I'm not sure how I feel about prank videos on YouTube. It's kind of like.. something I don't want to support, to basically trick and troll people and waste their time.
But I've been binge watching "Nelk". They at least do it really well. In my mind I guess there's a difference between just acting a fool, and actually being funny.
This is an older video from before they got big:
He's so good at flirting the line between the absurdity and staying believable.
In their other videos, usually how it works is their fans send them uniforms of corporate stores, and they go in pretending to work there.
Ohhhh pranksters.
I feel like if you got pranked by Nelk, you'd usually just appreciate it and find it funny, unless you're really uptight or something. To me that's the line between good pranks and bad pranks. If I feel like I wouldn't mind if it happened to me, then I don't mind supporting it.
If it's just shock value, like being dumb and annoying and saying outrageous things to people, then it's kind of cringe and doesn't seem good to support.
Pretty subjective. But I support Nelk. And I support OwnagePranks (prank phone calls).
