Content creation as a career path
Horrible sadist Bacari Ogarro pretends his sadistic actions are “pranks.”
A TikTok user who went viral when he entered a stranger’s house uninvited has defended his videos after they were described as “abhorrent” and “criminal” by politicians.
Bacari Ogarro, known as Mizzy on social media, posted the video of himself entering the London home as a “prank” two weeks ago. It was met with shock and anger, with many online calling for him to be arrested.
The self-described content creator has now said the negative reaction to his videos is partly down to him being Black.
Nope. It’s because he grabbed a woman’s dog and ran away with it laughing madly. It’s because he physically and verbally harassed women. It’s because he bounced into a public library, grabbed a book, and started tearing it up while taunting the library staff. He’s a sadistic bully, end of story.
Mizzy confirmed he has previously been arrested after sharing a number of videos that seemed to show him harassing Jewish people.
In one, he appears to put his hands on the victim’s shoulders and attempts to leapfrog over him. He claimed this was a TikTok trend “where you leapfrog over someone when the beat drops” and he has done this “to many different types of people”.
Well, if he did it to strangers without their consent, that’s assault.
Mizzy, from Hackney in London, said he began to consider content creation more seriously as a career path in Year 8 or 9, after having been “kicked out of school three times”.
He started to realise that every time he “upped the ante and did wilder videos” he would garner more online engagement – so that is what he continued to do.
“Controversy, even though it’s not good, is the best way to blow up on social media,” he said. “I always know outrage is going to happen. I know exactly what I’m doing and the consequences of my actions.” He added, “I tell people not to reciprocate what I’ve done.”
The videos aren’t “wilder”; they’re sadistic. He appears to be a psychopath.
He continued: “I don’t fake my pranks, but I always make sure to sort out the situation after if I feel like I went too overboard, but none of my pranks have malicious intentions behind them and most of the people in the pranks acknowledge that after I speak to them.”
I don’t believe that for a second. Dude needs a compassion transplant.
Is there such a thing as a prank/practical joke, that does not have a bit of cruelty to it?
I think his actions just have a greater degree of such cruelty.
No, I don’t think there is. I hate “pranks” and their cousins.
He should take a trip to the USA and try a few of these.
chigau: one of the very, very, very few situations where a well armed and trigger happy population has its benefits??
Oh nice, a career. Videorecord yourself hurting people in criminal ways. A “career.” Yay.
Some of his videos have him running up on somebody and screaming “you want to die? You want to die?”
Yeah, try that in some parts of the USA and you will get the answer no in metallic form.
I would laugh if somebody ever busts him over the head with a bottle or something like that because he is threatening people.
But amazing how this person is a one-man crime spree and still running loose with the UK police doing nothing.
Call Fat Uncle Tony Hayden a man and the police there will be on the move to your place ASAP.
“Is there such a thing as a prank/practical joke, that does not have a bit of cruelty to it?”
I can think of quite a few, but it’s entirely possible that most people would not call them “pranks” or “practical jokes”. “Stunts”, perhaps. Flash mob music performances, humorous signs, constructing a TARDIS on top of a school building, and so on. Merriam Webster says that a “prank” becomes a “practical joke” specifically when it is intended to trick or embarrass someone or cause someone physical discomfort, so maybe not “practical jokes” without cruelty, but pranks, sure.
See the gallery of the likely backronymed Institute for Hacks, TomFoolery, and Pranks at MIT for some examples.
The terminology is tricky here. There’s a whole genre of “stunts” which I like to think of as practical hoaxes the MIT ones being some of the better known (but students across the world have long practised the art – which it is). and I love hoaxes. But in a hoax the viewer chooses to participate even if there is an element of manipulation on the part of the hoaxer. In these sort of pranks consent is being violated. And no, it doesn’t make it all right if you “sort it out” afterward. And if you don’t proceed when it isn’t working (for you) and don’t show those failures then of course people are going to try to “reciprocate”. the whole thing is toxic.
Candid Camera. Beadle’s About. Jackass. He isn’t the first.
It does, however, seem Mr Plod has now taken an interest.
https://news.met.police.uk/news/teenager-arrested-in-connection-with-social-media-footage-467155
Interesting.
@Southwest88:
You will have noticed the salient aspect of the youth’s identity which led the police to treat him with kid gloves, until the outcry got too great, for fear of the r-word label.
Probably. It’s not actually evil if cops are motivated to be especially cautious about rushing to assume black people are guilty. There are strong historical (and contemporary) reasons for caution. But. Caution is one thing and doing sweet fuck-all is another.
Mind you, I don’t think we know the police knew anything about it before the social media fuss. It could be that the victims were over-cautious about reporting.
@Ophelia:
Historical, yes, agreed. Certainly until the ~ 1970s or so, the police were biased against blacks (and more heavily so the further back in time). I’m not so sure about “contemporary” reasons.
They’ve known at least since February, since they arrested him then for “pranks” against Jews. E.g. see here.
Coel, well, we know the police have not abandoned misogyny, to put it mildly, so I think it’s premature to assume racism is entirely a thing of the past. It’s true that misogyny does persist even when other hatreds have faded away or at least been concealed more carefully, but still.
Point taken about when they knew.