He's apparently a prank YouTuber, which immediately makes me more suspicious of his motives. "Dumbass invites barbarian hordes to Union Square, riot ensues when he runs out of PS5s" would still be negligent, but I can easily believe that he did this knowing what he was unleashing.
Didn't that ice-poseidon guy do a similar thing a few years back involving air travel, where he got a friend to call the police on him as he was boarding a flight saying he had a bomb, just so he could get attention and a free plane ticket? For me all of this would be solved if authorities cracked down more on the stuff, like what they did over here where a kid got 5 years in jail for masquerading as a subway employee and posting on facebook that "no nigs are welcome at this place", causing more than 30 black people to firebomb said location.
The only thing I can say in defense is Union Square is meant to hold a bunch of people. It's not like he was inviting them to a house. Mainly, I think he's an asshole as are most YT/TikTok pranksters.
The cops being like "there's too many people" in NYC at a tourist attraction is a bit much for me. I understand they were inconvenienced. Reacting to what happens in the streets is their job.
The cops being like "there's too many people" in NYC at a tourist attraction is a bit much for me.
Even generally well-behaved people will eventually cause a problem as crowd density increases, but these weren't generally well-behaved people. Generally well-behaved people aren't dropping everything at an hour's notice during office hours to go to Union Square because a black prank YouTuber is giving away free shit.
He's apparently a prank YouTuber, which immediately makes me more suspicious of his motives. "Dumbass invites barbarian hordes to Union Square, riot ensues when he runs out of PS5s" would still be negligent, but I can easily believe that he did this knowing what he was unleashing.
Didn't that ice-poseidon guy do a similar thing a few years back involving air travel, where he got a friend to call the police on him as he was boarding a flight saying he had a bomb, just so he could get attention and a free plane ticket? For me all of this would be solved if authorities cracked down more on the stuff, like what they did over here where a kid got 5 years in jail for masquerading as a subway employee and posting on facebook that "no nigs are welcome at this place", causing more than 30 black people to firebomb said location.
I wonder what the 30 black people who firebombed said location got?
An apology.
The only thing I can say in defense is Union Square is meant to hold a bunch of people. It's not like he was inviting them to a house. Mainly, I think he's an asshole as are most YT/TikTok pranksters.
The cops being like "there's too many people" in NYC at a tourist attraction is a bit much for me. I understand they were inconvenienced. Reacting to what happens in the streets is their job.
Even generally well-behaved people will eventually cause a problem as crowd density increases, but these weren't generally well-behaved people. Generally well-behaved people aren't dropping everything at an hour's notice during office hours to go to Union Square because a black prank YouTuber is giving away free shit.
They also jumped on cars, raided a construction site, stole tools and rocks and attacked the cops…
But yeah, just a “peaceful gathering”… 🙄