• @nl4real
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    722 months ago

    How the fuck does this guy have a career after the suicide forest video?

    • @Madison420
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      242 months ago

      You’re not concerned about the multi million dollar Bitcoin scam or just didn’t know? Dudes up to all sort of shady shit

      • @nl4real
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        12 months ago

        Lol, I know, it’s just amazing the shit this guy gets away with.

    • @EnderMB
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      142 months ago

      The man has also been involved in numerous scams.

      I’m obviously not his demographic, but my wife (a teacher) says that there are loads of kids 10 and upwards that love Logan Paul and KSI. I think the suicide forest thing predates many of them, or they just don’t know/care about it.

    • @[email protected]
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      72 months ago

      I have recently started watching some streamers. The suicide forest stuff is just par for the course. The entire genre is largely based around doing things you aren’t supposed to do for content.

      In this world of marvel movies, conspiracy theories, and other unreal distractions, there is something both addictive and refreshing about just seeing an unfiltered idiot who is fucking around and finding out. I actually think watching streamers has made me a little more socially confident. If they can be that reckless and have it turn out ok most of the time, then maybe I don’t have to be anxious about things that might happen in public when I’m being reasonably careful.

      • @a_postmodern_hat
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        12 months ago

        This sounds interesting to me. Do you mind sharing a couple of examples?

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          Of course! I mostly watch streamers on Kick, which I loudly warn you has a chat culture similar to 4Chan. Be prepared.

          One of the first streamers I started watching live was ShakoMako. She is a woman from Iraq whose family fled to Germany during the war. She has several screws loose, but there is something weirdly endearing about her. She reminds me of a character in a Gaspar Noe film—an alluring train wreck of a human.

          Shako travels the world and has absolutely no consideration for her safety. This week, I watched her go up to strangers in Egypt, negotiating cheap or free tours of the slums in their personal cars or carts, and then wandering around those slums with her two phones visibly out, a fake gold weed leaf gangster chain swangin’, and telling anybody who will listen that she wants to find the really haram shit.

          Before watching streamers for hours on end, I would have been certain that this kind of behavior would definitely lead her to be raped and killed in the streets of Cairo. Yet I’ve watched her do this in nearly a dozen countries, and so far she has had only one close call with a driver in Laos who took her to a remote spot and then ditched her.

          I don’t condone any of this behavior, but seeing an unedited version of how far the line can actually be pushed has helped me a lot in realistically assessing danger when I’m in the streets or traveling. If Shako can survive her time in the slums of Egypt, I will be fine walking down a public street in Mexico, or New York, or wherever.

          Other kick streamers to check out:

          SuzieSmalls - a three foot tall entertainer who streams her life as a recovering alcoholic in NYC.

          DBR666 - a former dealer from London who travels around trolling people, he does a pretty good job of making pranks funny and not too mean.

          Shoovy - 18 years old, reckless as hell, currently headed straight into the path of the hurricane for content. He might not live, and I’ll be amazed if the cell signal holds, but I’ll definitely be tuning in to check up on him.

          • @[email protected]
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            92 months ago

            It’s the camera. Younger streamers have no idea about the past but the older ones do. They know it’s the camera that changes the whole proposition. Some of them have talked about this. If people think they’re live on camera then everything is different when there’s an audience and they believe it might be someone famous to whatever extent. Nobody wants to cause an international incident.

            When random nobody put themselves in sketchy situations with nothing else but their nobody self then they are absolutely putting themselves in danger whether they perceive it to be or not. There’s neither a live audience nor the illusion of “celebrity”.

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              Shako is great. She is traveling to another country right now, so she will probably stream again in a day or two.

              I’m watching Shoovy right now, and I seriously think this guy is going to die.

              Edit: Shoovy didn’t die, but he was arrested for armed burglary today: https://streamable.com/sx4ksm

            • @[email protected]
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              22 months ago

              Why tf would you support this kind of bullshit? Do you really crave the brainrot? Do you really need this much of an escape? It’s a cancer and you’re actively injecting yourself with it. Why?