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Trash streaming is part of an alarming trend in Russian online media, wherein a streamer will have a participant do stunts or anything else a viewing audience may want them to do, in exchange for money.
“This is too small an amount of money,” the
Sun reports he told journalists outside a Moscow court, “If she was to ask 30 or 40 million [$404,700 or $539,800], I would have paid.”
The
Sun reports that he went on to mock her claims of abuse during the trash stream, and said her concussion was fake. Burim also reportedly mocked prosecutors over their possible questions.
Twisted Youtuber smashed model s face into table in horrific trash live stream WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT A model beaten during a live stream has been mocked by her alleged abuser, Andrey Burim - better known as Mellstroy - for demanding too small an amount of money
Andrey Burim aka Mellstroy appeared in court on Wednesday (Image: Mellstroy)
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Jonny Tickle Two months after a Russian livestreamer’s girlfriend died on YouTube, the country’s internet community lost another popular character. On Thursday, a man known as “Grandfather” passed away on air in front of around 150 viewers.
According to Smolensk-based online outlet Readovka, Yury Dushechkin was a regular feature on ‘First Step to YouTube’ – a channel that became well known locally for live footage taking advantage of the vulnerable. It falls under the now-infamous category of ‘trash streams,’ in which people do whatever is asked of them in return for a donation. These dares are often humiliating, and target those desperate for money. The website first reported on the channel in 2017, when the owner would pay homeless people to drink alcohol or hot sauce on camera.