Kick streamer Jia Ning Chen, known online as JollyIRL, confirmed Tuesday that she is alive and mostly unharmed after her livestream abruptly cut out during a bungee jump in Pattaya, Thailand.
Chen, a 20-year-old Japanese-American creator based in the United States, was broadcasting the stunt as part of her ongoing Southeast Asia travel series on Kick when the feed dropped mid-jump. Viewers heard her scream as she stepped off the platform. The sudden blackout fueled rapid speculation across X that she had been seriously injured or worse.
Some accounts claimed she was in critical condition. Others went further and reported she had died. Clips of the jump circulated widely, including one shared by the account @viewsceo that captured Chen walking nervously onto the platform before leaping.
Chen later posted on X that her phone connection had simply failed at the worst possible moment.
“I’m good I’m not dead my arm and neck just hurt I think I got whiplash BUT I see some of the reactions and realize some of yall AINT SHIT,”
she wrote.
She followed up with a video response that addressed the harsher comments directly. In the clip she said she had seen people celebrate the idea of her death and declare that no one would care if she were gone.
“Every single one of you who has been happy and said ‘W my death’ or ‘nobody would give a f*ck if she died,’ I’m using all that anger and hatred, and I’m casting f**king voodoo spells on every one of you,”
Chen said.
The streamer, who also goes by JollyRancherZoo and maintains roughly 45,000 followers on Kick, has built an audience through high-energy IRL travel streams, emotional moments, and chaotic real-world interactions. Her bio on X lists her as born in 2006 with Japanese and American roots. She has been documenting a multi-country trip through Southeast Asia, with the bungee jump occurring on what she labeled Day 4 of her Thailand segment.
Fellow streamer Sneako watched the circulating clip and voiced concern on stream, saying the audio of the jump “does not sound good at all” and that he hoped she was okay. Other creators and clip accounts amplified the uncertainty until Chen herself cleared it up.
Chen later returned to Kick for a post-jump stream from her hotel, still discussing the incident and the online reaction. In a subsequent X post she acknowledged that she had “crashed out” in the moment and expressed some regret while noting she is human.
No official reports of injury beyond Chen’s own description of arm and neck pain have surfaced. The bungee operator has not issued a public statement. The episode underscores the risks IRL streamers take when broadcasting high-adrenaline activities from locations with variable safety standards and unreliable mobile connections.
Chen remains active on Kick and X, where she continues to post about her travels and respond to viewers.
