Man gets police visit after staying up for 11 days straight on livestream to beat Guinness World Record
A streamer who stayed up for 11 days straight without sleep has broke the Guinness World Record for staying awake.
YouTuber Norme, 19, is pretty much known for remixing memes and doing viral ranking videos on the platform.
The content creator from Australia also likes to post videos about Minecraft and Rick and Morty, amongst other things.
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Though it seems the influencer with 1.2 million subscribers has received multiple platform bans after violating community guidelines in his bid to stay awake.
He has now gained a significant amount of attention for breaking the record for staying up.
Previously, the record belonged to a man called Randy Gardner, who was
17-years-old when he stayed awake for 11 straight days in 1964.
Although Gardner had the record, it's been reported that two others have got up to the 400 hour mark, but their attempts are no longer recognised.
This is because medical professionals usually need to be there to monitor the individual.
But when it came to Norme, this certainly was not the case, after rebranded himself on streaming platform Rumble ahead of his goal to stay awake for 12 days straight.
Taking to social media, he shared images of police cars and ambulances who watched on from outside of his home.
They were apparently there to keep an eye on him as there were plenty of interruptions throughout the very-long stream.
When the dust settled, Norme managed to stay up for a whopping 264 hours and 56 minutes.
He reportedly had 9,000 watching his stream when he broke the record.
It turns out that Norme would have served pretty well on this old TV show where contestants could win a £100k cash prize for staying awake for seven straight days.
Reality TV show Shattered aired on Channel 4 back in 2004, with some gruelling challenges on hand, pushing participants to their limits.
Controversial and intense, it sparked debates about the ethics of reality TV.
“There was an atmosphere of fun about the whole thing that was very important,” Prof Jim Horne, a sleep neuroscientist at the University of Loughborough, who was an adviser on the show, told The Guardian.
“If there’s a bit of fun and purpose to it, you’ll cope better.”
Clare, the winner of the show, said. “A lot of people have looked back and said ‘That seems really messed up, to stay awake for that long.'"
Topics: Australia, Guinness World Record, Sleep, YouTube, Viral
Anish Vij