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Firefighter punished for YouTube side hustle
A Japanese firefighter moonlighting as a gaming YouTuber had cold water poured on his career by public officials, who uncovered the secret side hustle by identifying his voice in the lucrative videos.
An anonymous tip-off prompted Wakayama City in western Japan to launch an investigation into the 33-year-old’s channel, which had around 15,000 subscribers.
But because the firefighter never appeared on screen, a local official had to painstakingly comb through the clips for vocal clues to his identity, the city said.
The man’s salary was cut as punishment for contravening a law limiting public workers’ engagement in commercial activities.
Over a 10-month period he had uploaded more than 300 videos, typically showing him playing multi-player strategy games – racking up around 1.15 million yen ($9,970) in advertising revenue.
“We don’t necessarily think it’s a bad thing that he was a YouTuber,” city official Hidetaka Amano told AFP on Wednesday.
“But it’s the fact he was profiting from advertisement, some of which could be inappropriate in nature.”
His actions, Amano said, had “betrayed the trust of residents in Wakayama”. -gulfnews.com
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Security camera footage from the hotel in Nagqu shows the bear wander down a hallway inside the building on Saturday and force its way through a door into an occupied room.
The guests in the room said they stared at the bear for a few seconds before it left the room on its own.
The hotel owner used a flashlight and other tools to scare the bear and chase it out of the building.The door has since been repaired and the hotel said it is adding additional security measures to keep bears out.
