Sneako got into a heated confrontation with an angry New Yorker who was angry over being recorded without his consent.
During a livestream on Saturday (April 4), the 27-year-old streamer (born Nicolas Kenn De Balinthazy) was walking near New York City’s Union Square when he was suddenly stopped by a fan who asked to take a photo together.
Near the two-hour and 22-minute mark in the video linked here, Sneako’s cameraman KozuKid turned the camera away, briefly capturing an unidentified man and a woman in the middle of a conversation before zooming in to a scene of other pedestrians making their way through the avenue.
The man then made eye contact with Kozu’s camera and approached them.
“I don’t want myself on your camera. Delete that shit,” said the man, with his girlfriend stepping in between him and Kozu.
“He’s filming me, he’s not filming you,” Sneako answered. “I’m a YouTuber, I’m just making a video.”
“What’s your name?” the man asked, to which Sneako responded, “Hubert.”
“Delete that shit … I don’t consent to that,” the man said, prompting Sneako to ask Kozu to turn off the flash.
Despite Sneako insisting that he wasn’t recording the man and trying to take off, the escalation continued.
“Yo, bro. Did I not just say delete that shit?” the man asked, with Sneako once again claiming he wasn’t recording. “Let me see.”
He continued, “Cut that shit out. I don’t care, I didn’t give consent to that. Your man just sat there and zoomed in on me like this. Nobody told him to do that, bro … The n***a stopped and went like this and zoomed [in] on for a whole minute while I’m arguing with my girl.”
The girlfriend is then heard pleading, “Please do it, can you please do it?”
Sneako then explains that he’s not recording but rather livestreaming on YouTube. The explanation seems to satisfy the angry man but not without a final warning.
“Don’t violate, don’t invade my privacy like that a day in your life. I’m arguing with my girl, this dickhead wanna zoom in on,” the man said. “God bless you. Y’all n****s had Jesus with y’all today, because any other day? I would’ve ran in ‘ya mouth.”
“You don’t need to be disrespectful, we cleared it up,” Sneako answered. “I hope you guys sort it out.”
“N***a, look me up on YouTube,” the man exclaimed. “Go about your life.”
After walking away from the scene, Sneako addressed the incident with Kozu and the chat.
“That's on me. I told you to film that, but I thought it was gonna be discreet,” he admitted. “It's just funny because like only in New York, you're gonna hear people get in arguments with their girl calling them ‘bro.’ ‘Yo, bro, you wild violated. Like, nah, you're talking crazy, bro,’ like at their girlfriend.”
“Could have killed Kozu?” Sneako said while reading comments from the chat. “He wasn't gonna do anything. I can tell you he wasn't on anything because his girl was holding him back. If he was really trying to be crazy, your girl's not gonna hold you back for nothing.”
Further into the stream, Sneako added, “The last person you want to get in a street altercation with is somebody who has nothing to lose. You want to stay away from the crashouts.”
“I'll take responsibility. I did tell you to film them, but you can also work on discretion,” he told Kozu.
