Maybe one thing that would help the scene is a proper forum/website - a proper place (not discord or facebook) for organized discussion and information, without any of the quote spamming by the depraved people. No new blood in the community because they get put off by the weirdos. Hence, soundboard calling is probably going to completely die out. This is how the community dwindled, and now (almost) the only people left are these creeps spamming quotes to each other every day. They will immediately get bombarded by 'Bail Bondsman' quotes and quickly leave. Imagine if some new blood wants to get into prank calling. The REASON the scene continues to die is because only the creeps remain in the current 'community'. The TRIGGER was creeps in the community going over the line and getting authorities involved. But these are only minor factors in the decline of the scene.

People don't use home phone nowadays and screen calls on their smartphone.

Sure, there are other factors for prank call decline. I just think all the people who still repeatedly make fun of 'Bail Bondsman' and type out his quotes every day.

I read the wiki pages (links below), and knew not to go down that rabbit hole. I think I never listened to any of the calls to these 2 victims. Personally, I am glad I don't even know any of those quotes from 'Bail Bondsman' and 'Frank Garrett'. Websites were taken down and many things were deleted. But the authorities getting involved was the reason almost all the prank callers stopped altogether years ago. They continue to spam quotes from the mentioned victims, because for some reason they find it funny. Today, the depraved creeps that remain in the community obviously do not care about any of this. An elderly woman was scared out of her wits by non-stop calls going way too farĪll this was the trigger for the authorities to get involved. A very ill man in his old age who later died, received dozens of calls daily A business owner went bankrupt and became homeless Examples of how victims were affected by the pranks: For example, they were making hundreds of calls to one individual every day. There were these mentally depraved people going too far with phone calls and destroying people's lives. In fact, this is the reason why most prank callers stopped. Please read the full back-story about these 2 victims in the links further below. But now, years later, the depraved creeps in the community still spam the quotes by these two victims on a daily basis. Their deaths was big news in the prank calling scene, everyone knew about it. Both of them were old in age, both PASSED AWAY years ago. The disturbing part comes when you find out who these victims are, and their history. The quotes are almost always from the prank victims 'Bail Bondsman' and 'Frank Garrett'. Normal 'sane' people make up only around 5% of the 'coummunity' now. Their enthusiasm is not for prank calls, their enthusiasm is for repeatedly posting quotes by prank victims. You go to soundboard pranks discussion, and people there just do nothing except post random quotes by prank victims, and then reply to each other with more quotes. It's been taken over by depraved weirdos who like to just post quotes from prank victims every day. Unfortunately most of the people left in the 'community' (Discord, reddit, YouTube, etc.) today are NOT normal people.

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