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Livestreamed suicide

Suicide committed during a livestream

+249%
vs its own baseline
year on year
+5.0%
per month, last 90 days
82
confidence / 100
475 1,763 3,051 4,339 where it used to sit Oct 25 Dec 25 Feb 26 Apr 26 Jul 26 Sep 26
Attention share · views per billion sitewide, weekly 46 weeks to 2 Sep 2026 Normalised, deseasonalised — sitewide swings removed

Why we think this is real

Six tests · all shown, pass or fail

The floor moved, not just the peak

Its quietest recent week still sits 54% above the old baseline. A news spike leaves the floor where it was.

1.54×

Not one event

Share of the last four months of extra attention that landed in its busiest seven days. High means a single story, not a trend.

26%

Not the calendar

How much of this topic's shape repeats every year. The annual cycle is estimated per topic and divided out before anything is measured.

0%

Human traffic

Bot and scraper traffic is flat across the week. Anything with implausibly low day-to-day variation, or with no weekday/weekend pattern at all, is dropped before it reaches this page.

1.05× weekend

Enough history to judge

Long enough to separate this year's move from last year's level.

327 days

Confirmed somewhere else

No second source yet. Common for consumer and culture topics, which do not show up in developer data.

0 of 4 sources

What it is

Wikipedia

Livestreamed suicide is an internet phenomenon that occurs when a person deliberately broadcasts their suicide through a live stream via online platforms such as social media or video hosting sites in real time to an audience of…

Excerpt from Livestreamed suicide on Wikipedia, by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Trimmed for length.

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