Pump.fun reopened its livestreams today for all users. The platform is now applying proactive guardrails and imposing strict rules around violence, criminal misconduct, and other actions.

Although streaming helped launch Pump.fun’s popularity, it quickly grew to a darker side. Streamers manipulated the market, threatened violence, and escalated to tragic outcomes.

Pump.fun, the meme coin launchpad, has been at the center of a few controversies. Still, the platform enjoys broad popularity, and it’s officially trying to relaunch one of the things that first boosted its notoriety.

After several months of disabling them, Pump.fun is fully enabling livestreams for all the platform’s users:

“Pump.fun livestreaming has been rolled out to 100% of users with industry standard moderation systems in place and transparent guidelines. If you’re a creator and are looking for any support, feel free to message us,” the platform claimed in its official announcement.

Livestreams on Pump.fun might be the most controversial feature of the platform’s history. This function was initially created to help meme coin creators promote their tokens, but it soon faced intense backlash.

Token promoters would use live streams to sell complete scams and engage in market manipulation. However, these were far from the worst offenders.

As these Pump.fun live streams got out of hand, scammers engaged in dangerous and illegal stunts to achieve notoriety. Sexually explicit material and other unlawful activities were just a prelude to further escalation. The most egregious streamers demanded users buy their tokens or threatened violent actions.

These threats included animal abuse, self-harm, and suicide. Thankfully, no one carried through with the most extreme threats. Pump.fun closed down their livestreams last November after a user called “Beni” threatened one such false suicide stunt.

Unfortunately, ending the service didn’t stop further incidents. In February, after streaming had been closed, user “MistaFuccYou” livestreamed his genuine suicide on a different platform.

Before taking his life, he encouraged viewers to launch meme coins in his name. Dozens of these products soon went live on Pump.fun, further tarnishing its reputation.

This sordid incident attracted extensive mainstream coverage and may have kept Pump.fun’s livestream service closed even longer. Now, however, it’s ready to try again.

Earlier this week, it quietly rolled out the function to 5% of users, including strict new content guidelines. Today, it was relaunched with full functionality to 100% of the users.

Positively, the platform’s new livestream moderation rules are much stricter, with eight prohibited categories. These include violence, harassment, sexual content, and several types of illegal activity.

Users who violate the policy may have their livestreaming privileges revoked, accounts disabled, and content reported to law enforcement where applicable.

So far, this rollout has received a positive response from the community. Livestreams helped make Pump.fun famous, and it was a great disappointment that bad actors ruined it for everyone.

Hopefully, these new moderations can keep a fun and lighthearted environment, avoiding both “clean” pump and dump schemes and these darker criminal actions.

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