Kick bans ‘pathetic’ streamer over dine-and-dash prank with homeless woman, offers her $50k

The co-founder of the unrecorded video-streaming level Kick says the streamer who filmed himself taking an unhoused pistillate to meal and then moving away has been banned from the platform.

Bijan Tehrani, the self-made billionaire who launched the Twitch-like level successful 2022, took to societal media aboriginal Saturday greeting to remark connected a cruel dine-and-dash prank a streamer named Dumbdumbjeez played connected a victim.

In the clip, the streamer is seen astatine a edifice sitting crossed from a pistillate named Mabel astatine the extremity of a meal.

With the camera focusing connected the woman, Dumbdumbjeez receives the measure and reacts arsenic if helium has nary wealth to wage for it.

Kick streamer took a stateless pistillate connected a day and past dined and dashed erstwhile the measure arrived pic.twitter.com/5M1dpsEDJM

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“I deliberation I near my wallet successful my car,” helium tells the woman, saying he’d beryllium close back. He past runs from the edifice and hops connected what appears to beryllium a car work that’s waiting for him outside.

Several Kick users watching the country arsenic it unfolds stock comments connected the surface utilizing presumption that bespeak laughter and amusement — a sentiment that was not shared by Tehrani.

“This pathetic and now-banned streamer did this portion trying to triumph a contention for $50k,” helium wrote connected X portion commenting connected the prank, which involves taking strangers connected a date.

“I’m disappointed this happened connected Kick and we’ve got $50k for this woman if anyone tin link us,” helium added.

Shortly aft Tehrani’s message, a idiosyncratic connected X who claims to beryllium Dumbdumbjeez, shared a video explaining that the pistillate was afloat alert of what was happening.

“I had already had a speech with her astir what we were going to do,” helium said, adding helium had already fixed the pistillate wealth to wage for the bill.

He besides admitted helium was trying to rig the contest, which requires radical to spell retired connected dates with full strangers.

So adjacent if helium meant nary harm, “at the extremity of the time [the prank] turned retired bad,” the streamer said.