There are many video streaming apps available today.

I used to stream on Nico Nico Live Broadcast and TwitCasting. At the time, there was no tipping system, but Nico Nico Live Broadcast had a paid membership system. I used Nico Nico Live Broadcast for serious event-like streams. Also, during the initial on-site coverage of the Great East Japan Earthquake, I used TwitCasting for live coverage because it was easy.

Live streams often identify the location. This has not happened to me, but there have been cases in the past where people have been attacked and gotten into trouble. There have been some streams with extreme content or where people have committed crimes. There have also been cases where the police have arrested and convicted.

Love can sometimes develop between streamers and listeners. In some cases, it can even develop into a “serious love.” For over 10 years, it was not particularly uncommon for streamers and listeners to have sexual or romantic relationships. This has caused some trouble.
In January 2010, a listener murdered a streamer in an apartment in Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture. In this case, the listener defendant and the streamer victim only met once. Despite this, the listener claimed to be “former partners.” The “intensity of love” depends not on how many times you meet, but on how much you believe it.
And then, a murder occurred during a stream. At around 9:50 a.m. on March 11, 2013, a woman was stabbed by a man with a knife on the street in Takadanobaba, Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo. The woman was walking alone on the street while streaming videos.
When police officers from the Metropolitan Police Department rushed to the scene, they found a woman in her 20s who had been stabbed in the head, neck, and chest with a knife and collapsed. She was taken to the hospital in a state of cardiac arrest, but was confirmed dead about 1 hour and 20 minutes later. A man in his 40s who was at the scene was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
It is unclear how the man felt. There is also information circulating that is unclear as to its veracity, and it has been said that he lent money during the video stream, and that the money was borrowed. There is also information that there was trouble over the repayment. If this information is correct, it means that he even got into debt and some feelings for the woman were welling up.
There have been cases of streamers being murdered in the past, but they were not during a stream. However, in this case, the victim, a woman, was streaming while walking around the Yamanote Line and playing a game. A considerable number of listeners were watching. When the crime occurred, the situation was also broadcast. Some people commented that they “saw it” and “it was traumatic.”
Now that I think about it, more than 10 years ago, I was interviewed by a magazine editor and asked what the next thing to happen in Internet crime would be. At that time, I answered, “Live broadcasts of murders.” At that time, there were already live broadcasts of suicides. Therefore, I thought it would not be strange if there were live broadcasts of murders.
The reason it had not happened before was probably because there were psychological restrictions in place. If so, have the restrictions been loosened? Streamers need to be more careful than ever.

※Translating Japanese articles into English with AI