While people attempted to hold back one of the angered patrons from fighting, Ice Poseidon tried to explain the comments. Some members in his party made a few racially offensive jokes among themselves, until a nearby black family overheard the offensive jokes and became annoyed. “If I saved enough money to get there and got there and found out it wasn’t real, that would be really sad.Before they had even left California, Ice Poseidon and some of his friends ran into trouble at a local Denny’s.
Other people experiencing homelessness in the area responded in the same way. “It’s horrible,” said Dominick Alvarado, who said he has lived in Tarzana for ten years and became homeless in the last two. The owner of the Tarzana house, who also insisted on remaining anonymous, fears damaging effects to the property and is vying to work with Google to take the location down permanently.īut it’s evident that people experiencing homelessness in the San Fernando Valley area are victims of this ongoing joke. One current resident of the home who wished to remain anonymous said that nearby restaurants are refusing to deliver food to their address, fearing pranks. Ice Poseidon’s former manager Brent Kaskel said his telephone number listed on the location receives between 10 and 20 calls a day by people looking for a place to sleep. A woman who works for them said she recently had to turn away a man and a woman looking for a homeless shelter, and that they became upset when she responded saying she no idea what they were talking about. These days, the home is being rented out to another group of young businessmen who declined to speak on the record. Inquiries to Google for this article didn’t receive a response. Google does have a policy against fake content, but it’s simple for fans to repost a location if it’s taken down. Yet thanks to the Purple Army, a nickname for Denino’s fan base, the “Ice Poseidon Homeless Shelter” lives on. “At some point I realized it’s not a joke anymore. “You’ve got some sad pathetic people on the internet that literally just don’t care about people,” Denino said, stressing that his hardcore prankster fan base constitutes only a couple hundred people. He now lives in Austin, Texas, and perceives the whole thing somewhat differently. Tarzana-based police officers who allegedly responded to complaints about the house did not return requests for comment.Īfter the streamer house venture didn’t pan out, Denino left LA in late March. The Tarzana Property Owners Association left a note warning Denino and the other streamers in residence to comply with noise and other disturbance ordinances. “People would come, with all their bags and ask ‘Is this the homeless shelter at the mansion?’ And I’m like no, that’s not real,” he said, adding that some people had taken bus rides to Tarzana, some for as long as two hours. Some began pitching tents on the sidewalk outside, drawing the ire of neighbors. The internet personality moved to the $25,000-a-month Tarzana mansion in February with the help of investors who hoped to create a reality-TV style “streamer house” and new streaming platform.īy March, Denino said the Google location was drawing dozens of homeless individuals to his house who thought they would find a place to sleep when they got there. They like to make jokes so they put the house as a homeless shelter on Google so that while I’m streaming I have homeless people coming over bothering me,” said Denino.
Fans then began tagging his places of residence as a homeless shelter as something of an inside joke.
Homeless folks were “some of the nicer people” he would meet on the street, so he would often invite them back to his home, he said. It’s in this environment that homelessness became something of a theme in Denino’s streams.
It’s this sort of mischief that led to Denino’s eviction from multiple homes around Los Angeles, from Beverly Hills to East Hollywood. The online swarm of mostly young men have built a reputation on shenanigans that range from ordering unwanted pizzas to Denino’s house to filing false complaints and prompting the arrival of law enforcement, otherwise known as “swatting.”ĭenino was even raided by the FBI at the Tarzana house in March, on a false tip from a sub-sect of particularly noxious viewers. Prank historyĪs for the culture, Denino’s fans delight in pranking him during streams and watching the ramifications live. A New Yorker magazine profile of Denino reported that his expected income for one month was $60,000. Now his videos rack up hundreds of thousands to a couple of million views. He got his start in his Florida bedroom, streaming travails on a fantasy video game, before moving to the streets of LA around two years ago.
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