Ice Poseidon’s Lucrative, Stressful Life as a Live Streamer

She was absolutely terrified and all of the passengers were asked to keep their window covers shut while armed personnel surrounded the plane and prepared to board from the rear entrance and take him out of there. It's a predictable consequence of him going places and streaming. He'll even say things like "I hope nobody figures out what plane I'm on and calls in a bomb threat" but honestly what actual law is being violated and by whom in this situation?

I mean I can personally see he knows he has antagonists and he is specifically egging them on, and he is profiting from it, but I don't know the specific actual law that he'd be breaking in this case, as much as I'd like for there to be one. Ruining dozens of peoples' day just isn't a violation of the law in and of itself.

Back in 2005 I was at school when a local radio station had a water drinking contest. A woman died. Just yesterday I was watching a video about how airliners don't really use hydrocarbon fuel (another global warming conspiracy). There are plenty of morons out there.

Someone, many very smart people, thought this was a good idea: https://miepvonsydow.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/uz3wiuk.png

(The cat is fine. It was a zero-g experiment. Didn't go so well for the human.)

His "sneaking hot dogs into people's pockets" is actually funny though, I'll give him that.

The only difference between then and now is they're filming it because filming technology is ubiquitous.

For example, how trivial it is to leverage our militarized police with a fake call. With no effort to vet the call, they'll happily drive over to your house and shoot your dog or ground the plane for five hours.

Or Yelp where anyone can organize to nuke the ratings of a single place. (Yelp and Steam, two examples I know of, have recently put systems in place to filter out mass 1-star spam)

You're barking up the wrong tree if you think this is a "people will do anything for views" problem. And the examples you cite of people getting criminally charged for stealing stop signs and brandishing arms sound like system successes. They don't seem relevant

It's like getting upset that people use CloudFlare instead of realizing how hilariously vulnerable our internet still is to things like IP address spoofing and the fact that your IoT toaster can be nuking a website without you, the owner, realizing it. I bet you'd notice if it showed up on your bill. Maybe you'd think twice about buying in to IoT devices next time (incentives are now aligned!).

Maybe it's time to ask why our systems are so vulnerable to abuse. Getting mad at abusers and their incentives isn't going to fix the problem because they will always exist.

To suggest otherwise is to suggest that our systems should depend on the Deninos of the world not existing, and that should give you a good, long chuckle.

Weakly moaning "It's TTS!" (Text-to-speech) as an excuse to the officer that arrested him not so long later is enough of a proof that this guy was disconnected from reality and just doing that for the money.

It doesn't matter where you're coming from, you just don't play a bomb countdown - especially not in a room crowded full of people. You're scaring people on purpose, and that's called terrorism. He deserves that prison sentence.

This is essentially social media 2.0 for 4channer.

Ironic racism/bigotry inevitably attracts people that aren't in on the joke.

That's what surrogates said about donald trump before the election. The muslim ban was just hyperbole. Then he got elected, and people were getting detained at the airport.

Now I'm not naive, and I know that some of the outrageous speech of online trolls is just for show. The problem is, you can't detect sarcasm online. White supremacist groups are actively recruiting on chan boards. You can't say it's all just a joke.

I totally agree. One of the things the Internet has dramatically increased are asymmetric relationships between people. Some amount of asymmetry has always been part of life — the peasants know who the king is but the king doesn't know the peasants.

But now that anyone can broadcast to millions, it's easier to have a one-sided relationship that a peer-based one. I believe that's profoundly unhealthy, and a problem society is going to have to confront and learn how to deal with.

Long ago I was an exchange student in Ecuador, where some workers would still chew coca as they worked, basically the same way people consume coffee. It was normal and boring for locals. Refine that same leaf, though, to cocaine and crack, and you get something so compelling that it becomes dangerous.

I sort of think of streaming as a similar thing: it takes normal human sociality and refines is to a degree previously never seen. I'm sure some people will find healthy ways to deal with it, but I'm not shocked at all that it breaks people.

Also it's later stated in the article that he didn't actually break up with the girl, it was just a smokescreen to get the community off his back about it.

> Yet he felt that he had to act as if he didn’t care, or his viewers might suspect that he and Caroline hadn’t actually broken up.

There's some hope for humanity, isn't there?

All of the cult of personality type of streamers are going to have a viewer base that is a bit odd, but they don't have to be malicious.

As an example, one community I'm part of decided one day that we were going to play punk music on stream. Since on Twitch, $=free speech, music requests are $3 a minute or so.

It (de?)volved into a battle of the bands as fans of different bands went back and forth.