Would you sell your lifespan for money?
SJ Blues
When I decided to do YouTube, my parents were very supportive of me and celebrated the milestone I was able to cross before I had to stop for a little while to focus on other very important things. And while I earned every subscription and viewer I had/have, all it takes is a stroke of luck to hit it big.
I watched a video of a young black kid, nitro_camden, get raided on Twitch (Raiding is a thing where a streamer sends their audience to another streamer's stream. It's mostly done by either large streamers to put on smaller streamers or friends sending their audience to their friends) by a pretty huge streamer. 10,000 people were watching as this kid, who barely had 10 viewers mere seconds before, celebrated his luck. This sort of thing could change someone's life in 2026, and he was so excited. Seemed like a really sweet kid.
Those viewers then watched as his mom came into the room, yelled at him to get off the computer, physically abused him, took his phone, and kicked him out of the house. It was actually really violent, and he got bitten on the face and everything.
The young man is okay and is staying with a friend. Surprisingly, a streamer I used to watch had him on her stream and donated money to him so he can finish school, as he just turned 18 and is starting senior year.
The young man was very kind and humble. It was really sweet.
While his mother was just a bully who was exerting her control over a child by hurting and humiliating him (which wasn't the first time, he later explained), I wanted to talk about this for two reasons.
A lot of people from Gen X and above truly don't understand how someone's life could completely change when something like that could happen. There have been people I personally watched when they were only getting 10-12 views, who became millionaires once they hit 10,000 or more people watching them. It's crazy, but I've seen it happen.
The second reason is a simple one. Seeing that video messed me up. I don't like seeing children getting beaten and bitten all because they decided to stay on the computer a few minutes after having their life (potentially at the time) change forever. I'm hurting for that child, but seeing everyone rally around him in a world that doesn't treat black kids well at all.
But I just can never understand why a grown adult is beefing with their child like that.
Amber Diva Thank you for sharing this
PABLO PLEDGESCOBAR IS THE BEST NAME I'VE EVER HEARD
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So, I'm a consumer of mess. I used to watch The Ultimatum, Love is Blind, The polygamist (Excellent South African Netflix show. Highly recommend) and dabbled in some Korean Mess like Single's Inferno. Right now, I am listening to some of BookTok's greatest Dark Romances on YouTube and...It's all really, REALLY bad. Like, I'm okay with reading smut. I'm not a prude, but some of this stuff would have folks on America's Most Wanted.
Fifty Shades of Grey (and Twilight retroactively) did a lot of damage.
And a part of me gets it. You're not at risk of it in real life so why not get that jolt from fiction. The problem with that is somewhere out there, there is some freak of nature really thinking women want the acts done to them in these books to happen in real life.
E. Writer I watched the Indian Matchmaker one. A guilty pleasure but I can't get into dating shows.
The person this woman is talking about lied and said she had MS that only allowed her to move her wrist. It doesn't work that way. I cannot believe she got away with that lie
E. Writer Interesting online.
SJ Blues I spent the night reading this. I'm gutted but happy
E. Writer Nothing better than a good book.