Streamers Aren't Holding Back On Jack Doherty's Car Crash Controversy
Streamer and content creator Jack Doherty crashed his car over the weekend and reminded everyone of a very important lesson: Don't text and drive.
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00:00Streamer and content creator Jack Doherty crashed his car over the weekend and reminded
00:05everyone of a very important lesson.
00:08Don't text and drive.
00:09Does he drive and text often?
00:12Bro, if I had known this dude, I would have f-----g out, bro.
00:16Now other streamers are commenting on the Jack Doherty crash situation, mostly to roast
00:20him for being so wildly irresponsible.
00:23Doherty was live on Kik on October 5th when the crash happened.
00:27His friend and cameraman Michael continued filming for the stream while Doherty drove
00:31his brand-new McLaren down the highway through the rain.
00:34At multiple points in the stream, viewers noticed Doherty taking his eyes off the road
00:39to check his phone.
00:40Doherty stepped on the gas and his car hydroplaned, veering out of control into the next lane
00:45of traffic and slamming into the guardrail on the side of the road.
00:49If we were going, and if he would have jumbled his feet, we probably would have been dead.
00:53The car was instantly totaled, but luckily no one was seriously injured in the crash.
00:58As the story of Doherty's crash spread online, people began weighing in on both the circumstances
01:02surrounding the crash and his response in the aftermath.
01:06You'd imagine that the car crash itself would be the peak of this controversial story, but
01:10somehow it's only just the beginning.
01:12Jack Doherty is getting almost as much criticism for his reaction to the crash as he is getting
01:17for causing the accident in the first place.
01:19During clips from the stream, Doherty and Michael can be heard panicking about being
01:23stuck in the car right after the crash.
01:26They briefly discuss shooting out the windows to escape the vehicle, but thankfully, some
01:30people helped them get out of the car without going to that kind of extreme.
01:34I'm so sad right now, sadness, pain, and stress, how sad I actually am.
01:40After getting out, viewers have noted that Doherty asked Michael to keep filming, even
01:44though the cameraman can clearly be seen bleeding from a head injury.
01:48More of Doherty's friends arrived on the scene around the same time as the police and paramedics,
01:53but viewers have noted that Doherty seems more concerned with the damage done to his
01:56car.
01:57As the rain pours down, Doherty strips off his shirt, keeps complaining about how his
02:01car is totaled, and tries to get as much footage on as many phones as possible.
02:06All of this happened live on Kik, and the platform decided to clamp down hard on this
02:10kind of behavior.
02:12Doherty's been banned from streaming on Kik, and the audience reactions seem to suggest
02:16that he might have some trouble picking things back up on another platform.
02:20Jack Doherty actually made a post on X that included clips from his stream, but the post
02:25was quickly covered in community notes, pointing out that Doherty's team seemingly cut the
02:29clips to hide the fact that it'd been speeding down the road while on his phone.
02:33A scroll through the comments on that post will show you just how unhappy most people
02:37are with Doherty right now.
02:39In particular, other streamers have been speaking up about the incident, with some, like Nadeshot,
02:44calling for Doherty to face jail time.
02:46On his own stream, Asmongold watched clips from Doherty's crash and poked fun at him
02:50for seemingly being more concerned about the damage to his expensive car than his friend's
02:55injury.
02:56I'm sure State Farm or Geico, they love Kik streamers.
03:00They can see that about, yeah, yeah, you were on the phone while you were driving."
03:03XQC also weighed in on the incident, and he was extremely bothered by Doherty's obsession
03:09with filming the accident.
03:10Referring to a movie in which Jake Gyllenhaal plays a corrupt photojournalist who sells
03:14footage of gruesome crimes, XQC said,
03:17"'This is weird!
03:20This is the Nightcrawler in real time!
03:22The other guy's injured, and he's asking him to film?'
03:26Some streaming bands have torn communities apart, but a number of content creators and
03:30a lot of the internet at large seem to agree that Doherty at least deserves a permanent
03:35kick-ban for this episode.
03:36It remains to be seen if the incident will have further consequences.
03:40Whatever the case, this controversy appears to be far from settled.
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