American Tourist pisses off Italians

lol! The Leaning Tower was the best!

So fake and dumb

I follow these 2 guys on FB and Insta. They release a bunch of these type vids all the time. They are actually pretty funny. Mamma Mia! Maybe cause I'm Italian and get the humor?

Everybody gets the humor, it's not complicated. r3. Just don't know if acting like a clown in public in order to film people's reactions for clicks is everybody's idea of a great time.

He's a fat-ass flabby punk.

The Italians have had only one use for such boys. They picked it up from the Greeks.

He can video THAT. And find a better facial expression than snarky pride.

Lol! That song always cheers me up!

The guy in the black suit who was ‘ready to fight’ was hot af. And the waiter in the scissor spaghetti skit was adorable!

LOL at the waiter who grabbed the wine glass out of his hands after he put an ice cube in it.

Would Italians really react the way they did in the video, if they saw Americans doing this sort of thing?

Or was it all just acting?

He is not fat or flabby R5, you mental case.

[quote] The Italians have had only one use for such boys. They picked it up from the Greeks.

No, it comes naturally to them.

Is the main guy Italian-American 'cause that would make it even better. haha

Hate those creeps who make a career out of deliberately annoying strangers then posting videos of it for money. Scum.

There's a massive gulf between those "it's a prank bro" idiots and doing something that in no way impacts anyone else, and recording the reaction of people who are so uptight that they get offended at something which doesn't affect them in the slightest.

His Italian buddies who act in his attention seeking cosplay are very cute.

Would be funny if it weren't fake as plastic shit

Are people here not grasping how staged this is? Jfc....

Fake. Funny.

I also hate this trend of downright buffoonery for clicks. But, at least he isn’t a mean-spirited little bastard like Johnny Somali.

Merry japes

R17 my college business programme students just did a (looooong) presentation and debate about social media and society and one topic was fake news and false information and their impact and who is responsible, if anyone, for limiting negative impact. Corporate social responsibility. They are mostly socially progressive capitalists and regretted that much of the public has woeful information literacy, However, they mostly argue that influencers (I guess we can include entertainment content producers), platforms/corporations (YouTube) and governments are not responsible. They hedged about parents' and schools' responsibility to teach "information" assessment.

Yes - many people cannot evaluate content for veracity but it's kind of a free for all, a rat fuck, because nobody can be bothered to fix it.

Better than this idiot. Some of this guy's vids on tiktok get tens of millions of views. I'm linking to it on YouTube where he gets a lot less views. It's a shame he's not an American and won't lose his "career" due to the upcoming tiktok ban. This and the guy in this thread making Americans look bad is what gets you popularity and money in 2024. SMFH.

The American in the OP is much, much cuter than the prankster at R22.

The kid who made this video is at least smart enough to know that every single one of the things he did was actually a "faux pas" in Italy.

Ice in wine, ketchup on pizza, cutting your spaghetti with a scissors, etc.

C'mon, he at least puts some thought into his prank.

And I agree, it's harmless. Just reaction videos.

Johnny Somali actually goes out of his way to be a mean asshole, and to offend.

Big difference.

Where on earth is cutting spaghetti is acceptable?

Ice in wine is also universally down market, though not without its pleasures in summer.

These types of "setup" videos are so unfunny and unoriginal. Creating a fake scene using irony and silly opposites (fresh Italian food + dumping ketchup on it) it's like Candid Camera meets vaudeville slapstick. I don't get how this is entertaining for younger folks; this style of comedy is so obvious, seems like they would be too jaded to give a shit.

None of the Italians seem "pissed", they are just looking at him like he's a tryhard "content creator" recycling dumb setup scenarios.

R26 are you familiar with the business acumen of P.T. Barnum?

[quote[I don't get how this is entertaining for younger folks; this style of comedy is so obvious, seems like they would be too jaded to give a shit.

No, more like *you're* too old and jaded.

I don't mean that disrespectfully, just that you may have forgotten what it's like to be young.

Many things are still novel to twentysomethings.

[quote]I don't get how this is entertaining for younger folks; this style of comedy is so obvious, seems like they would be too jaded to give a shit.

No, more like *you're* too old and jaded.

I don't mean that disrespectfully, just that you may have forgotten what it's like to be young.

Many things are still novel to twentysomethings.

[quote] None of the Italians seem "pissed", they are just looking at him like he's a tryhard "content creator" recycling dumb setup scenarios.

They are not genuine bystanders. They are part of the bit.

He should come to Capri, i ll show him what’s funny.

IFHH.

Idiot. Social media is filled will dumb Americans playing the role of only slightly dumber being proudly vulgar shits. From "comedy" such as this to gap-mouthed Americans wandering the aisles of grocery stores in [insert name of European country] or making Top 5 or Top 10 lists of things to do/never do, say/never say in [insert name of European country], to "Insider Tips" that show the150-,minute queue in front of the most famous panino shop in Florence "that the tour guide books never tell you about!" (except that the shop is in EVERY guide book and every blog about visiting the city.)

Each approaches his subject as though he were the first to ever make the same tired jokes, recycle the same stale advice, wait 2.5 hours in a sandwich line with every other tourist in the city.)

[quote]R29 Many things are still novel to twentysomethings.

Yes. We just had a thread about how so many of them have never been out on a date.

They’re too anxious.

Lots of hot guys