Twitch.tv streamer Brian 'PoShYbRiD' Vigneault has been found dead after a 24-hour streaming session for Charity on Twitch. It's speculated that he died due to heart complications from severe sleep deprivation. 
 
 Here's the known information about the incident so far, via a mod posting in PoShY's Twitch chat: 
 
 Known info so far: Around 3:30AM CST Poshy said he was going for smokes and left the stream running, He never returned. around 11AM CST we were all still here assuming he had fallen asleep. around 19:00 Sorelor sees him online in discord and messages him. The person who responded identified himself as a detective and asked Sore to call him. Sore spoke wiht him, Called the Virginia Beach police department to confirm the detectives identity. The detective confirmed Brian had passed. 
 
 Poshy was very well known for chain smoking and drinking on stream, and was a popular streamer of World of Tanks. The WoT community was informed just 18 hours ago, and many in the community have sent their condolences. 
 
 This is far from the first time that someone has died after playing video games for an extended period of time. There were a few notable cases of folks dying in PC bangs in South Korea and Taiwan - but they weren't live streaming when it occurred. 
 
 As a word of caution, any streamer (experienced or not) should not attempt a 24-hour live stream (or more) without seeing a physician first to be sure that their body can handle it. 
 
 It's also worth pointing out that while this is an extreme example, much of Twitch's community feel like they have to always be streaming in an effort to grow their fanbases. Kotaku recently did an interview with a variety of streamers about the pressures they feel to keep the momentum going - well worth the read to learn a thing or two about the folks who sacrifice their personal lives to keep us entertained. 
 
 Update: The Virginia Beach Police Department confirmed Poshy's death to Kotaku, but has not yet pinned down the exact cause of death. 
 
 The moderators of Poshy's Twitch stream have turned his channel into a memorial, where users have been sending their condolences. 
 
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 World of Tanks streamer Brian “Poshybrid” Vigneault died from unknown causes on February 19 after streaming for 22 hours. He was 35 and a father of three. 
 
 
 
 Vigneault was streaming to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Vigneault would spend multiple days in the same week streaming for upward of 20 hours. The charity stream was the culmination of one of those weeks. 
 
 
 
 According to stream moderators (via PVP Live), Vigneault got up to go smoke roughly 22 hours into his stream, at around 3:30 AM CST. Initially, viewers assumed he’d fallen asleep. The next day, however, a friend saw him on Discord and sent him a message. The person who responded wasn’t Vigneault. Instead, it was a detective from the Virginia Beach police department, who said they were investigating Vigneault’s death. 
 
 
 
 Video courtesy of LiveStreamFails. 
 
 The Virginia Beach police department confirmed to me that they are investigating Vigneault’s passing, although they’ve yet to pin down a cause of death. 
 
 
 
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 Vigneault was well-liked among the community for World of Tanks, the game he streamed most often, and many people who were close to him are now mourning. His gaming clan, FAME, posted a grief-stricken message on Facebook: 
 
 “Sad news from Virginia beach, one of the most famous NA streamers and a member of our clan Poshybrid has passed away at the age of 35, we just can not find words to describe how sad is this moment for all of us and for sure this game will not be the same without the legend. Maybe the saddest lines can not really be written, and the saddest thoughts can not really be uttered, let’s all hope that he is in a better place right now and may his soul Rest in Peace, he will never be forgotten... a person who stays in our hearts never dies...” 
 
 Vigneault’s Twitch channel has been deemed a “memorial channel” by its moderators, and longtime fans have been paying respects and sharing memories in the chat. 
 
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 While playing video games for extended periods of time might not seem like the most strenuous activity, it can take a serious toll. Especially in recent times, streamers have spoken about the pressure they feel to stream for longer and longer, both to obtain notoriety and to maintain it. Some have reported issues like depression and anxiety stemming from that pressure, as well as sleep deprivation. 
 
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 With nobody looking over streamers’ shoulders and telling them when to clock out, it can be a dangerous line to walk. Here’s hoping this is the last incident of this sort, rather than the beginning of a tragic trend. 

 World of Tanks | 21 February 2017 Twitch streamer Brian “Poshybrid” Vigneault dies during 24-hour charity livestream 
 
 Brian “Poshybrid” Vigneault, a World of Tanks Twitch streamer, has died from unknown causes during a 24-hour charity livestream. 
 
 The 35-year-old father of three was 22 hours into his stream on February 19, which was raising money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, when he disappeared from the stream for a cigarette break. He never returned. 
 
 Vigneault had been doing marathon streams over the course of a few weeks, and when he didn’t return viewers thought he had fallen asleep. 
 
 According to fans on his Twitch chat, he left the stream running at 3:30am CST and went for a smoke. Viewers at 11am CST assumed he had dozed off. At around 19:00 that night, one viewer saw him appear on Discord and sent him a message, but it was a detective who responded. 
 
 The detective told the concerned viewer that Vigneault had passed away. The identity of the detective was confirmed with a phone call to the Virginia Beach Police Department. 
 
 People have previously died during marathon gaming sessions. In fact, it’s a semi-regular occurrence in Korean PC bangs. The cause of death for Vigneault has not been confirmed, however. 
 
 Via The Sun.
– It started as just another day at the office for Brian "Poshybrid" Vigneault, a 35-year-old gamer known to spend multiple days in a given week live-streaming himself playing the game World of Tanks for 20-plus hours straight. This time, however, the Virginia Beach father of three got up to smoke a cigarette 22 hours into his stream about 4:30am EST on Feb. 19 and never returned. People figured he fell asleep, but when a friend sent a message the next day, the response came from a police detective investigating his death, reports Kotaku. The exhausted-looking father of three had been streaming on the gaming platform Twitch to raise money for the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and PCGames reports he'd been doing similar marathon gaming streams over the past few weeks. While the cause of Vigneault's death hasn't been determined, PVP Live reports that much of the speculation centers on sleep deprivation and related heart complications. The site notes that big-name streamers have been complaining about the pressure they feel to go for longer and longer stretches, and Vigneault was known for chain-smoking and drinking during his own sessions. Vigneault's death is being mourned online, with the moderators of his Twitch stream turning his channel into a memorial. (This man died during a three-day gaming binge.)