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.
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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