"I Knew This Was Happening" Unusual Creep Catcher Video Goes Viral

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This creep catcher video from 2016 is going viral for the subject's odd message to his confronters. Now he's become a meme, and his speech is being grouped into brainrot content with quotes from other viral videos.   For more information visit: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-knew-this-was-happening  Check out our new MEME STORE: https://thememestore.com/  Subscribe to our channel to learn more about trending memes, hear interviews from meme personalities and more! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbrPqq29C9Q_TQP7OFFRzcw?sub_confirmation=1

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00:00What happens when a predator knows he's about to be caught?

00:02I knew this was happening.

00:03This unusual clip from 2016 has recently resurfaced and gone viral online for its particularly odd set of circumstances.

00:10In August 2016, a man named Edward was allegedly caught trying to meet an underage person in a grocery store.

00:17But instead of running from his confronters or denying why he was there,

00:20he makes the odd choice to walk directly up to the camera and proclaim,

00:24I knew this was happening. Yeah, I know this. I know this is happening. Thank you.

00:28The video was taken by Surrey Creepcatchers, a Canadian vigilante predator catching group,

00:32and posted to their Facebook and YouTube accounts in 2016.

00:35Those accounts have now seemingly been deactivated.

00:37In the video, Edward goes on to continue engaging with the creepcatchers,

00:41strangely complimenting them and applauding what they do,

00:44while fully admitting he was there to meet an underage individual.

00:47What you do is actually smart with the actual people that you do try to catch.

00:50Right. Well, we just caught you.

00:52Yeah, I know.

00:52He also tries to warn them about the dangers of confronting predators.

00:56What you guys do can also be very dangerous.

00:58Like how?

00:59Because, like, say you meet someone and you don't know them, right? You don't know them at all.

01:03Yeah.

01:03So they come up, and then what if they also come with a group of guys?

01:07We don't care.

01:08The rest of the four-minute video basically sees Edward trying to convince the creepcatchers that

01:12he intended to be an older brother figure to the 13-year-old he was intending to meet.

01:16But why is this video gaining popularity almost a decade later?

01:20The video made the rounds on the internet over the years. Like, for example, in 2021,

01:24YouTuber Mike Fox made a video reacting to it.

01:26It's so nice of you to worry about the people that catch

01:31the child predators like yourself, my friend.

01:33But it reached a wider audience after being uploaded to TikTok in 2024 by the TikTok account

01:38Creepcatcher Canada, where it gained over a million likes over the course of 10 months,

01:42and thus began its memetic spread across the platform.

01:44Some early reposts of the video refer to Edward as 4'11 Pred because of his stature.

01:49The TikTok account iGreenscreenThings shared a green screen template of the video in March,

01:53which others started using to place Edward in different settings, like TikToker YoungBoyWannabe,

01:58whose August 2024 post placed him in a school hallway setting,

02:01adding a POV caption about catching a friend walking around with a freshman.

02:05Memers also referenced the clip in other ways,

02:07like reenacting it in video games and even drawing the video's subject.

02:11Soon, the phrase,

02:12I knew this was happening, started being used in brain rot memes,

02:14which combined it with lines of dialogue from other viral videos spreading at the same time.

02:19Videos like Jeff Bliss' friggin' packet yo.

02:21If you would just get up and teach him instead of handing him a friggin' packet yo.

02:26The Dayton Smith interview where Big Boi says,

02:29Luke Belmar telling a story about Johnny Walker.

02:32That night, sipping the f***ing Johnny Walker.

02:34And the TikTok CEO reminding a senator where he's from.

02:37Senator, I'm Singaporean.

02:38Earlier this year, we saw a similar trend with the

02:41I have raw, chopped chin and I bought a property in Egypt memes.

02:44While somewhat controversial, the I knew this was happening video

02:47reminds us of the internet's tendency to re-energize videos from years ago.

02:51Resulting in a somewhat karmic effect,

02:53where the consequences of bad behavior may live on forever.

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