The co-founder of the live video-streaming platform Kick says the streamer who filmed himself taking an unhoused woman to dinner and then running away has been banned from the platform.
Bijan Tehrani, the self-made billionaire who launched the Twitch-like platform in 2022, took to social media early Saturday morning to comment on a cruel dine-and-dash prank a streamer named Dumbdumbjeez played on a victim.
In the clip, the streamer is seen at a restaurant sitting across from a woman named Mabel at the end of a meal.
With the camera focusing on the woman, Dumbdumbjeez receives the bill and reacts as if he has no money to pay for it.
Kick streamer took a homeless woman on a date and then dined and dashed when the bill arrived pic.twitter.com/5M1dpsEDJM
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“I think I left my wallet in my car,” he tells the woman, saying he’d be right back. He then runs from the restaurant and hops on what appears to be a car service that’s waiting for him outside.
Several Kick users watching the scene as it unfolds share comments on the screen using terms that indicate laughter and amusement — a sentiment that was not shared by Tehrani.
“This pathetic and now-banned streamer did this while trying to win a contest for $50k,” he wrote on X while commenting on the prank, which involves taking strangers on a date.
“I’m disappointed this happened on Kick and we’ve got $50k for this lady if anyone can connect us,” he added.
Shortly after Tehrani’s message, a user on X who claims to be Dumbdumbjeez, shared a video explaining that the woman was fully aware of what was happening.
“I had already had a conversation with her about what we were going to do,” he said, adding he had already given the woman money to pay for the bill.
He also admitted he was trying to rig the contest, which requires people to go out on dates with total strangers.
So even if he meant no harm, “at the end of the day [the prank] turned out bad,” the streamer said.