Live streaming users are forever eager to live the whole thing in front of their screens.
Most of the people who love live streaming have, I am afraid, witnessed several times the confusing behavior of the anchors. For example, hours of cursing battles with viewers, or live sleeping ……
The foreign live industry is also “hot”. Recently, a camera pointed at an intersection was suddenly surrounded by tens of thousands of bored netizens for no apparent reason.
In the famous foreign live platform Twitch, the name StopsignCAM live room recently by the foreign network users.
Behind StopsignCAM is a camera set up next to a road fork in a town in Massachusetts, USA. The machine operates around the clock, with the camera looking down on the intersection and centered on the intersection sign “Stop “. In a sense, you can think of StopsignCAM as a civilian traffic camera.
Not surprisingly, the live content of StopsignCAM can only be described in one word: monotonous. You’d be hard pressed to believe that anyone would flock enthusiastically to such a studio and stay for long.
But a puzzling situation has happened.
Open StopsignCAM’s live stream and you’ll see that the 47 hours of live footage from March 22nd has been watched by a total of 440,000 people. In just under a week, the studio has gained 140,000 new fans.
The main pleasure of the viewers staying in the live studio is to see which cars will obey the traffic laws and stop behind the marked white lines according to the signs.
And the Massachusetts drivers who passed through the intersection, unaware of this, did not disappoint the viewers watching the broadcast.
As the owner of the camera wrote in the title of the broadcast, “98.73% of cars do not stop”, most of the cars in front of this sign is only a symbolic slam on the Most of the cars in front of the sign only symbolically slammed on the brakes to slow down and see if there were other cars coming next to the off-ramp; the rest were overwhelmingly ignoring the sign and rushing past at full speed.
The world under the camera formed a strange scene – thousands of people watching the road signs, while the drivers under the camera but ignored the signs.
But whenever a car stops in front of the sign, StopsignCAM viewers will furiously swipe the chat room, and the large number of emojis and the incredible emotions of the watching crowd will make the chat room records scroll rapidly. At the same time, viewers also like to nickname the cars passing by on camera, either as “spring commanders” on the other side of the screen, directing which direction the cars are going, or simply chatting with others in the Chatting with others, it didn’t seem boring.
As the audience of StopsignCAM’s live stream grew, the scene became more and more bizarre. Pedestrians passing by when there are no cars passing by, a florist weeding in front of his house, and an unknown creature crossing the road in the middle of the night all become unmissable high points for viewers during the broadcast.
As for the precise figure of 98.73% written in the title by the owner of the live broadcast, it was actually the result of a calculation made by the audience together with the manager of the live broadcast.
Whenever a car passed by the intersection, the viewers in the live room would enter the password “!Roller” or Zoomer”, and if there is a speeding vehicle, the pop-ups will brush “! Color”. After entering the above password, the script set in the channel will automatically track and count the vehicles. In this way, after one live broadcast the blogger can calculate the probability of the vehicle’s condition at the intersection.
As a result, a seemingly bland and monotonous live broadcast, with traffic violations as the selling point, became quite watchable in a short period of time.
More dramatic things are yet to come.
According to some viewers who have long been concerned about the live room, this live room has existed since last year, usually open camera live only a few people online to watch, only in recent days someone will this live room as a “treasure “Share.
As for why people are interested in the impact of a road sign, no one can say. But in the matter of StopsignCAM exploding on the Internet, someone did actually play a key role.
JhbTeam, a well-known game anchor, was one of the first to discover the fun of StopsignCAM’s live stream. Last weekend, the anchor mentioned StopsignCAM to his fans on Twitter, but overnight he deleted the tweet.
And with just one tweet, it brought more attention to StopsignCAM than ever before. As the number of fans who heard about StopsignCAM grew rapidly, the bewildering whole-live behavior was no longer limited to the live chat rooms.
Some drove up to the intersection in the live feed and posed for the camera. those with talent got out of their cars and back-flipped, then quickly got in and left, while those without talent ran a lap around the car while no one was around.
Those who did not drive here had more to do. For example, imitate the classic “Star Wars” scene, a lightsaber battle. Or simply dance around the signs.
On March 24, shortly after deleting Twitter, JhbTeam posted another StopsignCAM-related video on its Tik Tok account, featuring a compilation of people doing all sorts of weird and wacky things on camera, which now has more than 2 million views and has logically pushed the popularity of StopsignCAM to new heights The video is also on Tik Tok.
Also on Tik Tok, the intersection under the lens of StopsignCAM has become a netflix location, where a video is recorded and then linked to the live camera of oneself, arguably the most eye-catching way to hit the spot.
According to JhbTeam in his own words, he posted this video on Tik Tok with the aim of indeed getting StopsignCAM noticed by more people. But the buzz around StopsignCAM is now a bit more than he expected.
This contribution was apparently also seen by the owner behind StopsignCAM, who gave JhbTeam a special status as a live stream manager. JhbTeam posted a video on his Youtube page to explain the whole thing, and in the video JhbTeam also expressed his pride in the privilege he was given. Even though he has a major job to keep him busy, JhbTeam still says that he is happy to open the live stream once in a while to manage the netizens who are full of thoughts about how to live the whole thing.
Now, StopsignCAM has been on the air for less than a week, and has not been on air since the end of the live broadcast the day before yesterday. This “separation” time, netizens have been a little impatient.
Some people have started to speculate about the real purpose behind StopsignCAM and the current situation of the people behind it.
In the StopsignCAM column on Reddit, a user claiming to be in the know claimed that the heat and near-surveillance of StopsignCAM has now caused discontent among local residents, so the broadcast has been suspended.
“As far as I know, the channel is temporarily off the air because of complaints from neighbors.”
These things are not confirmed at the moment – when some gaming media tried to get in touch with the owner of the StopsignCAM live stream, the other party declined to be interviewed for the time being.
The incident has also caused concern among some fans. Because it’s not hard to find StopsignCAM through the location of the live camera, and there’s no guarantee that the disgruntled local public will find the owner behind the camera any sooner.
Robert, the fan who performed the lightsaber confrontation in Star Wars on camera, said in a media interview that they had found the house where that camera was located at the time, but the participants all decided not to reveal the information to anyone. “I’m worried about the owner behind StopsignCAM being exposed and the camera being taken down, and I want this live stream to continue. “
In the two days without the broadcast, StopsignCAM’s buzz is still festering, and the people who follow him on the Internet are no longer limited to American netizens; people are curious about the magical intersection in Massachusetts. It’s hard to say if the sign that says “STOP” will be a novelty and man-made attraction in the area after the epidemic is over.
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