Presented by its creators as a much more permissive transmission platform than its Twitch competitor, Kick is once again under the fire of criticism for its lack of moderation.
The accusations that occur after the death of Jeanpormanove, his real name Raphaël Graven, a 46 -year -old streamer who died on August 18, 2025. He had been filmed 24 hours a day in the company of two other transmitters, “Naruto” and “Safine”, and victim of insults, paint jets, slate blows, humble and humble. Despite the reports of Internet users, the Kick platform did not cut the live flow.
Kick’s X account regularly mocked Jeanpormanove
This August 20, 2025, Kick ended up speaking, saying “deeply sad.” The specific platform that has prohibited the channels of the co-series that participated in the events and announces collaborate with the French authorities, confirming wanting to carry out “a complete review of our French content.” This review content can also concern the company’s social networks, since according to the information collected by BFMTV and Tech & Co, the French Kick story X has surpassed greatly in Jeanpormanove’s misfortunes.
In the publications of X today, the community manager of Kick in France did not hesitate to publish mocking comments against the victim in recent months. The French kick division had also sold a “long tail” T shirt, for 100 dollars, using the image of Jean Pormanove covered with drainage oil, just after another live humiliation.
Another publication of the official “Kick_FR” account compared Jeanpormanove with Walter White, the Breaking Bad character embodied on the screen of actor Bryan Cranston. On another occasion, it was a comparison with the character of Deadpool without his mask.
A terrible child of transmission platforms, Kick was successful for both his relative laxity in moderation, as for his most attractive remuneration compared to Twitch. Kick also allows you to transmit casinos online, a prohibited practice in France: the dedicated section is not accessible to him without a VPN.
In response to this drama, Clara Chappaz, the delegated minister to Digital, announced to seize Arch, the audiovisual gendarme, but also the Pharos platform, the brigade in charge of illegal content on the Internet. The Nice prosecutor’s office opened an investigation and an autopsy will be carried out on the morning of August 21, according to BFMTV information, to discover the causes of death.
Source: BFM TV
