This series is inspired by a video I watched from College Knight that (among other things) talked about how Soulja Boy is being used to recapture the troll energy that has been lost with the incarceration of Tekashi 6IX 9INE. It really made me think, why is it that we encourage people to engage in brash, ignorant behavior that is often to the detriment to the person involved and others around them? The conclusion that College Knight came to is that dumb people like trolls. I would add on to this by saying that we all like a good train wreck. We want to see someone get themselves into bad situations and wonder how they will get out of that situtation when the camera goes off. We watch movies for the same reasons. But unlike a movie, this actually effects people. Im not sure what happened, but at some point 6 years ago, we decided collectively as a society that sketch comedy has effectively died. In its place came something where people did stuff that was funny, but they themselves were not funny enough to even be a amateur comedian. Why? Because we like seeing dumb shit. We like seeing people run up to people and steal stuff, smack shit, and commit heinous acts of coonery. Frankly its pretty low budget entertainment, especially since these situations that get depicted are increasingly getting more realistic and less staged than their predecessors. I hope that the cases I go over in this series serves as a signal to wake up and see that this behavior is something that should not be celebrated not only because of the obvious risks to anyone involved, but because it influences impressionable minds (ie: young people) that will emulate the behavior and will not be given the free passes that famous individuals receive. Being a idiot should never be encouraged in mainstream culture, period.