What happened on Sunday night 17 to Monday, August 18, 2025? That night, the traameur Jeanpormanove is, as for ten days, live on the Kick platform. Twitch competent, it has a much more permissive regulation, which authorizes extremely problematic practices and comments.
In front of several thousand spectators, Jeanpormanove is accompanied by two other serpentines, which have pseudos Naruto and Safine. In visible videos on social networks, we see that he is a victim of intimidation, forced to carry out extreme challenges and swallow toxic products. The morning of August 18, still live, we see its two accomplices that discover it inanimate, before cutting the video flow.
• Jeanpormanove, a follower of extreme challenges
His real name Raphaël Graven, Jeanpormanove was very present on social networks, especially in Tiktok (with 582,000 subscribers), as well as on the Kick platform (with 193,000 subscribers). He was a follower of extreme challenges.
He had left Twitch to avoid exile of his chain, the Amazon platform with very strict rules in terms of human treatment. In Kick, he had been able to multiply challenges such as strangulation, paint jets on his face or even blowing his body and face.
It was announced in Tiktok in 2022, before appearing live accompanied by several other streamers on its Twitch channel and then kicking, becoming an object of attraction and audience for thousands of people.
• Death in problematic circumstances
On the morning of August 18, Naruto and Safine find Jeanpormanove inanimate. The gendarmes sent on the act could only notice their death, while the current was alone in a room dedicated to the challenges that it could undertake live.
But shortly before his death was formalized, Internet users reported several abuses of which he had been a victim for ten days. To understand what happened, the Nice prosecutor’s office opened an investigation and the investigation brigade. However, the prosecutor said “that at this stage, there is nothing suspicious,” confirming the Parisian that “the hearings are underway.”
An autopsy, which will allow you to know the causes of death, will take place in the next few days.
• The government grabs the arch
In front of the drama, the minister delegated to Digital, Clara Chappaz, spoke, speaking of an “absolute horror.”
He also asked Arch to investigate Kick, the platform where the victim died live. But the audiovisual gendarme may not be able to act: as a mediapart survey he had demonstrated in Kick, none of his representatives is in the European Union. However, it could be seized from justice in case the platform was guilty of a violation.
• kick, a very controversial platform
If Twitch has a certain hegemony in the world of transmission, a competitor has emerged two years ago. Kick, founded by cryptocurrency specialists, attracted hundreds of serpentines, some of which were banished on Twitch after certain problematic behaviors or actions, with more attractive income and much more flexible rules.
So flexible that they allow, for example, to play online casinos, that it is strictly prohibited in France or on Twitch, if this refers to real money. But there are also many derivations, such as discriminatory comments, violent lives and, therefore, the type of content that the JeanPormanove channel spread.
Questioned by Tech & Co, Kick, however, explained to be “to examine the circumstances with urgency” and affirm “collaborate with the interested parties in question.”
• Two other residents involved
As we have said, Jeanpormanove was accompanied in recent days, live, of two accomplices whose pseudonyms are Naruto and Safine. The latter were involved in an investigation related to suspicions of abuse towards vulnerable people. They had been placed in police custody in January 2025, before being finally released.
However, the behavior of the two young people raises questions. According to the first observations, Jeanpormanove’s body was found only in this room in which the trio has already been sleeping for several days. Therefore, the two men are pointed out on social networks.
In response to what he considers “acts of online harassment”, Maître Yassin Sadouni, the lawyer of one of the respondents, explains that a complaint will be presented “in the next few days” to identify those who make “cybernetic.”
With BFMTV, it specifies that “legally, to date, my client has not been involved in the case of death”: “They were so close that they considered him a brother. They have lived together for six years. It is a constant relationship with the mother of the deceased.”
“There is what we see in the videos and what there is.
Source: BFM TV
