Thanks
@neger psykolog for his community feature post, reminding me that this thread exists. One thing tho
Russian IP2 is alive and kicking, unlike its Western originator
(just check the recent posts in the IP2 thread, it's literally only about Johnny Somali). In Russian speaking Internet, the lolcow community is referred to as "Нижний Интернет" (Literally translated: Lower Internet, because it is considered to be underground). The trash streaming is a big part of the Russian Lolcow Community and is a place where all the lulz at.
Back in the day, Russian Twitch used to be extremely unmoderated, and because of this, we had such iconic moments like
VJLink (Iconic Russian Streaming Lolcow) suffering a stroke and getting help from nurses in front of thousands of Twitch viewers (He didn't even get banned for this, btw

) and a girl getting her eye cut by a knife that was being held by her cat. There's much more than that, but you get the point
These days, the lolcows stream on YouTube and have to constantly jump from channel to channel because they keep getting banned

. I really wish I could give you guys all the details, but the language barrier makes everything difficult to appreciate the Russian lolcow content. Maybe one day I'll make an effortpost explaining all the lore on them (because there's A LOT), but I can't guarantee. Here's an edit for you to get a feel of "Russia Lolcow Lore"
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The same phenomenon exists in Poland to some degree. Here it's called "patostreamy", which basically means "pathological livestreams". It's by no means considered underground given how certain patostreamers like DanielMagical basically reached mainstream attention, and it has gotten government attention back in 2018 when DanielMagical and other patostreamers were at their peak of popularity. Around that period the biggest Polish lolcow in history, Krzysztof Kononowicz, was also in some amount a part of the phenomenon, at one point even collabing with DanielMagical, and in 2023, a crucial personality in the universe surrounding Kononowicz, Wojciech Suchodolski, died on a livestream after getting piss drunk and vomiting up something black.
Now, without going into detail, because
an entire wiki had to be made to document US17, here is the absurdity of the situation.

Wojciech was an avid toluene abuser, which left him mentally impaired, having difficulties with speaking and so on and so forth. He lived in Białystok.

This is Sławomir Nowak. This complete degenerate hails from a village by the Slovenian border called Krzyżowa. He has taken over control over Krzysztof and Wojciech's lives around 2019, used them as puppets to make complete garbage to monetize and essentially lived off of two retarded alcoholics and is directly responsible for the death of both. Krzysztof suffered from diabetes which he would worsen for views, and the same went for Wojciech's toluene addiction. Plus, he ruined a perfectly organic phenomenon for which people loved to watch these two retarded alcoholics and there are no words to describe the hatred the Polish Internet holds towards this cunt and to what he did.

This is Jacek Haraś. Another degenerate and an accomplice of Sławomir that lives in Sędziszów with his parents. Sławomir essentially pimped out Wojciech to him, where he would run a patostream with him, forcing him to drink more and more until he died in his parents' house.
Now, allow me to visualize how fucking absurd this whole situation was in terms of the country.

Sławomir, even though he lived at the literal opposite end of the country, has taken full control of Krzysztof and Wojciech's lives, and pimped Wojciech out to Jacek's house which was within the south of the country, still a shitton of kilometers away from Białystok.
The best part? Despite years and years of attempts to stop Sławomir and his accomplices, despite the mountain of evidence against Sławomir that has been compiled and put forth to authorities, despite this situation getting some spotlight on state TV back in 2022, this was allowed to continue until Krzysztof's death this year, Sławomir and his accomplices are still making money off of YouTube video monetization, and they are
still walking scot free, and as far as I'm aware there has been no legal action taken against them, despite Sławomir and his actions reaching public awareness after Krzysztof's death.
To say that Krzysztof Kononowicz was to Poland what Chris-Chan was to the US would be the most correct way to describe it. They've been active for a very long time, though Krzysztof became known country wide back in 2006 and was one of the very first Polish Internet memes, both had an era where there was a lot of genuinely funny and interesting content, with US17 golden age being around 2015-2018, and both have ended up collapsing as more and more people became aware of them and tried to interfere in the natural cycle of these microuniverses. Sławomir could be described as ILJ if ILJ managed to go through with her plan and convince Chris to kill himself, except Sławomir abused Krzysztof not for fame, but monetary gain, and he doesn't come from a family of feds. This fucker's just a retarded hobo fetishist that somehow managed to pull all of this shit off and not get locked up, so it's even more absurd.
The eastern part of the phenomenon is definitely way more unhinged than this though. Russia's "Lower Internet" and Square Hut is a definitive proof of that. Still, it's funny to see Americans freak out over how deranged the post-Soviet parts of the Internet are, but at the same time it's kinda scary how all of this shit is considered "somewhat normal" here.