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Prison Life for VitalyzTv | Extorted, Desperate, & Locked Up Abroad
Sat, 19 Apr 2025
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Chapter 1: What happened to Vitaly in the Philippines?
Vitaly just got arrested in the Philippines. We're going to be talking about that. We're also going to put several locked up abroad clips at the end of this video. You want to start and kind of talk about who he is?
So this dude, Vitaly, is one of the OG pranksters on the internet. So he was one of the first dudes who blew up and actually made a career and eventually millions of dollars from pranking people on the internet, making videos about it. And in fact, like... How long ago was this? A decade ago, 15 years to a decade ago. And then...
to the point where all his, um, pranks are classics in like so many people, so many YouTubers and streamers, do they just copy it? So there's like thousands of copies from his original ideas. So he's like super OG when it comes to pranks, you know, on the internet. And apparently he's been getting a lot of trouble. Um, so last year he was, uh, on trial, um,
for beating someone up, a woman in Miami. So eventually he gets out this year. So he's just trying to revive his career pretty much. That's what's going on. And there's been a trend lately of these, they call them nuisance streamers now. where the most famous guy right now is called Johnny Somali, right?
And he's an American, and he goes to Asian countries and acts like a complete idiot, try to pick fights just to get attention and clicks, and eventually gets monetized, and he makes money off of it. And he's been going around all these Asian countries. And right now, he's finally been arrested in Korea. And he's facing serious charges out there. I'm talking about Johnny Somali.
And then... So he's getting a lot of attention doing that. So I guess this guy Vitaly, he just gets out of trial or whatever. And he needs to revive his career. So why not just... Just make the biggest splash possible, right? But what I think he made his biggest mistake is he did not know the Philippines and he decided to do it there.
Because pretty much, I don't know what your experience with Filipinos is, Matt, but the way Filipinos are, they're just jovial. They're just really nice people. So I think he thought that he would be able to get away with a lot of stuff because of the way Filipinos are. But the thing about Filipinos is that it's not really known is that they're nice.
But if you cross a certain line, they gang up on you because, um, I don't know if you know the history of the Philippines. It's been colonized by Spain, USA, and Japan. So there's a lot of like pent up like, I don't want to say, willingness to defend, you know, pride. And what what's happening with Vitaly. So he did try to try to copy these nuisance streamers.
And like I said, he did it in the wrong country where it's just, it's just going to make any other prison, any other, and not just the prison, the actual sentences, like they don't mess around there. It's just not known. So he just didn't know this, I guess going into it, but yeah, It's, it's brutal. He's, he's in for what I would consider hell on earth.
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Chapter 2: Why was Vitaly considered an OG prankster?
like I said, the elections and, uh, these politicians, these are some of the worst politicians you'll ever like dirty, dirty politicians. So they're willing to do anything. And if they're going to, if they have to drag the student's name through the mud, so be it. And that's, what's going to happen. Um,
And since the president already made a comment about it, they're for sure, for sure going to drop the hammer on this guy.
I have a friend that is currently in Thailand. And he talks about how You know, he's walking the streets and he's like, there's no there's no garbage on the street. There's no trash on the street. And he says, like, everybody's super, super nice. And he was talking about how they're extremely respectful and they have that a big thing for them is respect.
And like their word is like really like if they say they're going to do something, they do. You know, I'm saying he was he was basically saying like. That respect is a big, big thing there. They don't, you know, it's kind of like you go to Japan and you get on the subway and there's, there's a police, there's like a monitor there that like, you don't, don't take your cell phone.
Don't, you're not loud. You're quiet. There's no trash on the street. Everybody polite. It's, it's.
So, you know... That's just normal for Asian countries, I would say, because that comes from Confucianism. If you know, like they say, Confucius say. And so it's in Chinese. He's a Chinese philosopher or whatever from thousands of years ago. But the influence spread definitely all throughout Asia. And basically what Confucianism is, is like... the complete opposite of American culture in a sense.
Like it's not like here. Individuality doesn't mean a thing. You know what I mean? It's all about the group. It's all about the family. It's all about the community. Um, what your needs, the needs of the community far outweigh the needs of the individual when it comes to, yeah, because of confusionism. So most Asian countries have some sort of influence of confusionism, I would say.
So this kind of behavior, just like, it's like an alien. It's for an Asian to see this kind of behavior. It's like, what is this? Is this an alien? So it's just an agent. We didn't even think of acting that way.
Yeah. So I don't know how to even react. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Because what was the name of the guy that there was a guy that was like this and it was in the US and he was same thing. He was we'd go around annoying people and he there was a was it a DoorDash guy that had picked up a pizza or something. He was getting in his face, annoying him.
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Chapter 3: What mistakes did Vitaly make while abroad?
Like if you'd get 15 years here, you're getting five years there, you're doing one year and then they're putting an ankle monitor on you and telling you to go home and get a job and just live your life. And, and it's like, sounds like kind of a little foreign. Yeah. Yeah. I did a year on five years in the States. I'd get 15.
And one of the big things that they do there, if you've committed crimes and, in the U S is they'll threaten to send you the U S and everybody's terrified to go to the U S and go to, cause they're like, I'm at 20 years, almost 20 years. So, uh, yeah, there was a famous case where there was a guy who was counterfeiting American money.
and spending it in... Somehow or another, he was spending it in Canada or he was also selling it in Canada and having people go to the U.S. and spend it. Somehow or another, I forget exactly what he was doing. But when he got caught, he was fighting the case and that's when they finally brought in the Secret Service and they said... if you don't plead guilty in Canada and take this plea.
And it was like five. It was nothing. It was five years. They were like, then we're going to bring you to the U.S. and prosecute you there. And he immediately pled guilty. He said, oh, I didn't realize.
My mistake. I guess Canada is the best place for a criminal, not the U.S.A.
If you hear these guys' stories, and the prisons are better, and just across the board, they just don't give as much time. But other than that, you're right. At least you get some due process here. Some of these places, listen, if anybody does watch this this far, we'll put up some of the videos from some of the guys that have been locked up in South American countries.
And it's, I just did a video on a guy who had been locked up in Turkey. And what happened? Listen to this. Listen to this. This is a Muslim country. He got, this guy got four. I think he got four. I could be wrong. It was four or five years. He got like four years though, I think.
So he got four years just as he, and no, I think he got five years and he was going to do four with good time of some, they have gave you some. Yeah. He smuggled like some marijuana, a couple of keys of marijuana or something. So they give him five years, but they luckily they didn't charge him with smuggling because they charged him with. It was like possession. So he got five years.
So he had almost finished. He was 50 days away from finishing his sentence. The government appealed the decision. They bring him back to court. They give him life. He then appeals that and they lower it to 30 years. So you got 30 years for two keys of marijuana. So he's out now? He did get out. He escaped. He escaped. Wow. How did he escape from a Turkish prison?
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Chapter 4: How do the Filipino cultural norms affect behavior?
In the States, but he was acquitted for some reason. Really? Yeah. It was pretty brutal. The photo of the woman he beat up, it was a woman.
Yeah, I was going to say, he's... Yeah, I don't think he's got... Nobody's going to have any sympathy for this guy.
So, what do you feel, Matt? Do you think... Do you think the U.S. is too lax? Do you think we should at least nudge a little bit toward that way? Or do you think we're just fine?
I think that our sentences... Now, I only know the federal system. I think the federal system sentences are brutal. I think that we should focus more on violent criminals. I'm always amazed that somebody will get... you'll give a white collar criminal 20 years and then somebody will kill someone and get 12. It's like, right. What?
Like, so I think that the sentencing guidelines need to be adjusted. And I think that people should probably be placed on probation. Like you, maybe you go to jail for two years or three years and then you get another three years on probation. Because I think that helps people, uh, You have to get a job. Right. Do you see I'm saying like that's the kind they have so much control over you.
You go to prison for 10 years and get out. You've learned nothing. Nothing. If you go for three years and you put this guy on on probation and an ankle monitor for seven years, say you have to get a job or we're going to throw you back in jail and you have to pay for the monitoring. It's one hundred dollars a month. They'll do that instead of going back to jail.
I'd rather live in a rooming house on an ankle monitor and go work at McDonald's because I can watch YouTube and I can play video games and I can do whatever people want to do. It's a better life out here than it is in there. And after six or seven years, and maybe you even tell them, hey, you can earn your way off of this if you behave. Maybe maybe it's not seven years.
Maybe it's three and a half years as long as you behave and don't get yourself jammed up and thrown back in jail. And what happens is for the first time, you've got a drug dealer who's never done anything but sell drugs. And now he's been working for Target for three years. And if you take that ankle monitor off of him now, he's like, I can live like this, like this is not a bad life.
So you teach him something. And you can do that a lot more inexpensively than keeping him in prison.
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