4chan Frozen Due To Suicide Attempt

[Satan]

Long story short, some stupid attention seeking cunt who called himself "Stephen" lit a fire in the corner of his dorm room, and livestreamed for the 2edgy teens on /b/. I honestly don't give a shit about /b/ being frozen, that board is cancer, but the other boards shouldn't be frozen because of this. It pisses me off when people automatically think that 4chan = /b/. What are your opinions on this, Newgrounds?

Here's the news report, below:
A longtime user of 4chan’s notorious /b/ imageboard apparently attempted to take his own life in a fire Saturday night while 200 people watched on a live video stream.

The 20-year-old, identified only as “Stephen,” announced on the anonymous board that he intended to commit suicide—or “an hero,” in the parlance of /b/.

“As an oldfag who’s been on 4chan since 2004, I thought I would finally give back to the community,” he wrote. “I am willing to an hero on cam for you all.”

Another user responded by setting up a video chatroom on streaming website Chateen. Stephen joined in with the username LOLDoge, a reference to a meme featuring a photo of a Shiba Inu dog that’s recently been popular on /b/.

With 200 viewers—the maximum allowed on Chateen—watching him, and even more clamoring to get in, Stephen downed a combination of vodka and unidentified pills. He set a small fire using a toaster in the corner of his room, and crawled under the bed. The camera was still running.

In a video of the incident, still available on LiveLeak (NSFW), the room fills up with smoke and Stephen apparently starts to burn.

“#imdead #omgimonfire,” he typed from under the bed.

“I’m fuck3d.”

But Stephen wasn’t dead. At least, not yet. The video also captured firefighters entering the room and pulling him out.

Some /b/ users believe Stephen is a student at the University of Guelph, in Ontario, Canada. According to the Guelph Mercury, one person was injured in a dorm room fire on the university campus. That victim is now at Guelph General Hospital with “serious, but non-life-threatening” injuries.

Meanwhile, YourAnonNews, a popular Twitter account associated with the hacker collective Anonymous—which originated on /b/—claimed Stephen had actually died. YourAnonNews cited a news story from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about a house fire that took place at the same time Saturday night. The victim in that fire was pronounced dead at the scene after firefighters pulled him out.

Stephen has quickly become a legend on /b/, earning the nickname “Toaster Steve,” as 4channers speculate about whether he survived the incident.

Update: The University of Guelph confirmed that the student deliberately set fire to his dorm room. The university is "aware that there is disturbing social media activity circulating about this incident."

Update 2: The University of Guelph told the Daily Mail that the incident did, in fact, take place on campus. The victim is still in the hospital with his mother at his bedside. "He can’t talk to anyone at the moment. His mom is with him and we may be able to talk to him in the next day or two. He’s going to be in a fragile state. We’re respecting his privacy and need to recover with the interest it’s a difficult balance," a staff member said.

Source: http://www.dailydot.com/news/4chan-stephen-house-fire-livestream/

[Splats]

(Un)popular opinion of the day: if you're that stupid, you deserve to die

[Satan]

At 12/3/13 08:53 AM, Splats wrote: (Un)popular opinion of the day: if you're that stupid, you deserve to die

I agree.

[generalwinter]

Wow, that is pretty rough, I hope he can get some help. As for the board being frozen, my guess is it is a preemptive measure out of an abundance of caution due to the seriousness of the incident.

[Tony-DarkGrave]

he is a true An Hero, now only if these newfags would get the hint Anonymous is malevolent in nature and go back to the old ways.

[Dragen]

I think he was trying to choke from the smoke under the blanket. And he used the pills so when he passed out he couldn't wake up or escape or whatever.

Also, he showed a text he had gotten that made him decide to kill himself. Does anyone know what did it said on that text?

[Dragen]

At 12/3/13 09:16 AM, Tony-DarkGrave wrote: he is a true An Hero, now only if these newfags would get the hint Anonymous is malevolent in nature and go back to the old ways.

an true hero*

[TurkeyOnAStick]

Anybody who tries to commit suicide for publicity while endangering other people is a colossal tit.

[Luer]

I don't understand why people do this.

[Viper]

So what? No one can post on 4chan now?
Anyone know how long its going to be like that?
I don't care about 4chan. I'm just curious is all.

Also that person is fucking retarded for doing what they did.

[dx5231]

Well, at least OP delivered, something that never EVER happens.

[dx5231]

At 12/3/13 10:01 AM, Viper50 wrote: So what? No one can post on 4chan now?
Anyone know how long its going to be like that?
I don't care about 4chan. I'm just curious is all.

Also that person is fucking retarded for doing what they did.

No, 4chan has been working fine for the last few days, OP don't know what he is talking about. Not even the article says 4chan was frozen. Worse things happened on /b/ (guy said he was going to shoot up a mall and actually ended up doing it, among other things I don't remember at the moment), and it kept functioning. You really think moot would care if someone an heroes on camera after posting about it on /b/?

[Lagerkapo]

God fucking dammit Nappa...

People will an hero one way or the other, it's just too bad they have to do it in a dorm room with fire where other people could get hurt, whilst simultaneously livestreaming it to anyone who wants to watch a poor asshole die...

[Viper]

At 12/3/13 10:30 AM, Lagerkapo wrote: God fucking dammit Nappa...

.

[Satan]

At 12/3/13 10:17 AM, dx5231 wrote:

At 12/3/13 10:01 AM, Viper50 wrote: So what? No one can post on 4chan now?
Anyone know how long its going to be like that?
I don't care about 4chan. I'm just curious is all.

Also that person is fucking retarded for doing what they did.

No, 4chan has been working fine for the last few days, OP don't know what he is talking about.

All of the boards have been unfrozen, now, but they weren't working this morning, you fucking idiot.

[dx5231]

At 12/3/13 11:25 AM, Satan wrote:

At 12/3/13 10:17 AM, dx5231 wrote:

At 12/3/13 10:01 AM, Viper50 wrote: So what? No one can post on 4chan now?
Anyone know how long its going to be like that?
I don't care about 4chan. I'm just curious is all.

Also that person is fucking retarded for doing what they did.

No, 4chan has been working fine for the last few days, OP don't know what he is talking about.

All of the boards have been unfrozen, now, but they weren't working this morning, you fucking idiot.

The article is from 2 days ago, I really doubt moot froze the boards just today because another user an heroed

[Satan]

At 12/3/13 11:43 AM, dx5231 wrote:

At 12/3/13 11:25 AM, Satan wrote:

At 12/3/13 10:17 AM, dx5231 wrote:

At 12/3/13 10:01 AM, Viper50 wrote:

The article is from 2 days ago, I really doubt moot froze the boards just today because another user an heroed

Regardless, the boards were frozen up earlier today, whether it's because of that, or not, I don't know, I assume it was, though.

[Slint]

Can't believe I missed this.

[supergandhi64]

ironically i'll have to see if i got this right . . . a kid has suffers from serious depression & is encouraged by a website to commit suicide. then when this turns out to have consequences for this obviously terrible website you're more worried about the website than the victim & even blaming the victim for the website being down? you see nothing wrong with this? if it were up to me a dangerous site like that wouldn't just be frozen but rather shut down permanently lol

--supergandhi64

[Satan]

At 12/3/13 12:51 PM, Slint wrote: Can't believe I missed this.

Same here, actually, but I never bother going on /b/ anymore. It became shit after 2009ish.

[Klobb17]

At 12/3/13 09:25 AM, TurkeyOnAStick wrote: Anybody who tries to commit suicide for publicity while endangering other people is a colossal tit.

I couldn't agree more. Very few particular situations withstanding, it's selfish enough to outright off yourself for any number of reasons, never mind if you do it in a way that could actually take others with you. Hopefully this idiot doesn't get away scot-free for starting a fire on campus, suicidal or not.

[tox]

4chan seems to be active all over the place

[Stretchysumo]

3 days l8 m8. Toaster Steve is old news now. I was in the original thread, but I left thinking it was just another ruse. I watched a video of the livestream, though. You can't see much of anything happening. He just lies down in a dark, smokey room.

[Darthdenim]

That's an incredible story.

[Dragen]

At 12/3/13 01:30 PM, supergandhi64 wrote: ironically i'll have to see if i got this right . . . a kid has suffers from serious depression & is encouraged by a website to commit suicide. then when this turns out to have consequences for this obviously terrible website you're more worried about the website than the victim & even blaming the victim for the website being down? you see nothing wrong with this? if it were up to me a dangerous site like that wouldn't just be frozen but rather shut down permanently lol

--supergandhi64

suicide is a sin, you reject the life that the almightly has given you. god will judge him correctly, not you.

[supergandhi64]

At 12/3/13 01:54 PM, Dragen wrote: suicide is a sin, you reject the life that the almightly has given you. god will judge him correctly, not you.

ironically if you read my post you'd have figured i'm not blaming the victim but rather the culprit lol

--supergandhi64

[kazumazkan]

It disgusts me that these disgusting fucks would want see some kill then selves

[MadFedora]

Good. One less idiot on this planet. Pity he didn't die.

[Boomstick]

That's retarded, /b/ should definitely be closed down due to a fuckwad trying to get attention. The other parts aren't bad as /b/, they're actually pretty good. But you can never stop stupid people, so there's that.

[Tony-DarkGrave]

4chan is obviously the victim in this!