French Kick streamer Jean Pormanove (JeanPormanove or JP) died while sleeping online, when he and his team were doing a marathon livestreaming that had them live for days.
Pormanove, whose real name is Raphaël Graven, is known for his role of enduring physical abuse and torture from his fellow team members while they made their content.
Some of their extreme live videos showed his team strangling and choking him till his face turned red, to the amusement of fans and other viewers on the Kick platform.
Other instances had him tortured and beaten while he screamed and begged during the ordeal. See a compilation of some of Jean Pormanove’s torture videos below:
It is unclear if he had consented to the abuse from his fellow streamers as part of their content. Video content creators, including streamers, are well known to go to great lengths to create videos that would go viral. Such desperation has led to many, like Lil Golo, taking physical risks and self-harm.
Jean Pormanove died on Monday, August 18, during a marathon livestream with his fellow influencers that had lasted 298 hours in an apartment located in Contes, France.
His final hours saw JP sleeping at the extreme side with his fellow streamers when he suddenly started feeling uneasy and breathing hard. His breaths then turned to rattling and deep labour moans, up to his demise.
After about 45 minutes, viewers became concerned about Pormanove, who, all the while, had his mouth open. His co-streamer then awoke and threw a small water bottle at him to check up on him. He then tried waking him up, and when he discovered that JP was unresponsive, he ended the livestream.
His fellow streamers, Owen “Naruto” Cenazandotti and Safine Hamadi, are under fire online for the perceived bullying and physical abuse he endured. JP, who was formerly a military personnel, had reportedly made insinuations about being “trapped” in the marathon stream and was also said to have texted his mother and commented on the content as been “held hostage“.
People commenting on his death were divided between those who feel he was truly trapped and abused to death by the system and those who feel he had his total freedom and fully agreed to the abuse. A third is also blaming the streaming platform, Kick, for allowing such abuse.
An investigation has, however, been started by the authorities to ascertain the cause of his death and the likely implications.
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