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American YouTuber sentenced to 6 months in South Korean prison for offensive stunts
AP ^ | April 15, 2026 | staff

Posted on 04/22/2026 9:31:57 AM PDT by Morgana

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An American YouTuber who sparked national outrage in South Korea for provocative stunts, including dancing on a statue honoring victims of wartime sexual slavery, was sentenced to six months in prison Wednesday.

The Seoul Western District Court found Ramsey Khalid Ismael, a self-proclaimed internet “troll” known online as Johnny Somali, guilty of multiple charges, including obstruction of business and distributing fabricated sexually explicit content.

Prosecutors had sought a three-year term for Ismael, who also faced accusations of harassing staff and visitors at an amusement park, disrupting a convenience store by blasting music and upending noodles onto a table, causing similar scenes on a bus and subway, and distributing non-consensual deepfake videos.

The court said the 25-year-old displayed “severe” disrespect for South Korean law, noting that he offended countless people with livestreamed stunts aimed at generating YouTube revenue. The court ordered his immediate detention following the verdict, citing him as a flight risk.

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They may keep him but I'm sure they want rid of him as soon as he's out.
1 posted on 04/22/2026 9:31:57 AM PDT by Morgana
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In America, we have to put up with such disgusting behavior, because our woke-globalist elites hate the country.


2 posted on 04/22/2026 9:33:52 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Morgana

The ugly American abroad.


3 posted on 04/22/2026 9:34:33 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Morgana

maybe they can sterilize him for us


4 posted on 04/22/2026 9:36:35 AM PDT by MarlonRando
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Ramsey Khalid Ismael ? Doesn’t sound like an American name to me


5 posted on 04/22/2026 9:37:17 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: Morgana

He’s appealing the sentence, and so is the prosecution. That means that instead of being immediately sent to a work prison, he’s stuck in an overcrowded, hellish detention unit until the thing is worked out, which could take - wait for it - another six months. Got some real bad advice from his lawyer, did Johnny.


6 posted on 04/22/2026 9:40:14 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: escapefromboston

From Wiki

Early life

Ramsey Khalid Ismael has reportedly made several conflicting statements about his ethnicity. He reportedly once said that he was born to a Somali father and an Ethiopian mother.[12] Ismael also stated that he was a former child soldier in the ongoing Somali Civil War and a former Somalian pirate; several sources have expressed doubt about these statements.[13][14] Ismael has also claimed he had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and is a self-diagnosed sociopath.

Ismael has also stated that he grew up in Scottsdale, Arizona,[15] and graduated from Arizona State University,[16] but he also claims to have been a financial worker and a real estate manager.[14] The Evening Standard cited him as being an Arizona native.[17]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Somali


7 posted on 04/22/2026 9:41:21 AM PDT by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul 🇺🇸 )
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What he was really doing was showing his own special non-conformity with South Korean public social norms.


8 posted on 04/22/2026 9:43:09 AM PDT by Wuli ( )
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To: Morgana

Send him to Somalia, not America, when his sentence is over.


9 posted on 04/22/2026 9:43:12 AM PDT by PAR35
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This disgusting creature may not survive his ethnic Korean fellow prisoners. I couldn’t blame them for putting the hurt to this vile, disrespectful idiot.


10 posted on 04/22/2026 9:43:42 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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He’s appealing the sentence, and so is the prosecution.

Korea has a great system, in that after a sentence, the victims can petition the judge to reconsider and increase the sentence, which is what is happening now to this miscreant.

11 posted on 04/22/2026 9:48:00 AM PDT by montag813
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Turn him over to the Norks. They’ll treat him like a zoo animal.


12 posted on 04/22/2026 9:48:52 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: PGR88

Dum-dum is finding out his American entitlement doesn’t extend past the US border......as Britney Griner....she’s an expert.


13 posted on 04/22/2026 9:51:10 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it, won't leave)
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Upending noodles...

An unforgivable insult in East Asia!

14 posted on 04/22/2026 9:52:20 AM PDT by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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hopefully he learns a valuable lesson from this, but I doubt it


15 posted on 04/22/2026 9:52:57 AM PDT by Jeff Vader
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“him as being an Arizona native”

So does this mean native means just living there if so our whole Native American label is moot.


16 posted on 04/22/2026 9:53:15 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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What a pathetic loser nitwit.


17 posted on 04/22/2026 9:54:08 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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Words have meaning and every day we let the left hijack them. He is not a native of any state or this country.


18 posted on 04/22/2026 10:02:54 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: montag813
Yup. As I understand it, had he accepted the sentence and proceeded directly to the much more comfortable work prison, he would at least be there serving time while the victim's appeal went through. As it is, he's in a very nasty place with no time coming off his sentence. For the curious, HERE is a video detailing the conditions. No air conditioning in a Korean summer, no recreation, horrible food, and the junior guy in the cell sleeps on the floor next to the toilet. Oh, and no internet!
19 posted on 04/22/2026 10:04:07 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Morgana

100 lashes such that the scars are permanent.


20 posted on 04/22/2026 10:08:08 AM PDT by libh8er
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