This streamer is charging viewers $7.50 to spin her chair in bizarre money-making stunt
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WTF?! Viewers are reportedly paying $7.50, or 50 yuan, to send Chinese livestreamer Fanqie Jiang Ye spinning in her chair. Clips shared online appear to show people repeatedly paying to keep her chair spinning. The stunt turns a livestream into something viewers can pay to control, rather than simply watch, raising a question familiar to Black Mirror fans: how much control over another person should a payment buy?
Viewers are said to be paying to spin the streamer's chair, not just send a gift or message, though key details remain unclear. The original livestream has not been independently verified, and the available reports do not establish exactly how payments trigger the chair or whether the creator can pause its movement.
The footage also offers little information about the equipment that rotates the chair,...
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