Jeremiah Payne ended his six-hour long livestream Monday morning on a downward turn as he said that if he didn’t raise the rest of the money he needed in the next few hours he would return to livestreaming as he was on the phone begging with a court to extend his deadline.
Payne had livestreamed for nearly 10 hours over the weekend after claiming on Friday that he had until Monday to raise $600.00 for a fine or else a warrant would be issued for his arrest, and he would be sentenced to 280 days in jail.
Stating that he was hiding details of the fine and warrant from his “trolls,” Payne would only say that the fine had been around for “years.” This didn’t explain why Payne, who has had great times of popularity over the past “years” didn’t raise money to pay the fine in the past as he’s clearly known about it for some time.
Payne again lashed out at his fans as his side chat was often silent or featuring commentary from a single person, though he had 14 people watching the stream on average. He later claimed that at least two of the viewers were police officers who should be acting on anything anyone did illegal during his livestream.
He again turned to a comment he attributed to YouTuber Fraudit Wrangler, that said that Payne should unalive himself from a previous chat. He claimed the comment was “illegal” and that police should be taking action on it, despite Payne himself not filing a police report on the comment.
Payne then asserted that he downloaded every video made about himself or his family, despite YouTube’s policies against using third party software to download content, as he kept an archive of videos to fuel potential future action against other creators.
Payne also did not take into account the mass number of YouTube members that he has banned from his chat over the past few years. The YouTuber has been known to ban for the slightest of things, often banning strangers after just a few sentences posted in his chat.
While the amount of people who would then donate after being banned is low, Payne, after having a YouTube channel for over seven years, should be aware of the value of commentary on his channel – from both positive and negative commentary – as it tends to grow his community and possible base for donations.
As it stands now, Payne’s own actions are seen by many as the source of his lack of donations. His lashing out at other creators after they refused to help or ignored his cries for help in his “darkest hour” is par for course based on his past negative behavior after attempts were made to help him.
Payne is expected to make one last attempt at livestreaming today as he either pays his fine or he attempts to get an extension from the court.