“In the digital world, a person’s humiliation, far from lowering their eyes, captivates looks”

LE August 18, the death of Raphaël Graven, better known by the pseudonym of Jean Pormanove, creator of content on the Kick platform, was made public after an uninterrupted streaming of twelve days. Nevertheless, Died in his sleep. Meanwhile, he had made himself known for having undergone, for several years, the repeated bullying inflicted by two stations, staged in the form of challenges.

During these “lives”. Similarly, the protagonist – just like a certain “Coudoux”, a young man with disabilities – could be insulted, strangled, mocked, slapped, threatened or deprived of care, all against a background of validism. These unbearable physical. verbal violence and these humiliations euphemized by streamers under the name of “concepts” were followed by thousands of Internet users.

This episode invites us to question our contemporary relationship to humiliation and “in digital world, person’s humiliation, the plural meanings it takes. Humiliations take more. more insidious forms – contempt for political leaders, silence of certain populations, Mobbing [phénomène de harcèlement moral collectif] At work, degrading treatments imposed by certain companies, discrimination -, but they are now denounced vigorously through international mobilizations such as #MeToo or Black Lives Matter, awareness campaigns against harassment or social movements claiming dignity and recognition such as “yellow vests”.

Online humiliation exists – "in digital world, person's humiliation,

At a time when social denigration appears both more significant. more unacceptable, how to explain the paradox which consists, for some, to seek to make a name for itself, to perfect their e-reputation and to obtain social recognition, by exposing a devalued image of themselves, even of others?

At the end of the drama. the “pormanove” case aroused vivid debates, and on the forums, we wonder about those responsible: should we incriminate the “Assressors”who play “in digital world, person’s humiliation, overbidding and always grow back the limits of violence on others? There ” victim “who builds his notoriety by voluntarily exposing humiliation? Or the Internet users, who, by their clicks and their contributions, ensure the survival of the chain? More recently. looks have turned to the authorities: the regulation of platforms, even the even legality of such practices, are now implicated.

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