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[Hollywood Hitman]

Although Chris is still the OG and has a good amount of videos online with his site Takedown with Chris Hansen, I have watched Skeeter and Alex catch some pretty fucked up guys and there's nothing better than to see a child predator being caught, it's absolutely glorious. It's uncanny how so many of these guys seem to be wired the same with the same kind of lies they spin together tryin to get out of it. When they say they didn't know she was underage , or they say they were coming over to make sure she knew not to talk to men online, or when they say they were just coming to hang out, they all seem to have a connected mindset.

Anyways tho they're always interesting to watch, Skeeter a little more ball busting which can be hilarious but you love to see it regardless.

 

[AJUMP23]

No. I use to watch to catch a predator back in the day.

 

[Hollywood Hitman]

No. I use to watch to catch a predator back in the day.

Yea hansen still has some good stuff these days, man those old to catch a predators were so good.. Loved them.

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

Skeeter Hansen is the best! Love his humor.

Jidion is also great as well as Alex Rosen.

 

[Hollywood Hitman]

Skeeter Hansen is the best! Love his humor.

Jidion is also great as well as Alex Rosen.

Dude yea lol Skeet just cracks me up man the way he's so passive aggressive and subtle in some of his insults. It's like entertainment that literally never gets old.

I'll have to check Jidion out.

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

Dude yea lol Skeet just cracks me up man the way he's so passive aggressive and subtle in some of his insults. It's like entertainment that literally never gets old.

I'll have to check Jidion out.

He collab with both Alex and Skeeter from time to time.

Some of my favorites are when him and Alex or Skeeter just double team to roast the predators like these two lol.

 

[Hollywood Hitman]

He collab with both Alex and Skeeter from time to time.

Some of my favorites are when him and Alex or Skeeter just double team to roast the predators like these two lol.

Ohh yea I know Jidion now I actually never really caught his name before, yea that's good stuff. And I'll watch those tonight, look like ones I haven't caught yet.

It's also just nuts how Alex really does get you thinking he wants to help these guys, he convinces me at times lol

 

[HRK69]

It's my go to entertainment while playing Football Manager. The newer ones are fantastic, they've been practically giving away cars lately!

 

[Hollywood Hitman]

It's my go to entertainment while playing Football Manager. The newer ones are fantastic, they've been practically giving away cars lately!

Lol just watched that one last night, it was amazing how that dude didn't even want to go check out the tesla. Yea I play alot of online slots and this is my go to entertainment

 

[nkarafo]

I'm watching them.

I have mixed feelings. In some of those videos they go too far.

Like, torturing a predator psychologically before the police arrives is funny to an extend. But some of them clearly have mental/health issues and in a couple of video they get out of their house with an ambulance instead of a police car, while Skeet and crew still makes fun of the situation. This is after pushing the pred to his limits for half an hour before the police arrives.

It's especially bad when they also try to involve family members. In one Trilogy Media video (these are the most obnoxious ones) they try to involve the wife of a pred using his phone. Then she gets extremely upset and yells she will kill herself as they try to calm her. Imagine if she did kill herself, oups.

I mean, preds are bad, we know. But maybe it's best to leave their families out of this and let professionals handle it? It's pretty clear these Youtube predator catchers care more about escalating things to a ridiculous degree for views. They even add funny scenarios and other ideas in there to spice things up like forcing a pred to play Mario Kart or Mortal Kombat telling them they will let them go if they win. Which is cringe because the preds know they are fucking with them but the crew still insists over and over and over just to make that scenario a reality.

Chris Hansen did it better.

 

[Hollywood Hitman]

I'm watching them.

I have mixed feelings. In some of those videos they go too far.

Like, torturing a predator psychologically before the police arrives is funny to an extend. But some of them clearly have mental/health issues and in a couple of video they get out of their house with an ambulance instead of a police car, while Skeet and crew still makes fun of the situation. This is after pushing the pred to his limits for half an hour before the police arrives.

It's especially bad when they also try to involve family members. In one Trilogy Media video (these are the most obnoxious ones) they try to involve the wife of a pred using his phone. Then she gets extremely upset and yells she will kill herself as they try to calm her. Imagine if she did kill herself, oups.

I mean, preds are bad, we know. But maybe it's best to leave their families out of this and let professionals handle it? It's pretty clear these Youtube predator catchers care more about escalating things to a ridiculous degree for views. They even add funny scenarios and other ideas in there to spice things up like forcing a pred to play Mario Kart or Mortal Kombat telling them they will let them go if they win. Which is cringe because the preds know they are fucking with them but the crew still insists over and over and over just to make that scenario a reality.

Chris Hansen did it better.

Well the thing is I sometimes had those thoughts as well even ones that are mentally challenged a bit, but then the further they get and being bring up some vile shit It all goes out the window.

Like the one guy who may have been challenged a bit, I felt bad but then they revealed he was literally watching like rape snuff vids and other sick and I mean sick shit... It was bad like wtf man. And then I go back to nope thet deserve it because nobody can tell me that men who rape don't start this way, it's saving a child somewhere somehow... Even if life doesnt know it yet..

Messing with children or even thinking of children in any shape or form like this is so vile to me there are no words. So honestly i still come back to they deserve nothing, they need tossed in prison and that's really it. I don't think you just fix that in someone you know what I mean? Because these men are repeat offenders. Alex has been back finding the same guys and it's like wow really?

So yea, when it come to cp and all that I have no care about their humiliation, because they all know right from from and choose wrong.

Chris still does it btw and yea he's the best at the end of the day, I love Chris

 

[HRK69]

I'm watching them.

I have mixed feelings. In some of those videos they go too far.

Like, torturing a predator psychologically before the police arrives is funny to an extend. But some of them clearly have mental/health issues and in a couple of video they get out of their house with an ambulance instead of a police car, while Skeet and crew still makes fun of the situation. This is after pushing the pred to his limits for half an hour before the police arrives.

It's especially bad when they also try to involve family members. In one Trilogy Media video (these are the most obnoxious ones) they try to involve the wife of a pred using his phone. Then she gets extremely upset and yells she will kill herself as they try to calm her. Imagine if she did kill herself, oups.

I mean, preds are bad, we know. But maybe it's best to leave their families out of this and let professionals handle it? It's pretty clear these Youtube predator catchers care more about escalating things to a ridiculous degree for views. They even add funny scenarios and other ideas in there to spice things up like forcing a pred to play Mario Kart or Mortal Kombat telling them they will let them go if they win. Which is cringe because the preds know they are fucking with them but the crew still insists over and over and over just to make that scenario a reality.

Chris Hansen did it better.

The Trilogy Media guys are straight up intimidating people, and I honestly couldn't stomach watching them do it. Especially that tall guy with the ponytail, he's an absolute piece of work. Seriously, fuck that dude

I mostly agree with you on Skeet as well. I get that they're trying to take action but there's a huge difference between exposing a predator and just being downright cruel. In some of their videos, that line gets blurred

That being said, I'll admit, I'm still curious about how each situation plays out. I want to hear the predator's side of things, see what they have to say for themselves when they're caught. I still think it's entertaining

 

[Hollywood Hitman]

Never watched those media trilogy guys, I'll have to see the difference.

But yea Skeet does try to be more humorous, like I said I just don't feel bad for these guys when they really dig into what they say to what they think are kids.

Alex keeps it fairly chill, but I mean I'll always enjoy Chris Hansen the most... That voice hah just iconic.

 

[ReasonBeing]

I'm of two minds on this. It is quite entertaining in some strange way to watch these people get caught and to see the dread of realization that the gig is up, but they could also jeopardize law enforcements ability to convict through the mishandling of evidence. They would be better off collecting evidence and turning it in to proper authorities in many cases. The fact that there is a financial incentive for these creators to farm this content is an obvious conflict of interest that could inhibit the ability for justice to be served. In other words, if these individuals were sincerely out to do the right thing, they would forgo the internet clout.

 

[N0S]

 

[Hollywood Hitman]

Speaking of cases did you guys ever listen to James Rauch whole story? I mean it's so crazy like he's entertaining as hell to listen to he's a character but he's also so fucked up, like man the things he says when he's talking to the decoy it's like wow man

 

[RagnarokIV]

I have a friend whose father was caught by one of these!

It was a UK one where instead of milking it for the views and thumbnails with YouTube, it's just raw footage uploaded to a Facebook page and they post the outcome.

 

[Hollywood Hitman]

I have a friend whose father was caught by one of these!

It was a UK one where instead of milking it for the views and thumbnails withYouTube, it's just raw footage uploaded to a Facebook page and they post the outcome.

Damn that's wild man, it's nuts how many of these people are out there

 

[RagnarokIV]

Damn that's wild man, it's nuts how many of these people are out there

Yeah man it was crazy to find out. We give my mate abuse and banter about it now, but the effect it had at the time on my friend and his family was insane.
The father died in prison.

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

Skeeter Jeans and others like him are obviously doing it for fame etc but at the same time I have no problem with it as it's entertaining to me especially with Skeeter as I like him humor on these catches. And I don't feel sorry for any of them just I do feel bad for some of their family members especially the ones who are already struggling hard and would have to bail them out which makes everything even worse. The blame would be on the pred as he shouldn't be trying to hit up minors in the first place but still feel bad for some of their family members.

I will say that there are levels to these, some of these pedo losers while obviously sick would have been harmless had the decoy never messaged them cause I imagine some of them would never message any minor in the first place on their own. But the ones that do message minors first are the more dangerous ones and those would actually try to get on with minors on their own even without anyone messaging them first so for those Im definitely extra glad that they were exposed.

Overall out of Skeeter Jeans, Alex, Jidion, Omma, Protect the Innocent, etc I'll say Skeeter Jeans followed by Jidion are my favorite although Alex is great too as sometimes it's funny especially when he made fun of that Star Wars Predator with the Yoda lines lol. I also watch Dads against Predators cause they straight up beat up the predators. They used to not do that but for the past few years they started doing it and those stuff are only on Rumble.

 

[Hollywood Hitman]

Alex Is funny because he's got a dry humor that he sneaks in. But yea overall anything to catch these people I say is great so I'm glad we get to see it.

Skeeter tho yea he definitely gets me going at times

 

[rkofan87]

no i do not support wannabe vigilantes.

 

[Hollywood Hitman]

no i do not support wannabe vigilantes.

It puts predators behind bars many times, you don't support that?

 

[ReasonBeing]

It puts predators behind bars many times, you don't support that?

I think their point is they don't believe the ends always justify the means. It's a phylosophical question that doesn't have a straightforward answer. Example, we could lower the standards for evidence and conviction to ensure we put more criminals behind bars. Some would argue that less criminals are running the streets, so why wouldn't you support this? At the same time, more innocent people would find themselves in prison. Which is the better outcome?

 

[Hookshot]

I have a friend whose father was caught by one of these!

A coworker of mine several jobs ago found out his step dad raped and murdered someone back in the 80's because he was caught by advances in DNA evidence.

Bet he was glad he never messed about too much growing up lol.

 

[rkofan87]

I think their point is they don't believe the ends always justify the means. It's a phylosophical question that doesn't have a straightforward answer. Example, we could lower the standards for evidence and conviction to ensure we put more criminals behind bars. Some would argue that less criminals are running the streets, so why wouldn't you support this? At the same time, more innocent people would find themselves in prison. Which is the better outcome?

more or less this let the cops do their job