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* The act of swatting, i.e. phoning SWAT teams with a false lead intent on framing a person as a dangerous criminal and having them raided at their home is done as an extreme act of humiliating a person especially if the target is filming a live stream on YouTube or Twitch. Needless to say, this is both extremely dangerous as SWAT teams ''take their jobs seriously'' and would not sit well with having their time and resources wasted on such false alarms, and morally reprehensible as well–people have been killed as a result of these so-called "pranks". At least one swatter was [https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/serial-swatter-tyler-barriss-sentenced-20-years-death-kansas-man-n978291 sentenced to twenty years] as a result of a 2017 swatting incident, and laws have been proposed to define swatting as a form of domestic terrorism.
* On top of numerous meme images made in the aftermath of Brazil's humiliating defeat against Germany during the 2014 FIFA World Cup, a number of pranksters took to sites such as PornHub and ironically posted highlight videos of the game by mockingly passing it off as a sex video despite having nothing to do with any adult content at all. The porn site [https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/international/pornhub-pleads-users-to-stop-uploading-videos-of-brazil-getting-fked-by-germany-in-the-world-cup-9594287.html wasn't all too pleased about it] as they didn't want to run the risk of being sued by FIFA for copyright infringement (besides obvious concerns about the World Cup's image; not that the FIFA bigwigs themselves weren't caught red-handed with their corruption though), though they left a rather cheeky tweet telling people that their "public humiliation category is full."
* A pre-Internet variation of this happened in the Philippines in 1970 when American actress Dovie Beams leaked an audio recording of her illicit sexual encounter with then-president [[Ferdinand Marcos]] (who would later declare martial law two years later). Beams used this as leverage against the Marcoses as there were alleged threats to her life, and student protesters were more than delighted to use this to express their disgust at the regime. This later gained a resurgence in popularity in 2022 as Ferdinand's son Bongbong was running for president, something which Martial Law survivors and dissenters wanted nothing of.
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