Mental health YouTuber swatted during live stream Dr1ven Industries, YouTube \/ Know Your MemeYouTuber \u2018Dr1ven Industries\u2019 focuses on mental health and suicide prevention \u2013 but his charitable mission didn\u2019t stop one malicious individual from staging an attack on the man. Dr1ven Industries was swatted during the last five minutes of live stream on March 11, after a swatter called 911 pretending to be the YouTuber with claims that he had killed his wife and was holding his son hostage. However, Dr1ven does not have a son, and his wife was out of the house at the time of the live stream. Footage from the stream shows police performing a search of Dr1ven\u2019s house, with the YouTuber stating that law enforcement had checked him for weapons and placed him in handcuffs. Despite the frightening incident, Dr1ven does not harbor any hate against the swatter; however, he made sure to give the perpetrator a solemn message, and hopes to follow the case to the \u201cfurthest extent of the law\u201d \u2013 even hiring two detectives to settle the issue. \u201cWhat you attempted to do, you failed at it,\u201d Dr1ven said to the swatter. \u201cAnd if you want to try it again with me \u2013 bring it.\u201d Read More: Death threats over Christchurch shooting lead to PewDiePie making a major change on Twitter – Dr1ven\u2019s post has since been met with an outpouring of support from across the mental health community, with commenters vehemently denouncing the swatter\u2019s actions. The YouTuber\u2019s livestream was created to discuss drama around fellow mental health creator \u2018The Rewired Soul,\u2019 who is undergoing scrutiny for creating dramatic content under the guise of mental health awareness, among other claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mental health YouTuber swatted during live stream Dr1ven Industries, YouTube \/ Know Your MemeYouTuber \u2018Dr1ven Industries\u2019 focuses on mental health and suicide prevention \u2013 but his charitable mission didn\u2019t stop one malicious individual from staging an attack on the man. Dr1ven Industries was swatted during the last five minutes of live stream on March 11, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}