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https://unherd.com/newsroom/jean-pormanove-death-exposes-dark-heart-of-streaming/

'When French content creator Raphaël Graven died this week during a livestream lasting nearly 300 hours (almost a fortnight), the most disturbing aspect was surely that the grisly spectacle had a mainstream audience. This wasn’t a snuff film put out on social media — it was a popular stream with an active live chat

...Social media has completely inverted this. Instead of fictional suffering which resolves into meaning, we now consume real suffering that offers no resolution. Reality television sped up this inversion by training audiences to consume authentic-seeming breakdown for its own sake, but streaming has perfected it, instigating a race to capture attention at any cost.'

Bonkers.

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Not heard about this at all. Not that I would've liked to watch it. Amazed the streaming service even allowed it, I assume they would've known about it, the 300 hour stream that is