from family bullying to domestic violence. Holy shit.

[@awerewolf6924]

Someone once pranked me by not publicly confirming their relationship for like seven years and then announcing their wedding on April 1st. That was kinda nuts

[@milkamoussse]

I think we know the same person dude !!

[@sillylittlecourtjester]

I've never had an original experience

[@jensennc94]

I had that one too. Who put their wedding news on April 1st and expected everyone to think it was real? Spoiler: It's real

[@ant.o.nina.123]

My husband proposed to me on April 1st. He stood outside my door telling me he was giving me the boot. Sure enough he was holding a big rubber boot that had will you marry me on it. And inside the boot was a little piece of paper that said ring to follow. Yeah, his sister didn't believe us when we called and announced our wedding either. We also got married on Halloween and each family unit had to come as a theme. Man that was fun.

[@blueberrycheesecake9512]

​@@ant.o.nina.123The entire story is beautiful. Hope yalls relationship continues being fun!

[@JustGigi319]

The husband "pranking" his postpartum wife... it bothers me that people would even think it's pranks. He's TORTURING her, and others. I know it's an extreme term, but it fits his behavior. He sounds like a sociopath... and dangerous.

[@nikdo0816]

It is also torturing the baby, when he wakes them up on purpose (I know babies wake up, but why tf would you do it intentionally, repeatedly so much, that your wife notices it as a pattern?) and wastes the breast milk when he knows the mother has trouble with that.

[@DashingPunkSamurai]

He is a psychopath because he clearly knows the difference between right and wrong and actually finds it funny. He knows full well what he is doing and LOVES IT.

[@emanon9084]

Who TF sets someone up just to punish them on purpose, like getting rid of milk she took so long to collect to make sure she probably loses sleep by trying to get it all back on top of taking care of her baby, and then punishing her for trying to get that sleep back??? Absolute torture.

[@Alexandria95]

Sleep depriving people and intentionally waking them with loud noises is actually a form a torture they use. I hope she divorces him and gets full custody. He should be in jail.

[@neryce1985]

I knew a sociopath that liked to prank conductors on the railroad at night by dressing up lifelike mannequins and putting them in a place where the driver would have to make a choice to kill the "person" or desperately try to stop the train in time. The worst part is that people thought he was hilarious.

[@brigittetaylor303]

Y'all, I'm an OVERproducer who pumps very easily and I'd consider divorce my husband touched my stash for a prank. The stash is there for emergencies, not for dumb pranks. The fact that this mom is struggling to pump? That's not a prank. That's an evil waste of resources.

[@displayname9538]

It’s literally making me feel sick to my stomach. I’m praying that mum and baby get away from him and that she’s granted full custody

[@HydraVenus]

not only that, but HOW he wasted it? serving it to other people who have no idea? 😵‍💫

[@thirstghosting]

​@@HydraVenusfrom that moment on I just kept saying that's a crime??? thats a crime. thats illegal??? thats a crime???? and she got to the edibles part and i just wanna talk to him just let me talk to him I just wanna talk. I just wanna talk to him

[@Solutad]

Right there with you, this guy is on my list along with the "I hide things from my wife and make her think she has early onset dementia because I think she's cute when she scrunches her nose when she misplaces things" guy as the two dudes I just want to have a conversation with...behind the gym...without witnesses.

[@lili180520]

Yeah I struggle to produce breast milk. I would get so angry if my husband wasted it on purpose. I had a break down when he accidentally spilt some. The only time it’s ok to cry over spilt milk is if it’s your breast milk. But if he purposefully wasted it he would be out the door so quickly.

[@emmy11392]

Literally the only prank I ever pulled was when I was around 8 years old and it’s turned into a heart warming tradition. I put a bunch of fake plastic spiders in ice cube trays and froze them. The next day (April Fools Day), I put the spider ice cubes in my sisters drink and she screamed bloody murder and spilled the drink, but ended up laughing hysterically with me afterward. She tragically passed away 2 years ago and now my family and I make “spider cubes” on her birthday and share stories about her. In my opinion, a prank should create a happy memory. 💜

[@sydneyhendrickson9174]

I love this so much ❤️

[@Bread_LoverXO]

Sorry for your loss and this is a wonderful tradition to grieve a sad and painful loss and i will say this is an actual prank instead of what we heard today. Hope that you are doing better and have a wonderful day ❤❤❤

[@RIForg]

That's so fucking sad and also happy. Bless you for sharing x

[@Melissafammy]

this prank is hurtful because it's making me cry. Sorry about your sister

[@David-sj4fk]

That's a good prank! I bet if some of those people in the posts would do the same prank they would use real spiders. And they would be alive and not frozen. And also poisonous.

[@swordsmancs]

my golden rule for pranks is "confuse, dont abuse". like, hide in a bush and make bird sounds at people, walk around with your buddy and have a conversation in complete gibberish and when someone questions you about it act like you have no idea what theyre talking about, etc etc

[@alexia3552]

Oh my god, now I'm picturing a "what English sounds like to a non-speaker" conversation but it's all verbal oatmeal. "Confuse, don't abuse" is a great reminder phrase

[@cerrchus]

Now that's simple gnomenclature

[@stitchedwithcolor]

Even those can be rough sometimes, if you're ND and accustomed to people routinely laughing at you for not understanding. I think a good prank is one where the butt of the joke is the pranker.

[@nugget3687]

I think that's why impractical jokes works so well, because it's exactly this. It's a group is friends making themselves look like idiots to confuse people, and the joke is always on them, not the people they are confusing

[@molly_in_mke]

Like the video of people leaving a port a potty to an office meeting lmao

[@deltadaryl262]

My college roommate and I have pranked each other for half a decade by hiding a copy of the movie Get Smart in each other’s stuff. We used to just hide it around the dorm room, in her pillowcase, in my box of cereal, stuff like that. Now we’ve escalated to hiding it in each other’s homes when we visit, and she one sent it as part of a Christmas gift from her cat to mine. THAT is a prank. Good natured, silly, fun where everyone involved is laughing.

[@ik4r0os]

I'm sorry but i just find it so cute that even though you guys don't live together anymore, y'all still continued the everlasting prank war 😆

[@beckyanne883]

​@@ik4r0osyes, and that they exchange gifts between their cats! 🥰

[@libramoons]

that’s so funny but also i used to be obsessed with that movie so it’s extra funny to me lol

[@forestgrump4723]

I had a small box that my friends and I used to use to mail each other treats. It was a box that was originally for a phone and when I first used it she mailed it back with treats because she thought I might need it. I mailed it back with fresh treats because I thought it was fun and for like a year and a half every month or so we would be receiving a small phone box of trinkets and treats as a “prank” like haha the box is yours now. It finally ended when her horse stepped on the box cause it got knocked into her stall by accident lol. It was good times ^-^ those are my favourite pranks. Or sometimes at Christmas we’ll go to a grocery store and ask for boxes and we’ll get a box that is like, French fries and on Christmas morning it’s like “oh awesome you got me French fries!! Haha”

[@HarleysCompass]

Lmao! My dad and older brother did something similar for years, except it was with a teletubby figurine that my dad had jokingly put on my older brother's 13th birthday party cake. My older brother took it afterward and hid it in my parents' room somewhere he knew our dad would find it and not our mom. My dad eventually found it and was like "wtf, son" and the two laughed about it. Then, without telling him, my dad hid it in my brother's room. And they went back and forth like that. The big rule is, once you find it you don't announce you found it to the other, you just secretly sneak it into the other's room or, now that my older brother has his own place, house. They have been silently passing it back and forth for years. I only know who has it because every time one of them finds it they take a picture and send it to me to show where they found it because it's always somewhere ridiculous. I also keep quiet when it's been found so they don't go looking for it and it's still always a surprise to them when they find it. 😂

[@angelawesneski5029]

When I was in high school, my sister once put jello in a mug, then poured a layer of juice on top. She gave it to me when I came home from dance class, and I drank the juice while talking to her and my mom. I was really confused for about 5 seconds when it looked like there was still juice, but it wasn't behaving like juice and I couldn't drink it. It was a great illusion and made all of us laugh, plus, I had jello to eat as a snack after! It was a win-win! In my opinion, this was a simple, perfect prank. A+.

[@bunnyellabell]

this is so silly and i've never heard of this. love it

[@angelawesneski5029]

@bunnyellabell It was super simple but very effective! Bonus points if you do it in a room with bad/dim lighting. It added at least a few moments to my confusion.

[@hernameispekka_Rebecca]

THAT'S a prank!

[@kashefajaved6394]

in ms I hyped up this new pixar movie to my friend about a piece of toast and it's adventures and it was heavily snowing that day but she came to my house and i just played her a 3 second vid of toast popping out of a toaster 💀 we just hung out the rest of the day

[@em.val170]

Now THAT is a prank! No one gets hurt mentally or physically and a nice treat in the end😊

[@danielv4710]

My grandfather on my mom's side actually left 5 or 6 gnomes in our front yard when we were gone on a mini vacation when I was younger. My mom asked around to see who did it and nobody admitted to it. They stayed in our yard and it was only when he had passed due to cancer a few years ago, so about a decade after the gnomes were placed, when it came up in a conversation my grandmother had mentioned that it was him. My grandmother thought that he had told my mom it was actually him, but due to his declining health he had actually forgotten to finally tell her. It made my mom happy to know that he had done it and why he did, though I have since forgotten the reasoning. By this point though the gnomes were incredibly old and were sun-faded and dirty, and my mom was a little sad that they were in that state, especially since they now had sentimental value, so I actually cleaned them up and re-painted them their original color thanks to the facebook post she had made about it when it happened (took forever to find the post and the right paint). They now sit in the living room as a fond memory, and is one of the nicest most harmless pranks I have ever seen.

[@styricgoddess]

That’s the cutest

[@robynvanhorn]

My dad and i love mushrooms. We both find them fascinating. I found and brought stones carved into mushrooms. on both sides of my parents front door they have river rocks . I snuck the mushrooms in and put them in the rock garden. Took my dad a couple of days to notice them. He called me up laughing asking when i did that.i told him . We both laughed.

[@mccloud9915]

Wow that made me tear up

[@m11thebazile]

That story about OP's chair is crazy. Some of the family members were like "HOW DARE YOU NOT LETTING US BULLY YOU ANYMORE?".

[@nica8791]

Right? So sad that their only fun was at the cost of someone else :/

[@sillylittlecourtjester]

it's soooo weird. hope op goes no contact eventually

[@otakukid11]

There was another update that got even wilder and led to OP's cousin getting a divorce. Yes because of the folding chair.

[@stitchedwithcolor]

Yeah, to me, it was clear that that a single folding chair had become a symbol of years of petty resentments and misunderstandings in both directions, and the hiding prank was just the point where everything boiled over and no one could sweep the problem under the rug anymore.

[@pineapplegamer6986]

Exactly my friends used to do a relatively minor thing which was unzipping my backpack during school and they thought because it was so minor it’s wasn’t a problem but since they did it everyday it bothered me. It took me an actual heated argument and me yelling at them to stop for them to stop doing it 🙃

[@craneflyswarm]

Public school teachers are mandatory reporters. If this “prank” was even overheard by a teacher, they would have been required by law to contact the police and CPS.

[@paigehansen8944]

Yeah but they were third graders. They didn’t know how effed that prank was. True empathy doesn’t develop until mid-teenage years. If a single adult had spoken to them and said, “how would you feel if _you_ were locked up in a basement? Do you think this is funny still?” They would’ve moved on within a day. (I know personally, this is how my parents gently led me to treat others well). They legitimately hadn’t thought of how mean the prank was, how unfunny it was, and had no idea that CPS as an organization existed. OP’s mom slapping OP for her actions as a third grader and the grandparents/church/community alienating the family for a clearly fictitious crime is crazy. All these adults seem a little too obsessed with their image.

[@craneflyswarm]

@@paigehansen8944 in the video, Shayne, Damian, and Tommy were speculating about how CPS got involved. I was just trying to provide information about how that likely occurred. Wasn’t trying to place blame or anything.

[@paigehansen8944]

@@craneflyswarm yeah I know, I just wanted to say how insane the reactions from all the adults were & I couldn’t find anyone else who commented on that particular story Sorry, upon rereading I can see how it looks like I was directing it at you

[@craneflyswarm]

@@paigehansen8944 it’s all good haha. That story was definitely super weird.

[@bondickle]

The part I don't understand (and I think Tommy hinted at) is how wouldn't CPS know that they were twins and not indeed triplets. They were probably born at a hospital and registered there as twins - how would you sneak a third one out, unregistered? But I also know tons of murdered kids are homeschooling and not on ANY books in the US so I guess it's good they went anyway just in case there was a hidden third (non twin) child.

[@TheGeekymetalhead]

I remember seeing a tiktok where a bar of soap was replaced with a well cut potato. That's a good prank. Low stakes, not gonna ruin any property, BOTH PARTIES LAUGH

[@Gabriellaella23]

That’s funny AF 😂😂😂

[@jiminpov]

that one was so hilarious i honestly didn’t even realize it was a potato until the husband told her it wasn’t soap 😭😭😭

[@Lucifersfursona]

“A well cut potato” god that’s funny

[@geckopecko]

i read this the other way around (as a bar of soap replacing a potato)and i was a little concerned lmao

[@navarrjenkins7648]

The gnome story really is surreal. Also the way Shayne explained how he’d do it works a lot better as a prank.

[@recoveringcatholic554]

Okay leaving a positive prank here: As a Christmas gift for my dad, I got him some specialty jerky he liked but normally wouldn't get for himself because it was expensive. Each piece of jerky was packaged individually by the maker. Instead of putting them all in a bag, I wrapped each in their own box, with different shapes. He kept opening different boxes to find more jerky. Laughed the whole time.

[@katie18976]

😅

[@hernameispekka_Rebecca]

Haha, that is amazing! What a memory!

[@recoveringcatholic554]

@@hernameispekka_Rebecca It was very fun! He found it funny too which is was made it a nice prank. He wouldn't know what to expect from the package and it would just be more jerky.

[@Kadi_Fedoruk]

That's really fun

[@sleepypup]

I've also done this to my dad with beef jerky 😂😂😂

[@taylorann3561]

The chair story: intentionally angering someone as “entertainment” is not a prank. As someone who has been in a position where people would say things they knew made me upset and then laughed, but would get pissed if I remained mad? I feel this so much. Then the fact that family members stopped coming because they weren’t allowed to get away with bullying him anymore? Insane.

[@AleksandarBell]

Yeah especially since I have sensory issues and need certain things like my noise cancelling headphones so I don’t have sensory overload. If someone TOOK my headphones I’d go crazy. I paid $200 for them and they keep me from freaking out.

[@jackojoyfox8015]

I relate to this on a personal level, as my family continues to do this, even when I get frustrated with them over it. It’s a huge annoyance, and an extremely irritating situation to be in

[@BH-ci3zc]

​@@AleksandarBell that happened to me once. Im autistic and also have noise cancelling headphones and my parents hid them from me during a family gathering because they thought i was being rude smh

[@jahoytodiesforahoy4615]

As someone who's always been the weirdo and looked down upon by the family I felt this in my bones

[@bondickle]

Thing is, I only feel slightly bad for him. WHY was he still going to family functions etc when this is how he was treated? He looked like as ass, unfairly, for taking his chair places but really he should have just not gone period. His family doesn't respect him and his life will probably be lonelier but HAPPIER without them.

[@ZeroUnitRGB]

Shayne at the end of the video: This was a good time. Me, traumatized by each and every one of these stories: WAS IT???

[@caf110]

Me too bro. They gotta redo this theme at some point with fun pranks

[@Othellovonryan]

These wholesome-ly titled videos are never quite wholesome

[@sazza4]

I literally exclaimed out loud exactly that 😅🙃

[@chadwynn57]

35:00 my girlfriend, who is much smarter than me says " that dude is a a narcissist, he's jealous of all the attention the new baby is getting"

[@tracyhuddlestun2560]

Explains the pet too!

[@irishhoopers6899]

I agree with your girlfriend

[@leafyveins4985]

100%. Narcissists are adults with the emotional maturity of toddlers so it makes sense

[@geckopecko]

that adds up to the lack of empathy too

[@a.nicolemorton5517]

I teach middle school and one day in August, students passing me in the halls kept wishing me happy birthday. It wasn't my birthday, nor would it be until May. Still, throughout the entire day, kids kept telling me happy birthday, and two of my classes even sang to me. They all looked confused and doubtful when I told them it wasn't my birthday. It turns out one student decided play a prank and convince as many people as possible that it was my birthday. It was such a strange day and I still laugh about it when I remember.

[@juniperrb]

This is hilarious

[@DeadNotSleeping789]

That is a good prank

[@Lilbitdorky]

Now this is a prank. It’s harmless and everyone laughs lol

[@draisens]

Now that is a proper prank. all those toxic stuff people call pranks - that's just pure evil.

[@MizuHime07]

See this is a prank! lol aww that’s so sweet

[@bluegreyflowers9714]

as a guy with autism and like. NEEDING my stuff to be a certain way. that guy with the chair is so normal to me. that's so ridiculously normal in my mind. of course he'd bring something to make himself more comfortable, even without the hell that his family was clearly intentionally enacting upon him.

[@alisonwilliams9304]

This. I feel like they’ve made a pastime out of torturing the neurodivergent family member.

[@hernameispekka_Rebecca]

This! He had an issue, so he accommodated for himself. Very normal.

[@honeyflann]

this!! i have my own spoons and my bf to this day will sometimes give me a regular spoon and be confused when i go and swap it out.

[@DrLipkin]

That story gave me Nam flashbacks.

[@jacefromanotherworld]

Im not autistic (better say never been teste or diagnosed) so i can't really relate, but i have adhd and sometimes i have specific thing i need to have with me just for my peace of mind. Like usually it's just book even though i'm not really in the mood for reading but "what if". On the other hand my bro is probably autistic! He can't get diagnosed thank to his job but he has to many since of autism( so we sometimes joke about it) he has for example his favorite sweatshirt and every time he needs to have it with him everywhere or he bought himself mini fridge to car, just in case, he took our old microwave into his job for the same reason "what if". So i totally understand op with the chair, even though chair is one of the most absurd thing i heard about ngl

[@Clark2001_]

THE CHAIR As an autistic person that shit WOULD DRIVE ME INSANE. my family would do stuff like that to me on purpose as a child BECAUSE it would set me off.

[@itz_grass5890]

That's exactly what I'm thinking. If anyone sits in my seat in the car, class, etc I have a hard time with it. I can't even imagine how OP feels

[@LO-xo4fx]

exactly the same situation here, i'm so sorry you went through that :(

[@Gayonetta5000]

That would SET ME OFF. Not even a “oh I’ll just get my own chair.” I’m just never talking to them anymore, they clearly don’t respect OP at all.

[@ariadnarivas260]

Exactly, this!

[@toering1998]

YES. SAME!! The amount of times I heard stuff along the lines of “well you’re just so easy to get a rise out of…” like. so. You admit it. You’re doing things purposely to upset me…. ahahahha so funny 🙄

[@Softieeee]

it got super popular on tiktok a while ago, but replacing all of the family photos in the house with some random thing until someone notices is absolutely hilarious to me

[@christinalott2819]

My sister ranked her husband by putting googly eyes on all the hanging photos in their house. Then she videotape her handiwork, blocked him from the post and put it on Facebook, with "let's see how long it takes him to notice". It took several days. 😂

[@tiff0795]

When Damien said about people making specific noises to upset him as he was trying to hold it together is absolutely heartbreaking.

[@kristipearce4819]

I thought so too! 😢

[@Emmy-ql6wr]

The guys at my HS used to do that to an autistic boy who went to school with us. He hated whistling and would get potentially violent in response sometimes and they thought it was funny

[@spencerlively3049]

I felt that in my soul. flashbacks to times in my life i've apparently suppressed. ugh

[@tiff0795]

@@spencerlively3049 I'm so sorry 😞 people are assholes

[@TheAncientGeekoRoman]

@@Emmy-ql6wr I’m autistic and I’m exactly the same way it overstimulates me almost instantly (and humans can actually whistle at a frequency that overexposure to can actually damage your hearing) and I have to ask people to stop so much. I asked someone nicely to stop once while I was at work and she screamed in my face about *me* ruining *her* day (we were in a museum…in an area that echoed. So I wasn’t even asking just for me.)

[@emptylittleheart]

No one mentioned this in the husband “pranking” his postpartum wife, but I feel like this is important: She was having trouble pumping. This man favored a prank over his own newborn’s life. That is DEPLORABLE.

[@skylargg8474]

THANK YOU breast milk is soooo valuable, to disregard that for a “prank” is evil

[@emraldembrace7939]

Oh my god you’re right. 😰😰😰

[@Scotschie]

They mentioned it, briefly but still. That man is actually insane.

[@caspers4022]

YES OMG

[@maggiedukes3191]

Exactly, between that and waking the baby up while it was sleeping he was harming the child's development. Not to mention waking his sleep deprived wife up and feeding her something that could have gotten her sick, which is harmful to both her and the baby as well. He spent the first six weeks of his child's life trying to hurt it, so she should have very good grounds to stand on in court with keeping him away from it

[@fieldohay]

The way Shayne said “my baby’s poop” and my jaw mid bite DROPPED. Imagine pranking your wife to think you’re actually a good husband who brings her breakfast in bed 💀

[@em.val170]

I would genuinely cry if someone did that to me. My jaw kept dropping more and more as he listed the different “pranks”

[@katie18976]

That story got more and more insane as he kept reading it. I felt horrified for that poor woman and their little baby 😢

[@ericataylor7618]

I literally screamed when I heard that

[@BB-TheCandleFairy]

I reacted exactly like Tommy and Damien, hands clasped over my mouth, getting up from my bed, walking away before realizing I needed to hear more- so I’m just staring at my phone is disbelief as I listen, jaw still on the floor and now moth of my hands over my mouth Imm pretty sure everyone had a visceral reaction to that

[@nicks3762]

I was chilling and eating then I audibly screamed

[@Gus_Casio]

Okay but the correct execution of the gnome prank is adorable. Demanding another gnome for an army. Adorable.

[@Jayk-kz7sh]

the brother messing up the gnome prank was so sad. Like I think there's a timeline where had it gone intended, it might have been really sweet moment shared between the brother, his girlfriend, and maybe even Chrissy. But by playing dumb and then immediately going to Europe after just absolutely ruined it.

[@xsariax]

I've made an unfortunate realization with that fourth story - my dad is exactly like that woman's husband. Not in terms of pranks, but in terms of upsetting his wife and children on purpose. Constantly provoking/teasing/pushing buttons until we were livid (especially as children) and then "shut down" to make us feel guilty for abusing us. I haven't spoken to him in years. I hope that woman has divorced him and has a better life.

[@khaleesireyna731]

The husband from that story and the BIL throwing the chair in a hissy fit in the previous story are some very good examples of how my father behaves... and he wonders why all of his children cut him off and haven't spoken to him in years.

[@BrittanyNgo01]

People like this also like to "dog whistle" the people they're upsetting. Essentially, they will use words or phrases that really hurt or upsets the victim but to other people witnessing it it seems mundane. They do it to get a rise out of people and also as a manipulation tactic to make the victim look unreasonable to others.

[@jellybaby3584]

My dad is exactly like this. He'd always tease or tickle us to the point of screaming and tears, then he'd punish us for reacting that way. I've been hit for saying no to him so many times as a kid.

[@user-td3yi1mq7p]

That all kind of sounds like what psychopaths get up to when they don't murder people or animals

[@rabaneteist]

@@jellybaby3584 that was EXACTLY my father too. I hated being tickled, and when he learned that he would hold me down to tickle me until I was crying for him to stop. He thought it was hilarious. Tickling itself isn't a big deal, but how much he'd keep that going and how funny he thought it was that it bothered me so much started to do some real damage to how safe I felt about my boundaries being respected. If someone touches me in a way that's slightly ticklish I have a literal trauma response to it that feels more helpless than how I do with far more "standard traumatic" stuff I had happen to me. I haven't talked to him in over a decade.

[@3dtables]

Shayne: I don't really prank people *hid a bunch of fake bananas in his boss' office

[@nicoledlugopolski4621]

i was truly shocked there was no mention of the banana prank

[@Isaiah-jm5fn]

Shayne was so upset when every banana was not returned in perfect condition. He had to rethink his whole relationship with ian

[@JaylaDominy]

*announces his marriage on april fools

[@TindraSan]

my favorite prank forever is putting googly eyes on all the stuff in the fridge

[@jiminpov]

that’s cuteeee

[@thebarnyard2443]

I sent my daughter to school with a bag full of googly eyes on April Fool's Day, told her to animate her homework.

[@PersistenciaMemoria]

I did this and it was hilarious. Every time my husband opened the fridge he would laugh and we even started doing little dramas with them.

[@FlamesAndShadows]

Now thats wholesome and adorable!))) Making someone laugh because other person doing cute and silly stuff for someone to find is a prank I can get behind

[@raynsmith6759]

My dad and I did this one year where we went to different locations and put googly eyes on things. Of course we used ones that didn't have a very sticky back so we knew there wouldn't be any property damage to worry about. One of the locations was IHop and we put googly eyes on the salt & pepper shakers and the waiter came back, laughed, and asked if she could keep the googly eyes on them and we agreed to it. It was so fun and a great way to add some fun that wouldn't cause any harm.

[@NH-ju6bs]

Always glad when damien is on! He understands a lot about the neurodivergence and always has really interesting and kind takes on the stories!

[@guppiegirl7670]

Damien’s comments and derailments are what keep me coming back. The dragons and castles comment? Opening the gnome tome? Offending the fey? Call dude a scarecrow Because he is truly outstanding in his field.

[@dottyContrarian]

​@@guppiegirl7670 "call dude a scarecrow cause that dude is truly outstanding in his field" is fucking hilarious. :)

[@SoPhenominal]

The postpartum story is absolutely a crime. Holy shit. As someone who had a baby a year and a half ago, I cannot even imagine… death penalty.

[@stormthrush37]

The rule of thumb I've heard for pranks is "confuse, don't abuse," not "engage in criminal actions and then try to get out of any consequences by saying it was a joke."

[@heatherexum2534]

I’m an international teacher and I once pranked all of my students on the day before summer break. I told all my classes that they had summer homework of a 6 page paper. I made up a fake rubric, came up with a list of topics and started to go into an exemplar when the last slide ended with “Just Kidding! Enjoy your holiday!” The students loved it and made sure not to tell the other classes so everyone could be pranked.

[@iwhan7107]

This is a damn cool prank

[@friendlyneigborhoodbean]

I was worried for a second that you'd actually make them write it and then afterwards reveal it

[@TheMynameis90]

A traditional prank in my family is that when you give someone a gift, you wrap it in multiple boxes in increasing size. So a giant box may very well be a gift card.

[@tanyastacy-haws993]

I did this to my brother last year lol

[@jaredbrown3726]

We put so much tape on some to where you basically need scissors to open

[@DartmouthProductions]

Gotta love Damian representing the neurodivergent crowd in that chair post. One of the things as someone in a neurodiverse family is one becomes super aware of the need to respect people's boundaries and respect what might not seem like a big deal to another is for someone else. This is obviously not just for neurodiverse families.

[@sergeyking343]

Very well said very well indeed 😊

[@gia3gia3]

Literally, like I plan out where I’m sitting at family functions to a T based on who I feel comfortable talking to, and to have somebody take my chair always just gives me so much anxiety

[@joypomeroy1452]

That husband with the baby's poop literally needs to go to jail for that. He's just an abusive man. Edit: wow, thanks guys, I've never had this many likes/replies before! Shame it had to be about this though lol

[@nikdo0816]

And he bragged about it to his co-workers, so they can testify about it.

[@bondickle]

@@nikdo0816 and hopefully he's dumb enough to have boasted about other assaults under the guise of "pranks" via texts or whatever.

[@mikeisfine]

I'm confused on how she even ended up marrying him to begin with. Like how does a relationship that involves that level of misconduct even flourish at all??

[@2Bad4YOUuu]

Yeah, and in no universe that I know of should this person be allowed to be a father. He is a potentially dangerous man for that baby.

[@galev3955]

Or an asylum

[@hillpeople3]

Imagine if there actually was a third sister who had died tragically but the family never talked about, and the 'prank' was the twins' subconscious way of dealing it with it.

[@punkithecat]

That's what I thought at first before they finished the story, that they did have a third sister that died and they didn't know or something

[@junglejin3096]

That was my thought lmao 😭

[@friendly_space_martian]

I had the same thought 😭😭

[@RichardGrantMuir78]

OMG, I TOTALLY thought that was going to happen!

[@abaezarenas07]

best quote ever by damien: “the fae court is pissed” 😭

[@seraphinaz3545]

Good prank: when i got drunk with my friends, we were playing a drinking game that said “let someone use your amazon account”. My friend took my account and I didn’t know what she did. A couple days later, 100 tiny rubber ducks arrived at my apartment, and I laughed with joy. I now paint them and give them to family and friends. 💕

[@lizzyblitz07]

Omg! I never thought about painting them! If you don't mind I might copy your idea for some tiny ducks I still have from something similar

[@seraphinaz3545]

@@lizzyblitz07 I don’t mind at all! Go for it!

[@StarPichu12]

...i might have to get drunk and prank myself, i want this in my life!!

[@peachypanda57]

omg this reminds me of one my friends. every now and again he’ll show up to a party with a bunch of tiny ducks in his jacket pocket and give one to everybody or hide them around the house/apartment. still have the duck he gave me on my desk 😂

[@lillyh9886]

I’m not even kidding, someone else commented about putting 98 tiny ducks in her roommates room and telling her there were 100

[@sarahmcgoodwin5911]

Matthew and Paul is a great example of a channel that actually does pranks well. They got big on TikTok via Matthew playing pranks on Paul, and Paul not only always finds them funny and laughs, but he considers the pranking an incredibly important part of their relationship. Paul is blind, and Matthew's ability to not just take that in stride but find joy in it is one of the things Paul treasures most about him. Things like slightly moving Paul's food/beverages while he's talking, surrounding him with plushies while he's sleeping, putting a funny costume on his guide dog, et cetera. Never anything that has any chance to hurt anyone, physically or emotionally. Confuse, don't abuse.

[@dafrastar]

Right! I love them!

[@sazza4]

They are the best!

[@LinWarai]

agree!! they are a fantastic example of how to properly do pranks! they’re so funny too

[@linezb-t9390]

Plus the teaching that they don’t have to do but CHOOSE TO! Blindness is a spectrum!

[@tanyastacy-haws993]

I love them so much ❤️ My favorite was when he hid in the box of plushies and waited for Paul to accidentally touch his face lol

[@iiJow]

"the Fey Court is pissed" damien i appreciate you so much

[@mlskksl]

timestamp?

[@gabriellaburke6915]

1:01:46

[@geckopecko]

YESSSSSS

[@dcarter455]

49:25 what makes her the villain here is not the lie they told at 9. It’s the fact that she thought that a newly reconciled relationship was the perfect foundation to tell such a story that had been kept for so long, knowing how damaging it had been back then. Why would you think your father dying was the best time to come out with this???

[@falconawesome]

My parents did get divorced over pranks. My dad was a chronic prankster his whole life- but his pranks had always been extreme. In college he managed to get on top of an elevator so that when his friends got in he could jump down on them. Later in marriage he was sure my mom was coming home, and without even checking flung the front door fully open while he was stark naked. It was a family friend, and she was taken quite by surprise. As a kid I always thought they seemed hilarious. There were many more I don’t remember. But apparently when my mom went into labor with my brother he was in the room and hid a piece of medical equipment. The labor went wrong, my mom almost died, and they had an emergency C-section. Apparently the doctors were running around looking for this equipment and he was so mortified he said nothing. She remembers feeling very alone during the scariest time of her life as her husband.. had hidden equipment that the doctors needed to save her. My mom said it still haunted her, my dad never seemed to have apologized, and not too long after the split

[@falconawesome]

*not too long after they split

[@kaliru1]

Wow! Horrific that he wouldn't tell the team when her life was on the line. Just goes to show how much more concerned for himself he is. Like "me get in trouble...or wife die...hmmm.... no, I'm more important"

[@ThomasSawyers]

​@@kaliru1so true omg, because hospitals have handsized lifesaving pieces of equipment and they NEVER go missing so each hospital gets only one and its all ruined if it breaks etc...like what did he hide the needle and thread? Fr theres a scalpel, stitches and iv etc, theres no magic box that saves lives other than a defib, which a hospital would have dozens of

[@punkithecat]

Holy shit that last part is crazy, your poor mom...

[@iridescent28]

that's horrifying... I hope your mom all the best and pray that she's healed and recovered from that

[@valquiriacamboim]

Today I "pranked" my aunt by saying I'd make a crochet bathroom set for her (she hates crochet, she hates crochet bathroom sets even more). That's it. That's the whole prank. I didn't even MAKE the set. I just said I'd do it. She laughed, I laughed, she called me an asshole, no one got hurt or upset. That's a prank.

[@thatonearoace]

Another example of a prank (in a similar vein) would be showing up with a bag, and when asked what’s in it responding with “A crochet toilet cover” and acting all excited. No harm, no money wasted, no making the target of the prank clean up a mess they didn’t ask for

[@sarahvnyc]

Yes, positive pranks! I once anonymously sent a friend cash towards vet bills tucked into a holiday card in the middle of summer. I asked a friend who lives one state over to drop it in a mailbox there, so she wouldn't know where it was from. She was going all Sherlock Holmes trying to figure it out. That's a prank!

[@jane9250-h5v]

even if you had made the set, it could have still been a prank as long as you were 100% cool with her throwing it away

[@valquiriacamboim]

​@@jane9250-h5v I think she'd use it while I was visiting and then hide it afterwards 😂

[@DonutFlameFPS]

I don't think that's a prank. That sounds more like a normal joke...

[@cdenson73]

The twin story definitely feels like its impossible to unpack because there is so much missing. No info on why the grandparents stopped coming around, no info on how a lie could damage a family reputation so much, and no info on why the family stopped contact. There is a chance it could all be related even, but with the post there is just a lot of missing info.

[@hernameispekka_Rebecca]

This! It feels like SOMETHING was going on there in some way. Not a third sister but some kind of... mental health troubles (delusions?), abuse or neglect of some kind. Either from the parents or even one of the sisters (op?). Or some generational lack of communicating about stuff. It feels like there is some hefty depth missing from that story.

[@trishasurangana2278]

Unreliable narrator, op is at fault, she's definitely hiding something nefarious that she saw or incited

[@DEVi0u5n6s5]

no info on why the twin was "staring daggers" at op while they were getting interviewed by CPS. that one specifically is why I kinda agree with the commenter saying shes lying about not knowing.

[@aff77141]

The fact the mom was so willing to straight up slap her either tells me she's a miserable, evil person, or that their mom was extremely abusive to them as kids and the twin was the type that wanted to keep her head down, grow up, and leave her family behind, while op was too discontented to keep quiet, but not enough so to just come out with it, or maybe doesn't fully realize/repressed it. She seems like she could be neurodivergent or just never realized the context to everything (possibly due to emotional abuse warping perceptions) and that's why she's so confused, and of course you don't wanna take responsibility for a prank you didn't come up with but is somehow portrayed as entirely your fault. There's just too much weirdness here for me to go with the idea that she's in the wrong.

[@bananafruit6060]

That’s what i thought too, I almost wonder if it has something to do with the father.

[@Josh_JKL]

The mother in Australia who's husband fed her her babies pooh should definitely go to the police. He might not get charged but a restraining order could be necessary with that delusional psychopathic man child. Even the Joker would think that guy is messed up. (BTW, Psychological abuse can lead to up to 10yrs in prison in Australia)

[@robertallor5736]

Shayne: "This next story comes from a subreddit we've never covered before, Beyond The Bump" Tommy: "Cocaine?" 😂😂

[@KerstinSmide]

Right. Haha. So funny 😅

[@FoxyMomma4ever]

I literally laughed so hard I made myself dizzy!

[@jamiegiordano734]

An actual fun prank my husband pulled on me many years ago was on April Fools Day. I came home to find googly eyes on all surfaces in our home (my slippers, my sewing machine, on items in the fridge, on the ceiling etc.). I was cracking up and it took months to find them all as he forgot some that he had placed

[@geckopecko]

he sounds like a great prankster 😁

[@Jordan-uj6oq]

Shane going "that's kind of a slay" had me wheezing so hard I had an asthma attack 😭

[@karma3533]

REAL OMG I was so caught off-guard I was expecting someone else on set to at least comment on it lol

[@friendlyneigborhoodbean]

He probably picked it up from Courtney

[@darwinaimacana601]

Time stamp

[@TheMutantCreeper]

When I was a kid a commercial for April fools recommended simple pranks. One was switching cereal box bags. We need more of that.

[@cherylhiggins4205]

my ex had (has) a daughter and when we were together, she was a young teen. Every year on April fools, she would get up in the night, and rubber band the squeez handle on the kitchen sink sprayer, so it was "ON". His habit was to get up around three in the morning and get a drink of water half asleep. On April first, he would do so, turn on the water, and the sprayer would spray him. She was sound asleep of course, and the next monring he would pretend to be all grumpy and ask who rubber banded the sprayer and she would laugh and laugh, and he would too. A whole year would go by, then she would do it again. He, forgetting it was april 1st, he, forgetting what she does on April 1st, she once again "got him". Now that's a good prank. Enjoyed by all, and a good "gotcha".

[@aud7593]

thats actually so cute!

[@maledictionwolf]

For the third story, my family had a similar thing... except it was to grope my ass. They thought it was HILARIOUS every time I flinched and jumped away from it. It didn't stop until one time my mother grabbed my ass and I threw an entire glass of water at her face--like, not just the water in the glass, but the glass _itself_

[@roofth]

Wtf kind of prank is that?! I hope it stopped after the water glass thing!

[@idklol4543]

what the hell

[@mcwjes]

That's not a prank, that's abuse. You deserve to feel safe.

[@RedaiRmal]

I mean, I hope your mom was okay after that, but I’m sure they got the point from then on.

[@spencersmith6071]

I had the exact same thing with my family, instead of groping though they would slap my ass. It made me so uncomfortable and angry as I was (at the start) a pre-teen and then going through puberty. It didn’t stop until they finally realized I was not kidding when I said I would try to break the hand of the next person who did it (No one’s hand got broken but my attempt made them realize I wasn’t kidding)

[@oxfordisnotacoyote]

I can’t believe they never brought up the NINE YEAR AGE GAP in the shrine story. That story terrifies me and I hope OP is still like breathing

[@tokofukawa4654]

!!!!!!

[@stevegoatman1049]

no literally !! all I could think was that he should get out because that kind of age gap with one person being in their early 20s is far too often predatory, and he could be in actual danger

[@oxfordisnotacoyote]

@@stevegoatman1049 in this world, my only thought to that story was “you’re still young. Get out”

[@atomseve9858]

Thank you!! This is what power imbalance looks like in age gap relationships. She did something that disturbed him and he just kind of absorbed it as something weird but ultimately harmless because of how she presented it.

[@oxfordisnotacoyote]

@@atomseve9858 the fact that he felt like he had to go to Reddit for help means it’s an actual issue to him. I hope he’s well

[@malonerevenant4584]

Best prank I ever pulled was on my sister: when she was little, I had this running gag where I would ask her if she had any fish in her pocket and when she said no, I would say 'no, I think you have seven fish in your pocket', and she would get 5-year-old annoyed at me about it. After a few years of this, I discovered I could order a bunch of vinyl fish in bulk, so I put exactly 7 vinyl fish into as many of her pockets as possible one day when she was at school and I wasn't. The next time I asked her if she had any fish in her pocket, she did indeed have 7 fish in her pocket. It became a thing between us, and for many years both of us would occasionally find a vinyl fish in a shoe or pocket etc.

[@cassynedelisky796]

There’s the KZbin couple Matthew and Paul, where Matthew is constantly pranking his husband, Paul. but it’s very clear that Paul finds it absolutely hysterical. And they’re all just very lighthearted pranks.

[@trinquisitor_th2993]

I follow them on IG too and they are adorable! Their pranks are hilarious and quite fun to watch.😊

[@katie18976]

I also thought of them as a good example of how should the pranks be done. I love their videos 😊❤

[@hernameispekka_Rebecca]

Yes! I love their explanation of it (and that's from someone who doesn't like pranks). It's all about knowing the target, knowing the limits and having trust in that

[@tayloranne_]

I was thinking about them every time they mentioned pranks should be funny. They’re the standard for how pranks should be done.

[@heythere5817]

Is that the blind guy? If so yes harmless and genuinely funny

[@minomushi_hitogata]

That 32yo husband took his "pranks" straight out of the FBI/CIA psychological warfare pamphlet, holy crap. I half expected to hear that he started blasting flood lights into every window of the house at all hours while playing Hey Jude and audio of rabbits being hurt over all of it at the same time (yes, that is a real thing the FBI did. In Waco.)

[@hernameispekka_Rebecca]

I was gonna say. That's straight up torturing techniques.

[@ErikKovacs-my7tq]

I don't think that in the case of the FBI/CIA, feeding someone crappy food or giving them breast milk is part of their methods. Although considering that you live in a dictatorship where the FBI/CIA also uses psychological warfare, you should rather rebel against your dictatorship and burn the whole country instead of internet comments! Regardless of how sick what this 32-year-old husband is doing, I don't understand the much bigger problems, why don't you rebel? It is said that they lived in North Korea, even though these are obviously not among the psychological warfare techniques of the FBI/CIA, the very fact that a state has psychological warfare tactics calls for rebellion.

[@ErinIsley]

Yeah aren't those like.. war crimes? Legitimately?

[@angel-of-light-kelly1355]

I was listening to some of that, and was going "there's no way some of these aren't some kind of torture."

[@rainestar82]

the second OP mentioned sleep deprivation I was like "YUP THERE IT IS" I had completely forgotten the Waco thing until you mentioned it, ty for that lmao

[@lilystanleylowe]

Pranks shouldn’t do actual mental or physical harm, and definitely not both. My ex used to prank me all the time. I have PTSD and I told him that he should never prank me by scaring me because my flight or fight instinct is all fight. I explained I was worried I might hurt him if he did. He apparently didn’t believe me, and one day as I came in from work, he hid in the hallway on his hands and knees laying in wait to scare me. As I turned to walk into the hall, he came out of nowhere crawling at me crazy fast and barking loudly. It scared the absolute crap out of me, and I reflexively kicked him square in the head. He never pranked me like that again.

[@Theodore453]

I'm sorry for what you've been through but also I'm so glad your ex got what was coming to him 😂 play stupid games win stupid prizes

[@Digitt6]

there was a twohottakes episode where someone had ptsd and their boyfriend "pranked" them (even though they told him not to). "pranking" someone with PTSD is never ok

[@daniellefaith47]

I have given my boyfriend the same warning!

[@Zahratest]

Owned & deserved.

[@Eckertainment]

God I wish we could get a full back story on the twin one. Like, the part about grandparents never coming back on its own makes ZERO sense. Did they really think the parents were hiding a third child since the kids were born???? I have to wonder if there was something else going on that the OP doesn't know about. Did CPS come because of the prank then find something else actually wrong? And I've considered that OP could be the twin who came up with the prank, but if she's not, what's up with the sister going no contact for 7 years if OP wasn't the mastermind? So much chaos and so little order @.@

[@beabeabea3]

I was starting to wonder if this was a damn Criminal Minds episode 😭 was there a triplet? Did CPS take her away? Did OP block out a lot bc of the trauma? Did she fill in the blanks and then tell that story to her family and dredge up the whole thing 😭

[@Scooter_Alice]

I remember reading that chair story and being enraged. It really brought me back to grade school in the worst way possible. Bullying is something I will never be ok with

[@120-l3l]

I’m enraged for a different reason, that man has boundaries and his family doesn’t respect them, and the second he reminds them of said boundary and doubles down they all ghost. His family is mad and they think they’re the victim 😤

[@bunnyellabell]

yeah it's totally insane that a whole family is acting like middle schoolers. i would lose my mind

[@Scooter_Alice]

​@@120-l3lwell that's what my bullies used to do when I told them to stop so it seems like our reasons aren't that different

[@Nightingale_time]

The fact that the bother in law's response was to throw a chair through a window, too. Like wtf. "It's just a prank bro" can't apply if your response to it not going perfectly your way is to break someone else's property, abandon your wife a kid, and fight them on paying for the damage.

[@isThisTakenToo---]

The way his feeling are belittled and him not being treated as a respectable person make me see red. like you, brings back elementary school. it's fucking disgusting.

[@eideanbotha8655]

When Damien (in the chair story 23:12) was talking about understanding that because your brain works differently than others' so you have to remind yourself to be accommodating, only to find out that people were deliberately pushing his buttons, made me almost cry. I have felt that so many times. I have really bad misophonia with chewing sounds to the point where I sometimes can't eat because of my own chewing noises, and I have to be very careful around my friends and family. I don't want to hurt them or make them feel unwelcome, so meal times are very stressful. I have also had certain family members try to tease me about this to the point where I try to leave the situation AND THEY WOULD FOLLOW ME giving me no escape and then getting mad when I lose my temper. That frustration is unmatched and it makes me feel so bad, and like I'm broken sometimes. I think Damien just described that feeling really well.

[@lifenothingbutasong]

I'm so sorry you have to go through that.

[@eideanbotha8655]

@@lifenothingbutasong Things are easier now💙 than you for your concern. May you have a wonderful day🫶🏻💪🏻

[@lindsayf9225]

I hope you get to a point where mealtimes can be more relaxing and enjoyable for you than not. I'm sorry that people have pushed you when you were distressed, I think the fact that you still try to share meals despite that says a lot about you 💙

[@eideanbotha8655]

@lindsayf9225 Thank you for the words of encouragement🙏🏻 I'm working towards that too. I stay with friends who are very understanding these days, so that helps immensely. They even offer to play music during meals so I have something else to try focus on. It really helps

[@kingcalliope]

Okay, I’m Australian. That story about the dude “pranking” (abusing) his very recently postpartum wife was, of course, incredibly shocking and disturbing. I gotta say though, I wasn’t super surprised to find out it happened in Australia if I’m honest. Definitely a big culture around men treating women like garbage here, combined with a big culture of people (again, often men) doing shitty things to people under the guise of just “joking around” or being a larrikin.

[@AnyaPapaya]

Wow, would you also say that there are a lot of misogynists in Australia

[@rena4857]

​@@AnyaPapaya I'm Australian too, and yes there are.

[@theseanhou]

Can I ask? Which part of Australia are you from? I'm also Australian.

[@Mercadian]

I'm wondering if it's a more regional thing, because I definitely saw this back in country NSW a lot, but since moving to VIC, I haven't seen anything like this. Unless you count feeding your guests deathcap mushrooms in their beef wellington as a prank.

[@AleTitan]

As an outsider, I can definitely see how humor would be used by people in Australia as a socially acceptable way to get away with things, like insulting someone to their face.

[@ZephyrKK]

I totally saw this on KZbin shorts and had to go searching for more. Holy s*** these stories are crazy especially the one with the woman with her 6 week old child. I always liked the whoppie cushion as a prank......thats basically it.

[@keeahrahr3311]

53:31 OP saying that her sister went NO CONTACT the moment she moved out because, "I guess I was never special enough", is such an instant red flag to me. That 'woe is me, the reason people leave me is because their standards are too high' nonsense makes my neck prickle.

[@thejayinator585]

uh, no. that in itself isnt telling. its understandable to feel that way. OPs sisters parents seem incredibly toxic, so i assume thats why ops sister left. and when your sibling leaves, you have every right to feel that way. id reccomend you to stop making harsh judgements about people for one thing they say. op was a 9 year old, and this story is just sad. the mom is the biggest issue for assaulting her own daughter.

[@MementoMorrigan]

@@thejayinator585​​⁠​⁠ uh, no. The OP straight up says “I guess I was never special enough for her because the day she moved out, she cut all contact with me” This wasn’t framed as “her parents were abusive and so she left them all”, it was specifically framed as “she apparently wasn’t good enough because she cut contact with HER” Sure, the parents could have been problematic, and the sister might have cut contact with them too, but the post opens with OP saying she hasn’t had any interest in her sister until NOW, that she never really got along with her mother, and she’s only now trying to reconnect with her family because of her father The OP reeks of either twisting the narrative or simply not understanding her relationship with others, and looking past all those markers to pin the blame on the mother simply because she slapped her child is insane to me We don’t know what the family lost because of this. We don’t know what the family *could* have lost because of this. Clearly it was either more than OP knew or more than they wanted to include, because no mother would react that angrily if there weren’t any consequences

[@ayceinquisitor190]

​@@MementoMorrigan youre right. In fact, because of flags like that, OP might also be straight up lying and she herself came up with the rumors and made her sister an accomplice. Unreliable narrator, not enough context details

[@mistyd6059]

@@ayceinquisitor190 this post was so insane that I had to look it up & there r updates…

[@positivevibesveda]

@@ayceinquisitor190i didn’t even think of that!

[@trashotaku]

Even as an adult not understanding the severity of getting the CPS called on her family and throwing her sister under the bus is what solidifies OP in the second to last story as the AH in my eyes

[@jessicalewis5406]

R/ true confessions I announced my very real marriage on April Fool's Day and now several hundred thousand people think it was a prank Edit: y'all I didn't do this, it's a joke about Shayne and Courtney's announcement

[@cinnamuaroll]

oh no girly 😭😭😭

[@stuckinlastmillenia]

This comment is going viral

[@MoonCorvid]

Looking at Shayne so hard rn

[@HerSandiness]

Can I like this comment more than once? 😂

[@KevinHawk636]

Incredible

[@kanatapaw]

that poor woman having to look after TWO children.

[@autumngraves4322]

It’s not a proper Saturday until I’ve had my Smosh Reddit stories

[@ninjaltofficial]

And for me it ain’t a proper Sunday until these videos come here

[@kailiz1108]

REAL

[@nanaminish]

SO TRUE

[@Kiyannepeppers]

Same, it's always a happy Saturday after that😊

[@cinnamuaroll]

this is my version of “I’m not me until I’ve had my coffee” 😭

[@ladybelle6506]

"She filmed him just to show him his reaction." - ooooorrrrrrr she already had the cameras everywhere, especially in the bedroom, and that was her excuse in case he found one of those as well.... "no, I'm totally not creeping on you at all times, I just set up this camera for the prank. There totally isn't servers full of videos of you sleeping or eating."

[@mintyhippo8125]

Yeah, I was thinking she might’ve been filming anyway and since he looked so appalled she claimed it was a prank. She might’ve just added it to the shrine, otherwise

[@sunte91]

She is 32 and he is 23 which could be fine. However, how long ago did the meet? Seem like it could be suspicious 🤨

[@lilymulligan8180]

This was my thought too

[@kerrychristensen7204]

Or of them having sex! 😞

[@samanthal8981]

The gnome prank is giving me Sims vibes. Just have your Sim make an ARMY OF HUNDREDS OF GNOMES! Surround their house with gnomes.

[@samsvideoproduction8607]

Omg I was literally thinking the same thing but in term of like “i don’t know what id do in this scenario when i can barely stand when gnomes appear in my sims households” lol

[@alltheravens1873]

Lol I was thinking: were these gnomes next to the Cow Plant?

[@comicaltuber]

The thanksgiving dupe in seasons where the gnomes teleport all over your house 😭😭

[@cloudgames2284]

A year or so ago I pranked my first job at a restaurant by leaving tiny plastic babies everywhere. And I mean EVERYWHERE. They were finding them almost a year later

[@kayleejayne]

As a girl who hates pranks, I’m buckled in

[@davidhill9696]

As a guy who hates buckles, I’m girled in

[@thatonearoace]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@davidhill9696 As a buckle that hates in, I’m girled guy

[@cinnamuaroll]

😭😭😭

[@mage1439]

As a guy who thinks most "pranksters" are complete pieces of crap, same.

[@AleksandarBell]

@@thatonearoaceAs a prank who hates I’m, who’s buckles in

[@Aesos3429]

I’m surprised Shayne couldn’t think of ANY pranks despite me automatically remembering both him and Spencer pranking Amanda with FNAF and also fuckjng APRIL 1ST OF THIS YEAR 😂

[@jmurphy0684]

To be fair, April 1st was technically not a prank, lol (unless you count pranking people into THINKING it’s a prank).

[@kylie7780]

To be fair, that prank has spectacularly backfired on him since Amanda is now a HUGE fan and wants to keep playing those games.

[@lizardman7718]

Also that thing where he would hide bananas

[@kyothinks]

A prank I pulled once: I tilted all of the pictures on the wall in my grandmother's house just slightly off-center to see how long it would take her to notice when she got home from grocery shopping. It took her a few hours to ask me if I'd felt an earthquake or anything while she was gone because all the pictures were hung weird. When I revealed that it was me, we both had a good laugh about it and then she made me go around with a level and straighten them all back out again. It was totally harmless.

[@V.Hansen.]

And you did the work. Making work for someone else is never cool or funny to me. That was a good one

[@talia7883]

I pranked my whole class on April Fools when I was in grade 5. Every day, our school would give out milk during lunch and over the years kids would hope to get a "Mooo". The "Mooo" is like the Golden Ticket from Wonka's Chocolat Factory, in that you had the chance to win a prize. Apparently, opening a winning milk carton would set off a tiny contraption that would let out a "Mooo". I've never seen it for myself so I'm not sure if its true or not, but that is what the kids at my school believed. Regardless, I had a little contraption that would make a "Mooo" sound when you pressed the button, so I snuck it into class at lunch, and when everyone got their milk, I pressed the button and hid my little device in my desk. Immediately everyone in my class swarmed me because after all these years, someone had gotten the elusive "Mooo" that we all heard about but never seen. When I told everyone it was an April Fools prank, they started laughing and clapping and cheering for me. I was very shy, so it made me feel good to see all my peers appreciate and love my prank my joke. 😊

[@Geini0]

That is so cute, thank you for sharing

[@melaniemagolan2241]

My music teacher told us about a prank in a choir years ago. Someone got one of those canisters that moo when you tip them, and brought it to choir practice. Whenever there was a rest in the music, they would tip it, and get a moo. Except they passed it around the upper rows, so the moo came from a different place every time. The choir director didn’t find it nearly as funny as everyone else did.

[@talia7883]

​@@melaniemagolan2241Niiice, thanks for sharing

[@sofiajearally9710]

@talia7883 That's wholesome 🫶

[@realmskip97]

i love how nobody corrected Shayne when he said " 6 yr old baby" instead of 6 month lol these stories are crazzyyyy

[@hernameispekka_Rebecca]

This made me giggle because the actual age was 6 weeks. I usually don't correct people but it was too funny here

[@HawkLeer]

He said it twice, too

[@khaleesireyna731]

"6 yr/old baby" is giving the same energy as "My 92 month old toddler" 😂

[@outofthegrey7430]

In the bottom right screen it said *6 weeks 41:12

[@Katiek444]

No bc he said it like 3 times and atp it was confusing me lmfaooo

[@IAmButASimpleFool]

As someone who struggles with empathy, there’s no excuse for the husband who “pranked” (read poisoned) his wife and friends. Jesus, even if it doesn’t come naturally to you, empathy is something you HAVE to learn. She needs to get OUT of there

[@audreydoyle5268]

Empathy isn't even required to acknowledge the law. It takes sadism to think it's ok to poison someone. Being an unempathetic person doesn't make them a psycho unless there's an intent and commission of sadistic action. Both ingredients are necessary to be a psychopath. Especially laughing like a maniac directly after the crime and then using the silent treatment to create mental discord in the victim. Definitely psycho behaviour

[@CourtheadIsCool]

In middle school (so like 20 years ago 😬), my best friend and I used to find names in the phone book that “sounded like old people.” Lol. We’d call them and sing “Happy Birthday,” but to a random name that wasn’t them. They always loved it! Made their day! They’d let us sing the whole thing and then laugh while telling us we had the wrong number.

[@alexia3552]

(That emoji with the "like 20 years ago" dear god I feel you )

[@alexia3552]

That's freaking adorable. I did the "is your refrigerator running" one at a sleepover but it was not appreciated xP

[@SurfTheSkyline]

That has to be the nicest "prank" i have ever heard of, elders experiencing extreme lonliness and isolation can be a very real issue and I don't know if that was the intent, but I wouldn't doubt if there was someone that had it mean even more than you knew just to have such a joy filled "wrong number".

[@armyofthewolves]

Whoever is behind the camera laughing, you are a treasure. I appreciate and respect you, and I don't know how to end this comment so I'm just going to lean into the confusing tone of it and say I love you and I'd be honored to be followed around everywhere by you

[@Emmy-ql6wr]

The fact that she said “guess I wasn’t special enough” about her twin cutting contact when she moved out immediately got my narcissistic alarm going

[@breadfor_bobross4055]

so true totally forgot about that, this episode in its entirety was very shocking

[@khaleesireyna731]

So, I looked up the post and (allegedly) the sister of the OP responded and basically laid out that the OP was a liar and a monster who would torment her (the sister) and then play it like the sister was the one doing bad things. The OP (allegedly) is the one who actually made up that lie and coerced the sister to go along with it by holding the sister's stuffed animal hostage. The OP to the original post came back and just blanket tried to claim that the commenter who responded with all of that was NOT her sister. Make of all that what you will.

[@gremghost101]

​@@khaleesireyna731where did you find this im actually curious as fuck lol

[@theodorefelixgrant]

​@@khaleesireyna731 ??? Where

[@Parasolhyena]

@@gremghost101 Can't find that at all but the aitd post covering it makes some decent points on the whole of op's account being fake, now the ops account is suspended but apparently it had wild post history.

[@justj.c6769]

I pranked a coworker by hiding plastic eggs all around his work area. I got 48 eggs but only hid 24 of them, and labeled them 1 of 48, 3 of 48, etc. skipping every other number. I thought that it was hilarious that he was still searching for the other 24 eggs, but there are none. He was so confused when I told him, but he laughed about it.

[@V.Hansen.]

This is not bad but it does break one of my prank rules. Making work for someone else is not cool or funny. If someone wastes my time and cleaning energy for their amusement it annoys me thoroughly. But I just wanted to put my rule out there. I don’t think you prank was mean.

[@cristianrios6740]

Why get 48 if you were only planning on using half of them?

[@juniperrb]

He didn't notice that they were all only the odd numbers?

[@CircusoftheMoon]

I’ve pranked my coworkers by binder clipping their lab coat sleeves shut and switching their nameplates around.

[@alexia3552]

Fantastic

[@BloodyMary9494]

The reddit post about the husband literally psychologically torturing his wife who just had a baby was very hard to listen to and I hope that she's officially done with him. Maybe the week long stay at her sister's will make her realize how much better life is without him causing her constant anguish

[@claronjas]

i appreciate damien's presence in these so much! so many subtle jokes, and while he makes the tone of the conversations lighter, he can and will bring up serious and deeper matters on the posts they're reading! it's awesome seeing him more in the show

[@brittanydehaan9019]

I just had a baby. That man is 100% abusing that woman. I CANNOT imagine caring for myself and my baby and dealing with that. He has no clue what pranks are appropriate and that baby is in danger. He could prank SIDS and kill that poor infant.

[@raymondcarty4325]

The ‘just a chair” line pissed me off so fucking much. As an autistic man that sentiment has been used with me and other people I know so often. Even after being diagnosed and trying my best to explain it to everyone in my life, there were still people who would (for lack of a better word) bully me and justify it with that sentiment. The whole autism awareness thing has spectacularly failed, everyone knows it exists but have no idea what it is or what not to do. Next time you see someone get upset over something that seems like nothing to you just consider the fact that other people are just that, others. They are different to you. EVERYONE is.

[@TriciaStewart84]

Exactly. It’s not “just a…” anything and no we cannot “just let it go”. When your brain can’t just dismiss things that easily, it becomes even more overwhelming when someone tries to diminish your feelings by saying “it’s fine, get over it”

[@ErinIsley]

It super doesn't help that Autism $peaks have led so much of the conversation around autism and what it is.

[@ohkiwi296]

Literally tho. At the end of the day it's your property and you've set your boundary. Going against that would directly upsets you (rightly so) so why would anyone who cares about you do that?? I'm also autistic and I've had to set boundaries about personal items so many times

[@LiaanaKuolmi]

SO well said!! (Fellow neurodivergent here💛)

[@sheilapohn7220]

Love Damian explaining the difference between a spooky altar to the fiancè, and a weird ass treasure box. Also categorizing it as “evidence”. Y’all are hysterical. And Shayne, your laugh is amazing!!!

[@spencerlively3049]

@@MikeForest90 mmm no. i don't think so.

[@hamstersandwich9917]

How is that relevant to the comment?

[@cathchapo]

A good prank ends up with all parties, without exceptions, laughing together. If the "prankster" is the only one laughing or the "prankstee" isn't laughing, it's not a prank and there are very high chances it's abuse. That poor woman.

[@Jarethenator]

"My fiancé, a 32 year old woman, and I, a 23 year old man----" *STOP.* I've heard enough. Sound the alarms. When did they meet? WHEN did they meet?! _WHEN DID THEY MEET?!_

[@kul2130]

Jail time for this weirdo.

[@kichikitsu]

would 100% believe it if it turns out this woman has been stalking him for 10yrs

[@papi4805]

I thought the same. I was surprised that no one commented on the age difference and the actions of a mature woman.

[@Cab1726]

The age difference with them already engaged while he is 23 and the prank with the hidden camera are enough to me to prove this is a toxic relationship.

[@amentrison2794]

Thank you! This is an instance where I think the "what if the genders were reversed" type of arguments are worth at least being brought up.

[@Animefreak5293]

Shayne: I don’t prank people Also Shayne: Convinces Amanda Five Nights at Freddy’s is real

[@terra2su]

as someone with noise sensitivities too, it breaks my heart that Damien mentioned there are/were people in his life that would intentionally make noises to set him off.

[@Alyssa_M513]

The baby poop prank guy reminds me of this serial killer doctor who poisoned patients, killing some of them, and also got caught putting laxatives in his coworkers' coffee as a "prank."

[@srkh8966]

It’s like the boyfriend who fed his gf slugs