The story is reminiscent of some of the most chilling episodes from the British dystopian tech series Black Mirror. A 46-year-old French influencer, Raphaël Graven, known as Jean Pormanove in his livestreams, died Monday, August 18, in southeast France during a livestream on the Kick platform that had been running for more than 298 hours. According to footage shared on social media, the other participants in the livestream noticed Graven had died while they were lying down and cut the broadcast at that moment.

The Nice prosecutor's office opened an investigation into the cause of death, handled by the local judicial police. An autopsy was ordered. At this stage, the exact cause of death is unknown.

On the Kick channel named after his streamer pseudonym, which had half a million subscribers, Graven most often appeared with three other influencers: Owen Cenazandotti, known as Naruto, Safine Hamadi, known as Safine, and a man identified as "Coudoux."

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