@ikilledthedj said:
@demoskinos: I'm watching it now, what did he actually do, like yeah he kinda is a struggle to watch but has he said or does he say something a bit out of line?
EDIT: ohhh is it these multiple references to suicide?
Yeah, I imagine it was that and the (multiple?) time(s?) he stated he was going to shoot people in the audience. Like, at the end he said something like "one of these days I'm going to snap and murder you guys". I'd like to imagine he meant it as a joke, but it's the kind of joke that also gets made by people who actually DO go on to snap and murder people.
Plus, I've heard that the organizers explain to the runners what kinds of things they can and can't say ahead of time. He makes some half-hearted disclaimers the first few times he jokes about suicide, saying something like "but don't try this at home", and mentions later on how this is supposed to be a "family friendly stream", so it seems like he had been warned beforehand. I imagine there were at least a few organizers just offscreen waving their arms frantically at him during his run, trying to get him to shut up.
Third, supposedly the viewer count and donations dropped TREMENDOUSLY during his run as a result of his behavior. Normally I wouldn't say that viewer count and donations are necessarily the runner's responsibility, but when something is this extreme, it ventured into the territory of hurting (or at least stalling) the charity effort. Not to mention the potential concerns of corporate sponsors/advertisers.
All that being said, it's still super shitty of people to be harassing him on his stream afterwards. At worst he deserved a stern lecture from the organizers and to not be invited back for future events, not mob harassment. I don't know the details firsthand, so the worst-case-scenario of sponsors getting nervous might not be a concern, but still...
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