Ramsey Khalid Ismael — better known as Johnny Somali, the infamous American streamer arrested in Japan, Israel, and South Korea for his provocative behavior — has been imprisoned in South Korea.
he’s been banned from pretty much all streaming platforms, including Twitch, Kick, Rumble, and Parti.
When you manage to get banned from both Kick and Rumble you really should be re-evaluating your life choices…
I’ve never even heard of those platforms 🤷
They’re “alt” platforms for people who feel like Twitch and YouTube are too “woke and gay” and they’re run by crypto gambling companies
I appreciate the explanation but I’m fine with being ignorant on this one. Never understood the appeal of streamers in the first place
This won’t shut him up. He’ll be back doing stupid shit as long as enough people watch him do it.
Six months hard labor in a country where, when his warrant was put out, more or less engaged in a nation wide manhunt to get the fucker who gave a lap dance to a statue of a child that was constructed to remember the systematic rapes the imperial japanese military commit.
I sincerely doubt he has the kind of mental or physical fortitude required to come out of that unchanged. Do I think he will be a better person for it? No. This is punitive, not rehabilitative. But I sincerely doubt he will fuck around to anywhere near this degree ever again.
Probably shift more towards trying to pull an ishowspeed and talk about how he has changed and is nothing like he used to be and blah blah blah give him money.
I am surprised it’s only 6 months.
He is a us citizen at a time when the us is aggressively fucking over all its allies. His streamer name being “Somali” makes him an unlikely flashpoint, but 6 months means he can be ammunition for the 2026 elections without anyone actually feeling the need to do anything because he’ll be out around the time votes are being tallied.
So Korea gets to make an example without being made an example.
