R.I.P to Jean. What people do for content is really getting out of hand, never been on kick before and this makes it Sound like one of those illegal "dark web" websites. Truly awful.
2 months ago | 258
Woof this literally made me a little bit nauseous to read. Dystopian horror
2 months ago | 216
They strangled him multiple times, beat him while he was screaming and restrained him so he couldn't defend himself or stop it. It's one of the most horrifying things I've read and unfortunately seen in news clips. He was economically dependent on the streamers who abused him and messaged his mom about how they wouldn't let him leave. Kick needs to be shut down and yet that won't freaking happen and it's so disheartening. The most I can hope for is prosecution for the co-streamers and to Kick
2 months ago | 118
Last words to his mom: "Hey Mom. How are you? I'm completely stuck with his game. It's going too far. I feel like I'm held hostage with their sh*t concept. I'm sick of it, I want to leave, but he does not want to let me, he keeps me from leaving, he is sequestrating me."
2 months ago | 136
Only a matter of time until Mr. Beast will record his first casualty but unfortunately it won’t stop before then and likely not after, even when the biggest face on any platform is the one doing it. You mentioned Dobrik who only very narrowly and not through his intervention but sheer dumb luck avoided killing his “friend” for clicks. How many martyrs will we need before we realize that something is deeply wrong with this? Worse than all of that on its own merit though is that Kick markets itself predominantly to minors. This is the content being consumed by our children, normalizing violence, abuse and plainly any other form of bullying. I had it BAD in middle school but I can’t begin to imagine how much worse this problem has become since. You can’t “fix” bullying or get rid of it entirely, I’m not that naive. But making it this much worse can not be the solution either.
2 months ago | 110
They humiliated him and mocking read out his messages to his mother where he was afraid for his life to make fun of him on stream. When he died their initial reaction was to throw a water bottle at his head. He was tortured physically and psychologically while kept financially dependent on the ones in control of the stream.
2 months ago | 13
Suddenly the cutting-clothes performance art pieces by Abramovic and Yoko Ono seem more like grim prophecies than they used to. There's something dark within society that reduces people to objects for entertainment, and the age of internet content makes that even more of a reality
2 months ago (edited) | 19
Kick and these streamers exploited this man to death. They were able to do it because he was poor and dependent on them. It's nauseating. Jean deserved a better life than this one.
2 months ago | 22
Ban the content and fine companies that don’t prevent it. Harm should never be entertainment outside of competitive sports.
2 months ago | 116
Oh, how horrid. 😳 R.I.P. Jean It sadly reminds me of the Black Mirror episode in season 7, where the husband tries to pay for his wife’s “life”-subscription and goes beyond extremes for it. Sad, that it became a reality. Can we please put some humanity, empathy and dignity into the internet again?
2 months ago | 31
How people still believe Kick is somehow morally superior than Twitch or Google is beyond me.
2 months ago | 15
This reminds me of a short story by Franz Kafka called The Hunger Artist. This makes me so sad. I don't who this man was, but sounds like a horrifying way to die. May he rest in peace.
2 months ago | 2
The internet was a mistake. In theory it’s great, but we as a whole have clearly not been up to the task of using it responsibly. Jesus Christ.
2 months ago | 4
Alice Cappelle
The French streamer Jean Pormanove died on stream a few days ago. He was 46yo and during an endless 12-day stream on Kick, he basically became the main attraction in a kind of human endurance show, and then he died. During the show, he was kept awake, ridiculed, even beaten up, while people kept watching. Kick, of course, had no reason to stop it. The more extreme it got, the more viewers and money rolled in.
The French media Mediapart warned the government months before that these “abuse-as-content” streams were out there. A minister was told, but nothing ever came of it.
Adin Ross and even Drake, who both have ties to Kick promised to cover Jean’s funeral expenses, but it cannot be it.
This story is reminiscent of what happened to some of the people who worked with Mr Beast or David Dobrik.
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