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French streamer Raphaël Graven, better known as Jeanpormanove, died on stream this week following a 10-day marathon in which he was subjected to sleep deprivation and physical abuse. How did Kick fail to recognise the danger?
The death of French streamer Jeanpormanove has had a profound impact online, and it must spark serious accountability.
The 46-year-old streamer passed during a live Kick broadcast and laid undiscovered for over 50 minutes beside sleeping associates in a Contes apartment. During this time, the live chat continued and viewers poured in.
A judicial investigation is now officially underway, and an autopsy will be performed on the former soldier to discover the exact cause of death. For many of those familiar with the nature of Jeanpormanove’s content, however, the tragic outcome doesn’t come as a huge surprise.
Jeanpormanove, who has over one million followers across his social media platforms, was known for extreme content – primarily marathon streams, in which he was subjected to sleep deprivation and physical abuse from his co-creators.
From 2023 onwards, Jeanpormanove was sporadically and regularly manhandled by multiple people, choked, forced to ingest dangerous substances, and shot with a paintball gun -among other countless horrible acts now making the rounds on X.
It was implied by channel regulars, namely Owen Cenazandotti and Safine Hamadi, that Jeanpormanove voluntarily placed this duress on himself, but this version of events is proving vastly unpopular on social media.
Many are suggesting Jeanpormanove was a vulnerable person who was exploited and blackmailed to remain as the channel’s whipping boy. Owen has since ignited further public fury in an Instagram post paying tribute to his late ‘brother, sidekick, and partner.’
Disturbingly, audience donations to the channel were abundant, and it had been earning approximately £2,000 per day (based on estimates from its 10,000 average viewership). Screenshots of the chat on the morning of Jeanpormanove’s death are even more concerning and expose the type of viewer his channel was attracting.
Having just become aware of the channel in the last 24 hours, I’m both disgusted and baffled at how this viral humiliation was not only permitted on Kick, but how it propelled the channel to among the platform’s top earners in France.
Kick claims to be ‘urgently reviewing’ the questionable circumstances around the streamer’s death and has rolled out the following statement:
