15 Years of Rémi Gaillard

RANT

Yeah people who watch this and say "oh lighten up" are full of shit.

First of all this isn't "famous internet guy hitting you with a pie for a video" from your point of view. You don't see the camera, you probably don't know who he is and even if you've heard of him you wouldn't recognize him in that moment. From your point of view all that happened was someone just smashed you in the face with something out of fucking nowhere. You have no idea what was in it, why it happened, what's going on, if something else is about to happen. It would be upsetting as fuck no matter how chill a person you are. Maybe you'd be ok with it later but at the time it happened it would be, at the least, extremely unsettling.

Also, you have no idea who you just hit with a pie. Maybe it's some average dude having an average day and he's going to go "What the fuck asshole?!" and move on. But then again maybe it's some guy with PTSD, or some dude who just found out his wife is cheating on him, or his dad died, or maybe he's a really violent piece of shit who is just looking for an excuse.

And what if that dude fell? I mean if I suddenly see something flying toward my face there's a really good chance I'm going to take a step back from it and falling down a flight of stairs is no joke, but falling down a flight of metal stairs with sharp teeth like corners on them that are moving in the opposite direction you're falling?

There's just all kinds of shit wrong with pranks that involve fucking with another person for no reason. I've seen a million harmless, funny, good natured pranks that I really enjoyed (including a lot of Remis stuff) there's no reason to do shit like slam a pie into a strangers face on an escalator.

/rant

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