Streamer Mops Dies. He Earned Money by Being Beaten
He spent more than half of his life behind bars.
Ukrainian video blogger Sergei Novik, better known as “Mops” or “Uncle Pes,” died at the age of 48.
A resident of Kyiv who spent 27 years in prison, he became known through his YouTube channel, which had just under half a million subscribers. Sergei Novik was convicted repeatedly. The first time, he was sentenced to five years in 1987 for aggravated robbery: to extract money from the victim, the convict inserted a switched-on soldering iron into her anus. Later, Novik returned to prison for similar crimes and claimed he “liked” it there.
Often, Mops monetized his channel by letting his cellmate Andrei Shchadilo beat him on camera for money, fulfilling viewers’ requests.
Nevertheless, Novik and Shchadilo donated part of their earnings to charity.
The first videos were posted on YouTube in 2014.
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