The culture of slandering YouTubers is rampant.
Like the Busan YouTuber stabbing incident
Online conflict → serious conflict in real life
Hyeonpi live broadcast channels are also proliferating.
Deliberately arguing with gangsters, etc.
Hunt for views with violent videos
“Profits from harmful content must be limited”
Enlarge photo The YouTuber’s provocative content came to the fore when an opposing YouTuber, with whom he had been in conflict over wanton defamation, was brutally murdered in front of the court in broad daylight and the scene was broadcast live. In particular, as provocative content containing the so-called “hyeonpi” process, in which fights that happen online lead to fights offline, spreads, warnings are growing about the need to prevent the spread of such videos.
Hyeonpi, which has recently become a problem, means that in the past, when online games like Lineage became popular, “player killing (PK)”, which involves attacking opposing characters in the game, actually occurs in reality.
The problem is that the common practice among online gamers is now leading to actual acts of violence in the real world. This phenomenon occurred because with the activation of social networking services (SNS), provocative videos led to a high number of views and an increase in subscribers, which is directly related to generating profits.
The incident in which YouTuber A, in his 50s, killed YouTuber B, who was broadcasting live, in front of the Busan Court Complex in Yeonje-gu, Busan, on the 9th was also an act of the so-called “hyeonpi” while his emotions were hurt due to an argument. The video uploaded in this process surpassed 350,000 views in less than a day after uploading.
The anonymous space called SNS sometimes induces more provocative behavior among YouTubers. As netizens encourage this, the victims become more violent, as if they were gladiators in the stadium.
For example, in 2022, when a YouTuber got into an argument with a viewer during a live broadcast, he declared war, then personally went to the location, set up a camera and live broadcast the scene where he swings a previously prepared weapon. weapon against the opponent. In 2021, a man in his 30s was sentenced to 15 years in prison for killing a person who came to him in person during an argument in an online game.
In 2017, a man in his 20s broadcasting under the title “Hyeonpi Broadcasting” approached a person who had started an argument while broadcasting live on his cell phone in a restaurant, hit him on the head with a bottle of alcohol and stabbed him. the victim several times with a broken piece. In the process, viewers supported the defamatory explicit video by leaving complimentary comments calling him “a real man” and “the age of romance.”
There is also a problem with social media platforms exposing videos without a proper filtering device. For example, YouTube has guidelines for harmful content such as hate speech, depictions of graphic violence, and malicious attacks. Actual regulations are also implemented. However, it’s not possible to monitor all the videos that come in every day, and there’s no way to stop problematic videos if they suddenly go live.
Recently, to increase the number of views, more provocative videos have been uploaded, such as live broadcasts of drunk driving or bad behavior in police cars. A YouTuber in his 50s who was arrested in October last year broadcast the entire process of driving in a police car, smoking cigarettes and making sarcastic comments towards the police. A 30-year-old YouTuber who was arrested while broadcasting a program about drunk driving in Geoje, Gyeongsangnam-do, in February even created content about the process of calling a designated driver and returning home after being released. Provocative videos are broadcast live regardless of the field, such as those of people watching live broadcasts, driving drunk or visiting prostitution sites abroad.
It is not difficult to find YouTubers who claim to be gangsters and broadcast footage of them teasing and arguing with passers-by, or YouTubers who attend gangster events and intentionally disrupt events and broadcast images of people being attacked.
Lim Jun-tae, professor of police administration at Dongguk University, said: “YouTubers making provocative videos is a natural phenomenon resulting from the development of individual media” and added: “However, the fact that defamatory content and harmful being viewed crosses the line on YouTube and reverts to profit not guaranteed by free expression “It needs to be regulated because it is out of reach,” he said.
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