Monday evening, the Webedia group launched with great fanfare theLIVE, a program “intended for young people and mainly for” Millennials “”, confided Thierry Boyer, director of the project at Puremedias (property of Webedia). The goal: to provide 50 hours of original content per week with a program broadcast daily from 5 p.m. to midnight. All with a three-star cast composed of YouTube personalities known to the general public like Cyprien, Hugo Decrypte or Norman and celebrities of the small screen like Agathe Auproux, Kevin Razy and Michel Cymes.
“The worst show I’ve seen on Twitch”
But on Monday, the LIVE did not receive the expected reception. “The worst show I’ve seen on Twitch”, “Unknown people with no talent”, tackle two internet users on Twitter. For the first, Webedia had taken the risk of broadcasting the program on the dedicated website and on all live streaming platforms: Twitch, YouTube, Amazon, Molotov, Facebook, Dailymotion, Instagram and even TikTok. But very quickly, technical problems appeared with an audio delay of several seconds.
Webedia nevertheless has the means to achieve its ambitions. The second group of French online media (owner of jeuxvideo.com, PurePeople, Millenium, Terrafemina…) employs nearly 2,400 people and already owns LeStream, a French Web TV also broadcast on Twitch, launched three years ago by the youtubers Squeezie and Cyprien.
Too bad the launch of LeLive is not phew with technical problems etc … after we can forgive it is a small independent company it will get better over time
– Sakor | SLY LRB ? (@LRB_LoL) February 3, 2020
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The main interest of these broadcasts broadcast on the internet and not on television lies in the chat on which the spectators can react. But on Monday, the moderators of the show no longer knew where to turn. As a result, very many comments were deleted and ultimately, the discussion spaces were limited to subscribers.
Twitch channel banned after a few hours
About four hours after the broadcast began, the channel was banned from Twitch. A sanction which would be linked to a racist insult pronounced by the host Kevin Razy in the first minutes of the show. Contacted by BFM Tech, Twitch has not yet responded to our requests.
“We had two or three concerns but those who have never bugged by launching a project of this magnitude throw the first stone at us!”, Explains a message published on the show’s Twitter account.
The program will return this Tuesday evening at 5 p.m. It remains to be seen whether by then the Twitch channel will be accessible again. No replay of the first broadcast remains on the Web.
Well! Thanks for all your messages! You made us laugh. We had 2.3 worries but let those who have never bugged by launching a project of this scope throw the first stone at us! ?
(We see you the twittos who will release their best stone throwing meme) #leLIVE– leLIVE (@leLIVEonAir) February 3, 2020
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