WTF?! Viewers will reportedly pay $7.50, or 50 yuan, to watch Chinese livestreamer Fanqie Jiang Ye twirl in her chair. Clips shared online appear to show people repeatedly paying to have their chair turn. The stunt turns a livestream into something viewers can pay to control rather than just watch, raising a familiar question for Black Mirror fans: How much control over another person should you gain through a payment?
It is said that viewers are paying to turn the streamer’s chair, not just to send a gift or message, although key details are still unclear. The original livestream has not been independently verified, and available reports do not indicate exactly how payments trigger defecation or whether the creator can pause their movement.
The footage also offers little information about the equipment that turns the chair, the software that receives the paid interactions, or the connection between the two.
We also don’t know how the system handles multiple payments arriving close together. Each interaction reportedly triggers a full rotation, but it’s unclear how requests will be handled while the chair is already moving.
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Much of the online reaction focused on the prospect of paying to control another person’s physical performance. Users have compared the stream to Netflix’s sci-fi anthology “Black Mirror,” particularly the episode “Common People.”
The seventh season opener centers on Amanda and Mike, a couple who rely on subscription-based technology to keep Amanda alive. As the service becomes increasingly expensive, Mike makes money by injuring and humiliating himself on a livestream for paying viewers.
While the comparison to Black Mirror is striking, Jiang Ye’s case is certainly less serious. Still, it raises the question of what paying a viewer entitles you to do. Until the livestream’s rules are reviewed, the footage cannot clarify whether viewers are enacting an agreed-upon performance or pushing it beyond the performer’s limits.
