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Swatting is a fake emergency call that sends police to someone's home, often after their address is leaked online. It wastes resources, damages property, and traumatizes families. One Twitch streamer's daughter was threatened at gunpoint.
Swatting is a fake emergency call that sends police to someone's home, often after their address is leaked online. It wastes resources, damages property, and traumatizes families. One Twitch streamer's daughter was threatened at gunpoint.
What's up guys, how's it going? I might sound a little tired in this video, it's a little early in the morning, but I recently saw a video on swatting and so I decided I was going to talk about it and just give my opinions on it. Now in case by some chance you don't know what swatting is, it's when a a hacker, I guess. I don't really know if you even have to be a hacker, but you dox someone to get their personal information. You pretty much, you get someone's address. So say you get a Twitch streamer's address and then you call the police and you say something like this: I have 2 people as hostage and I'm gonna put a bullet in their head. And then you give the address to the streamer, and then, you know, the SWAT team shows up at that streamer's house. They think he has a hostage or 2 hostages, you know, whatever, and that he's threatening to kill them. So they're gonna show up in full body gear, there's gonna be like 10 to 15 cop there, and it's gonna be some serious stuff. Now, there are many reasons why I despise swatting. Some of them are just, you know, you're wasting the SWAT team's time. I mean, like I said, they send over 10 people most of the time. I mean, they could be back at the office doing paperwork, they could be stopping crime somewhere else. You're gonna force them to get home later, possibly, because they're dealing with this bullcrap, this fake scenario you're putting out there, and you're just wasting a lot of people's time. That's one reason I hate it. Another reason is you're defacing someone's property. I mean, most of the time these SWAT teams, they kick in doors, they mess up the stuff inside the house. I mean, that's, you know, that's just rude. Third reason why I hate it is usually when they kick in a door and they're running in your house, they're pointing their gun right at you. And one of the reasons I— that's like, I'm talking about this right now, sorry about how much I just stuttered, but I saw a video of a Twitch streamer who got SWAT'd, and when the cops kicked in the door, 2 of the police people, or 2 of the SWAT members, were pointing guns at his daughter, and he started to cry, and then he made a video about it later on. Um, like, imagine you having a daughter, and then 2 guys, you know, bursting in through your front door, pointing guns at your daughter. I mean, A, that's gonna affect her the rest of her life, and B, that's just, that's dumb. I mean, there's no, that's not called for, to have people pointing guns at a little girl. And there's always an off chance that a cop might accidentally, you know, accidentally pull the trigger and kill someone. It's just, there's a lot of reasons why I don't like swatting, and those are some of the biggest ones. Now I'm gonna be 100% honest with you guys, from a YouTuber standpoint, although no one will ever admit it, swatting's actually good for their channel. And what I mean is, you know, you get swatted, well, you get mentioned on DramaAlert, you know, it'll blow up on Twitter, you can make a video talking about it, and even if you're not dramatized, just act a little bit dramatized, and that video will go viral, um, and then you'll gain, you know, 30,000 subs from being mentioned on DramaAlert and all this other attention. It is healthy for a channel. Now I'm not saying swatting is a good thing in any way, I'm just saying YouTube channel-wise, it will help you grow if you do get swatted. So, what I— the reason I bring that up is, you know, these people who swat, they do it because they hate the person and they're trying to hurt them, but in reality, you're just helping their channel get bigger and stuff. So, I mean, sometimes it doesn't even make sense to swat anyone, like to go through all that trouble, because in the end, you're just gonna make them more popular and help them get their name more out there by swatting them. So to wrap this video up, I'm all for pranking people, I'm all for, you know, having fun, and making, you know, pranks on YouTube, but I will never be for swatting. I feel like it's unnecessary and it's just way too over the top. You're putting people's lives at risk, you're wasting a dozen SWAT members' time, and you're defacing someone's home. It's just— it's uncalled for and I'll never think it's funny. So that's pretty much the video. Let me know what you think, give me your opinions on it. And, uh, oh, something else I wanted to mention is if someone ever does, you know, call the SWAT team and get caught for swatting, I hope they just— I hope they go to jail for a long time, like a year plus, just for making that one prank call. I mean, I hope the punishment for getting caught trying to SWAT someone, I hope that's pretty severe. But anyways, that's the video. Let me know what you think and give me your opinions on it.
No exception to the rule, do what you do to get by. Cause I keep sticking like a metronome and my thoughts keep telling me to get me home, but my balls keep telling me to let me go. Oh, just let me go. That clock keeps ticking like a metronome and my thoughts keep telling me to get Me home, but my boss keep telling me to let me out.
