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Who are these people and how on Earth can they think so well of themselves and yet be such unremitting knobs?

One is a guy named Tim Dutaud, who is known on YouTube as the UniCaller and who for a giggle, a few years ago, was in the habit of making the sort of prank calls adolescents find wildly amusing.

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He once pretended to have some sort of physical disability — it appears to my ear he was affecting a cleft lip and palate — and perhaps a learning disability, both of which made him difficult to understand.

Another time, he phoned a helpline of some sort to pretend he had taken Viagra, now had a raging erection and then faux-climaxed after a 10-minute conversation with the woman at the other end.

“It won’t go down,” said Dutaud, in what appears to have been for these videos his trademark black hoodie and mirrored shades.

The call-taker several times urged him to see his doctor, saying once, “You don’t want this to be happening.”