/b/ user commits bizarre suicide attempt on webcam - Polidicks

[img]http://imgkk.com/i/hstx.png[/img] [url]http://www.dailydot.com/news/4chan-stephen-house-fire-livestream/[/url] [quote]A longtime user of 4chan’s notorious /b/ imageboard apparently attempted to take his own life in a fire Saturday night while 200 people watched on a live video stream. The 20-year-old, identified only as “Stephen,” announced on the anonymous board that he intended to commit suicide—or “an hero,” in the parlance of /b/. “As an oldfag who’s been on 4chan since 2004, I thought I would finally give back to the community,” he wrote. “I am willing to an hero on cam for you all.” Another user responded by setting up a video chatroom on streaming website Chateen. Stephen joined in with the username LOLDoge, a reference to a meme featuring a photo of a Shiba Inu dog that’s recently been popular on /b/. With 200 viewers—the maximum allowed on Chateen—watching him, and even more clamoring to get in, Stephen downed a combination of vodka and unidentified pills. He set a small fire in the corner of his room and crawled under his bed. The camera was still running. In a video of the incident, still [url=http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=334_1385864004]available on LiveLeak[/url] (NSFW), the room fills up with smoke and Stephen apparently starts to burn. “#imdead #omgimonfire,” he typed from under the bed. “I’m fuck3d.”[/quote] [t]http://imgkk.com/i/9y-h.png[/t]

Jesus christ. Someone ACTUALLY went through with this kinda thing. [editline]qwerty[/editline] Seriously though, this is fucked.

its everything that is awful about 4chan wrapped in a pretty little package of a news story

this isnt funny

It's sick that so many people wanted to sit and watch some guy kill himself.

Dear god.

I don't normally go on /b/, but I did go on it recently just to see what's new. I did see a few threads of that guy. I just ignored him. I just assumed he was another guy who was joking. Guess not.

[QUOTE=Bentham;43043386]It's sick that so many people wanted to sit and watch some guy kill himself.[/QUOTE] I'm sure alot of people didn't think he was serious but /b/ does attract some of the worst people.

Holy fuck.

People say they'll do this kind of thing all the time, but for it to actually happen... It's just awful.

I'm honestly confused how he stayed conscious and typing. Seriously, what? Also, ow. Poor guy.

Truly, just truly: [img]http://i.imgur.com/bfbkV0K.gif[/img] Must've been surreal for those that were watching. Some people can get crazy...

/b/ is a shit hole, what else is new.

Hes gonna survive, hes in stable condition at a hospital [url]http://www.guelphmercury.com/news-story/4249074-one-person-hurt-in-u-of-guelph-residence-fire/[/url]

What an ass hole, I'd hate to be that guy's parents or relatives.

[t]http://puu.sh/5zCQT.jpg[/t] And of course it still a big fucking joke to them.

[QUOTE=code_gs;43043446][t]http://puu.sh/5zCQT.jpg[/t] And of course it still a big fucking joke to them.[/QUOTE] No shit: [QUOTE=thisispain;43043384]its everything that is awful about 4chan[/QUOTE]

Now he's gonna get charged with arson.

[QUOTE=code_gs;43043446][t]http://puu.sh/5zCQT.jpg[/t] And of course it still a big fucking joke to them.[/QUOTE] And why wouldn't it be a joke to them? The guy doesn't even take his own life seriously so why would others?

What does that text message say in the image? [QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;43043458]And why wouldn't it be a joke to them? The guy doesn't even take his own life seriously so why would others?[/QUOTE]Just because he acts mentally unstable doesn't mean we all should too.

I know there were a lot of people watching, but it seems like most of chat from the screencaps were people trying to talk him out of it/telling him not to go through with it. [QUOTE] "Dude why are you doing this" "Don't fucking do it" "Last chance man" "DONT DO IT" "LIVE" [/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Bentham;43043386]It's sick that so many people wanted to sit and watch some guy kill himself.[/QUOTE] morbid curiousity's a funny thing, not unique to /b/ either. looking at the chat though it went from having a laugh, to disbelief and calls of fake, to shock at what was going on. pretty normal behaviour for an anonymous mob really.

[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;43043448]No shit:[/QUOTE] I don't really see why people are freaking out about people joking about this.

[QUOTE=Saxon;43043429]Hes gonna survive, hes in stable condition at a hospital [url]http://www.guelphmercury.com/news-story/4249074-one-person-hurt-in-u-of-guelph-residence-fire/[/url][/QUOTE] From my home town, no less.

[QUOTE=Killer900;43043461]What does that text message say in the image? Just because he acts mentally unstable doesn't mean we all should too.[/QUOTE] "Hey. I need you to (call/text) me when you get this. Just want to chat about what's going on as I (understand) you (?) the phone (?)" () = uncertain, would need better image quality to tell for sure

[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;43043477]"Hey. I need you to (call/text) me when you get this. Just want to chat about what's going on as I (understand) you (?) the phone (?)" () = uncertain, would need better image quality to tell for sure[/QUOTE] "Hey. I need you to call me when you get this. Just want to chat about what's going on as I understand you passed the phone off." You can see it better in the vid. Fucked up stuff.

[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;43043477]"Hey. I need you to (call/text) me when you get this. Just want to chat about what's going on as I (understand) you (?) the phone (?)" () = uncertain, would need better image quality to tell for sure[/QUOTE] "passed the phone off/on", is the last line, it looks like.

People were linking this in chat after he started the fire: [video=youtube;A_sY2rjxq6M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_sY2rjxq6M[/video]

I wonder what moot thinks about this.

[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;43043458]And why wouldn't it be a joke to them? The guy doesn't even take his own life seriously so why would others?[/QUOTE] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathy[/url]