Streamer Claims To Have Beaten Non-Existent World Record, Getting Swatted In The Process

Summary

• Attempting the no-sleep world record can have dangerous effects on the body and is no longer recognized by Guinness.
• Norme's livestream of his world record attempt faced platform bans and controversy for risking his health.
• Norme's health rapidly deteriorated during his attempt, leading to concerns from viewers and police intervention.

Subjecting yourself to sleep deprivation is never a good idea — it's considered a form of torture and is outlawed in the Geneva Convention.

YouTuber's Stream Removed For Attempting No-Sleep World Record

Norme's attempt to break the no-sleep world record has been removed from YouTube after 250 hours, causing him to move to Kick.

That did not stop streamer Norme from trying to break the world record for the longest time awake, something he believed he had done in a very troubled stream. Unfortunately for him, his efforts were in vain, as the world record is no longer recognized by Guinness.

I hope this goes without saying, but this is an incredibly stupid record to try and break for anyone, let alone without any medical staff present. The effects that more than 24 hours without sleep can have on the body are bad, let alone 11 days.

Norme Reportedly Makes It To 265 Hours

Streamer Norme's world record attempt is mired in controversy for a myriad of reasons.

Firstly, the record no longer officially exists. In 1997, Guinness World Records, the authority in world record keeping, stopped recognizing the world record for the longest time to stay awake due to "inherent dangers associated with sleep deprivation." They confirmed that when the record was retired, the world record time for staying awake was 453 hours and 40 minutes, an ungodly, unhealthy feat. Prior to that, Randy Gardner was the original record-holder at 264 hours and 24 minutes.

Now, to start with, it looks like Norme didn't do his research prior to his world record attempt. The streamer set himself the aim of beating Gardner's record, seemingly unaware that it had been totally eclipsed years later. This means that even if Norme's time of ~265 hours was verified, it wasn't even close to breaking the record. But it likely wouldn't be verified.

Norme's efforts started on YouTube. However, after concerns about his health, the streamer was banned, leading to downtime in the stream. Norme then moved to Kick and swiftly faced a similar ban, resulting in more downtime. Platforms were evidently unwilling to allow somebody to pose such a risk to their health. The "record" was finally "broken" on Rumble. With at least two periods of Norme not appearing on camera, it's likely his efforts would have been chalked off - had the record still existed. And if it wasn't almost 200 more hours than Norme had managed.

But stream downtime wasn't Norme's only issue. With his health and mental state deteriorating, there were worrying periods in the stream in which Norme was laid out on the floor, unresponsive, with his friends trying to wake him up, seemingly more worried about his world record attempt than his health. There's every possibility Norme would have achieved some level of microsleep here, and given he was off camera, once again, his record would likely have been invalidated.

Norme's plan has a third flaw. Multiple people have claimed that he didn't actually start at zero and that his timer was set hours into the challenge to make it look like he was further in than he was. However, this remains unverified.

Norme's Health And The Swat Attempt

Norme's health began to rapidly deteriorate somewhere between the 200-250 hour mark. His speech became slurred, he struggled to read, and there were occasions when he lay unresponsive on the floor.

With his friends seemingly focused on his world record attempt, a viewer swatted norm, with the police arriving at his house, but no further action was taken.

The police were unable to affect what Norme was doing, so concerned viewers reportedly called an ambulance to his property, but the stream continued.

As Norme approached the 264-hour, 24-minute mark, his friends began a countdown, blissfully unaware that he would, in fact, not be breaking anything but his mind.

After the ordeal, Norme is now streaming himself sleeping on Twitch, presumably the best slumber of his life—a much safer alternative. Here's hoping there are no long-term effects.

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