Now imagine finding out days later that those moments were being streamed live on the internet to thousands of people.
What’s more, some of those people paid to watch you, commenting on your appearance, sometimes explicitly, or musing about your livelihood.
This was the reality for potentially hundreds of passengers of a ride-hailing service driver in St. Louis, according to a lengthy article published in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch this weekend.
In it, Jason Gargac, 32, a driver for Uber and Lyft from Florissant, Mo., described an elaborate $3,000 rig of cameras that he used to record and live-stream passengers’ rides to the video platform Twitch.
Sometimes passengers’ homes and names were revealed.
Mr. Gargac told the newspaper that he sought out passengers who might make entertaining content, part of capturing and sharing the everyday reactions that earned him a small but growing following online.
Mr. Gargac said he earned $3,500 from the streaming, through subscriptions, donations and tips.