Prankers are not always funny. Who are the pranks and why do the victims of fancy often not understand their humor?

In the modern world, a phone, mobile or stationary, has long ceased to be just a means of communication with family and friends. It is actively used by banks for active campaigning of clients, surveys are regularly conducted. In addition, it remains a mystery where our phone numbers are taken from employees of all kinds of companies and firms that issue loans and loans in the shortest time possible with a minimum of documents.

The phone has become an effective means of advertising and marketing. But unfortunately, this device is also used for the purpose of drawing. This means not a congratulation on the holiday native speakers, for example, the president, but a real test of nerves.

Prankers are children's fun or a method of provocation?

Many will remember the cases from childhood when they were playing with the phone, dialing a familiar number and asking to call Masha or Tanya, although they knew that such people did not reside there. This can be called harmless child pampering. With regard to the prankers, their behavior can hardly be called a child's play, first of all, because they are not schoolchildren for a long time. These people call for a specific purpose - to bring the object of the telephone drawing to a state when it ceases to control its words, goes on to shouting, obscene vocabulary, and sometimes to threats, and then recorded the conversation on the Internet for the joy of many. The victims of the Pranka are provocative and, of course, later regret it.

Telephone rally: who becomes his object

If you are a very calm person and to some extent even a bore, the chance that the prankers will call you is minimal. The objects of the drawing are, as a rule, emotional, rude persons. They are easily annoyed and evoke vivid emotions. The elderly people also become victims of fagot.

Prankers of Russia do not deprive even the police and other state structures of their attention. And the most popular characters for bullying are famous people and stars.

Prank raffles: genres and varieties

Phone hooliganism, according to the standard scheme, usually begins with phrases and questions, for example, "How to get to the library" or "Let's get on". As a result, the victim, driven to rage, disregards curses. But not all telephone fags pursue the goal of bringing to an extreme nervous state. There are several types of draws.

Hard Funk

The most cruel genre is called hard-prank. In this case it is hysteria that becomes the culmination of the conversation. Often used curses and obscene words. When the victim understands, she became the object of the rally, she goes to threats, warns that she will compute hooligans with the help of law enforcement agencies or other equally impressive people.

Light Felting

The opposite of this genre is light-prank. If you received a call with this purpose, you, uniquely, were lucky. You are planning to cheer up and just laugh together, chat on intimate topics. Evil intention is absent.

Radio french

There are times when radio stations are the object of the rally. In this case it is a question of a call by the leader on the air. Often used obscene language. This is called radio french. With such rallies, the well-known wave "Echo of Moscow" came across.

Technik

This variety differs from the others. Telephone hooligans, prankers in this case do not participate in the conversation. Instead, it uses a record prepared in advance. It can be a clipping from a computer game or other fun, phrases from films or just sounds. The purpose of such a rally is to maintain the conversation. As a rule, the victim does not realize that he is not talking with a person. Sometimes the friars use the words of the drawing object. Even in this case, many do not recognize their speech in the record.

Prank in the form of a conference

Drawing of such a plan appeared relatively recently. There are already two victims, and they communicate with each other. First, a call is made to one person, it is brought to the desired state, and then it is connected to the second participant. Both characters are sure that they call pranker. The main essence of the conversation is finding out who is calling whom. This is the most unpredictable variety, since the duration and format of the conversation can not be controlled by hooligans. The conversation usually ends when someone hangs up.

Vivid examples of fancy

To understand what a prank is, it is not necessary to become a victim of it. It is enough to see all the famous cartoon about the Simpsons family. Bart Simpson appears here as a typical pranker. Unfortunately, this character is loved by children, so child phone hooliganism is only gaining momentum.

On the open air of the famous person is Evgeny Volnov. His direction is the trolling of ordinary people. His drawings are created in the Western manner. They are hard to call hard-pranckom. He participated in many projects, among which trolling the program "Wait for me" on Channel One. The best fricas are laid out in social networks and on its official website.

He also created the character Nastenka. Nastenka is calling to ask for a date. And many representatives of the stronger sex agree, for which they become heroes of the videos, which are actively viewed and listened on the Internet. Despite the strange voice, the heroine has a lot of fans who follow her adventures. It is voiced by Volnov himself, his voice is changed with the help of a special program. Telephone hooligans call Nastenka the goddess of prankoty.

The famous character of the pranck - "grandma ATS"

Objects of banter became both stars, and simple inhabitants. A long-time participant of the Pranca - "grandma ATS". In March 1988, a student of the senior classes of the city of Kemerovo called the ATS to find out if there was a debt on the phone, but dialed the wrong number. Answered a woman of old age. To the question: "Is this ATS?" Reacted with a selective abuse. High school student Roman together with a friend recorded several conversations with this woman, who received the nickname "Babka ATS". Friends managed to make 7 records, but then the phone number was lost. Cassettes with her speech passed from hand to hand, and eventually the tracks were posted on the Internet.

How not to become a victim of the pranker

First of all you need to set the identifier of the number. This measure will free you from inexperienced telephone criminals. Trolling professionals use IP-telephony cards.

So, the masters of your business after all you got through. In this case, you must follow several rules:

• The reaction must be calm and unruffled.
• Do not continue the conversation, just hang up, the prankers will soon bother you calling.
• Do not show your emotions, do not swear, try not to use obscene language.

Hooligans expect bright emotions from you, if you do not give them to them, then stop being an interesting character for them.

It should be borne in mind that the numbers of particularly intractable victims are distributed among the pranks. And in this case you become the object of not one, but several phone criminals.

The secret of Xenia Borodina: how to behave with the pranker

As an example of a correct reaction, we can cite the case of Xenia Borodina, the host of the teleproject "House 2". The callers introduced themselves as Woland and Koroviev, characters from the "Master and Margarita". Mystical characters tried to convince her that her cat is possessed by demons. Ksusha decided that this was a rally of her friends, treated with humor. I did not try to rude them, just played along, not giving vent to emotions. She noted that the characters played their roles convincingly and ingeniously. The whole day the presenter asked her friends who they were, Woland or Koroviev. No one confessed. As it later turned out, these were professional pranks, which surprised Xenia very much.

Her attitude to this occupation was clearly negative. Everyone has his own private life, and no one has the right to cross borders. For one funny original case there are hundreds of stupid harassments, the purpose of which is to bring a person to the last state. As a rule, they call not to cheer up. There are indecent proposals, threats, confessions of love. For her, the pranks are sick people who have nowhere to put their energy.

Pranks from a legal point of view

In Russia, the pranks are hooligans, the fight against which is conducted by the police, which is guided by articles of the Criminal Code. The offense of such a plan is equated with insulting harassment of citizens. This is called petty hooliganism. It is very difficult to gather evidence on such a case, therefore, as a rule, it is impossible to punish pranks.

As for Europe, in this part of the world it is also recognized as a violation of the law, a form of terror. Violators of order receive an impressive penalty, fine or bringing to criminal responsibility. Therefore, wishing to call for a draw is not enough.

Psychologists about phone drawings

For many people, it does not seem ridiculous to become an object of trolling. Often, baiting does not pass without a trace for the elderly and sick participants. Psychologists advise to look at this situation from the other side. Annoying prankers are not really full personalities. For sure, they are not too loved by others and are not taken seriously. The inferiority complex is evident. Provocation of the surrounding is anonymous - this is the way of self-realization. In fact, they are insecure people or problem teenagers.

Conclusion

Prank is a phenomenon that has great popularity in the modern world. You can treat it differently, badly, well, neutrally, but this does not become less of it. In my opinion, the most profitable approach is to perceive with humor, not to be taken seriously and, if possible, to play along. If this does not work out, then remember the words of psychologists about the inferiority complex of the pranks and try to regret them. The most important thing is to take care of your nerves and not pay attention to these pranks.