Popular content creator RiceGum was swatted recently while streaming himself in his car.
(PLGNN) - Bryan Quang Le, better known online as RiceGum is a popular influencer known for his music, along with his streams. RiceGum originally streamed on Twitch, however recently moved over to the platform Rumble, which is known for it's less strict terms of service, which is why it's one of the main rivals of YouTube. RiceGum has been around on the platform YouTube for years, and was extremely popular back in 2017 when he released hit songs such as, "Its Every Night Sis" and "God Church", the former getting almost 200,000,000 views on YouTube. When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, RiceGum changed to streaming as his primary source of content creation.
In recent years, there has been a massive increase in swatting streamers while live. Swatting is a harmful prank in which a caller will fake a 911 call, generally saying that the streamer is some sort of dangerous person, and the police will have to go arrest the streamer. Although most of the individuals doing these kinds of pranks are arrested afterwards, many of them are not. Swatting is extremely dangerous and in the past has even lead to people being accidentally killed.
On his stream titled, "Friday Vibes!! Wya??? COME", RiceGum had gone to eat food and ended up sitting in his car eating, when he saw flashing lights coming towards him. RiceGum noticed it was a police car, and awkwardly waved before stepping out of his vehicle. He was then handcuffed by police officers.
RiceGum said after that somebody had actually called the restaurant he had gotten food from, saying RiceGum had weapons on him, and then the restaurant called the police. Due to this, police were not able to track the caller of the false threat. Recently, law enforcement has tried to prevent swatting through different methods such as recognizing the addresses of popular figures in order to minimize the risk of accidentally hurting the person when they enter, however it's hard to prevent situations like this, with a person in a location other than their home.