Sunday’s livestream put on by Jose “Chille” DeCastro epitomized everything wrong with DeCastro’s recent steams as the YouTuber appeared sweaty and filthy, watched a generic police brutality video without context and somehow broke his microphone, again, ending the stream in 28 minutes.
DeCastro apparently was trying to focus in on the case of Brandon Hill, a Kentucky man who was attacked by police when he attended a protest on the Roebling Suspension Bridge in Covington, Kentucky, on Thursday.
According to a report published by news station WCPO out of Cincinnati, Hill was part of the anti-Ice protest that blocked traffic on the bridge when police responded to the scene. He was in the crowd of about 100 people who were met by about 50 police officers on the center of the bridge.
Hill had a pepper ball gun pointed at his face when he attempted to disarm the officer holding the gun, according to police accounts of the incident. The officer went to arrest Hill, who fled into the crowd, claiming he thought Hill was attempting to pull a weapon from his bag. He eventually caught hill and beat him when Hill refused to comply with the officer’s orders.
The officer was placed on administrative duty with pay while police investigate the incident.
DeCastro worked himself into a frenzy as his livestream started with coverage of the beating. Laughing and smiling at times, DeCastro offered no context to what was playing out on the video, just that he had watched the video multiple times and that the police were “guilty” of “assault and battery with attempt to do great bodily harm.”
The diminutive YouTuber rewound the video several times, zooming in on the actual altercation between police and counted the number of blows landed by the police officer on Hill’s body.
DeCastro lashed out at those in his side chat who sided with the police, calling them “bootlickers” and then telling his fans that he wants to hold a sit in at the Covington police department.
This brought about DeCastro’s usual pitch that by showing the violence in the video, the video would be demonetized and the only way he’ll make any money would be through super chat donations.
He was in the process of explaining this when his newly purchased wireless microphone died, he fumbled about with it for a few minutes without audio, then ended the broadcast.
The quick end to the broadcast showcased the growing problem with DeCastro’s vertical streams: in his attempt to win back his audience after positive interactions with police late last month and early in this month, reactions by both fan and foe have been that he’s forgotten how to be entertaining.
His videos have been heavily criticized as commentators express that every video is the same. DeCastro plays anti-police video, says the same few catch phrases and expresses the same thoughts, provides nothing new and occasionally pitches his products.
The livestreams themselves are a low budget mess marred by DeCastro’s own ineptitude with the technology he uses. As demonstrated with Sunday’s video, DeCastro is ineffective when working in support of his own projects on his own. He would be better suited if he had someone to help with basic studio production, let alone with the promotion and distribution of his signature products.
DeCastro is failing to turn his viewers into customers. The page on his website devoted to presales of his Constitution HQ board game has not had a new sale recorded in the on-screen sales counter in months, and his GoFundMe for help with his lawsuit against two Nevada judges has sat at the same total for nearly two months.
These failures come as SeanPaul “Long Island Audit” Reyes, who is currently dominating the first amendment auditing space. Reyes is experiencing great numbers of sales of his products and pulled in over $40,000.00 to his GoFundMe in just a week after an arrest in Connecticut.
There’s obviously life in the community space, but DeCastro’s ineptitude seems to be holding him back from connecting with his viewers. With 660,000 recorded subscribers, there’s no excuse for DeCastro to put on such shoddy productions.
In the immortal words of Christopher “Denver Metro Audits” Cordova, DeCastro needs to “do better” if he wants to connect with those 660,000 subscribers and turn them into customers.
DeCastro made $39.00 in the 28-minute vertically formatted livestream. It has been viewed 26,884 times since broadcast, received 697 likes to 94 comments and had 880 concurrent viewers at peak.
The YouTuber is expected to return later today as he promised his fans that he would be showcasing his board game.
