Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast - Vitaly is in BIG trouble in The Philippines

Episode Date: April 23, 2025

Youtuber and live streamer Vitaly decided to make some controversial streams in the Philippines and now he's facing 24 years in prison

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This is your fix? I am your host Stasi Schroeder. Welcome to Tell Me Lies, the official podcast. What's the most unhinged thing of season three? Stephen, because he's so evil. I do think he is misunderstood. You see everyone base consequences. It's intoxicating.

The writers just know how to trick you. There's always a twist in this show. Tell Me Lies, the official podcast, January 6th, and stream the new season of Tell Me Lies, January 13, on Hulu and Hulu on Disney Plus. So this prank influencer is looking at possibly 24 years in prison. Now his name is Vitaly, and Vitaly really loves attention. Bro will do anything for it. And he's been making YouTube videos for a long time.

And like early on, he gets big doing prank videos, like here's one where he pretends to be a zombie and like chases people around. Then in 2012, he does a prank where he pretends to have a bum in a suitcase. And of course, this freaks people out, and and they run away and so, bam, he gets arrested. Here's his mugshot. Two years later, in 2014, he pulls a stunt where he runs onto the field during the World Cup, and bam, he gets caught and arrested for that.

Then in 2016, he pulls a stunt where he tries to climb the Hollywood sign, and bam, he gets arrested for that. Two weeks later, at the NBA Finals game, he runs onto the court shirtless during a game, and bam, he gets arrested yet again. Then the next year in 2017 at the World Series during the game he runs out onto the field in his underwear and they catch him and bam, he's arrested again. Here's his mugshot. Oh and it doesn't stop there because three years later in 2020 Bro goes to Egypt

and he thinks it'll be a good idea to climb to the top of one of the pyramids of Giza and vlog himself doing so. I love you so much world. Thank you universe. Thank you Mother Nature. And of course, bam, he gets arrested there, and he spends five days in Egyptian jail. Oh, but he's still not done, because like I said, bro really, really loves all this attention. Three months later, he's in Miami, and he's high on, he says mushrooms, but I'm assuming multiple drugs.

And he's out and about walking around, and I guess he decides he's going to pull another dumb-ass prank on a random person, and there's a woman out jogging. And suddenly, boom, he jumps out in front of her, and he goes to hug her while she's jogging. And I guess she reacts and shoves him off of her? And pow, he ends up punching her again and again. And he ends up beating the shit out of her. And so, of course, bam, he gets arrested again.

Here's his mugshot. Yeah, like I said, it looks like he's on multiple drugs. Anyway, you can clearly see a pattern here. Dude just wants attention so bad that he's become like allergic to being a decent citizen. But lucky for all of us, after his arrest in Miami, he kind of stops all of his antics. I mean, getting arrested for beating the hell out of a random woman, I mean, that's pretty bad. And so he stops everything. But then, a year or two later, he decides to try and make a comeback.

And he's going to film himself doing some more internet pranks, aka harassing people in public. Hello? With who? With your boyfriend? Yes. You know what they say? The darker, the berry, the sweeter, the juice. And I would love to melt the chocolate out of you.

I'm here for one reason and one reason only to pick up black girls like you. And yeah, and so you can see here, he's just harassing these women and just making them feel uncomfortable. But, unfortunately, for him, those kind of internet pranks, they're kind of played out, and they aren't really resonating with audiences anymore. And so, he comes up with a new idea.

He's going to switch it up. And he decides to live stream himself catching and confronting suspected P3DOs. This guy's a f***le. He came to meet a 15-year-old boy. This guy is a f***le. Yes, you are. Yes, you are. You came to 15 and we have it on camera.

And this new series of videos, it's actually pretty successful for him. Like a lot of people watch it. However, there are also lots of accusations that most of these streams are fake or staged. Not only that, he starts getting accused of just luring random innocent people off of dating apps to meet up, and then he'll publicly accuse them of being a P3DO. In fact, he gets sued for it, not once, but twice. And so that business venture eventually fails. And now we're in 2025, and Battali is 33 years old.

And this is where he potentially screws his whole life up. Because Bro decides to get back into doing his internet pranks. But this time, he's going to do it specifically in the Philippines for some reason. And here, he decides to copy the antics of Johnny Somali and basically just go to an eastern country and live stream himself harassing locals in public. Like what he does to this local woman. I'm going to rob you if you keep walking away. I want to give you money.

No, okay. Okay, because you got a COVID mask, you liberal. Go get your vaccine. And then he goes and steals the hat off of this guy and like runs away with it. And he also runs into the back of a fast food restaurant and he starts harassing the workers there. And he also films himself harassing the security guard. Sarah, I have a question. I have a very important question for you. Hmm. Can I shop this up your .

What? Is that okay or no? Then he jumps on the security guard's motorcycle and like steals it. And he just does a bunch of things that feel like, I don't know, maybe a 33-year-old man would have grown. thrown out of. Follow me, follow me. Hi. Oh, but it keeps going. Because then he spots another security guard and he decides to harass them too.

I have a question for you. Can I give you a kiss? No, I have a question for you. Dispatch. I'm a homosexual. Then he goes to a nearby mall and steals one of those light therapy facial masks. I'm going to get arrested. Oh no.

Oh no, mommy. Oh no, mommy. Then he goes in the next door to get arrested. steals a whole ass pedestal fan. That's my only fan left in the chat. Chad, I told you, Vitaly's back. Uh, Rural King. And these aren't the only things he's done, but, you know, this is a lot of it.

And lots and lots of people watch him stream and they watch his clips online, and they like donate to him and his stream, and it just looks like he's gonna get away with all this and just continue being a turd. Until... You know who else was watching a lot of these clips? Apparently the Filipino police, because a few days after all this, they find him and bam, they arrest him. Here's his mugshot. And this apparently just continues to be a joke to him, because I mean, look at him.

He's like smirking in his mugshot like he did something. Not only that, he's also making faces to the camera as they're reading him his Miranda writes. It also looks like he's applauding himself as he's being arraigned. So yeah, not taking it seriously at all. Well, bro should take it seriously. because the Philippines don't appear to be fucking around. Because this story blows up over there, and it's all over the news,

like the whole country's talking about it. In fact, it gets so much attention that the president of the Philippines gets involved. And he films himself watching Vitaly's pranks, and he makes a whole-ass reaction video to it and puts it on his YouTube channel. And here, the president actually says, foreigners who think they can humiliate Filipinos are done.

This is an example that we are serious about our own country. So apparently there are no plans for the government to be lenient on him here. And while Vitaly hasn't been sentenced yet, he's looking at a possible 24 years in prison. And to make it worse, his trial for all this isn't even expected to start for another two to three years, which means he will likely be sitting in a Filipino jail for a few years before his trial even starts. So, I guess he finally got all the attention he wanted. Good luck with that.