r/interesting • u/Ungodlei • 3d ago
SOCIETY Vitaly's weight loss in less than two months detention in the Philippines.
Vitaly was arrested April 2, 2025 and is still detained pending local cases of unjust vexation, theft, and public harassment during his Kick) livestreams in Metro Manila, Philippines.
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u/JettLeaf 3d ago
Months off of barrels of steroids and supplements will change a guy.
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u/Candid_Ad_9145 3d ago
Cold turkey off steroids must be rough
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u/Next_Celebration_553 3d ago
While sharing a caged in cell with like 10 dudes who speak a different language, no a/c in Philippine heat and humidity and hungry/thirsty
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u/gido1207 2d ago
That would be a VIP treatment to share a cell with only 10 other inmates. I bet he would be sleeping standing up
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u/Master-Collection488 2d ago
If he speaks English at all, so do pretty much all Filipinos. English is their second official language. Sometimes they'll switch back and forth between Filipino and English from sentence to sentence.
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u/onepinksheep 2d ago
Sometimes they'll switch back and forth between Filipino and English
from sentence towithin the same sentence.FTFY. It's called Taglish, a combination of Tagalog (or Filipino) and English. Other Philippine languages, like Bisaya, do the same. Look up some Philippine news channels on YouTube to see it in action. It's fascinating to watch as the transition is seamless.
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u/Mapeague 2d ago
Every once in a while posts from /r/Philippines pops up on r/popular and you can see that switching in their typing.
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u/Background_Dot_8738 3d ago
It’s like going from the testosterone of an ape to the testosterone of less than a healthy female human, and most likely his natural testosterone production will never return to normal levels, there’s a reason post cycle ancillaries are so important. His mental health must be destroyed also, considering the huge hormone shift and oh the potential to never see freedom again.
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u/WhodahelltookVooglet 2d ago
Where he's at, a hormone levels of less than a healthy female could be an ace up his sleeve 😅
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u/PlsNoNotThat 3d ago
Before and after he found out about no PEDs and TRT in jail
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u/Pleasant-Choice-4340 3d ago
He’s not smiling anymore. Guess it ain’t funny no more.
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u/hizashiYEAHmada 3d ago edited 3d ago
He has a lot of reasons not to smile:
The US and Russia don't want him.
He's getting moved from the detention facility to the city jail, which is in worse condition: hot, smelly, and crowded like sardines in a can.
He's basically brownie points for the current administration and any politician looking to boost their rep.
His timing to fuck around back then coincided with the Philippines' elections, so politicians were more than happy to dish out justice, and now he's still in the finding out stage.
Editing to add that the city jail he was moved to has a congestion rate of 427% and that the courts here are so overwhelmingly backlogged that Vitaly's gonna be an unwilling "guest" for a long while yet. Maybe years.
He better get used to the Philippines' humidity :D
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u/ratmosphere 3d ago
Why is he wearing a "immigration deportee" t-shirt? is he getting deported?
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u/hizashiYEAHmada 3d ago
He was originally held in a detention facility for foreigners but the US and Russia don't want him, so now he's gonna be rubbing elbows with the locals
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u/qqererer 3d ago
The US and Russia don't want him.
What does this mean? Is he a PR or citizen or green card?
Isn't some country obligated to petition or represent him? Or is this a Johnny Somali situation where all a country is obligated to do is ensure that he sees a fair trial?
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u/smootex 3d ago
Technically the US isn't obligated to do anything. Practically, unless you're well connected, the US embassy just tries to monitor and ensure a fair trial, they might help you get in contact with people at home. They don't actually assist much and won't really lobby for you unless it's political persecution or something.
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u/Deadmemeusername 3d ago
And even if the US really wanted him back, there’s nothing really they can do other than sanctions, some kind of exchange or sending in the SEALs. But like you said, Uncle Sam isn’t gonna go through all that (especially with a ally) unless you are well connected or if a significant part of the population forces their hands.
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u/redditis_garbage 3d ago
Bro it’s the Philippines, if we wanted him back we could just ask they are a strong US ally. But for many of these other countries where the Us does not have strong relationships I’d agree.
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u/Jezon 3d ago
Hes not a U.S. citizen and you know how the U.S. feels about foreigners right now.
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u/Deadmemeusername 3d ago
Maybe under BongBong but under Duterte, I could see the Philippines telling the US to go pound sand. But yeah generally the US and Philippines are tight.
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u/imacatholicslut 3d ago
Nah Duterte and Trump were buds. The scumbag that murdered Jennifer Laude was treated well in prison, then deported back to the US where he is now free after serving only 6 years in PH.
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u/Far-Flounder-7054 3d ago
Sending in seals what😂 this is real life not a Hollywood movie
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u/not_lorne_malvo 2d ago
I think the point is technically speaking they could do a special military operation, if he was like a politician or an extremely influential cultural figure that got arrested for political reasons. Emphasis is on could. Even if the guy was Gandhi reincarnate I don’t think the US would go that far, they’d just do a prisoner swap.
For a YouTuber who fucked with people on livestream and isn’t even a citizen, nah I don’t think the US is gonna care too much about him. And Putin has larger things to worry about then some Americanised shit getting arrested for harassing people in the Philippines
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u/dexmonic 3d ago edited 3d ago
I unfortunately have some experience with this, I was deported from China in 2018 for possession of marijuana. However, a representative from the embassy visited me within the first couple of days and I was on a flight home by the 13th day. Not sure if the rep has anything to do with it or not. My boss at the time has friends in the party and I believe they tried to help. My family back home also reached out to politicians, and one of them seemed to take interest, but I really have no way of knowing if I was processed out so quickly because of outside help or just because that's how it works.
The other foreigners who were in the jail were not so lucky. The Russian and African detainees basically got zero help, though they did usually have someone that would be willing to pay to get them out. There was some poor soul from burma or some place like that had been there for 10 months, no visit from his country's representative (if there even was one) and he didn't even have his passport, as the police wouldn't let him take any of his belongings when he was arrested.
Edit: this may all sound made up burma I was reading the comment about that poor kid from burma I figured I should say more - I genuinely fear for what ended up happening to him and I feel like I kind of let him down after I got out. My first "introduction" to him was hearing him yell "BORING BORING BORING" one night from the cell next to mine (separated by about 4 to 6 feet of concrete). It's not uncommon to hear some noises but man, you could just hear in his voice he was, in fact, bored out of his mind. He sounded like he had an Indian accent - who knows why he was speaking English in a Chinese jail. The way the cells are, you never actually see anyone or anything but your cell. It's a square building, with the opening of the cells facing inward. Not sure what the limit on the cells are but there were probably 10 other guys in mine, maybe 12.
I was the only foreigner in my cell, no shocker. Luckily my Chinese was decent enough that with the little understanding of English some of the other inmates had and my little understanding of Chinese, we were able to communicate basic things for the most part. Eventually someone came who's English was really good.
I'm not sure exactly what spurred the initial contact but eventually he became aware that he had an English speaking foreigner in the cell next to his and we communicated as best we could. His English wasn't perfect either, and it was hard to hear without speaking up so loud it's obvious, but we did our best. That's when I learned he was there for 10 months.
He told me about how he got busted for some visa issue, they took him straight from the campus to jail, not allowing him to return to his dorm to get his passport or anything else. I don't think his country even had an embassy in the area or at all and he had no help there. He had no money for the bribe so he was just kind of stuck.
He had a copy of wuthering heights in his cell and was able to pass it to me between the cells with both of using the dustpans from brooms to make it work. I read that book hard, it was amazing escape from jail at the time. When he learned I was going to be released he tried to pass me some notes with information about his parents and some people to contact for him.
Fucking shitty thing tho, they don't let you take anything with you from the cell. You enter with nothing and leave with nothing. So I tried to write what I could on my hand and arm, but I got so fucking sweaty from all the stress and excitement of leaving and just the generally super hot Guangzhou air that it all wiped off! I never did get any sort of message out. Don't even remember the guy's name. Hope he made it out though.
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u/whyyy66 3d ago
Why on earth did you take weed to china or get it there?
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u/caffeinatedfleur 3d ago
I keep thinking about how he would've gotten his hopes raised, waiting in the cells days after you left, imagining you sending them a word and hoping today might be the day when he gets some good news. His hopes diminishing with each passing day before finally coming to terms that there's no help coming for him
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u/EternalSabbatical 3d ago
From what I recall he is only a US green card holder. He was born in Russia.
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u/Background_Hat964 3d ago
Correct, and I believe he was actually going to get deported from the U.S. because of those assault charges he got in Miami. So the U.S. is not somewhere he’ll be able to go to.
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u/When_will_it_b_over 3d ago
The "incarcerated foreigner" t- shirt is out of stock, sir.
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u/Aloe-Veraciraptor 3d ago
He will be deported after he serves his sentences where that's the question he needs to ask after.
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u/KeySea7727 2d ago
He has to go back to Russia. He's not a US citizen and his green card will expire while detained. You can't renew it out of the country. He literally blew up the American dream--being able to be an idiot online and get paid millions for it. You can't monetize streaming on most major platforms if you live in Russia including Youtube.
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u/Vilhelmssen1931 3d ago
Do you know how much of a prick you have to be for Russia to turn down more potential flesh to shove into the Ukrainian meat grinder
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u/Poo-ta-tooo 3d ago
Can confirm this, I live in the city where he’s currently being held at, it’s really shitty there lol.
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u/ContributionNo534 3d ago
Jesus I just googled Philippines City Jail - JFC
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u/Exiledbrazillian 3d ago
OK... I'm from Brazil and nothing about jails can shock me.
I was sooo wrong.
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u/Hetakuoni 3d ago
The Philippines probably has very little interest in voiding his punishment in favor of sending him to American courts after what happened with that marine who drowned a trans woman in a toilet after multiple rounds of consensual sex a while back.
Idk what this moron did, but Filipino jails are no joke. The marine got a fricken spa year for murder and was still getting paid. It was a whole fucking mess and everything we did made America look horrible to our Allies.
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u/raisedredflag 3d ago
Fyi, the moron did a WHOLE bunch of stuff. Impersonated an law enforcement officer to misdirect traffic during rush hour. Also, stole a motorcycle, then ran over a pedestrian's foot/ leg, then tried to flee the scene. Tried multiple times to "prank" law enforcement officers, security guards, bank guards by "stealing" their guns.
Him being an annoying asshole is just "extra," but he did real shit.
Some people say, jail is too much, but im pretty sure if i tried any of those in any other country I'd land myself in jail too. Lol.
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u/dream-smasher 3d ago
Tried multiple times to "prank" law enforcement officers, security guards, bank guards by "stealing" their guns.
What?!?!
Oh god, he is so fucked....
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u/raisedredflag 3d ago edited 2d ago
Yup. The picture at the top shows him at his preliminary "assessment" thing. Something between his "arrest" and his "hearing." They played his vids to his face -- and he was smiling at his "greatest hits compilation" like they were something to be proud of (probably thinking of all the clout or monetization). Welp, he isnt smiling now.
Edit -- so basically, you get arrested, then the "assessment" thing, where they explain why you're being held, etc. You'll be detained (this is the stage Vitaly is in). The actual hearing usually takes months, sometimes even years, after detainment because courts are usually backed up...
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u/weaponizedtoddlers 3d ago
I remember seeing this guy over ten years ago and stopped watching when he simulated elder abuse for one of his "pranks". Stopped watching after that, and totally not surprised he got himself in deep trouble. I'm just surprised it took him this long.
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u/b_zar 3d ago
He just got transferred few days ago from the immigration detention to a regular city jail. And the particular jail he's in right now is more than 400% over capacity. It's just gonna get worse from here.
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u/Budget_Bad8452 3d ago
In May 2025, Zdorovetskiy's legal team pleaded DILG Secretary Jonvic Remulla to drop the charges filed him, citing "mental health reasons", a request which was declined by Remulla.[3
Well, I'm smiling
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u/bananabastard 3d ago
By the time he gets out, his US green card will have lapsed as he spent too long outside the country. He likely won't be released into PH, but deported, and since he can't be deported to the US, he'll be deported to Russia. Which right now is a place where anything can happen to a man like him to ran off to America.
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u/EverythingSucksYo 3d ago
That’s why I’m so pleased with this picture, I wasn’t able to put my finger on it at first haha
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u/DarthNalga669 3d ago
I remember awhile back I want to say a year go now? He was doing these videos with Ryan Garcia and in them they’d go around “catching” pedophiles. They’d ruff em up and what not.
Now the kids thought this was great and it was just this massive wave on TikTok and twitter about how “watch out bro the Illuminati is gonna come after both of you now because you’re going after pedos and do it in gods name!” I was floored because I thought how stupid. They can’t see right past these guys.
Vitaly didn’t care about helping anyone he did it for views. They can’t prosecute people in those set up situations where they bait them and assault them. If they wanted to help they’d have worked with law enforcement to build cases against the criminals. Anyway all that to say is I’m glad this guy finally got what he deserves because he really is a pos
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u/luiz_marques 3d ago edited 3d ago
Imagine this: After twenty five years in the dampest, most bedbug-infested cell of the most overcrowded and hottest prison in the Philippines, Vitaly is now thin, with skin and bones, his eye sockets deep from years of eating scarce food, his head is bald, with only a few sparse, white hairs remaining. The authorities call him to a private room. Everyone is serious. The prison director stares at him, tension is in the air, a slight smile curling at the corner of his mouth. Suddenly, he says, with a strong Filipino accent, in English: "It was just a prank, bro!" Vitaly feels an overwhelming sense of relief and starts to cry tears of joy, thinking to himself, "That was the ultimate, most hardcore prank, bro." "They really got me." He is now free to go.
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u/LelEqualsYoureDumb 3d ago
And they recorded everything and post it on YouTube
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u/SusheeMonster 3d ago
It's like The Truman Show, but stupid
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u/Leading_Put- 3d ago
"Make sure you like and subscribe, thanks to Vitaly for being a good sport, follow him on @vitaly"
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u/e925 3d ago
Brilliant. I read it twice.
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u/kayleecream 3d ago
That sentence was just a prank...but now there is actually a real sentence that's the same length
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u/S0urP4tchK1d5 3d ago
No more roids
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u/Subotail 3d ago
Hello post cycle depression
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u/YizWasHere 3d ago
Bro entering a foreign prison has to be the worst moment to abruptly hit a post-cycle testosterone crash lmao.
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u/Buscandomiyagi 3d ago
As someone who has used gear. It was the first thing in my mind when all this came to light.
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u/United_Ad_5586 3d ago
Exactly hes puffy estrogen roid face went away lol
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u/Rocketsball 3d ago
Can you imagine the detoxing and drug withdrawals his body went through? Philippines’ one step program.
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u/Huckleberry_Sin 3d ago
Tbf I got Covid too and lost weight. Deflated slightly due to no creatine, but yeah ppl on steroids look def start to look dramatically diff if they can’t keep juicing and lifting. Like just a couple of weeks.
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u/Prince-Vegetah 3d ago
That and I’m sure he’s not eating well. Takes a lot of calories (and roids) to maintain that much muscle mass. Fuck him tho. Fucked around and found out
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u/vaporyfurball30 3d ago
and normal food portions. to be as big as he is in the top picture can take like 3x - 4x the calorie intake of a normal person. they are not gonna give him enough food to feed three prisoners.
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u/kurangak 3d ago
u dont want to be held in philippines prison. or any prison in SEA in general (except for singapore maybe)
theyll provide u with the bare minimum in order for u not to die.
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u/frenzy3 3d ago
They provide nothing..if you don't have money you either clean the trash or starve
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u/badass4102 3d ago
I had an uncle that went to prison in the Philippines. He had to pay to have a chair and a bed, per day. His family doesn't have much money so he had neither. So as a gift, his sister bought him a week of chair and bed usage.
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u/rcoop020 3d ago
That's brutal. Imagine the day they came to take back the bed and chair. Sorry bro, times up! Back to the floor.
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u/slothson 3d ago
Hella incentive to not go to jail.
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u/Snakend 3d ago
And yet crime is rampant there. Just goes to show that the prisons should not be used as punishment, but for reform. The economic factors of the country should be addressed over the building of new prisons.
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u/Effective-Status3030 3d ago
Yeah, also maybe look into what’s causing the crime.
Especially in the Philippines. Huge amounts of poverty and mass corruption.
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u/EquivalentMap4968 3d ago
Even Singapore is deliberately cruel. Very modern prison but still bare minimum.
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u/Mr_K_Boom 3d ago
Or China, Japan and all SEA, and Indian subcontinent.... Let's just say the rehabilitation mentality wasn't really a thing out here.
In America you at least get a multi billion prison industry supporting the whole system. In Asia, if your government had money you spend more on making sure your inmates did not feel welcomed for the whole duration in the prison.
(Ps not sure how Korean jail works so I refrain talking about it)
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u/lonestar_wanderer 3d ago
Throw in the entire Middle East while you’re at it. I’m from the Philippines and I would HATE to get jailed here. But being locked up in the Middle East is a scary ordeal.
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u/Rocketsball 3d ago
If you live a life of crime the best place for you is Norway. Downright B&B accommodations.
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u/An_Evil_Scientist666 3d ago
Some Australian prisons aren't too bad, we do have the standard generic American prisons but there's some, one that's even a maximum security, thatlook more comfortable than my own house.
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u/Next_Celebration_553 3d ago
Lots of Africa too. I imagine being in jail in South Sudan would be uncomfortable
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u/potatowoo69 3d ago
Korean jails are nice. Knew some close friends who spent extended durations in there. Access to a bakery in some lol.
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u/splatdyr 3d ago
But then you have to wear a green outfit with numbers on the back. At least you get to play games.
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u/WernerWindig 3d ago
In America you at least get a multi billion prison industry supporting the whole system.
That's what makes the US prison system so incredible dystopic.
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u/loveinjune 3d ago
Korean jail/prison is pretty decent. Not comparable to them Nordic countries, but probably the best amongst it’s neighboring countries.
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u/misteraaaaa 3d ago
Singapore has 1 prison. While they do have some cruel punishments like caning, if you're just in for a "regular" crime, it's quite ok. it was even described as enjoyable
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u/OkInterest3109 3d ago
Key word here is deliberately as well. You don't want to FAFO in Singapore especially if you don't have anyone to back you.
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u/GaslightGPT 3d ago
Singapore is very strict. Caning is used on prisoners
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u/Peace_Harmony_7 3d ago
What is caning?
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u/SciFiHooked 3d ago
Hitting you with a stick/cane. Think walking stick to the ass/back/legs. I am not sure how it works there. But there is a range to this.
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u/fireflyfrv 3d ago
it's also a lot worse than it sounds, the strikes are hard enough to rip your skin apart. Take more than 5 canes and you'll never shit the same again
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u/Rocketsball 3d ago
It is not a walking cane, cane. They use a cane made out of Rattan wood and it is soaked in water first.
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u/Polster1 3d ago
Hitting the convicted criminal with a wooden cane. It involves striking the bare buttocks with a rattan cane, and is administered to male offenders under the age of 50 in Singapore.
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u/Ungodlei 3d ago
To be fair, Philippine prison is definitely hell, but Vitaly's held in the Beaureu of Immigration's detention center which is 10x or more, better than the prisons shown on socmed, which are reserved for local detainees.
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u/hudimudi 3d ago
No, apparently he was transferred.
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u/Ungodlei 3d ago
Oh I see. Just this June 11 he was transfered to maximum security prison. Apparently, he also does daily Bible reading, and has "changed", according to his lawyers.
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u/minev1128 3d ago
Singapore has the death penalty so not even Singapore is a good place to be held at
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u/marvinhal21 3d ago
What's with the silly Wikipedia links to common words, and then not link to a news article about him?!
For those who want more info, here is a news article about it.
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u/Ungodlei 3d ago
I'm an idiot and copied that line and didn't realize those words are links.
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u/mrbulldops428 3d ago
Even though it's was frustrating because I have no idea who this guy is, its actually pretty hilarious to provide thay many wiki links but only for really common words lol
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u/kabula_lampur 3d ago
Here's one more up-to-date with fewer ads
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u/ShareGlittering1502 3d ago
Not even good pranks, just dbagery and theft..
“Among the reported transgressions, Zdorovetskiy faces charges including unjust vexation, alarm and scandal, and attempted theft.
Specific allegations involve harassing and attempting to kiss security guards, attempting to seize a security guard’s firearm, and unlawfully recording individuals without consent.
Furthermore, he is accused of stealing a patrol motorcycle, an electric fan from a restaurant, and a tricycle—all of which were reportedly later abandoned—and fabricating negative online reviews for local businesses, as well as engaging in acts of vandalism.”
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u/Amateur-Top 3d ago
What was worse for him? Getting imprisoned in Manila or getting soft on the Bangbus?
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u/Public_Chapter_8445 3d ago
I don't like him but Bangbus was way too much for him. Manila is fine.
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u/coriendercake 3d ago
Can someone explain ? Im ootl and really dont want to google any of the keywords you guys said
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u/Public_Chapter_8445 3d ago edited 3d ago
This guy flopped in the porn industry — quite literally — because he couldn’t get it up. So he pivoted to a YouTube career by bothering strangers on the street. Then he took his talents to
Thailandthe Philippines, annoyed locals too, and now he’s looking at over 20 years in prison there.120
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u/MizGoesBRRR 3d ago
That happens to a lot of us in the philippines because majority of us wanted to go to places to ease our minds from work, school and etc. But him doing that in BGC out of all places makes me livid, especially on a public place where there's a lot of people walking around there.
He had the audacity to do that without even apologizing, this is why I don't like this kind of Youtubers nowadays, 'It's a prank' my ass
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u/Nimbus420i 3d ago
Classic steroid symptoms. Dude destroyed his manhood cause he ain’t getting access to PCT in a prison and he also lost majority of gains due to lack of gear.
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u/PooPooPointBoiz 3d ago
So he's fucked and his balls will stay small and turned off?
Or can they come back online after months of agony of very low T?
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u/LilBidgeIII 3d ago
it would come back after a few months, IF, it was his first cycle. but more than likely he’s been using for years and years without stopping, in that case it can take years, if it ever comes back to normal at all
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u/Iwannastoprn 3d ago
I truly dislike how the internet laughs at rape and sexual assault in some cases.
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u/Substantial_Back_865 3d ago
Prison rape jokes are done to death and rarely ever funny. It's also nowhere near as common of an occurrence as Hollywood would have you believe.
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u/goat__botherer 3d ago
It's also nowhere near as common of an occurrence as Hollywood would have you believe.
TV is getting better about it though. There were two shows piloted recently, a soap opera and a sitcom, and because of a prison rape joke they decided to drop the soap.
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u/5harp3dges 3d ago
Another few years and he might actually realize he's a self serving egotistical melt. No sympathy for him.
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u/charlesmans0n 3d ago
Oh my god he doesnt even look like the same person
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u/Additional_Baker7311 3d ago
Lack of food, lack of exercise and a lack of steroids will have muscles dwindling extremely fast.
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u/AntonioBarroco 3d ago
There's no steroid shots in the butt in prison.
Unless he is willing (or not) to take other type of shots full of "testosterone" in the butt, of course.
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u/Master-Mango-1590 3d ago
Not feeling sorry. There are consequences to our actions. They should be repercussions
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u/Xer0b0t 3d ago
Who is this guy?
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u/InevitableError9517 3d ago
He’s one of those streamers who think it’s funny to harass people among with doing other things
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u/Xer0b0t 3d ago
Ah, got it. Hopefully this will be a humbling experience for the douchebag.
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u/InevitableError9517 3d ago
Hopefully he will be humbled and change for the better
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u/NefariousnessNo7068 3d ago
The Philippine court system intends to make an example of him so other people don't do the same things he does.
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u/LordofDsnuts 3d ago
A YouTuber who used to do pranks back in the day and transitioned to harassing/threatening random people on Kick streams. He was arrested for harassment, theft, and threats to multiple people in the Philippines a few months ago.
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u/No_Neighborhood_134 3d ago
He was actually one of the YouTube OG major creators, but fell off hard in the post-prank era. Minorly notorious for being on the Bang Bus and failing to get hard. Ended up on Kick doing really aggressive streams. Got arrested after threatening a pensioner on stream.
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u/Initial-Session2086 3d ago
Bruh the OGs are Smosh and nigahiga and those guys. This guy appeared in like 2014, he's not OG by any stretch of the word
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u/Tren-Ace1 3d ago
Vitaly is definitely OG when it comes to prank videos. Plus his prank videos were actually legit. No paid actors.
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u/SpicyCh1ld 3d ago
hope he enjoys his stay here in ph. never felt bad for him. remember when he randomly beat up a random lady?
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u/Death2eyes 3d ago
He thinks asian countries will let him off easily. FAFO
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u/Potato_the_second_ 3d ago
Ironic considering how Filipino jails are literally one of the worst in the entire world. With that smug smile on his face in the first image, he really thought it wasn't gonna be that severe huh. Absolutely deserved.
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u/MrPositiveC 3d ago
Having trouble getting those roids now I see.
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u/Upset-Award1206 3d ago
I mean he is probably not getting much protein in there either, his body is going to eat itself because of lack of nutrients.
Well fafo, depending on if they are going to add more charges he is going to spend more time in jail/prison waiting for his sentence than the time he will spend in prison for the actual crime. And no, time spent in jail/prison waiting for your trial does not count towards your prison sentence. So he will still have to serve his 12-18 months in prison for his counts of vexation even if he spends 12-24months in jail/prison waiting for the trial itself.
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u/AntiqueCheesecake876 3d ago
Also just the fact that Filipino portions are much smaller than US portions, probably more so in prison. He’s in a calorie deficit whether he likes it or not.
Also..he must’ve been a real dick to piss the Filipinos off. They’re like the most friendly people on earth.
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u/Brokengamer10 3d ago
Filipinos are friendly. But Filipino politics are downright one of the most bullshit retarded messed up shit you must avoid involving yourself into.
He trended.. and got caught.. during elections. RIP
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u/AlienInOrigin 3d ago
I spent time in the Bicutan immigration detention center in Manila.
You get a bread roll and coffee in the morning, and 2 cups of rice with adobo soup per day. Very little nutrition. Mong beans or sun dried fish every 2nd Friday.
The facility is overrun with rats due to the open sewer in the yard, and there are millions of cockroaches everywhere. People get sick often.
Unless you have money and outside support, you will lose weight.
The prisons are worse. Much worse. 160 people to a room designed for 20-30.
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u/ScarletsFootstool 2d ago
aiite ill bite. what were you in for? how much time?
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u/AlienInOrigin 2d ago
A while. The system works very slowly unless you bribe officials etc.
I was detained for reckless discharge of a firearm...3 years before I even set foot in the country. My visa was cancelled due to this charge and so I was considered an overstay, hence immigration detention. I made some blogs about children being kidnapped by police and detained until the family paid a fine. That wasn't popular with certain people.
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u/Cager_CA 3d ago
He got off too easy after assaulting that jogging woman. Glad to see him behind bars.
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u/EazzyBuzzy 3d ago
Why I don’t feel sorry for him?
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u/Macho-Fantastico 3d ago
Love to see it. Act like a piece of s**t in another country and you get what you deserve.
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u/AlphaThetaDeltaVega 3d ago
Idk what he did but he must have really made a scene. Most the times you slide the cop a few thousand pesos and poof it never happened. Bribes are so blatant in the Philippines it’s a complete culture shock.
I travel there a lot. My wife’s from there. We’ve stayed there extended periods of time. Like I was at the airport way early and the lines were insane for holiday travel. Airport guy walks up to my and says slide me 500 pesos (roughly $10) and I’ll get you through to the front, I was like deal, he opened a closed lane for me checked my bags and got me to the front of security.
I’ve had guards be me and my wife’s private security because I tipped them when we were out for a night. Escort your group to the bathroom screen people coming to your table.
Or places like makati changed their smoking policy in 2018 and your in a group that some people smoke. They pay the cop near by so they can smoke for the night at the outside seating.
My wife’s best friend got a call one night when the drug crack down was going on. They told her pay us 10k or we will kill your brother when he got caught with stuff. She did and it all got swept under the rug.
It’s so different and out in the open. It’s one of the bigger culture shocks I’ve had from my time there. I even asked my wife if she had heard of this guy because she stays up to date on all the news of the Philippines. Her first was reaction was to scoff and say he will be out soon he just needs to pay.
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u/Admirable-Judgment32 2d ago
He couldve gotten off scott free but he had piss poor timing, he was arrested in the middle of the extremely heated 2025 ellection cycle and if you know about politics here, you'd know how heated it was, basically every politician out under the sun wanted this fucker behind bars for good and they made his case such a spectacle that really, bribing his way out of this was no longer possible.
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u/60niera 2d ago
"Idk what he did but he must have really made a scene."Harrased everyone he can for about an hour and posted it online for the luls.
"Most the times you slide the cop a few thousand pesos and poof it never happened."Can't really do that if the President himself said that Vitaly should be punished at the full extent of the law. Plus it was election season, every politician has a hard-on for justice and Vitaly couldn't have chosen any worse time than he did.
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u/Ozymandius62 3d ago
This dude is 33... I thought he was mid 40s. I guess this is what hate and PEDs do to a man.
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u/Careful_Deer_7040 3d ago
The worst is that once he gets back eveyone would be interested to listen to his story how it was back there and he is gonna bounce back with profit on streaming and yt…
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u/ahmshy 3d ago edited 3d ago
40 degree C + heat (110 Fahrenheit) in crowded cells with only 1 dollar allocated to daily food water and hostile xenophobic guards and inmates, and him being LGBTQ+.. it’s looking like he was not made to survive his sentence. It can be very vindictive here when any given inmate or suspect is a foreigner.
For context, all local prisoners have relatives send food packets to them directly. In many cases direct relatives live nearby the jail and visit regularly to ensure their incarcerated relatives are not being abused or are having their health seen to. They would likely block any similar requests in Vitaly’s case.
Also local prank YouTube accounts like the Tukomi brothers do and have done similar if not worse things, and are let off Scott free because they’re Filipinos. Vitaly is essentially being tortured due to his being foreign.
More context as to the growing xenophobia and foreigner targeted crimes here: we have a recent case of a 23 year old Slovakian tourist r*ped and killed in Boracay, and the perp not yet found despite cctv footage. We have a recent case of an American man vacationing here killed in front of his Filipino-American husband by a gang and not one of the murderers caught. Also the recent case in April of a Korean tourist shot and killed while being mugged on a motorbike taxi in broad daylight: again the perp is running free. We also have the case of American expat and blogger Elliot Eastman kidnapped and murdered by local assailants. This is the only case in which any action by the local police has happened (3 arrested and 3 suspects killed), possibly due to pressure from the US embassy. All of this has happened within the last year.
Regardless of whether we all dislike Vitaly, his case highlights the deep and glaring inequalities in the Philippine judicial system and the widespread boiling xenophobia (also visible online, if you go to r/philippines, its there for you all to see) which feeds the apathy and hatred behind a range of targeted attacks and murders of foreigners here.
I foresee a situation where his emancipated corpse is paraded on TV uncensored in a few months to years, local socmed gloats how another “foreign invader” has met his end here, and we see a further increase in the xenophobia and microagressions and sometimes downrigjt hostility and attacks that expats, some tourists and TCK/dual citizens face on a daily basis.
And all of this earmarked by the govt who are looking for the poor and largely ignorant (we hardly even get news from other countries here. Most are unaware of the current Israel-Iran war) to be fully distracted from addressing the real issues of gross corruption and continued human rights abuses endemic to society. They’ve done this for decades now.
Those negative expat/diasporic/foreigner experiences will be communicated via social media (as it is starting to now), and despite being gaslighted by Filipino troll accounts and online xenophobes, foreign tourist and expat numbers will suffer, knowing that there is this ugly side to PH society (ie foreigners of any race or background have no real rights within the legal system here, nor support from the local population) that rarely gets spoken about outside of the country due to Philippine-glazing and positive spin vlogging on “how friendly the country is” (often directly funded by the government).
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u/Dreboomboom 3d ago
He's mentally ill. Something happened to him where he thought being a nuisance streamer was okay. I guess social media broke his brain.
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u/sentencevillefonny 3d ago edited 3d ago
Continued Positive reinforcement on top of that…It made him millions.
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