Man attempts suicide live on 4chan,people cheerlead.

Cantona's Collars · 02-12-2013 12:37PM #1

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=334_1385864004

http://www.dailydot.com/news/4chan-stephen-house-fire-livestream/

He named himself as Stephen & took pills with vodka before setting fire to his room & captured it live on camera.People were clamouring to witness the event with some actively encouraging him.
Firefighters managed to get to him and the reports are that a man is in hospital with "serious but not life threatening injuries".

What's wrong with people that they actually see this as a spectator sport?

SV · 02-12-2013 12:39PM

zerks wrote: »

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=334_1385864004

http://www.dailydot.com/news/4chan-stephen-house-fire-livestream/

He named himself as Stephen & took pills with vodka before setting fire to his room & captured it live on camera.People were clamouring to witness the event with some actively encouraging him.
Firefighters managed to get to him and the reports are that a man is in hospital with "serious but not life threatening injuries".

What's wrong with people that they actually see this as a spectator sport?

What's wrong with people that put it on camera as if it's a show?
attention seeking shíte.

Links234 · 02-12-2013 12:42PM

4chan, there's your problem.

D1stant · 02-12-2013 12:43PM

Sick.

/Close thread

BillyMitchel · 02-12-2013 12:43PM

zerks wrote: »

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=334_1385864004

http://www.dailydot.com/news/4chan-stephen-house-fire-livestream/

He named himself as Stephen & took pills with vodka before setting fire to his room & captured it live on camera.People were clamouring to witness the event with some actively encouraging him.
Firefighters managed to get to him and the reports are that a man is in hospital with "serious but not life threatening injuries".

What's wrong with people that they actually see this as a spectator sport?

Skipped through the first few mins. He's clearly distressed. The kid is clearly off his face on E or something. Look at that jaw move.

Only been on 4Chan once. It's a strange strange place.

OP did you watch the full 40mins?

Cantona's Collars · 02-12-2013 12:46PM

BillyMitchel wrote: »

Skipped through the first few mins. He's clearly distressed. The kid is clearly off his face on E or something. Look at that jaw move.

Only been on 4Chan once. It's a strange strange place.

OP did you watch the full 40mins?

Skipped through bits of it,fair enough if he's suicidal but the most disturbing aspect is that people encouraged him.

BillyMitchel · 02-12-2013 12:48PM

zerks wrote: »

Skipped through bits of it,fair enough if he's suicidal but the most disturbing aspect is that people encouraged him.

Do people start writing comments on the other screen?

Mint Aero · 02-12-2013 01:32PM

force eleven · 02-12-2013 01:36PM

It's getting all 'Running Man' on us at last. I blame the Romans for starting this.

obezyana · 02-12-2013 01:45PM

I just started to watch the video then decided not to i dont feel like having a disturbing image im my head for the day. How the hell do these things be allowed up on these websites?

Augmerson · 02-12-2013 01:49PM

I've been on 4chan before. It's the asshole of the internet. You do occasionally find something funny, but it's not worth wading through the filth, which can in some instances, be disturbing. I would expect no less from some people on 4chan to cheer on something like this.

Augmerson · 02-12-2013 01:56PM

obezyana wrote: »

I just started to watch the video then decided not to i dont feel like having a disturbing image im my head for the day. How the hell do these things be allowed up on these websites?

Video isn't really disturbing, hard to make out what is going on, OP does appear to cut himself at one point and there might be blood, not really sure.

Holsten · 02-12-2013 02:03PM

Not the first time.

I know of a video where a guy hangs himself and dies all live on an internet stream with people telling him to do it. Eventually someone who was watching calls the cops and they arrive while the camera is still going.

Very sad stuff.

02-12-2013 02:09PM

I'm not sure which came first, but I know there was a quite famous example of this happening on IRC, if I remember right.

It was a guy by the name of Brandon Vedas, who went under the username of ripper. You can read about the death here.

Essentially it's that he logged on to an IRC chatroom back in 2003, where he was saying how hardcore he was with regards to drugs. He then went on to live-stream, which was discussed in IRC, with people goading him on to take more and more drugs, until he overdosed and died. It led to a huge debate as to whether those involved in the goading should have been arrested. For anyone interested, you can read the chat logs here, but be aware that it is quite harrowing to see what was progressing.

BillyMitchel · 02-12-2013 02:11PM

Encouraging someone to commit sucide and you can be done for murder.

Does anything ever happen the people on these sites?

Morag · 02-12-2013 02:12PM

zerks wrote: »

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=334_1385864004

http://www.dailydot.com/news/4chan-stephen-house-fire-livestream/

He named himself as Stephen & took pills with vodka before setting fire to his room & captured it live on camera.People were clamouring to witness the event with some actively encouraging him.
Firefighters managed to get to him and the reports are that a man is in hospital with "serious but not life threatening injuries".

What's wrong with people that they actually see this as a spectator sport?

What is wrong with people thinking this is news?
Same shíte was happening 15 years ago only it was on IRC and mailing lists.

BillyMitchel · 02-12-2013 02:13PM

What's IRC?

c_man · 02-12-2013 02:15PM

That's 4chan for ya.

danniemcq · 02-12-2013 02:17PM

Augmerson wrote: »

I've been on 4chan before. It's the asshole of the internet. You do occasionally find something funny, but it's not worth wading through the filth, which can in some instances, be disturbing. I would expect no less from some people on 4chan to cheer on something like this.

Well their motto is "like wading through sh*t for Diamonds"

This however isn't 4chan, its a section of 4chan. yes there is quite a large proportion of people that may be classed as odd/weird or downright disturbed but some of the boards are fairly normal.

I've been on 4chan for years, /v/(gaming), /g/(tech), /wg/ (wallpapers) and of couse /s/ are where i spend most of my time but there is so much more.

Its not 4chan thats at fault, its not the anonymity thats at fault. its a mix of the two but when this is mixed with the alienation that appears to show its head on the forums. When you mix this with the board /b/ bad things can happen.

/b/ though, thats were things get weird, Kid shoots up his school? There is a fairly high chance there was a post about it on /b/, but on the complete opposite side of the scale you have io7 makes your iphone waterproof that was /b/ too.

Some of the greatest memes, stories, photoshops and internet phenomenon’s have all come from /b/ but also some of the lowest parts of the internet have also come from there. Its gone downhill in a big way recently and the love to be an An Hero is what keeps the users going. Will their anonymity be remembered?

OhHiMark · 02-12-2013 02:18PM

Morag wrote: »

What is wrong with people thinking this is news?
Same shíte was happening 15 years ago only it was on IRC and mailing lists.

Ah that's grand so. I know how the internet is but it'll be a sad ****ing day when people encouraging someone to commit suicide while watching him do it is just passed off as one of those things that happens.

Czarcasm · 02-12-2013 02:18PM

BillyMitchel wrote: »

What's IRC?

Internet Relay Chat, it's been around about 20 years now at least, like the granddaddy of Skype and MSN

danniemcq · 02-12-2013 02:20PM

BillyMitchel wrote: »

What's IRC?

Internet Relay Chat.

Like a chatroom I guess but more powerful. It can allow sharing of files etc too and I think would be easier to set up and stay up than a web based chat room

Links234 · 02-12-2013 02:21PM

BillyMitchel wrote: »

What's IRC?

It's something that makes you feel old when people haven't heard of it.

Big Bag of Chips · 02-12-2013 02:23PM

zerks wrote: »

What's wrong with people that they actually see this as a spectator sport?

I'd consider posting links to it on another forum to open it to a wider audience furthering the "spectator sport" element of it to be honest..

anncoates · 02-12-2013 02:30PM

BillyMitchel wrote: »

What's IRC?

Do you parents ever drone on about the good old days of the Beatles or Elvis until you want to drown them?

Well, it's like the internet chat version of that.

You usually hear it in the same sentence as Amp Test and Join Date.

BillyMitchel · 02-12-2013 02:31PM

Links234 wrote: »

It's something that makes you feel old when people haven't heard of it.

And I'm in my 30s!!

Sorry grandad

When do older people see the beginning of the net? Like I still remember dial up and crappy CDs to try and install it - AOL? You mean you folk had it worse?!!

First chat room I was on was lycos I think! Good times pretty pervy stuff when I was a spotty teenager!

No ageism intended, promise.

Links234 · 02-12-2013 02:35PM

BillyMitchel wrote: »

And I'm in my 30s!!

Sorry grandad

You're older than me so!

and that'd be grandma, pops

BillyMitchel · 02-12-2013 02:37PM

Links234 wrote: »

You're older than me so!

and that'd be grandma, pops

Oops!

Very early 30s may I add.

Jester252 · 02-12-2013 02:42PM

zerks wrote: »

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=334_1385864004

http://www.dailydot.com/news/4chan-stephen-house-fire-livestream/

He named himself as Stephen & took pills with vodka before setting fire to his room & captured it live on camera.People were clamouring to witness the event with some actively encouraging him.
Firefighters managed to get to him and the reports are that a man is in hospital with "serious but not life threatening injuries".

What's wrong with people that they actually see this as a spectator sport?

If it bleeds it leads.

Cantona's Collars · 02-12-2013 02:44PM

Big Bag of Chips wrote: »

I'd consider posting links to it on another forum to open it to a wider audience furthering the "spectator sport" element of it to be honest..

You know as well as I do if I omitted the link the very first reply to the op would have been "Link?"

People here can choose not to click it,but when he streamed it live there was a queue waiting to watch it as if it was a bit of craic instead of some messed up lad trying to kill himself.

Femme_Fatale · 02-12-2013 02:48PM

Morag wrote: »

What is wrong with people thinking this is news?
Same shíte was happening 15 years ago only it was on IRC and mailing lists.

Most people haven't a clue what IRC is. I'd be surprised if you genuinely believed they did.

And it's still news, even if it's been done before.

Man attempts suicide live on 4chan,people cheerlead.

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