A day after telling a group of Japanese livestreamers and YouTubers that he would stop livestreaming on trains, American streamer Johnny Somali was at it again today. However, he was being followed by Guts, a Japanese YouTuber known for catching voyeur photographers and chikan.
The police were eventually called and are questioning both of them. The police are telling him that the both of them are going to be taken to the police station.
The police are being very patient as he repeatedly tells them his a "victim" and wants to leave. The police are not letting him leave. He is accusing them of racism. For some reason, they are not taking away the phone he is using to livestream.
The situation has dragged on, with police telling him he needs to go to a police station where there is an interpreter who can figure out his side of the story. When he tells them he is "okay* to leave, they told him other people are "not okay."
Johnny Somali's mobile connection is terrible and only 5 second clips are appearing at random between loading messages. Here is one brief part of the stream where the police seem to have an interpreter on the phone.
He tried to just walk away, but the moments after this he was followed again and the police stopped him again. The police are saying that they cannot protect him unless he goes to the police station, and if he keeps streaming his location, he's going to be followed by people.
The police seem to be treating him like the actual victim here, saying that he should stop streaming and trying to get him to go in a direction away from the vigilante YouTubers (who have not totally left the scene).
The Japanese police actually led him to a taxi so he could move away from the people following him. Sorry everyone who was watching this who were hoping to see his arrest. (He's still streaming though, so it could happen later.)
He went to a bar in Shibuya, had a drink, and then freaked out because one Japanese streamer with a camera started filming him. Ran straight to a taxi and fled the scene. Johnny Somali seems genuinely terrified about being filmed in public by someone else.
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