5 Livestreams That Flew Off The Rails Completely

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A Shouty Twitch Streamer Gets Arrested ... And Viewers Watch As His Apartment Gets Robbed

In order to make it big as a streamer, you've gotta have some personality. Otherwise there's a realistic chance you'll lose your audience to a channel specializing in showing paint dry. Just don't have too much personality. Streamer Mr_13ig (pronounced "Mister Thirteenig" we're assuming) found this out in 2015, when a particularly rowdy stream landed him in trouble with his neighbors ... and then the police, who didn't agree with his apparent God-given right to treat the apartment building like a karaoke bar.

His sovereign citizen schtick didn't stop when the cops showed up, and it escalated somewhere between him refusing to give his name and talking about the baseball bat / firearm collection he keeps in his apartment. This ended as you'd expect, with 13iggie Hardballs getting taken downtown to the confused delight/sadness of his audience, because the stream was still running.

After the cops put cuffs on 13ig, they took the time to close his apartment up -- although clearly not very well, because minutes later (at 10:30 in the video above), the stream was enlivened by Mr_13ig's neighbor entering the apartment and stealing his shit, which included a wallet, headset, and shoes. The mods monitoring the stream immediately called the cops, who busted the neighbor and recovered the stolen goods. Mr. 13ig was himself released a few hours later, although his dignity was not recovered.

Waaait, the "13" is a "B"! Very c13v3r.

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A Charlottesville March Organizer Get BTFO'd Live By His Dad

It's hard to post a positive spin on the recent rise in violent far-right activity, but we'll try. The increasing white supremacist bullshit we see on the daily means that over time, there will be more and more footage of white supremacists crying like babies, running away in the face of organized counter-protests, and all-around being made to eat turd sandwiches by a just Universe -- or a father who merely wants to nap in peace.

Enter Jason Kessler, the human skid mark responsible for the now-infamous 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville -- the one where an anti-fascist counter-protestor was murdered -- and the less-famous 2018 Unite the Right 2 rally in D.C., where only a couple dozen racists decided to show their terrified faces. Back in June, Kessler was livestreaming with another white supremacist, Patrick Little, when someone started yelling at him to, quote, "get outta my room." After Little asked if that was a drunk roommate, Kessler confessed that not only was he back living with his parents, but he was also streaming from his father's bedroom (presumably he didn't want the internet to see his anime figures and Offspring posters). And Dad wanted it back.

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An Uber Driver Turns His Passengers Into Streaming Fodder, Finds Out That's Kind Of A Dick Move

In this economy, it's necessary to not only have a side gig, but also a side gig to your side gig. But as (now-former) Uber driver Jason Gargac found out, you have to be smart about it, or else you may wind up on the receiving end of some pretty damning reviews both of your service and your moral code.

Gargac was an Uber driver operating in Missouri, and by all accounts, he was pretty good at it -- meaning he wasn't starving or living out of his car like everyone else on the app. Still, he decided to supplement his income by wiring his car for sound, installing a series of cameras, and streaming his exploits (OK, mainly his passengers) to an audience of hundreds. Isn't this kind of illegal? Nope, not in Missouri! Is it kind of shitty, though? Oh hell yes.

When Gargac started out, he would tell people about the cameras, but he eventually stopped because he considered the results too "fake" and "produced." Instead, the budding auteur would only tell people if they asked about the cameras -- which many wouldn't, because he put up a sticker saying that they were being recorded for security reasons. Yeah, financial security reasons.

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A BBC Talking Head Seriously Regrets Not Locking His Office Door

The best thing about working from home is, well, it's hard to narrow it down. Everything is a breakfast food, pants are optional, you can take meetings in bed, and the only real rule is that there are no rules. That is, unless you've got kids, in which case the only rules are 1) make sure to take appropriate meds to keep from losing your mind watching the same five episodes of Paw Patrol, and 2) lock your office door when you're busy or, we don't know, interviewing with one of the biggest news organizations in the world.

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A Man Accidentally Streams His Wife Giving Birth On Facebook Live

When Facebook isn't hoarding your data in order to sell you T-shirts or help elect shitgoblins, it's broadcasting it to the world willy-nilly, thanks in part to their byzantine system of privacy settings that more closely resemble a labyrinth of yore than the apparatus of one of the world's most powerful corporations. So when Kali Kanongataa, a resident of Cali, decided to livestream and narrate the process of his partner giving birth to their child via Facebook Live for the benefit of his family in Tonga, he probably thought he had that shit locked down tight. Because, well, you would, wouldn't you?