On Monday night, after 10 days of nonstop streaming, 46 year old Jean fell asleep on camera and never woke up. Viewers watched as his body was shaken by his companions, who only realized minutes later that he was gone. A live video, now widely shared, reportedly shows him inanimate under a duvet, with two men nearby, one tossing a small plastic bottle of water at him.
Those 10 days weren’t just harmless gaming or chatting. They were ten days and nights of humiliation: extreme physical violence, sleep deprivation, even being made to swallow toxic products. All live and fully monetized for donations.
The channel behind this is called Le Lokal, run by streamers known as Narutovie and Safine. Mediapart exposed them last year for “live humiliation and violence for audience shares.” They were detained, then released and the channel kept going.
There’s a clip from weeks ago that’s especially haunting: his “friends” laugh about what would happen if he died live. One insists he should say on camera that if he ever dies, it’ll be because of his health, not them. Under pressure, Jean said it.
Some people are now arguing he was a consenting adult, fully aware of what he signed up for. But in reality in a message to his mother, Jean wrote: “It’s going too far. I feel like I’m being sequestered with their shitty concept.”
Thread on french tht goes more in depth
I wonder if people who donated will be prosecuted as accessories or something. They’re clearly not merely witnesses, their donations are the reason this happened in the first place.
Kick needs to be prosecuted, too. Snuff films on a streaming service was not on my bingo card for the month.
We really are at monthly bingo cards, aren’t we?
I hate to tell you but my investment portfolio started diversifying into companies that print weekly bingo cards. The market always knows what’s up.
I read the thread, if you’re curious but can’t read french here’s a short digest
CW Psychological violence
The thread proves that the relationship with the group was extremely predatory and never genuine, they were never his friends.
The streamer in question was living at his parents in his 40’s and was streaming video-games, when a bunch of younger shitheads found him and thought he could be a source of engagement. They started streaming with him, at first they went at their parents so the bullying was somehow contained. At some point, one of them convinced him to move out in an apartment with them and this is when violence started intensifying. They pressured him in staying, they were promising money and threatening homelessness on him.
Send everyone involved in this to the gulag.
Kick
Honestly not surprised, it’s where you end up when you want to grift harder than you can on Twitch
It’s owned by Stake, an online cryptocurrency casino, so being shady is baked in.
Gambling and far-right nonsense would be a disaster
So we can add red room style murders to the “list of crimes the media tells you can only happen on the darkweb without the feds kicking down your door” to the criminal syndicate operating in broad daylight named Kick.
Red Room isn’t a myth, you don’t even have to go to the dark web, it’s on surface, financed by casinos and millionaries.
Don’t worry, folks. Kick star Adin Ross and his homeboy Drake is covering funeral expenses. Thanks, Drake! Kinda strange that you’re so tapped into the cultural zeitgeist of the snuff and CSAM streaming platform, but very cool!
That isn’t weird at all
Love how Drake is such a good sport about the beef that he makes every effort to prove Kendrick’s characterization of him true (except the daughter thing, admittedly).
Jesus. This is absolutely horrific and I hope everyone involved gets significant prison time for it.
Everyone on kick is absolute scum. I’m not even being hyperbolic. You only go on kick if you’re too much of a piece of shit for twitch, which is saying a lot.
This is all what “lolcow” content is. Just in case anyone here finds that stuff interesting.
I’d say this is an evolution of “lolcow” content, because traditionally it’s based on an “audience” torturing someone, but here the torturers are part of their act, part of their life and living conditions. This is what the braver channers dreamed of, being able to personally torture someone who calls you a friend and broadcast it to your sick friends and a broader audience for money.
Fundamentally they are both based on cruelty and voyeurism, though
I have no jokes. What the absolute fuck?
Wtf they invented french reeflay?
This is seriosuly depraved shit what the fuck. No healthy society produces shit like this
Everyone involved including those who donated or watched should be separated permanently from society
