Nikolay Fedorovich Lebedev
| Nikolay Fedorovich Lebedev | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 14, 2000 |
| 🏳️ Citizenship |  Moldova |
| 💼 Occupation | tiktoker, streamer, video blogger, hip-hop artist. |
| 📆 Years active | 2016–present |
| Known for | Nekoglai |
Nikolay Fedorovich Lebedev,[1] known as Nekoglai (Russian: Николáй Фёдорович Лéбедев; born November 14, 2000, Chișinău) is a Moldovan tiktoker, streamer, video blogger, and hip-hop artist.
On January 10, 2022, Nekoglai, together with streamer Ivan Zolo, set a record for viewers on a live broadcast in the Russian-speaking Twitch community.[2]
On November 9, 2022, Nikolai was detained in Moscow and deported to Moldova following a court ruling by the Presnensky Court of Moscow.
Biography
Nikolai Lebedev was born in Chișinău, Moldova. When he was 9 years old, his mother died of cancer, and when Nekoglai was 10 years old, his father died of tuberculosis, after which his older brother began to take care of his upbringing.
He began to conduct live broadcasts on the Twitch video streaming service in 2016. He played Dota 2 and Counter Strike: Global Offensive mainly on live broadcasts.
In May 2021, he shot a video in TikTok, which brought him his first fame. Nekoglai made a reaction to the video of Russian singer and rapper Egor Kreed and shouted in it: «Razryvnaya! Yumorish, yumorish!» (Russian: Разрывная! Юморишь, юморишь! lit. Explosive! Humorous, humorous!).
Later he met Ivan Zolochevsky from the Moscow region, who also shot videos in TikTok, under the pseudonym «IvanRofel2004». They began to conduct joint live broadcasts and duets in TikTok, and later began streaming on Twitch.
On December 22, 2021, streamers set a record for the number of simultaneous viewers of the broadcast on Russian-language Twitch – 261 thousand viewers watched the broadcast at the same time, and on January 10, 2022, they broke their own record – there were 578 thousand people at the peak of the broadcast.
On the night of May 6, 2022, Nekoglai had an accident in Moscow, resulting in a concussion. The driver died on the spot.[3]
Persecution
On November 7, 2022, he posted a video in TikTok with a parody of a Russian soldier throwing Ukrainian grenades, with the song Rasputin by the German group Boney-M.[4][5] This caused a negative reaction from the head of the Safe Internet League Ekaterina Mizulina, who called Nekoglai a "bantling".[6] On November 9, he was detained and taken to the Babushkinsky court in Moscow, where he was fined five thousand rubles and sentenced to deportation to Moldova, since he is its citizen.[7] On November 10, a video spread on the Internet in which Nikolai, shaved bald and having visible bruises, declares that he "feels like an animal" and apologizes for the recorded video.[8] According to his friends, the blogger was beaten,[9] cigarettes were extinguished on his head.
On November 24, Nekoglai was deported to Moldova on a connecting flight in Armenia.[10]
While in Moldova, on December 4, he released a video titled "Exposing the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The history of the lawlessness of the Russian Federation", in which he spoke about the tortures inflicted on him by employees of the Russian special services. In particular, he claimed he was beaten, stripped, raped with a bottle, his hair was torn and his head was sliced by a razor when he was forcibly shaved. He was denied access to his lawyer and was held in a solitary confinement for a week. The belongings he had on him when he was detained, including 200,000 of Russian rubles and two iPhones, were confiscated without being filed in the detention protocols.[11]
Discography
Singles
- Razryvnaya (Rus: Разрывная) (2021)
- Kolyan (Rus: Колян) (2021)
- Obychniy paren' (feat. ivanzolo2004, prod. Slava Marlow[12]) (Rus: Обычный парень) (2022)
- Gangster (feat. Daniil Stepanov) (Rus: Гангстер) (2022)
- Cumback (2022)
- LED (2022)
- Na Den' Interesna (feat. Danya Milokhin) (Rus: На день интересна) (2023)
On March 3, 2022, Nekoglai released track «Cumback».[13] He got into the ratings of the TopHit website, namely: the fourth place of the chart «The best YouTube clips in Russia for a week»,[14] and also took 49th place of the chart «New Russian Spotify hits in Russia for a month».[15]
References
- ↑ Cumback, retrieved 2022-11-12
- ↑ Temnikova, Ksenia (2022-11-08). "Who is blogger Nekoglai, who recorded a parody of the feat of a Russian fighter". Izvestia (in русский). Retrieved 2022-11-12.
- ↑ ""It's not our fault". Blogger Nekoglai – about the fatal traffic accident in Moscow". m24.ru (in русский). Retrieved 2022-11-12.
- ↑ "TikTok star mocked Russia – expelled". Norway Posts English. 2022-11-11. Retrieved 2022-11-12.
- ↑ "Blogger Nekoglai detained in Moscow". Forbes.ru (in русский). 9 November 2022. Retrieved 2022-11-12.
- ↑ ntv.ru. "Mizulina called blogger Nekoglai a "freak" and asked to check him for discrediting the army". NTV (in русский). Retrieved 2022-11-12.
- ↑ "Court decided to deport blogger Nekoglai from Russia". RBC (in русский). 9 November 2022. Retrieved 2022-11-12.
- ↑ "TikToker Nekoglai apologized on camera for a parody of a video with a Russian soldier who was lying in a trench and throwing grenades away from himself". Mediazona (in русский). Retrieved 2022-11-13.
- ↑ "Blogger Nekoglai (9.5M on TikTok) was expelled from Russia. After his arrest, he was shaved bald and, apparently, beaten. At the court hearing, he cried and asked to be deported as soon as possible". Meduza (in русский). Retrieved 2022-11-13.
- ↑ "Blogger Nekoglai (9.5M on TikTok) was expelled from Russia. After his arrest, he was shaved bald and, apparently, beaten". Meduza (in русский). 2022-11-24. Retrieved 2023-04-05.
- ↑ "Blogger Nekoglai told how security forces forced him to sit on a bottle". The Insider (in русский). Retrieved 2022-12-05.
- ↑ "Nekoglai released a musical clip". IA REGNUM (in русский). Retrieved 2022-11-12.
- ↑ "New Russian hits on Spotify in Russia for a month - Music Charts TopHit". TopHit (in русский). Retrieved 2022-11-12.
- ↑ "Music charts for the 10th week: Gayazov$ Brother$, "Leningrad", Lusya Chebotina and others are leading". www.intermedia.ru (in русский). 2022-03-17. Retrieved 2022-11-12.
- ↑ "New Russian hits on Spotify in Russia for a month - Music Charts TopHit". TopHit (in русский). Retrieved 2022-11-12.
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