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  • Abandoned by the Captain of Yelp’s Worst-Rated Fishing Voyage | One Star Reviews

    Taji goes to a one star reviews fishing establishment.

  • Eating at the Worst-Rated Buffet I Could Find on Yelp

    Taji takes his friend Coolr the Don (who has very specific food allergies) to the worst-rated buffet he can find on Yelp.

  • I Learned Tango from One of Yelp’s Worst Rated Dance Instructors

    It’s a little-known fact that Taji has always dreamed of learning to dance the tango. But as we all know, it takes two to tango, so Taji took to Yelp in search of a private lesson with the worst-reviewed dance instructor he could find. It turns out that Tango Jon does not take kindly to being challenged on his negative reviews. Will Taji be able to get through to Jon, or will he continue to dance alone?

  • The Gunslinging 10-Year-Old Blowing Up the Internet

    While Autumn Fry wasn’t born with two glocks in her hands, she might as well have been – she learned to shoot shortly after she learned to walk! Now, at 10, she’s a social media sensation with over 200k subscribers on her gun YouTube channel, “Autumn’s Armory.” In this episode of Child Play, we learn about Autumn, her home life, and her extraordinary abilities with one of America’s most controversial items – guns.

  • Ex-Con Explains the Corruption of Prison Guards

    “The justice system doesn’t make sense sometimes.”

    The corruption of prison guards and institutional racism within the criminal justice system is a problem in many parts of the world. In this episode of Informers, an ex-convict in the UK tells us about his experiences in prison – where he witnessed drones dropping off ten ounces of weed, widespread corruption, extreme violence and what he describes as “slave labour”. We contacted Her Majesty’s Prison Service for a response to the allegations. As of October 2020, VICE is yet to receive a reply – but will update here if we do. 

  • The Horrors I’ve Witnessed on the Underground

    A London Underground employee reveals the darker side of night work, some of the dangers he’s found himself in, and why the night tube isn’t always a ‘haven of safety’. He reveals how working on the underground is much more than just manning the platforms and driving trains, and that staff must adapt to dealing with serious violence, sexual harassment and people jumping in front of trains. With minimal training and lack of support, he highlights just how difficult the job can be, and the sometimes fatal effects of working nights.

  • How I Trafficked Orangutans

    An ex-orangutan trafficker describes how orangutans are captured, bought and sold, the distances they travel to customers, and why there is such a demand.

    Hunters kill mother orangutans and steal their babies to supply to the exotic underground animal trade in Indonesia. The ex-trafficker describes the journey those babies make from their captors to buyers. They often travel via local bus routes, being packaged up and disguised in boxes, and transported across Indonesia.

  • I Was Sold at a Slave Market

    A victim of the Libyan migrant slave trade describes the horrors of being trapped in a horrific cycle of imprisonment, forced labour and torture. Migrants who reach Libya are being exploited by slave traders and being sold in public markets. An ordeal that often sees people held in prison, tortured for ransom, and sold into painful labour or debt slavery. 

  • The Scariest Things I’ve Seen While Hacking

    A white hat hacker, with over 30 years of experience as a cybersecurity analyst at a major Silicon Valley company, talks about why he turned his back on black hat hacking for the greater good. 

    He talks about the reality of just how vulnerable our systems really are – from the very real threat of hackers taking the American power grid or medical facilities offline, to how easily accessible our private information is to anyone with WiFi and some time on their hands. 

  • The Horrors I Witnessed Digging Mass Graves

    A Syrian bulldozer driver reveals the horrifying details of burying thousands in secret mass graves. The Informer is haunted by the mass graves he dug for victims killed by Bashar al-Assad’s regime. As the revolution unfolded, his municipal role changed into a military position overnight. This meant, for a year, the Informer was pushing dead bodies into large pits with his bulldozer. He recalls the stench of the bodies being so strong that he’d passed out the first time. The Informer was later arrested on flimsy charges and imprisoned under brutal conditions because “if he dies, he will die with all of his secrets and knowledge”.

  • The Horrors I Saw at Korean Private Schools

    An English teacher reveals the horrors of working at a notorious Hagwon school in South Korea, where staff and students are overworked to the point of breaking. The conditions are so bad that many teachers choose to “midnight run” – disappear in the night with no warning. After dealing with sexual harassment, constant CCTV monitoring, and verbal abuse, she decided to share her ordeal with the world. Watch more form this series: The Secret Hotel Sex Parties of the Mega-Rich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXyzDxxQRSA&t=30s What the Gambling Industry Doesn’t Want You To Know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABj7peI_R2M I Was Sold At A Slave Market https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHPFdTZp7Dw

  • Drugs, Sex and Gangs Inside Rikers Island Prison

    An ex-correction officer lifts the veil on the violence and dysfunction behind one of America’s most notorious jails housing inmates awaiting trial for murder, robbery and rape. Having worked at Rikers jail for two years, the Informer shares the demoralizing working conditions, corruption and sexual harassment – all for just doing her job. She reveals that regular cell tours turn ugly as inmates routinely pull out their penis and masturbate over her. One incident involves an inmate forcibly ripping a colleague’s duty belt off to get into her pants. Drugs, weapons and alcohol are rampant as officers are selling them for quick cash, putting the Informer’s life at risk. After trying to quit nearly four times to “stay in the fight”, she hits rock bottom and hands in her badge at a time when a mass exodus of staff were quitting too.

  • Sex and Drugs Inside a Corrupt Rehab Clinic

    ‘We were always pressured to behave like Disneyland employees…in reality, it was complete chaos’ The Informer reveals what it was like to work in a corrupt rehab facility. The first red flag was being interviewed by someone under the influence, which the Informer quickly realized was a common occurrence. Patients were picking up on-site and staff were even having affairs with each other. Profit was constantly prioritized over patients, with serious consequences on their recovery.

  • The Secret Hotel Sex Parties of the Mega-Rich

    ‘I’ve seen the darker side of humanity’ A Front of House Manager reveals what working in a hotel for the super rich is really like. From hiring out the whole hotel for a ‘themed’ orgie to covering the tracks of staff sleeping with customers, the Informer details how the job can be demanding physically and emotionally. Blood, gore and semen stained walls are all part of the job. Informer is a series where we hear the anonymised confessions and insights of people on the inside of different industries, institutions and events.

  • What the Gambling Industry Doesn’t Want You To Know

    “It is just rotten to the core.”

    A former employee for one of the biggest betting companies reveals the major flaws in the industry, from gambling addictions to money laundering. With over ten years of experience in betting, he has seen just how much the algorithms and systems are designed to encourage losers to lose more, and winners to stop winning. He describes how management has little care for customers, particularly when it comes to losing it all.

  • The Dark Secret at the Heart of the Jehovah’s Witnesses

    The Jehovah’s Witnesses are an end-of-days Christian organisation who are known for knocking on doors and rejecting blood transfusions. However, they have also been subject to increasing scrutiny over their handling of child sex abuse cases within their congregations, and their treatment of victims. In this episode of Informer, we speak to a former Jehovah’s Witness elder who was abused as a child but didn’t report what had happened. As an adult, he felt a painful déjà vu when his own daughter told him she had also been abused.