On August 18, 2025, after more than ten days of live 24 hours a day, Jean Pormanove died in front of several thousand spectators, witnesses of the episodes of violence broadcast live, due to his co-stretters, Naruto and Safine. Despite the alerts of several Internet users and an investigation of Mediapart in December 2024, apparently nothing made it possible to avoid drama.
Lack of anticipation by the authorities, but also, and above all, an absence of means for the French regulator of the sector, the Arcom, which could only notice the lack of request of a European representative for the kick platform, in which the drama took place.
The violent “reality shows” are popular
However, it is an obligation according to the regulations on digital services, the DSA, which voluntarily kicks, did not respect, before finally supporting a representative in Europe in recent days. For the Government, this is a “violation”, so a complaint was filed against Kick, while the Paris prosecutor’s office announced the opening of an investigation to disseminate illicit content.
Beyond the moderation problems by the kick, it is the tendency of the “reality show” on the web that poses questions and that interests more and more young internet users, essentially men.
Nasdas, Jean Pormanove … In France, there are few who participate in this exercise, but only they drain several thousands of Internet users. Live, they can launch challenges, distribute money, everything, driven by an audience that seems disconnected from realities.
“We are still at an escalation of the show for a long time, we have reached a climax. But let’s not forget that it was always the case. Previously, there were circus games, Roman sands also in violence and humiliation,” explains Vanessa Lalo, a psychologist in digital practices.
“It is a way to project our aggressive impulses”
However, she emphasizes that between time, things have changed a lot: “In the case of Jean Pormanove, it was possible that viewers paid to submit to abuse, it is the big difference with the past.”
How do we explain, then, that these currents where violence are rewarded, become an object of fascination? “There is a kind of admiration of people who see these actions as transgressions of social rules, a bit like fascination with serial killers. It is a way of projecting our different anxieties, our aggressive impulses.”
With these television realities of a morbid genre, the one who looks is no longer only a spectator, becomes one of the main actors, explains this specialist: “We really become an actor in the system where we not only look, but also pay to act. Those who are behind these channels know that they will generate money committing different offenses.”
Vanessa Lalo also points out the way in which some of Jean Pormanove’s Co-Stretchors have established control: “The unhealthy people came to take it under their wing,” he judges, “so that he can generate money while they have violated them. They have created a psychological and financial warehouse, when he could leave it.”
An intergenerational chronic problem
A fact that is also in question in the case of Nasdas, which welcomes “a villa” and its “Lachientetv” contraction channels many people in great psychological and financial precariousness: “When Nasdas distribute money, this allows him to establish his grip. He always goes further without criticism, while he is always more over.”
The way in which the public agrees to see the violent facts that take place (physically or psychologically) is found in social networks, where two camps compete: “When the NASDAs are bother before the Tiktok Research Commission, which beg in favor of their generosity towards people in suffering, it is irreverent and we see the same with the two streamers to attract the sympathy of the Sympathy, without interrogate it, without taking into account the irreverent.
The other problem that arises is that these programs transmit live interest especially a male audience: “These are mainly men who realize this type of content and, therefore, who will interest other men,” recalls Vanessa Lalo.
The psychologist specialized in digital practices expects this drama to believe “a shock”: “We are realizing that the Internet is real life. A terrible drama was needed so that this is the case. It does not mean that this will awaken all consciences, but the evolution of a different societies, and I think there is also an intergenerational problem.”
In social networks, support emerge regularly so that a “truth” is restored to the reality of what happened live. The discord of the community of Naruto and Safyne has thus established a “command operation”, according to the information collected by the group managers of Tech & Co., therefore, they require “to support Naruto and Safyne” to show “the moments of joys” shared by Jean Pormanove “on all the platforms”: “You have to flood the media and the media and the media. that the Shad, those who can make Shade, who can make it turn on.
The consciousness of the true problem will come later.
Source: BFM TV
