Daredevils og Wu Yongning

What is a daredevil, and how do you achieve the title daredevil? To start off, a daredevil is a person, who does extremely dangerous things. It could be a lot of things, all the way from surfing to jumping out of a plane, or even walking on a very tight line at very high heights. Many people do some of these things, and that’s why from every less daring persons perspective, they seem crazily insane, because who in god’s name would ever want to do such a thing as: Highline walk, surfing huge waves, climbing without proper gear, freediving or parachuting. But for the persons who does it, it’s not insane at all. Every one of these daredevils are driven by different thing. Some of them are driven by the adrenaline rush, while other might be driven by the believes of achieving more than done before, or even breaking a record.

Wu Yongning

Wu Yongning was a Chinese daredevil, who lived of doing crazy stunts to satisfy his fans. He made 550.000 yuan a month. 550.000 yuan is the same as making 83.000 dollars a month. The way he made his money, was live streaming him doing stuns, and making videos on YouTube with ad revenue. After his death when no one knew he was dead yet, all his fans started getting curios, to why he hadn’t posted anything, on social medias yet. It was only a week after his death, that people found out. They only found out about his death because his girlfriend leaked a clip, of him in his final moments. He died trying to perform a stunt on top of a 62 storeys skyscraper, and while he was hanging on the site of the building, he started getting weak after having performed a few stuns, and when his arms couldn’t hold on to the building anymore, they simply let go which let to him falling. Wu Yongning also said while he was alive, that he doesn’t think anybody should do something as crazy as he does.