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#401: American Streamer Plays “I Want To S*x Children” Audio At Korean Children's Park
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Winnie
Ramble.
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Winnie
Bada bing, Bada boo.
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Narrator
It's the middle of the day in South Korea. South Koreans are busy. They're rushing to their next place. They're heading to work. They're grabbing lunch. They're picking up the kids from school. Everybody's minding their own business. Except there's this one man, an American guy named Ramsey. He's looking side to side. Maybe it's hindsight. It just appears that he's up to no good. He's live streaming on his phone and eventually when he puts his backpack, he puts his phone down and props it up. The live stream viewers can see this female figure in front of Ramsey and he pulls out his portable speaker and he just starts blasting a song in the middle of a public street in broad daylight. The lyrics of the song go, last night I couldn't even get an answer. I tried to call, but my pride wouldn't let me dial. It's a song titled Last Night by Diddy P. Diddy, Puff Daddy, whatever you want to call him. The American Man. Ramsay. He starts slowly walking up to the figure of that woman and he starts stripping off his shirt until he's shirtless in the middle of the street, grabbing a bottle of baby oil and he just starts smearing it all over his chest. In broad daylight in the middle of Seoul, a whole crowd of Koreans form passerbys. He's trying to rub his butt up against female figure. He's trying to dance all up on this female figure rubbing baby oil onto her. And the Koreans are screaming at him in Korean and he's screaming back in English. He doesn't stop dancing. He just screams back. And it seems like he's screaming more towards his live streaming audience. I think these people are about to call the police on me. But for what? For what? What did I do wrong? I'm just trying to show her love. Because of what I'm trying to show my love to her.
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Winnie
Like show the woman love. Like what P. Diddy always says. Yeah, show some love.
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Narrator
Yeah, well, I think KVD said that mainly, but yes, yes. So eventually the crowd becomes very angry that he stops dancing with the figure of the woman. He puts his shirt back on and he sits down. This is all livestreamed and all of it would go viral in South Korea, making it to the news, making it to a congressional hearing, making him the number one target for all South Korea Koreans because the figure that he's rubbing baby oil on whilst playing Diddy's songs, I mean, the implication being very clear there. The woman that he's doing this to is a bronze statue. She is there to memorialize the hundreds of thousands of girls and women that were essayed and tortured during the war. Girls and women that were essayed 40 to 60 times per day for years for the quote unquote, comfort of soldiers. This video will go viral and Ramsey will be hunted on the streets of South Korea. By day 35 in South Korea, Ramsey will have been beaten on the streets multiple times with busted eyebrows, busted lips. And the very interesting part is he's not free to leave South Korea. The authorities have confiscated his passport. They're opening an investigation into him. He's stuck in South Korea in a nation where he is being hunted for sport. This is the story of Ramsey Khalid Ishmael, otherwise known as Johnny Somali, the most hated American guy in South Korea. We would like to thank today's sponsors who have made it possible for Rotten Mango to support Palestine Children's Relief Fund. They are a volunteer based group that provides free medical care and humanitarian aid to thousands of injured, abused and abandoned children. This episode's partnerships have also made it possible to support Rotten Mango's growing team and we'd also like to thank you guys, our listeners, for your continued support as we work on our mission to be worthy advocates. As always, full show notes are available@ron mangopodcast.com Some quick disclaimers for today's case. There's mentions of essay sex trafficking, sex slavery and if that's too heavy, please take care, stay safe. And for general disclaimers, I want to be very clear that any discussions about specific countries, their history or mentions of wrongdoings is not an effort to degrade their people nor their culture. Just like how Americans do not want to be identified by our politicians decisions or our government's decisions, much of which we strongly oppose. The same goes for every other country Nor is it meant to single out any specific region, because historically, I think every single region and country has a past that they are not proud of and should not be proud of. And one last brief note. The American streamer goes by the name Johnny Somali. His Wikipedia page states that he's half Somali, but he has done a video where he states that he's half Ethiopian and Yemeni. It does not appear that he's Somali. And regardless if he's Somali or not, many Somalis are frustrated that he's putting Somali as his username because it's making them look bad. And. And it's not even just like a small group of tiktokers being like, hehe, look at this guy. It's becoming an international issue. So for the purpose of this video, he's Johnny Salami. If we are talking about his username Salami, like the meat, because he's not Johnny Somali, I don't think that we should keep using his username. Additionally, I will be referring to him as his real government name, which is Ramzi Khalid Ishmael. His name is Ramsey and he is an American national. Perhaps he immigrated when he was younger. Honestly, I can't be too certain. But he does hold a US Passport, he's a US Citizen, and he's an American. We will be calling him by his real name, Ramsey Khalid Ishmael. So with that being said, let's get started. Do you know the game Where's Waldo? You look for a certain figure in a busy crowd, and when you find him, you win the game. It's like a big game of hide and seek. This is taking place in real life right now in South Korea. But instead of looking for Waldo in the red and white striped shirt, South Koreans are looking for this American streamer named Ramsay. One netizen comment reads, ramsay's biggest mistake was that he let South Koreans turn their anger into a game of Ramsay Catch. When anger and gaming skills are combined, there is no country in the world that can beat South Korea. And Ramsay's trying to be discreet, or at least he's thinking he is. He's wearing all black, which during the colder months, most Koreans do love an all black look. It's sleek, it's subtle, it goes with everything. It doesn't make you stand out. Ramsay's gone ahead and he's paired it with a black beanie. He's in a quiet part of Seoul near a bunch of alleyways with his two friends. But that doesn't stop him from being hunted.
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Winnie
Two friends? Are they American? Too. Or they're Koreans.
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Narrator
One of them is an American. The other one is, I believe, a Korean national that got deported from America and was arrested in America for firearms violations, but he's ethnically Korean. The other one is American, but they're.
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Winnie
All from America, so they traveled here together. Right.
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Narrator
I think the Korean now lives there because he's been deported.
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Winnie
Wow. Okay.
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Narrator
Now, every single day that Ramsay is staying in South Korea, there is a bounty out for him, albeit it's a rather small bounty. $770 for his whereabouts. But perhaps that's more insulting than anything. He's walking down an alleyway, Winnie. He hears them. They're coming for him, the Koreans. He starts running for his life because the streets are relatively empty. Nobody's out. There's nobody that he can scream to to save him. And even if he did, at this point, who's to say that they're not just going to jump in and start beating him, too? Honestly, maybe he's thinking that maybe it's radio silence up here while he's running away. I'm not sure. But there's this big Korean man that's chasing after him, just running down the alleyway after him. And once he reaches Ramsey, the Korean man grabs a of Ramsey's jacket and slams him over his shoulder, smack onto the cold street pavement and kicks him square in the chest and face. The whole thing is being recorded. And once it's uploaded, I've never seen a whole nation of people so united in asking, why not more? Do it some more. What is happening right now? Why is violence being condoned? What is happening to the American, Ramsey in South Korea right now? I mean, South Korea has a notorious bullying problem. And one netizen comments. Finally, Korean bullying problem pointed in the right direction. The whole nation is pretty much unanimously angry at Ramsay. He is the nation's punching bag. There's clips of Ramsay and his friend Gino. Another American streamer. And they're walking down this other alleyway. They're both in real life. Streamers, IRL streamers.
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Winnie
Are they streaming on, like, Twitch or what's going on?
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Narrator
They got banned on Twitch. Then they went on Kik. Or at least Ramsey went on Kik. He got banned on Kik. He got banned from YouTube. He's on Rumble now, I believe. Oh, he just keeps getting banned. But they're both IRL streamers, meaning they like to go around and explore new towns or countries while streaming on their phones, using, I think, Starlink to get cell reception. And they just, like, walk around different Towns, I mean, most of them just have these long selfie sticks in their phones, streaming in real time on the street. It's interesting because they're both streaming together, so you get two perspectives of the same incident. They're standing on the side of the street in South Korea, and it's nighttime, but it's still fairly early, so there's people everywhere. When out of nowhere, Ramsay's stream takes a tumble. It's like he dropped his phone and it goes black for a moment. What the hell just happened? Just mid sentence, he's gonna cut out his stream, but you can see it on his friend's perspective. Gino's stream. Ramsay did not just randomly decide to drop his phone. He was standing on the side of the street when a man walks up to him, a Korean man, and just punches him. Decks Ramsay in the face before walking. Not even running away. He is walking away in the most calm manner, hands in his pockets, like nothing just occurred. Given zero context at all, if you don't know what's going on, you could say, if we live in a contextless, nuanceless world, just judging by this clip, this was an unprompted, unprovoked attack. You could say that, but the comments would read otherwise. Top comments read, Captain Korea. That's the guy's name now. We love him. Someone buy the guy a beer. Perfect landing, good execution of punch. Now do it again. Translated comments by South Korean netizens read. Because of patriots like that, the dignity of the country shall be maintained. Others read, he should have hit more. He should be honored with the Brave Citizen award, actually. So what the hell did Ramsay do that would warrant all of this? Is it just because he danced with a statue? What's going on? Prior to coming to South Korea, Ramsay had gone on this world tour of sorts. Just making Americans look bad. That is his whole thing. But his antics really start in Japan. He livestreams himself out in Japan, harassing citizens, doing the most obnoxious, racist things. And because the world is depressing, he actually gains so much attention doing that versus when he's just out vlogging and showing off what he's eating. Nobody cares.
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Winnie
When was Japan?
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Narrator
End of 2023.
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Winnie
Was this the one that we saw.
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Narrator
Was on the subway station?
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Winnie
Went to like an all female subway and then.
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Narrator
Oh, that's a different man.
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Winnie
Okay, okay.
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Narrator
No, these. Some of these IRL streamers are ruining Japan.
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Winnie
That is crazy. So there's like a. This is a trend that people do.
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Narrator
And there are Japanese citizens protesting tourists. They're like, we actually despise you. Please never come. Wow. Yeah. It's so bad. It's so bad. I mean, obviously tourism is great in any country, but not this type of tourism. Ramsay would go onto the subways in Japan and say that everybody is shooting him dirty ass looks on the subway. He's insinuating that all the Japanese people are aggressively mean and are racist, but it's because you're live streaming and waving a camera around, which, by the way, he keeps saying, everyone's shooting me dirty looks, as if they're all the problems, but they're not. Eventually, he straight up tells his own viewers that he's not trying to give the foreigners a good image in Japan. He's out here trying to give foreigners a bad image. He says, I'm not a role model. He also proceeds to call everyone in Japan an npc. He will literally walk around livestreaming saying, crazy. These are all just NPCs out here. They're all NPCs, bro. All NPCs. Which? Side note, NPC stands for non playable character in games, like the ones that stand on the side offering you a side quest. When there were women that refused to be on his live stream, he made fun of them, saying that they didn't want to be on camera because they used too much filters, so now they can't show their real faces just being straight up racist and misogynistic. One could potentially argue that Ramsay himself is the one that could benefit from over usage of filters, but it does not stop him from just being blatantly rude and disregarding another country's culture and norms. He will livestream himself walking into restaurants where everything is in Japanese because he's in Japan. And he starts aggressively shaking menus, pointing at the menu, saying, everything is in this Mulan language.
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Winnie
Yeah, that's crazy.
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Narrator
He would walk around getting drunk, screaming on the streets, we're here to destroy Japanese society. Drop a nuke emoji in the chat. Chat. Drop a nuke emoji.
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Winnie
That is crazy.
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Narrator
But by far the most viral viral for all the wrong reasons. Clip of Ramsay is him sitting inside a subway car in Japan. There's a Japanese man sitting next to him, minding his own business. When Ramsay looks to him and says, Hiroshima, the guy looks confused because why are you just telling me a random city in Japan that's like me walking up to someone and being like Philadelphia? It's so random. He takes off his earbuds and he looks confused. And Ramsay double downs. You know Hiroshima. Yeah. Nagasaki. Okay, now the man looks uncomfortable because yes, both of those places are cities, but also the two cities that the U.S. bombed during World War II, killing over a quarter million people, most of whom were civilians. And now you have an American. I mean, obviously the Japanese man at this point wouldn't know his nationality, but you can presume that he's an American just sitting there asking him if he knows about these two cities. Johnny continues, why you do this? Pearl Harbor. Then he starts screaming on the train, Hiroshima, Nagasaki. You know why we do this to you, right? Because you don't know how to behave. I swear to God. You do again. We do again. Do you understand? Hiroshima, Nagasaki. We do again. Which none of the Japanese people on the train do anything because for one, maybe they just don't want to give him the time of day or two. I would honestly be kind of scared. Is he saying he has something on the train? Is he saying he's going to do it again on the train? It's a bit scary to even react, but one American walks up to him, a Korean American. Why don't you leave this guy alone? Just leave him alone, man. What do you mean? The Korean American asks him, where are you from, man? I'm from America. You're from America. So am I. Yeah, you're being obnoxious, dude. You know what we do to you? The Korean American man is confused. What do you do? Because they're both American, we will do it again. Do what? Hiroshima, Nagasaki. Which is just racist on top of racist at this point. But Ramsay keeps questioning him that he's from America. Until the Korean American man says, I'm from Texas, buddy. But Ramsay continues asking him what his ethnicity is. I'm Korean. Then sit down, brother. Why don't you sit your ass down? Okay, then. Korean War. You know what happened to you?
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Winnie
That's freaking crazy.
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Narrator
The Korean American man just tries to tell him, come on, you're being obnoxious. Leave the guy alone. Speaking about the Japanese guy. Korean War, North Korean War. You know what we did to you? This is one of the first clips of Ramses to go viral. And once he realizes that everyone hates him, he starts livestreaming angrily in the streets of Japan again. So prior to this, he's not getting much attention. This is the clip that blows up. Everyone on X is talking about him and he's upset. He's live streaming. Everybody's mad at me. I don't give a shit. Don't take shit too seriously. More haters is more views. More views is more money. More haters is the more eyes watching. More eyes watching is more money. You know what I mean? Haters are my motivators. You know, the more haters, the better. And I can just tell you, as someone who also posts on the Internet, when you hear someone say that, that means they are very bothered. He says, the more haters, the better. The more viewers, the better. I love every single one of my haters, bro. You know what I mean? We don't know what you mean. Which is good, I guess, because Johnny will meet many of his haters after that video clip of him screaming Hiroshima, Nagasaki, screaming at employees, calling the Japanese language Mulan language goes viral. He's still in Japan, live streaming. Naturally, he starts getting confronted. A middle aged man flicks him off and starts ramming his bike into Ramsey. Another time he gets confronted in an alleyway, completely alone at night by a man on a motorcycle. Suddenly, big, bad, tough Johnny Salami on the subway, he's gone. Ramsey is telling the guy, chill, chill, chill, chill. I didn't even say anything.
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Winnie
He's straight. Live streaming, yes.
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Narrator
He's like, chill, chill, chill. I didn't even say anything. I was just saying what the chat told me to say. You know, I'm trying to make money. Money. I'm just trying to make money. I'm just trying to make a living. The guy gets off his motorcycle and starts stalking him. Walking behind him in the alleyway, he takes off his helmet. He wants to understand, why would you say that? Why? Somebody gave me money to say it. They gave me money. Okay, to say it. Understand? I understand, but it's not good. The Japanese man says in English. Johnny then proceeds to tell the police, because he calls the police on him, that the man threatened him because he's a member of the Yakuza. Which is again just so bizarre. There's another incident where he runs into a Japanese streamer, Meowko. And he is so aggressive with her, just popping up, trying to interact with her, she's taken aback. She's streaming in real time on Twitch. And he warns her, oh, you just showed me on your stream. You know, on Twitch, if you even show the face of a banned Twitch streamer, you're going to get banned because you're platforming somebody that's banned. This is her livelihood. So later in the stream, she breaks down crying, which I was thinking about too. It's not even just he is threatening her livelihood and making her scared, but imagine being a Japanese streamer. And I think she lives in Belgium. But besides the point, he She's Japanese, right? You run into this notorious streamer now for all the wrong reasons, who has attacked Japan, and it's a feeling of, I should have said something or done something or told him it's not okay. Condemn his actions while everybody's watching because I'm Japanese, this is what I stand for. But also, how terrifying is it? You're taken aback because you weren't prepared to run into him and now you're scared and now you could lose your livelihood or everybody could be mad at you for not saying anything, but in that moment, you were so scared to say anything and the pressure of it all is just coming down on her. Later, she tweets, thanking her viewers for being kind, and she said we worked quickly with Twitch staff to avoid having our account banned. I burst into tears because there was just so much going on, but I hope he leaves Japan soon. I felt helpless as I couldn't do anything even though he was right in front of my face. Thank you everyone for your concern. Which Side note, Ramsay has apologized before in Japan multiple times. There is one clip of him bowing down like a full, proper bow. But I. I will say any apology he gives is pretty much fake. He apologizes twice in Japan, but he's not sorry. He only apologizes when he's about to get beaten. He only apologizes when he thinks he's about to get arrested. And after he leaves Japan, he starts talking very negatively about Japan after his apologies. To give you context, one of his more known apologies in Japan came after he was choked out on the street by a stranger. So clearly he's not actually sorry. But immediately after that, after his apology, he goes to Disneyland Japan and starts IRL streaming, which is first of all not allowed on any Disneyland properties. But he wore his speaker on his shirt so that his followers can donate. So certain platforms, when you have IRL streaming, you can have viewers donate in real time. If they donate a certain amount, they can have automated text or they can have some sort of sound song or something play on his speaker. Okay, now, a lot of streamers won't do that because you're inviting people to donate just so they can say very explicit things that you have to now witness and listen. And everybody has to see you react to. It's just. It's not the best thing to do, I would say, unless you have a really good community of people, which clearly he does not. But he wears this speaker on his shirt. His followers are donating and they're typing whatever they want it to say and play out loud. And of course naturally the smooth brained crowd of people, they keep playing things like sucky, sucky atomic bomb and sexually explicit noises. In Japan, at the Disneyland, he would also go around moaning, quote, anime sounds like stereotypical anime. Sexually explicit type of noises, I guess.
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Winnie
Making that noise himself out of his own mouth.
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Narrator
Yes, just aggressively making those noises in public. While stalking high schoolers in Japan, he does ultimately get confronted by a group of Japanese streamers who find out where he's staying. He half apologizes. Not really. He just states that he has autism, which I don't think he does, but also crazy. And because of the language barrier they believe that he's apologized and they walk off. There's another incident where he's dancing on a crosswalk and a man, a stranger just walks up to him and slaps him so hard across his face that his hat gets knocked off his head. And he's always traveling with this little minion of his named Gino IRL, a fellow American streamer. He is Ramsay 2.0. He's probably most well known for his stunts in Thailand. He actually tries the whole deplorable foreigner traveling in other people's countries and doing things that they wouldn't do dare in their home country type of act in Thailand. There's this whole bit where Gino tries it in Thailand which is very. I don't know if you can call it satisfying per se, but it's a very interesting clip of Gino. He's with Ramsay later that day. They separate and he's walking around. He's walking down this busy street in Thailand and there's these rows of restaurants and tons of civilians eating dinner on the side of the road. He's livestreaming while walking. He says, I don't care what it is, I just wanna fucking. And he says, gut your ass alive. He swings to the side as he's saying this out of view from the live stream. But he likely either pushed or someone or pushed a chair. Or perhaps he got into a stranger's face that's just casually eating dinner at a restaurant. It's unclear, but Gina walks away after that because he just loves acting like he's so big, bad and tough. The belief here is either the Thai people, the people of this country will not understand what he said in English, or perhaps they are just generally too busy to care for a speck of dust like him. I'm not sure what he thought was going to happen. I've only known my Thai friends to be very patient and tolerant. But not until you disrespect them, which I find this very disrespectful. He keeps walking, thinking he's this big bad boy. And when you see a glimpse from the screen, it's like the whole restaurant came out and they're following him. Now there's like 20 people walking out after him.
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Winnie
So they fully understood what he said.
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Narrator
I mean, I don't know if they. I think so. I mean, most of them were speaking English, but also, you just don't do that even if you said something very nice. I just want to love you. It's the body language, the tone. It was bad. It's like you want to fight.
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Winnie
So he's walking away knowing that there's a bunch of people following him.
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Narrator
He doesn't know until he finally looks at his screen, sees a bunch of them just following him, zoned in, zeroed in, staring at the back of his head. And he turns around and he starts, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, check this out. You're chill, chill, chill. I didn't mean to. I didn't. I paid money. I pay, I pay. I give money. To which they say, we don't need money. We don't do it like this in Thailand. Gino then starts apologizing. They give him a lecture, and they let him go because they're good people. This is his little sidekick. This is his minion. One of the most intelligent people I.
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The two of them. They travel from country to country Together IRL streaming. And now Ramsay and Gino are walking down the street when they're confronted by this woman. This is in Japan now. And she's asking him to answer for his racist comments. Ramsay and Gino, they turn around and they start calling the woman racist, accusing them of being racist on their stream and on the middle of the street. Eventually they start walking away from the woman and you see another foreigner who's standing there. He looks like maybe European, I'm not sure. He's standing there witnessing all of this, smoking a cigarette. He kind of side eyes Ramsay and Gino and then out of nowhere, he just decks Gino in the face. Decks him out so hard that immediately Gino gets a donation from a sub.
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Winnie
What?
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Narrator
Yeah. So, okay, wait, I don't know what they did in their settings, but every time Gino and Ramsay get a donation, they play a Mario sound where Mario gets a coin or something like the ding sound. And right when he gets decked in the face, someone subs. So it's like you punch Mario and you got a coin is the implication. I thought for the longest time it was a post edit that other people were editing that noise in while re uploading them getting decked in the face. But it actually happened in real time.
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Winnie
So it just matched perfectly. Yes, it sounds like he got punched.
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Narrator
Yes.
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Winnie
For a go coin guy.
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Narrator
And Johnny is completely still processing what just happened. He doesn't try to run. He doesn't try to fight back. He doesn't help his friend Gino. Instead, Ramsey then gets knocked in the face. I'm so sorry. Johnny and Ramsey are the same person. It's just very confusing because all the research I did is like, johnny, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny. But I'm trying to use his government name, Ramsey, because I feel like it's better for him to be shamed. And then he comes and decks Ramsey in the face. Ramsey, by the way, was not even trying to hide. Was not trying to run, was not trying to help his friend. Gino was not trying to fight back. Ramsey just waits to get punched in the face. Ramsey then drops his phone and you hear someone donate to the live stream as well. But people start donating and they decide to do the text to speech donation. So instead of the Mario coin sound effect, you get an automated voice saying, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Nagasaki while he's out cold. And then you just hear the claps of people nearby. They're clapping that these two were just punched in the face. Netizens have since commented on this video stating, dude, God, Bless that guy. Hit him so hard. Mario got a coin. Another comment reads, as a Japanese person, I cannot describe how grateful I am to this guy. Violence is bad, but there is always an exception. I feel great. Another comment reads, the fact that some native Japanese people clapped when these guys got decked says a lot if you know, considering how public situations are usually treated here. But what do you expect from this guy? This is the same guy where there is a video of Ramsey hitting on minors. He promptly titled this video Johnny Salami becomes P. Diddy. Yes. And it's him live streaming on the street, hitting on girls. Finally, they ask the girls how old they are. They are 16 and 17. He lies to them that he's 19, but he's actually 23. And he says it's fine because the age of consent in that area is 16. He straight up tells these girls he doesn't care how old they are because he's ready to go to jail. He doesn't give a fuck. He tells the girls, I'm going to groom you. He literally says, I will groom you today.
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Winnie
Fully understand what he's saying?
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Narrator
Yes. And they're getting freaked out. He's kissing their hands. He starts trying to get their numbers and says, hey, call me Johnny 16. Call me Johnny 17. I don't give a fuck. I'm like, P. Diddy. I'm like Epstein. I'm like, R. Kelly. I don't care. Age is just but a number. You need an older man with some money. I'm not from here, so I'll take the chick and leave like Diddy. I'll get on a plane and leave like Diddy. And I'm out. Side note, he has also said about women before in the past that they are, quote, they are lower life forms only to be used for breeding. Shouldn't vote, shouldn't speak. Regardless, by the end of 2023, Ramsay is arrested in Japan. When he is finally released, he is deported from Japan and has a travel ban so that he cannot travel to Japan for the next five years. Eventually, he ends up in South Korea, where some would say that there are certain things that you just don't poke fun at. There are certain boundaries that just cannot be crossed. And for each country, those boundaries are different. For Korea, that is the plight of comfort women. Side note, I know that comfort woman itself is a very strange term to those that are unfamiliar, but it is the most recognized term in South Korea for what happened to these women. There are comfort women victims and survivors in places like China, Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Just pretty much all over Asia, there are victims and survivors from all those countries. And many of them have decided that they don't like to be referred to euphemistically as comfort women. They like to be labeled as sex slave victims or survivors. In South Korea, many of the comfort women have spoken up and said that they kind of prefer the softness of this term, and many of Koreans know this terminology better. So to change the terminology in Korea, it would just cause more confusion rather than anything. But they are literal victims of repeated torture and sa. This term is not used to make light of what happened. Obviously, the comfort woman refers to the hundreds of thousands of girls and women who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II. It's stated by many sources, like I said, that many of the victims were Korean, Chinese, Filipino, Indonesian, Malaysian, Taiwanese, Thai, Vietnamese, amongst other places. It is probably one of the most painful parts of South Korean history, but it's also one of the most controversial because somehow it becomes politically divisive. Certain leaders of Japan have tried to rewrite history with one big excuse being, where is the evidence? It's pretty well acknowledged by many that Japan destroyed many documents, including ones regarding the comfort woman station. So that's not really the best argument to make by these politicians. If you destroy the evidence, then you ask, where's the evidence? It's not going to go over well. It's just not. It's also hard when 90% of the comfort women were killed so that they cannot live to tell their tale.
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Winnie
And most of them are very, very, very, very old now.
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Narrator
Yes, most of them have passed. There's only like a handful of them throughout Asia, and they're in their 90s. The UN's Global Tribunal on violation of women's human Rights estimated that by the end of World War II, 90% of the, quote, comfort women have passed during the war. We're talking hundreds of thousands of women enslaved, taken to remote foreign territories under brutal conditions, forced to be essayed with as many as 40 soldiers per day. If the women survived, they were ashamed to not talk about what happened. They were terrified. And many passed away from complications from the violent abuse that they endured from the STIs that were left untreated. Others self exited. One of the survivors, Lee, she was running an errand for her parents when out of nowhere, a car pulls up on the street, stops every door flings open. A group of uniformed men drag her into the car. She's 14 years old. She is then taken to a, quote, comfort station in The Japanese occupied China, where she's forced to, quote, serve Japanese soldiers. Another Korean survivor, Kim, she was 15 when she was forced into a, quote, comfort station. She states that she was taken to a station in China for Japanese soldiers. So side note, a little bit of history, because During World War II, Japan occupied a significant portion of China as well as most of South Korea. She gets to the station, she's asked for her age. She states she's 15. They don't care. Army medics come to examine all the girls that are brought there. And they thought they were coming here to work to create uniforms for soldiers. Not that they had a choice even then. Japan is occupying Korea. During the war, they were forcing Korean men just pulling kids, male kids, students out of schools to fight for the Japanese Imperial Army. They were pulling girls out of their homes to work in factories. Many of them were not taken to factories. They were taken to comfort stations. And even then, they had no choice. There was no such thing as no. They would strip the family of everything and exile them from Korea. Where would they go? They have no belongings, no money, no resources. Where do they go? The world is in a war. Nobody wants to take anybody. After the examination by the army medics, she tries to fight back, but they beat her. They essay her. There was blood everywhere because she was so young. She and a few other girls huddled together that night and thought, we can't live like this. Wouldn't it be better to not live? They tried to gather all the money that their parents had given them to buy one bottle of liquor, somehow smuggle it in, and they tried to self exit. One of them was left unconscious for days, but they ended up surviving. And they thought, if we survived, that is a sign that we need to live and we need to tell someone what happened to us. She says every day they were essayed. Sometimes from 8 in the morning till 6pm noon till 6pm there would be a line of soldiers outside. She says, quote, if there was a delay in one of the essays, the guy next in line would start banging on the door. It was continuous. It happened so many times a day that I lost count by 5pm I couldn't even get up. I could not walk properly. My entire lower body was in pain. At the end of the night, the medics would come and treat us where they felt we needed to be treated. And they would inject us with random shots. This was their lives for eight years. When she was finally reunited with her family, she said, how could I have told them about my experience? I mean, Korea was in shambles after World War II. As a woman, I had things done to me that were unfathomable. So I couldn't say anything to anybody. They all thought I had worked at a factory. But eventually, because I didn't want to get married, my mother wanted to find out, why don't you want to get married? She pushed me to be honest with her. And the survivor devastatingly states, I confess that given all the abuse done to my body, I had a rotten body. And I didn't want to screw up another man's life Being a rotten body next to him. It should just be my problem alone. Eventually, her mother suffered a heart attack and passed away because there was nobody that she could tell either. I mean, you're talking about. This is right after the war. I feel like we barely care about women's rights now. I mean, think about back then and right after a war when everybody's in shambles, There was nothing she could do. Many of them have scars all over their bodies. One victim was beaten with a hot spatula on her chest. Many of them have severe damage and complications to their private areas. Feet that were permanently injured because they were constantly bound by tight ropes to be tied up so that they could not try to run. One Japanese military document that exists states, some Japanese soldiers actually refer to comfort stations, which is already such a crazy way to refer to the war crime buildings as comfort stations, but they refer to them as public toilets. Some of the girls taken were so young that they didn't even have their menstrual cycles yet. One girl taken from the East Timor area says, I was still a child and did not have my periods. Yet. She was forced to be sad by four to eight soldiers a night. And during the day she was forced to build a road. So she was used for labor and for abuse. She gave birth to a baby girl at this station, but the military took the child away. She says she felt ashamed her entire life and is still waiting an apology from the Japanese government. One Chinese survivor saw her parents get murdered in front of her. She was gang saed right there by more than a dozen soldiers on the spot beside her parents lifeless bodies. She was 16 years old. After that she was dragged away to this comfort station to be saed every single day. It is estimated that many of the victims were sad 40 to 60 times per day. One Filipino survivor states, there was no rest. They essayed me every minute. Another survivor states, I was in a different room every night. They flayed us with a horse's whip. She said sometimes she would be sad until she lost consciousness. She was 12. Another Filipino survivor states, we cried, we pleaded for compassion. Their bestial hearts only craved satisfaction. At the age of 14, I was poisoned. If I could prevent the sun from setting, I would have, because whenever night fell, they would start raping us. Everything is still so clear to me, ingrained in my brain, even if my body is now weak. Another victim states, even with the passage of 75 years, the question of woman in the war is not solved at all. After all the suffering that I have been through, I have to stand my ground until I get the justice that I deserve. Side note, Japan did acknowledge the atrocities in 1993, but it gets very complicated later on because South Korea and many other countries did not feel like their apology was adequate considering the gravity of the war crimes committed. But Japan condemned the request for more apologies. They're like, we apologize. What more do you want? You're also not a perfect person. There's a lot of what about ism that they bring up. Like what about what South Korea did to blah blah blah and so and so. Additionally, the two countries are already quite in contentious predicaments over territory, amongst other things. But Japan states that they believe that the comfort woman issue was, quote, finally and irreversibly settled. But South Korea believes that's already not good enough. And additionally, because it was settled does not mean anything. It does not erase what happened. South Korea refuses to stop acknowledging it and never wants it to be forgotten because you can ask for forgiveness. But that doesn't mean that South Korea has to accept your apology, especially if it doesn't feel sincere. Nor does it mean that they're going to forget what happened, which has resulted in many statues to be installed all over the world, including in front of many Japanese consulates and embassies, which Osaka, the Japanese city and San Francisco in America are known as sister cities, which is largely ceremonial. But still Japan cut those ties as sister cities after a comfort woman statue was installed in San Francisco. They have a heavy Asian population and Japan stated that the Comfort Woman monument destroyed the two sides Relationship of Trust the statue depicts three young women from Korea, China and the Philippines, the areas most affected, standing in a circle and holding hands, the inscription reads on the side of the statue. The monument bears witness to the suffering of hundreds of thousands of women and girls, euphemistically called comfort women, who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese Imperial armed forces in 13 Asian Pacific countries from 1931 to 1945. A Japanese official wrote a 10 page letter stating that inscription quote presents uncertain and one sided claims as historical facts.
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Winnie
Wow.
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Narrator
Side note, I do want to mention, from what I can see online, even in Japan, it appears to be a divisive topic. Many younger Japanese netizens have stated they didn't even know that the Imperial army did this because it's been wiped from their textbooks. They don't teach this in school or they kind of make it seem like, yeah, women were tortured during war, but like all war, every country does it. You know, of course it's just what happens. It's the nature of war. But many of them did not realize how bad it was. The older generations, they're pretty split. I would say most of the older generations think that it's bad and think that it should be resolved. But there are still other contentious arguments between certain countries that also need different types of handling. But a big group of Japanese right wing politicians and their supporters believe that South Korea and the world needs to get over it. They deny Japan's role in it and when that doesn't work, they just list all the things South Korea has done wrong. They also dispute what happened in Nanjing, China. Yeah. Which we have a whole episode on. So I would say it's definitely a small group of Japanese netizens who know everything and still deny it. And then I would say like the younger people in Japan probably haven't even heard of it. Really. One survivor states, I want a formal apology. They should say what we did was completely wrong and we will correct our history textbooks and say to us, we sincerely apologize. If they wrote that kind of formal apology, then we can forgive them. This is not about money. I mean, first of all, they're like 90 years old. This is not about money. They keep trying to make the issue go away and we are the ones that are constantly fighting. So that doesn't happen. It's, it's history, she says, because Japan's government keeps dragging it out. I have to keep talking about it over and over again and each time I'm heartbroken beyond belief. This age in my 90s, I'm supposed to be in peace.
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Winnie
This is a comment from a comfort woman.
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Narrator
Yes. And she's in her 90s and she just wanted a formal apology and she didn't get one. And in 2019 she passed away at 92 years old. One Chinese survivor states, the longer I live, the worse it gets. And she is also in her 80s. Decades later, the survivors have still not received justice. But here is Ramsey, an American visiting South Korea. He's on a Live stream. When he shows a picture on his, he says, that's my next target. Where can I find this one? The picture on his phone is of a Comfort Woman statue. The statue shows a young girl in traditional hanbok sitting on a chair. Because most of the victims were taken in their teenage years, the statue is very detailed. Even her bare feet, her heels are lifted because it's a symbol of unrest. You don't feel grounded, you don't feel settled. Your heels are raised. It instills anxiety. Under her is a mosaic of an older woman, which represents comfort women now growing older. And it's shattered with all this trauma. No way to cope, no way to find peace. There's a small bird on the girl's shoulder which represents her fight for freedom. And next to her is an empty chair. It's supposed to represent the deceased victims, but it's also a place to invite viewers to sit and reflect and have a moment of silence for what has happened and how we can all be better people. And also to ponder how do people have the strength to fight this long for so many decades? That's what the creator of the statue said. Her hands are clenched. She said she works so hard on the little girl's face because she doesn't want to seem depressed, sad, or angry. She wants to look dignified and determined because this, this statue is going to be staring right at the Japanese Embassy in South Korea. Just to give you an idea of what this statue means to Koreans, during winter months, you'll commonly see people place scarfs around the little girl's neck. And on super rainy seasons, usually people will place umbrellas over her. They'll place it over her shoulders so that she won't get wet. Well, one day, an American livestreamer, Ramsey, decides to go livestream the Comfort Woman statue. One of them. I mean, there's many of them, but he decides to go live stream one of them. He's already been kicked out of Japan, and he's come to Korea. He finds the Comfort Woman statue, and he states this on his live stream. So this indicates to us he knows exactly what this statue means. He says, japan hates this thing. Japan hates this statue. And there was a whole. There was a lot of discourse. Anytime a statue pops up in front of a Japanese embassy, they'll pull the ambassadors from that location, and there's a whole fight that happens. Sometimes they come back, there's protests, there's people guarding the statue to make sure it doesn't get pulled down. It's. It's a very Big deal. Yeah. A lot of activists say it works in their favor because every time Japan makes such a big deal, it draws attention to the comfort women statues. Right? The little minion Gino that he's with asks him, oh, tell them why. Tell them why. Like, the story behind the statue is so. He. He. Ha ha, so cute, so funny. Ramsey hands the camera to Gino so he can hold it in place for his live stream. He then sits down on the empty chair next to the little girl and he says, I stand with the Korean people. I love Korea. And everything I did in Japan was for the Korean and Chinese people. Yeah, okay, but. Okay. Then he proceeds to blow a kiss at the camera. Then he turns his cheek to the side and he kisses the little girl on the cheek, which really angers a lot of South Koreans and really everyone. Because think about the symbolism of what this statue means. This is not the statue of a little girl who's just having a good time. It's just a cute little. He knows what this statue means. And to kiss her on the cheek, it gets worse because he's gonna go again. He sees that people have reacted to this, it starts getting a little bit of traction inside Korea. People are saying, how would he. Why would he kiss her cheek? This is so disgusting. But they're not angry to the point of like, we gotta do something about it. It's just. This is really disrespectful. Do you think he meant it as disrespect or. It's just he's so dumb and so culturally insensitive. Because what he's saying is he stands for Korean people. And I guess maybe he's trying to say he stands for comfort women. The whole thing is weird. People are confused about it, but he sees the reaction and he tells his stream. So I got a plan for today. I'm going to go to the Japanese embassy because I saw that the Koreans were getting mad about that comfort woman statue. Shit. And if I'm leaving soon, might as well, might as well. I think the main comfort woman statue is in front of the Japanese embassy. So that's where we're going right now. And I'm going to go into the embassy to see if they know who the fuck I am. And I'm going to ask them if they're going to let me come back to Japan. But I'm going to go to the comfort woman statue first. He finally gets to the embassy. He shows the comfort woman statue, the same one, and this time he starts playing ETA by New jeans and starts twerking on the statue, in front of the statue, on her lap, as well as going around the back of the little girl to put her head in his shirt. Then he looks straight into the camera. While twerking. He licks his fingers and puts his hands under her skirt and repeats the motion of taking it in and out, which you know exactly what this sexual motion could be.
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Winnie
He puts his hand into her skirt.
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Narrator
Yeah. After licking his fingers.
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Winnie
That is beyond this clip.
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Narrator
Then goes viral and he's still not done. Later, he tries to go back to the statue, but by this point, Koreans have seen the videos. They're enraged. They have set up blockades so that he cannot get to the statue. He finds another one of a comfort woman standing up. That is the incident where he rubs baby oil all over himself whilst playing a ditty song and dancing up on the statue. This is where the hunt for Ramsay begins. Even before what happened with the comfort women statues, Ramsay and Gino have been behaving as if there are no social norms in South Korea, no consequences. And even then, people were accommodating enough, very politely, civilly, telling them they cannot do these things that they are doing. So for example, he goes onto a bus, live, streams loud music. He's playing loud music in public. He's live streaming. Gino is twerking on the public bus while Ramsay is slapping Gino's butt. This is very out of the norm in South Korea. You do not do this type of stuff. Honestly, I don't think you should do this type of stuff anywhere on public transit. You just don't do that.
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Winnie
Yeah, they know. They know it's gonna cause a reaction. That's why they do it. So it's not that, that they didn't know.
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Narrator
So South Koreans, and I believe the same could be said for Japan. Even to speak on the phone on public transit is considered very rude.
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Winnie
Yeah. Or you have to keep the volume low.
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Narrator
Very low.
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Winnie
Try not to disturb others.
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Narrator
The police stop the bus and tell him to stop. Cut it out. Cut it out. And they're very nice about it. To which Johnny says, I can't dance. You cannot dance. The police tell him you cannot dance. He responds, this is American culture. Which side note, he does say, this is black American culture. But you know it's not. And we know it's not. And we know what you're trying to do here. Every black netizen is just side eyeing him right now. And on that point, many black netizens have voiced so much frustration because there's a lot of discourse of how difficult it already is to travel to very homogenous places like South Korea because of racism that does indeed exist. Johnny could potentially be making it even more difficult for other netizens who just genuinely want to travel the world and enjoy other cultures. And might I add that he also makes a mockery of major issues in America. He's American, but on a subway train in South Korea. He screams because people are side eyeing him and it seems like they're about to call the police. He gets very worried. He's like, oh, I think they're about to call the police. So he starts screaming, black lives matter, George Floyd. I can't breathe. In this mocking tone, like just walking down the subway saying, black lives matter, George Floyd. I can't breathe. So truly, nobody wants him. Japan doesn't want him. Korea doesn't want him. Americans don't want him. But he continues, I'm a dancer in America. American culture and the police are like, we don't care. You're a dancer. We don't care. This is Korea. He says, this is a free concert. Get off the bus. And they escort him off the bus. Other instances include as no shock to any of us that these are the types of guys that get upset when girls don't find them attractive. Which naturally makes them hate every woman alive. Because I personally can't fathom how anyone could find them more than a clump of cells and flesh that take up space. There is no brain operating there. The elevator does not go all the way up. Lights are on, but nobody's home. They proceed to just harass women on the streets, livestreaming it. At one point they run into foreigners also visiting and living in Korea. They're regular foreigners who are abiding by cultural norms. And out of nowhere, Gino Dominion starts just calling one of the girls just standing there minding her own business. Move along, dirty bitch. Dirty emo bitch. Get the fuck out of here with your stank ass pussy. Your pussy looks like roast beef. Stink ass sashimi pussy bitch. Get the fuck out of here. Suck my dick. You better move along, bitch. I bet your pussy smells like fish. It stinks. Oh, I'm so sick of bitches. It's always the foreign nasty white bitches. Oh, I hate them. I can't stand them. I can't stand these bitches. What.
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Winnie
If he does that in America?
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Narrator
Oh, he would. He would get wrecked. Yeah, it doesn't. I don't care what city you go into America, you're gonna get wrecked. You could be in a rural area. You're gonna get wrecked. You could be in New York City. You're gonna get wrecked. You could be anywhere. You're gonna get wrecked.
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Winnie
So they are vulnerable in South Korea because everyone's more reserved. Nobody's used to these type of behavior.
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Narrator
Yes. And I do think that certain cultures, everybody has. And it could be for bad reasons too. South Korea, definitely. It has its ups and downs, but it's a bit of a mind your own business type of culture. So if someone's saying or like screaming racial slurs in South Korea, a lot of times people will try to mind their own business, versus in America, people would be like, that's not okay. Why would you say that? That's unacceptable. So he also thinks that a lot of East Asians are docile, submissive, polite, weak, meek, scared.
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Winnie
So that's why he. He's doing this. But he wouldn't dare to do 1% of that in America because he's. The moment that someone step up, he.
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Narrator
Instantly go back, and they know because they tried it in Thailand and it didn't work, so they stopped. And it's not like. Because a lot of netizens are saying, why don't you try this in Brazil? Why don't you come to Mexico? We want you. So a lot of netizens from those countries are actually asking Ramsay and Gino to come to their country just to see what happens. But he specifically targets countries for that reason. In another instance, he walks up to a Korean woman minding her own business. This is Gino the minion. And at asks if he can eat her private part. She does not understand what he's saying because, sorry, this is Korea. Speak Korean. Okay, that was rude, but you get what I'm saying. But then he proceeds to stick his tongue out and try to crudely show how he would do it, which is just straight up sexually harassing women on the street. They also seemingly stalk minors around. Stalk could be subjective here, but Ramsay follows a girl who appears to be a minor into a store, asking her why she's scared of him because she avoids him by going into a store. And he's like, why are you scared? Why are you scared of me? Why are you scared? Which you're chasing her into a store, shoving a camera in her face. I would say that would induce some level of fear. The employee tries to help the girl, and Ramsay starts screaming, don't touch me. Don't touch me. He laughs maniacally before going out onto the street and running up to a Group of older ladies, like I would say they're my mom's age, screaming ah into the camera and just pointing the camera at their faces, like blocking their way of traffic on the street and screaming ah maniacally into his camera. The lady stares at him for a minute, then stares at the screen. Listen, if this were my mother, bless her heart, she would have cried all the way home. But this woman just screams ah right back and gives him the side eye to the point where he just tells her, ajumma, relax. Ajumma relax. What do you mean, ajumma relax? Johnny also walks around asking girls if they want to be on his stream. And one group of foreigners informs him, no, thank you, but also, could you delete the video since like you caught me on your video when you were asking. And at this point he shoves the camera preemptively into their face. So then Ramsay continues recording them, asking, and if I don't, what are you gonna do about it? Ho. Exactly. So shut the fuck up. In another clip, he spots a cute little band performing outside on stage, which by the way, this whole performance is cute because it's small and it's intimate in real life, but it's being televised on national television. He proceeds to jump onto the stage, disrupts the entire show. He thinks it's hilarious, basically saying, look at me jumping up on here. They're not even doing nothing about it. What do you want them to do about it? Tackle you to the ground and beat you up? One of the more viral and annoying things that Ramsay does in Korea, aside from obviously everything else, is there's a clip of him at 7:11 and in Korea you can eat at the 7:11. There's booth booths and tables there. There are microwaves to heat up cup noodles. Everything is self served though, and even the trash is very well organized into recyclables. Food waste, regular waste. I've never walked into a 711 and felt like someone left a mess behind. Everybody is very respectful. It's the cultural norm. Except here is Johnny sitting there with his big speaker next to him so that anyone that donates can say whatever. Dumb middle school, run of the mill, sexist, misogynistic remarks out loud and he'll play those really loudly. He also uses the speaker to play Gangnam Style. He's obnoxiously dancing inside of a business, disturbing the customers, mentally disturbing them, disturbing their peace. He also tries to dance with a male customer who clearly does not want to be anywhere near this guy. He purchases a few ramen and A soju with one of those empty ice cups. He's on camera sitting there pouring soju into the ice cup. You're not allowed to drink the soju inside the 7 11. You can purchase alcohol inside the 7 11. You cannot drink it inside because then Korean liquor. Yes, like you can. The ice cups are meant for coffee, teas, other beverages. The older lady that works there walks over and tells him very nicely that he can't drink the alcohol here in the store. To which he aggressively tells her, I'm black. I'm not gonna do nothing. And again, you know my. Yes. And she basically tells him to also shh. Because he's playing like, loud noises. Also, his followers love playing monkey noises, which also feels very racist. Like everything feels so racist to everybody. And he's like, yeah, yeah, I'll shut up. I'll eat the ramen. I'll shut up. I'll eat the ramen. But as she's walking away, he starts lunging after her like he's about to punch her or like pull her hair or something. He has a cup ramen in front of him. And later he just starts pouring out the broth of the cup ramen onto the table.
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Winnie
He's spilling the ramen on purpose, pouring it out onto a table, onto a table. So it's like all wet, grinding down.
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Narrator
Oh, yeah. Then he grabs handfuls of noodles and starts throwing it all over the convenience store, throwing it at the entry door where people are walking in, just throwing it out the windows everywhere. Another woman, a customer walks in, spots the soju that he's presumably drinking. He did not drink it, but I mean, it's sitting right there. He's a foreigner. He's acting drunk. He's behaving well drunk, throwing a tantrum. So she tells him, you can't drink in the store. You can't drink in the store. To which he responds, shut up, bitch. She threatens to call the police on him, to which he responds, call the police. Stupid ass bitch. Stupid. I didn't even drink here. Are you dumb? You stupid ass, bald ass bitch. And she's on the way out, he screams at her, I did not drink it, you stupid bitch. Fuck you. Fuck you, Chinese ass bitch. Which if you know Korean culture, there is a strong respect for elders. Like, you just don't. You just don't do that on a human level. But this is extra hard to watch because of cultural norms there. Another notable incident includes when he asks a Korean elderly man who. This elderly man clearly is without a home, and he is Asking for some spare change for food. And he's motioning like, food. Ramsay says, give me a little dance first. Give me a little dancey dance first. And he goes, you very hungry. Give me a little dance like this. Come on, dance. He went around the city with a bag of fish that he bought out of the market, Just letting it rot in the heat, letting the bag rip open and leak onto the bus, Just waving it around in front of people's faces. He goes to university campuses to show college students the Rising sun flag, which is the flag that Japan occupied Korea under. To give you an idea that would be. And I'm not saying this is equivalent, but just to give you some context, because I know Asian history can feel very foreign. It's like going around showing Confederate flags. Like, historically speaking, what Japan did to Korea in the past is a very tough subject. Like, so many people died. There was a suppression of Korean culture. It was like a complete cutoff of culture and identity. Koreans were not allowed to be Korean. They were not even second class citizens during that time where their country was occupied. Korean language history was banned in an attempt to erase Korean cultural heritage. Korean farmers were forced off their lands. They were forced to work in mines, factories. For the Japanese military, it was horrendous. He would go through the subways with the sound in Korean. Korea belongs to Japan. You are all comfort women playing on his phone.
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Winnie
It is crazy that he's walking free doing all of these things for so long.
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Narrator
Yeah. So like, just replacing just one.
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Winnie
One of those actions.
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Narrator
Yeah.
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Winnie
Is beyond like. And he's doing this constantly.
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Narrator
Yeah. It just again, replace it with American history. Just think about how that would play out and what kind of disrespect that is. Another one playing the words, I hate Korean people. I wish Koreans would get a nuclear weapon from Kim Jong Un, which, I mean, Korean people. That doesn't even make sense. But he would continue playing speeches from the North Korean dictator, which when people tell him to stop, he will call them racist. And if that doesn't work, he will say, I have autism, I have autism, and then walk away. He also threatened to slap a BTS member.
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Winnie
What do you mean?
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Narrator
He was just like, I'm gonna slap a BTS member.
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Winnie
That's his quote.
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Narrator
Yeah. Something along those lines. That's a paraphrase.
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Winnie
He didn't name who. He's like, just a BTS member.
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Narrator
Yeah. Even when he's doing all of this, probably every Korean person wants to slap him, but they show great restraint. But I believe there are some Lines that you just do not cross. Side note, he does have another sidekick in Korea, a guy named Hank Yoo. Honestly, I don't know this man. I just know that in the depths of Twitter there is a video of him saying that he only essays men. He also calls himself the Texas Asian Nazi. There's pictures of him that he took dressed up next to antisemitic signage and holding rifles. He was sentenced to a few years in prison in the US for firearm related charges. I believe he was deported after his sentence back to Korea, which we know. Not much about this guy, but we know so much based off of that alone.
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Winnie
That's crazy that they found each other.
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Narrator
Yes. I mean, they must be lurking in the same weird forums. Probably one of the more heinous things he does in Korea, if you can believe it. It gets worse. Aside from everything is Ramsay. Somehow this also never gets talked about, at least not in depth. But Ramsey goes to Lotte World, which is the Disney World of South Korea filled primarily with children. He has this stupid speaker on him. So again, if anyone donates, they can have whatever play. And the speaker would play things like in Korean, the translation being Ramsey Ishmael is the most popular upskirt streamer in Korea. Ladies, be careful. There are children around. And the words that are being used in Korean, children are understanding all of it on repeat. Or sounds of people screaming in pain. It sounds like war, torture sounds. Or I would like to have with children in Korea.
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Winnie
How is he not kicked out immediately?
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Narrator
He eventually gets kicked out.
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Winnie
Yeah, but the damage is done. He was like doing this for a while.
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Narrator
Yeah. And like you can see on the livestream, there's children around him. The automated voice would play it loudly in Korean or my name is Ramsey Ishmael Khalid. Which Side note, it uses Johnny Somali, salami, whatever, but I'm changing it to his real name. My name is Ramsey Ishmael Khalid. My name is Ramzi Ishmael Khalid and I'm here to impregnate a cute little Korean girl. Again, there's children everywhere. To which if people look at him, he just screams, autism. Autism. Autism. I have autism. And when someone calls him out on his bullshit further, he points at them and accuses them of being racist, screaming, fucking racism. This is fucking racism. Black Lives Matter. Jordan George Floyd. I'm scared for my life. Again, making a mockery to another security guard, he says, you can't see my phone. You can't see nothing. You're racist. You can't talk to me. You're racist. I don't talk to racists again. Mocking very real issues in the world. As one netizen comment points out, though, making an ass out of yourself in a country where all adult men are required to serve in the military. Not a smart move, Ramsay. Not a smart move. But Ramsay either doesn't know or knows and doesn't care. But he says in a live stream, people come up to me, why are you being racist to people in other countries? For money? For clout? I said it many times. I don't give a fuck. Put this in your next YouTube documentary because people are making YouTube videos about him. I don't give a fuck. We're here tonight and we're not scared. His friend Gino starts jumping in. I was waiting, bro. I was waiting for that guy to swing on you. I swear, swing on us. I swear, swing on us. Basically saying, swing or shut up. I think he verbatim says that at one point, Ramsay is like, swing or walk away. In a separate livestream, he keeps taunting the public. He says that he has a video, a message for the Korean public to the Korean people after what he did to the comfort women statues. He says, I love Korea and try to find me. I dare you. You never will. So good fucking luck. That's all I want to say to you guys. And I need to address the Korean media. I want to address JTBC News for defamation against me. Today, JTBC News said that I was guilty of two different assault cases. This is not true. He keeps putting up like hand heart symbols. I love the Korean police. I respect the Korean police. They have always treated me greatly. I am compliant. We are working with the Korean police with whatever investigations they have. I am not guilty of assault. He then proceeds to pull up a picture of South Korean President, President Yoon, which, I mean, I personally don't know many Koreans who are fond of him but go off, I guess. He continues, President Yoon, I love you. I love, love you. He kisses the picture of President Yoon on his phone. I love you. You guys only saw me dancing with this statue and honestly, if I could take it back, I won't. How about that? I'm not sorry. If you want me to apologize and bow down on my knees and apologize, I refuse. I won't. So what are you gonna do about it? You're gonna kill me? You're gonna kill me for dancing with a metal fucking bronze statue? Get fucking over it. That's what I need to fucking say. You think I'm gonna sit here and fucking make a fake apology? You think I'M gonna sit here and, like, cry about it. I'm not. Sorry. I'm not. I'm not. He goes on to say, don't let the media fool you. This is the real comfort woman. He pulls up a picture of a woman leaning up against a car. A clear stereotype of a sex worker. Someone who, yeah, consents. And he says, this is what the real Korean comfort women were. Korean comfort women were prostitutes. Sorry, I debated there if I wanted to say that word. I don't use that word. But just to give you the gravity of what he said, he continues, they were used by the American soldiers. They were used by. I mean, they were illegally paid. I think the Japanese soldiers were paid 7 yen a month, and the Korean comfort women were paid 300, 400 yen a month. If we go back in time, that's enough to buy a fucking house. So these bitches were rich. These were some of the richest bitches in Korea. If we're being honest, this is entirely false. But he's trying to insinuate that the women that were taken, tortured and saed repeatedly, as well as beaten on a daily basis. Basis, and then ultimately killed, were exploiting the military men to make a profit. He then welcomes people to come hunt for him. He says, I'm out for Halloween. Come catch me. I'm outside. Many netizens have stated he asked and he found out. This lands him getting punched in the face by captain Korea in the middle of the street that we were talking about earlier, that both Ramsay and Gino IRL are outside at night on the street when a man walks up to Ramsay and just decks him in the face. Gino catches the bulk of it on his live stream. The Korean man promptly walks off like nothing happened, hands in his pockets. This is the first assault. He's not running away. The Korean man is not running away. He's just steadily walking away. It feels like an action movie, honestly. Geno the minion starts screaming after the Korean man. What the fuck is your problem? What the fuck is your problem? The man who just punched Ramsay calmly turns around and says, fuck you guys. Gino, the minion starts following him, interestingly, at a laughingly slow speed. He's not even trying to catch up with the Korean man. The Korean man is not even. Is not even fast walking out of there. He's not even pacing out of there. It's almost like he's timing the steps as the Korean man takes one step. He takes one step. The Korean man takes one step. He takes one step. His actions his speed very incongruent with his words. He's screaming, oh, hell no. Why are you walking away? Side note, even the Korean news have played the clip in which the broadcaster states, they continue to follow the man who is now walking away, asking him why he is walking away while maintaining a safe distance. He keeps screaming at him, bring your bitch ass back here. The man indeed does do that. He comes back, snatches Gino's phone, one of them, straight from his hand, and then proceeds to just calmly walk away. Quite slowly, might I add.
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Winnie
He's holding Gino's phone.
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Narrator
He snatches Gino's phone. So now we're getting it from Ramsay's livestream, because he's back up and livestreaming after the punch. He takes Gino's phone, and he just proceeds to calmly walk away. They continue to follow him, all walking, not even at a brisk walk, but a slow walk. Bitch ass, give me my phone back. To which the Korean man then turns around and throws the phone onto the ground, leaving Gino to go run after it. I mean, the whole thing is quite goofy. But Ramsay keeps following the Korean man, screaming, why are you walking away? Why are you walking away? Why are you walking away? Which the lesson here being, be very careful what you wish for. Because he stops walking away. He turns around, faces Ramsay. Ramsay instantly flinches and changes his tune. I swear to God, man. Try it. Yeah, you better walk away. You better walk away. Walk away. I swear to God. Go then. What's up, pussy ass walking away?
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Winnie
Why are you walking away? And then goes, go, walk away. Walk away.
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Narrator
Yeah. Cause he turns back around, and he almost does, like, a little punching movement. And Ramsay flinches. And now he's like, walk away. Huh? What's up, pussy ass walking away? What's up? What's up? Come back. What's up? Come back. You tried. You tried. And what's up, bitch? I do not think that the man is scared of him, which is why he stops punching him. I think that one punch is okay. Perhaps some people could see it as justified, considering what Ramsay did. But seeing Ramsay flinch like that and appear scared, it would just be straight up bullying. If he were to swing again and again, it wouldn't even be a fair fight. Even though it's 2 to 1 later, Ramsay goes on to rank, hitting and running away. What a bitch. Which Ramsey? Come on now, let's be real. He did not run away, but he continues. Since when is hitting and running gangster? Roll up and square up. Where you at, bro? Come on, bro. That's not gangster Twitch. I honestly thought there might have been mixed comments because ultimately violence is never justified. But the comments read it was not enough. 2v1 and they didn't dare do shit. These little bitches. Motherfucker kept provoking him, but when the guy turned around, he starts ducking back like a little bitch. Lmao. Just fucking take the fucking L, bro. Ramsay ends up with a bandage on his right eyebrow. After this altercation, the next hunt finds a handful of Korean live streamers finding Ramsey at night in a relatively empty alleyway. They're screaming at him and one Korean man in particular screaming, you touch my girlfriend. So they're all getting into a fight. It's a whole mess. There are multiple clips with multiple angles of a fight going viral and Oliver X showing Ramsey, Gino and their Korean friend Hankyu getting beaten up by one Korean man. The Korean man starts with Ramsey first runs after him, tackles him to the ground, shoulder, flips him onto the cold pavement and then kicks him in the chest. He's quiet now. Ramsey is not talking back. Ramsey has zipped it up. He's quiet. The other Korean livestreamers are calling the Korean guy a legend. A legend. Now, one thing to note is that Koreans are very into 1v1 fights. Ramsay is on the ground, vulnerable. They do not all come in and attack him and jump him. In fact, the Korean man's girlfriend steps in and pulls him off of Ramsay. Then the Korean man goes for Geno. The friend slams him onto the ground. But it appears while he's going after Gino, Hank Yu, the disgraced Korean, is trying to grab at him. So now it's Geno and Hank versus the Korean man. To which the rest of the Korean live streamers break it up. And they're screaming, fucking do one on one, you stupid asshole. Because they're saying like, yeah, because they.
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Winnie
Have so many people, they could have jumped the three of them. So they are still being civil.
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Narrator
Yeah. Yes, There's. It's not about jumping someone. It's about karma is what I think they think. That's not what I'm condoning. You know, it's assault. It's a fight. But I guess they want a fair fight. A fair assault. That's what netizens are indicating. South Korean netizen comments translates to read the person who kicked that guy should be awarded a good citizen award. Another reads, who cares what the police do? Citizens are punishing. Well, don't even get the police involved. Another South Korean netizen comments, ban them from leaving the country and just release them on the road. God takes care of it. Another comment ominously reads, it's going to get worse. They need to deport him to save his life. Ramzi Khalid Ismail could have been a very smart guy before he becomes one of the most hated people in East Asia. And I want to say Asia and perhaps America, everywhere. He's just a 23 year old guy from what I can tell. There's very sparse information online, but he's a very normal guy from Scottsdale, Arizona, allegedly. He graduates from Arizona State University with a finance degree. Side note, there's a whole video of him talking about school. And he says before his career online, he was just a bot. And he calls all the students bots. Someone who is stuck in a hamster wheel of life, which is so dumb. We are all hamsters stuck in the wheel of life. You're just a racist hamster that's still stuck in the wheel of life. But you're also getting punched in the face every now and then. Back to his monologue. He states, when I went to school those first four years, I did really well in finance, but I was depressed. I did not like where my life was going. Like, where does that leave you? You go to school for four years, you go to work for four years, you end up in a cubicle with a suit on and a tie. Where's the mobility in life? I'd rather take a risk, you know, and live a different life, you know what I mean? Live in a different country, meet different people. Which he's meeting people out, right? Even with his right eyebrow busted, he is live streaming, saying things like, if you want to run up, run up. I don't care, come get me, I'm not scared. And run up. They do indeed. There is a YouTuber in South Korea that is also a former UDT member. The UDT in South Korea is the equivalent of a Navy SEAL in America. He has joined the hunt for Ramsey. He finds him. Ramsey's eyebrow is already busted. He's walking out of a building and the UDT man is waiting outside for him, taunting him, where you going? Where you going? And he's like, where you going? And of course, Ramsay doesn't know what to say. He's alone. His little minions aren't with him. He's alone. He's afraid. So he just tries to act like he's big, bad and tough. Odiga, odiga, odiga. What the fuck is odiga? And all of a sudden, the UDT man just shoves him onto the ground. It's a light shove, but he goes fucking flying, huh? Yeah. And then there's like a few little kicks that happen and the police eventually get called. And I will say the police are very quick to separate the two of them. But Ramsay does seem very shaken up, disoriented when he gets back up. And it's clear to see that he got off very lucky with this interaction. When the former UDT specialist, he's being held back by cops, the way he is eyeing Ramsey up and down, it's like he's ready for another round. He's taunting him. Goodnight, Somali. Good night. Goodnight, Salami. Good night. Good night.
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Winnie
She's saying that in English.
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Narrator
Yeah. The UDT man is ultimately arrested before he gets arrested. He's arrested, yes, but he gets released pretty quickly. Before he gets arrested, though, which this part feels like a sitcom. He's halfway into the back of a cop car. The police are standing right next to him, but they're letting him speak to another guy who's live streaming and he's telling the live stream. He tells the livestream a very important message. In South Korea, we handle kids like Ramsey, so don't come to Korea and fuck around. To which netizens were enraged at him being detained, though it was only for a moment, really. They comment, let him free. He did nothing wrong. Wrong. There was brief outrage in South Korea over the incident. Well, for two things. For one, in Japan, Ramsey apologized multiple times. Once he even got down on his knees. Was he actually sorry? No. Because the minute he gets deported and leaves Japan, he's already talking badly about Japan. But some South Koreans felt offended by the fact that he does far worse in South Korea and does not even offer up a fake apology. It feels extra disrespectful. For example, it would be like the equivalent of making 911 jokes. Jokes in the New York City train, loudly, aggressively, non stop. Then getting on your knees to fake apologize versus rubbing baby oil and completely, completely disrespecting the 911 memorial in New York City and going, I don't give a fuck, come find me. Does that make sense? It just feels. Yes. Both are bad. Yeah.
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Winnie
He's ramping up. He's getting worse and more and more aggressive.
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Narrator
Yeah. Yes. Okay. The comparison alone is pretty insane, but I'm just trying to give you context of what it would be like. Yes. Okay.
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Winnie
It helps.
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Narrator
Yes. So the South Koreans are very upset. I see some Americans commenting things like, why do you even want an apology? Even if he gives one, he doesn't mean it. It Almost feels though, like he cares more or is scared more of the Japanese government and does far worse and gets away with it in South Korea. So a lot of Koreans are like, we just want the same. At least give us a fake apology and we'll see what we do with it. We're going to get into it. He does give a fake apology later, but this was one big point of contention. The second being the cops kept showing up in every altercation and almost shielding Ramsey from the Korean citizens. Which. Side note, I can see why the police have to do that, per se. I get it. But it's honestly infuriating for Koreans to see. I get the Korean netizen perspective. And Ramsey keeps taunting Korea with it. There's a clip of him saying that he's a VIP in South Korea. That's why the police protect him. He's like a fucking vip. He also says America made South Korea. He's American, so he owns this place, which is not how it works.
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Winnie
Yeah, I just don't understand how he can get away with this.
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Narrator
Yeah. And he said that the cops told him he's a vip, which I think is highly doubtful. And if they did, they probably meant vile idiot particle that happens to have limbs. But. But Ramsay taunts Koreans and there's a clip of him saying in the back of a cop car, americans have way more freedom here protecting us. We in the back of a police car. Come and get us. Come and get us. The UDT man was released after being detained. It is stated that he was set up with a 5 star hotel afterwards and he donated $1000 to the Pizza place that led him to discovering Ramsay's location and treated everybody to pizza. He also read out public statement, a public apology for his act of violence. In it, he states, quote, without me even realizing, my fist just left. Basically saying without, okay, I'm not laughing because violence is not laughable.
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Winnie
But he's like, I'm sorry that my hand just did something bad.
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Narrator
Yes. And many Korean netizens received it as a very admirable apology. They have accepted his apology as sincere and genuine. Other netizens point to how at one point a group of Korean men surrounded Ramsay and his minion Gino and keeps yelling at them. Gino, the minion keeps yelling at them, I will sue the fuck out of you. I will sue the fuck out of you. Which feels, I mean, sure, okay. But netizens point out it's not what someone big, bad and tough like Gino should be saying in that moment. Isn't this the same guy that will gut your ass out alive that's doing all these things and he, he's now just saying, my daddy's gonna call a lawyer. It's just people point out the weird, weird juxtaposition in regards to those finding and beating Ramsay. One netizen Comments where can I donate to this great cause? Vigilante justice is the future. The world needs Batman. Others find it hilarious. Some have commented, bro became the ultimate Asian Pokemon. Bro's not living long doing crap like that. Or many again point out the interesting aspect of Korean culture that people forget about, which is Ramsey doesn't understand the uniqueness of South Korea amongst other Asian countries. Almost all adult Korean men, from college students to the elderly, are military veterans. They also point out the fact that he believes that East Asians are docile, submissive creatures. And yet. Here's a picture of him on day five of his South Korea trip looking like very normal. Here's a picture of him, day 35 of his South Korea trip. He's got a busted eyebrow. He. He's bleeding from the lip. A busted lip. He looks like he's went through it. Another comment reads, just ban him from leaving the country and pretend not to notice every time he gets beaten. The strangest part in all of this is he's not even really making money. I mean, I'm sure he's making some money, but he's not making much to ruin his life over. He's getting banned from countries. He's facing potential legal and criminal trouble. His entire reputation as both his online Persona of Johnny Salami, but also as Ramsay Khalid Ismail of Arizona is completely tarnished. Sure, he may or may not have a finance degree, but who would even hire him now? He's not even really controversial. Controversial would imply that he has some sort of fan base that supports him and is willing to fight for him. He's just generally a hated person. Nobody likes him. He doesn't even have a strong fan base. The only reason that people are donating is, in my belief, they're just donating because they get to see real life reactions and consequences on Ramsay in real time. You pay a few dollars and watch someone get beat up in real time. It's like a game. If anything, his fans are excited at him getting punched, which would mean that they're not really his fans. Can you really call them supporters at this point? He also has a few streamer friends whom again, just want to associate with him because he's getting some attention right now. But I highly doubt they will still be around later when it dies down. One tries to defend Ramsay, stating, koreans want to assault Ramsay because he dared to twerk on a World War prostitute statue. The same streamer also posts Korean thugs chimping out and attacking Johnny because they have zero emotional regulation. Who cares that he twerked on a statue? That's not an excuse to lose control of your anger and kick someone in the head. Yeah.
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Winnie
Wow. These okay.
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Narrator
Ramsey has been banned from Twitch, suspended from YouTube, to which he says, I'm appealing the suspension from my channel, which I believe was a mistake. Yeah. He has since taken to Twitter to ask people to send him crypto, stating, I created these today. If you want to support free speech, this is the best way to support me continuing the fight. It does not appear that he's making much money off of all of this, but Koreans are. Yeah. Ramsay has been nicknamed the Golden Goblin. It's a game reference. A golden goblin is a game character that if you find and kill them, their pockets explode and you get all the loot. Meaning if you find him, you stream yourself screaming, yelling, degrading him, and perhaps punching him. Your viewership, fan base, donations, everything skyrockets. You make a shit ton of money.
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Winnie
That's crazy.
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Narrator
Yeah. So many news networks have even stated, perhaps everyone is making money off of Ramsay but Ramsay. One news network states, quote, he came to Korea for clickbait, but he gets turned into clickbait. Yeah. Some netizens have stated that crime goes unpunished every single day. There's violence that does indeed go without consequences. People get away with crimes all the time. If this is one of those times where he gets punched in the face and justice is not served, we're not going to be crying about it in our rooms. Ramsay has said, I think I was just born to be evil. I don't know. I don't like being good. If I make content, I like to make content that makes people violent. Someone in the chat says with him, I would rather self exit, bro, than let an Asian kill me. Yeah, because I guess we're just so below them that one person. I mean. To which Johnny responds, bruh, I hate Asians. Honestly, I think all Asians need to be exterminated. The only Asians I respect are the Chinese. And the thing is, Korean n words are Chinese, Japanese are Chinese. That's why I only respect China. They're all Chinese, but with different writing scripts. To which someone asks him, what's your favorite neighborhood in Seoul? Which like, what are you doing? He responds, shut your chink ass up, you fucking dirty Asian slur. I want to start a race war with every country I go and radicalize. I'm gonna start a race war. I'm tired of Asians. You're not starting a race war. Like, people just don't like you. You're not starting anything. Speaking of. Johnny has since apologized. He was confronted by a group of Korean live streamers, including the UDT guy who punched him. The third time of his assault, he apologized in front of a comfort woman statue. He states that as an American, he didn't even know what the statue really meant, which is a bold face lie. He knew exactly what that meant. I think that he had a better understanding of comfort women and the history of it versus any other American that I could find on the street. He knew exactly the first day he saw that statue, to kiss her cheek. He said, japanese hate this shit. Like, they hate this statue.
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Winnie
So he even know the ongoing political.
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Narrator
Yes. Contentions between the two countries. So, like, you know more than you know. You know exactly what you're doing. Yeah.
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Winnie
Everything he said is very, very. It's so bad to the point that it's so on the head of the issue. Like, he's so aware of the issue. That's why everything is so triggering.
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Narrator
Yes. So then he goes back twice and does it again. He also says he's glad that this issue brought awareness to comfort women, which Korean netizens have been very upset about. Those Korean live streamers that made him apologize. Accepted his apology. But I will say Korean netizens are very upset by this. Most of Korea is upset by this. They're actually very upset with those Korean live streamers saying, who are you to accept the apology?
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Winnie
Oh, they're upset that the Korean streamer.
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Accepted his apology and they all, like, took pictures smiling with each other. And it's one thing to accept the apology of, like, hey, I'm sorry for things I've said about you. I'm sorry for that altercation that we personally had. But they cannot accept the apology for what he did to the comfort women statues. And also, you know, a good chunk of the live streamers were men. So a lot of people are like, also, what is the irony in that? Yeah, yeah, he did apologize. I don't think he's sorry. I mean, just listen to him talk about Asians. He wants them all, like, exterminated. Whether that's just for rage, bait or not. I think he's just saying that so that he can walk around and try to make money without getting his Face beat up every two seconds. Now, there are speculations that if he is able to leave South Korea, he is either headed for China or India next, which I think both would be very fascinating to see him in. I think both would be very interesting. He says about China, you will see me in Beijing, in Shenzhen and a Chinese mega city, Chongqing. Japan will pay for what they've done to you, China, for what they've done to the greatest country on earth, the communist people, Republic of China, which I don't think he's going to be allowed into China. I do know that there are certain areas that have now a visa free, like 144 hour in certain cities in China for American citizens. But just based off of American passport laws, going into Japan and Korea are relatively easy, if not usually a guarantee getting into China. There is a hard visa process even just for visitors. And if they see that he's banned from Japan, I just don't see how he's going to get in. He's also talked about how he wants to go to India, which is easier to get a tourist visa as a US National. He has his reservations, though. He says, I'm not going to lie, I want to go to India and crash on those for content. But they're going to do like a fucking. If you thought. If you thought Korea was bad, wait till like a mob of Indians comes after me. That shit is going to be bad. Maybe it's the next journey, guys, which is already so bizarrely offensive. But he goes on to say, because people look at Asians as, like, meek and, like an easy target. So if I start attacking countries and races that people don't like already. Oh, he's saying that people don't like Indians. Whoa. Yeah. And he says maybe I can win some of the haters back over. Which again indicates he believes people don't like Indians. But also, India's not a race. Also, Indians are Asians, okay? To which his co host on the group chat says, Asians are seen as this kind of like passive, robotic people. Like, they have this weird people like them for some reason. He goes on to state that if you can get India to hate you, everyone else in the world will love you because they don't like India, which is such an unhinged take I've never seen before and so stupidly mistaken. And also, no, you would just have more people hating you and giving them more of a reason to deck you in the face. I'm so confused by this logic.
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Winnie
Honestly, I would like to see him go To North Korea and try this.
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That's what people are saying.
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Winnie
Yeah, right.
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Deport him to North Korea. Try this. See dance on one of their statues. See what happens.
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Winnie
Like remove one of the paintings and see what happens.
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Yeah, play a ditty song. Yeah, do it. To which I thought there might be more meaningful insight in the comment section, but. But alas, netizens will be netizens. And all the comments are like, don't go to India, Ramsey, come to our country. And they keep listing out their countries, including violent videos and GIFs of crimes that were committed in each country that they list out. But those people will have to wait. I don't know for how long though, because he's currently being investigated for the convenience store incident, the 711 incident of disturbing the business, as well as for potential drug use. And though not confirmed, he could potentially be investigated for creating sexually explicit deepfakes. He had this thing where he tried to reason that he only came to Korea because he has a Korean girlfriend who told him to come. Which is side note, she's another Korean IRL streamer. He knows that every Korean hates him. And for him to lie and say that he is dating this Korean IRL streamer and she invited him to Korea to do these things is heinous. That puts a huge target on her back. But then he goes on to state that he's getting great private parts from her. It's weird. He shows a video of them kissing at a park and in a car. While it is true that he and the Korean streamer have hung out in the past, they are not dating and the videos of them kissing are not real. So creating and or spreading explicit defects in Korea is quite a sensitive topic, I'm sure anywhere. But with the new Anthram case especially, it's a very touchy subject which people believe he could be invested investigated for. The other streamer in question is currently suing Ramsey for defamation. In retaliation, it's alleged that Ramsey doxed her information to try and get her to stop. If he is found guilty of creating and spreading sexually explicit deepfake videos, he could be imprisoned up to seven years in prison. I think honestly he should be more careful about the drug charges. You would do whatever you want in certain countries. But like drug is also a line that you don't cross in Korea. Drugs are a line you just don't cross. I believe four Korean YouTubers are filing charges against him, alleging assault. It's alleged that the Korean authorities have confiscated his passport, but Ramsay is either putting up a fake brave front or he just doesn't know how serious it is? I don't know. I imagine worst case scenario he'll be deported with a re entry ban for a few years similar to Japan. Best case scenario, perhaps he can see what Korean inmates think about comfort women statues and his dancing on them. Under Article 2 of the Korean Criminal act, foreigners who commit crimes in Korea are subject to local laws. So we will just have to wait and see what happens to Ramsey. What are your thoughts on this case? I originally thought that we were gonna talk about this topic in a MOTs episode because when I was coming across it everybody was talking about it in like a very light hearted manner of this guy is, is a nation's punching bag. He's so racist, he's so bad. But it's more shocking to the point that it's so unserious because he's so unhinged. But when you actually look into what he does and the things he said and the act of what he did and a lot of times many of the American streamers and the youtubers and I don't blame them because it's part of Korean history. I'm sure they don't want to get it wrong and they don't want to step on anyone's toes. But also the topic of comfort women, it's like, oh, these are statues symbolizing people who were victimized in war, who were tortured in war, women who were tortured. But it's so deep and it's so ingrained into many Koreans lives. It's just. What are your thoughts? What do you think is going to happen to him? Do you think that this is vigilante justice or do you think ultimately violence is bad? What are your thoughts? Leave it in the comments and please stay safe and I will see you in the next one.