Filled with drunkenness, violence and even murder, an outrageous phenomenon has dominated Russia’s underground internet for almost a decade. Read this piece by felix_light from CodaStory:
The 34-year-old, who had struggled with alcoholism for much of his life, was broke and in hospital with alcohol poisoning after a particularly heavy binge.
Initially taking advantage of loopholes on Russia’s largest social network, VKontakte — which thoroughly suppresses anti-Kremlin political posts, while largely declining to enforce other community standards or copyright laws — trash has since expanded onto new platforms, including the encrypted messaging service Telegram.
“We’re all on the margins of society,” said Samovolkin, who had drifted between casual jobs for several years before devoting himself full-time to streaming. For Samovolkin, who had mostly lived a hand-to-mouth existence, the stability that trash streaming offered was transformative. For many trash streamers, the performative aspect of their work, in which shock value is all and dramatic twists can bring rich financial rewards, has cultivated a sense of professional pride. Many of them view their work as an entirely unscripted, purified take on reality television formats.
“I actually think what we do has an educational element,” said Samovolkin. “When people watch us, it’s like saying to them ‘Hey guys, this what will happen if you drink and take drugs’”.As the coronavirus pandemic unfolded in 2020, trash streaming began to attract mainstream media attention. In April 2021, video blogger Stanislav Reshetnyak — known to the streaming community as Reeflay — was sentenced to six years in prison for manslaughter, after his girlfriend Valentina Grigoryeva froze to death as a result of him locking her out on the street in sub-zero temperatures dressed only in her underwearHis arrest, after carrying her dead body back into the flat and vainly calling an ambulance, was streamed live on YouTube.
In March 2021, two 18-year-old men in the city – both of whom had been introduced to the subculture by Samovolkin’s own live streams – were accused of raping a 30-year-old woman, after they streamed themselves ransacking her flat on live camera in return for viewer donations. A number of political figures, including Alexey Pushkov, an influential member of the Federation Council — the upper house of Russia’s legislature — have publicly thrown their weight behind a ban on trash streaming.
Even those in favor of a ban admit that internet trash is most likely here to stay, as streamers will simply migrate to new and less readily controllable platforms if they are banned from mainstream spaces.
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