A French streamer who was often \u201chumiliated and mistreated\u201d by a group of other men live on camera for thousands of viewers died in his sleep during a 10-day livestream marathon Monday.<\/p>\n
Rapha\u00ebl Graven, known online as Jean Pormanove, was found dead in an apartment he was renting in France. The 46-year-old\u2019s death was confirmed by Owen Cenazandotti, a fellow streamer, in a post on Instagram.<\/p>\n
\u201cI ask you all to respect his memory and not share the video of his last breath in his sleep. My brother, my sidekick, my partner, six years side by side, without ever letting go, I love you, my brother, and we will miss you terribly,\u201d Cenazandotti wrote in a translated post to his Instagram story.<\/p>\n
Rapha\u00ebl Graven, best known online as Jeanpormanove, died at 46 years old on Monday. Instagram \/ jeanpormanove<\/p>\n
Graven\u2019s last breath was apparently captured during a since-deleted 10-day marathon livestream \u2014 which wasn\u2019t uncommon for the streamer and his partners who are best known for their gaming content and extreme challenges that often featured Graven as the butt of the joke.<\/p>\n
Graven was best known for his gaming and extreme challenges content. Instagram \/ jeanpormanove<\/p>\n
In the livestream, Graven lay prone on a mattress almost completely covered by the duvet. While the other streamers started to wake up around him, they noticed he was \u201cin a really weird position\u201d and tried to get his attention before abruptly cutting the livestream, Le Parisien<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n The city of Nice\u2019s prosecutor\u2019s office launched an investigation into Graven\u2019s cause of death and ordered an autopsy, but noted \u201cnothing suspicious\u201d so far, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n French government minister Clara Chappaz said the violence a \u201chumiliated and mistreated\u201d Graven often endured during livestreams was an \u201cabsolute horror.\u201d<\/p>\n Past livestream clips reshared online show the other men hitting, strangling and shooting Graven with a paintball gun. <\/p>\n Graven\u2019s last moments were captured in the since-deleted marathon livestream.<\/p>\n \u201cThe responsibility of online platforms regarding the dissemination of illicit content is not optional: it is the law. This type of failure can lead to the worst and has no place in France, Europe, or anywhere else,\u201d Chappaz wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n She referred the situation to the French media regulator Arcom and Pharos, another French system used to report online content.<\/p>\n Kick, the platform Graven streamed on, is also \u201curgently reviewing\u201d\u00a0the circumstances surrounding Graven\u2019s filmed death \u2014 including its own community guidelines.<\/p>\n The platform, which is similar to Twitch, has guidelines \u201cdesigned to protect creators\u201d and insisted that it was \u201ccommitted to upholding these standards across our platform,\u201d a spokesperson told BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n French authorities are investigating Graven\u2019s death. Instagram \/ jeanpormanove<\/p>\n Kick specifically prohibits streamers from featuring anything that \u201ccontains self-harm or excessive violence\u201d and \u201cillegal content or content in furtherance of harmful or illegal activities,\u201d according to its terms of service.<\/p>\n In December, Graven and fellow streamer Safine Hamadi were taken into custody after a bombshell investigation<\/a> into Kick alleged that it had permitted creators to broadcast violent content unchecked for months. The pair denied any wrongdoing and were quickly released, Le Parisien reported.<\/p>\n Popular American streamer Adin Ross and rapper Drake, who serve as ambassadors for Kick, said they will be covering the costs of Graven\u2019s funeral.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is horrible and disgusting. Whoever was apart [sic] of this deserves to face severe consequences. I just spoke with drake. Drake and I will be covering the funeral costs , this won\u2019t bring his life back, it\u2019s the least we can do. Prayers go out to Jean\u2019s family,\u201d Ross wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A French streamer who was often \u201chumiliated and mistreated\u201d by a group of other men live on camera…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,4446,156,15780,45854,398,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,6583,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-161042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-death","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-investigations","12":"tag-livestream","13":"tag-media","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-twitch","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115061014182207450","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}