This live streamer began filming himself online messing around with an oil match - you can probably work out what happens next.

A cigarette hangs out his mouth as he chats away.

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Japanese Streamer House Fire

Around five minutes into the original footage, the oil match catches on fire and he begins to panic.

He frantically tries to extinguish it before discarding the match itself in a plastic bag - filled with PAPER.

Unfortunately this is just the start of the drama.

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Fire: A small blaze breaks out but this is just the start
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Blaze: The match ignites paper in a plastic and quickly gets out-of-hand

The match is still alight and soon sets alight the paper.

The streamer frantically rushes to put out the blaze, dragging the bag to the other side of the room.

But the fire gets more and more intense as the flames rage.

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Raging fire: The streamer can be seen using a cardboard box to put out fire

Footage shows him using a cardboard box to halt the inferno.

By the end of the film, the fire is completely out of control.

The smoke is so overwhelming, you can hardly see the live streamer.

Japanese Streamer House Fire
Japanese Streamer House Fire

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The scenes - viewed more than 233,000 times on YouTube - feature a man reportedly called 'Ushiro' who lives in Shikoku, Japan.

It is not believed that the streamer or anyone else was harmed in the footage , with one poster describing the incident in several replies as 'minor'.

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Another YouTube poster ChaoticApocalypse said: "It's his stream-chat, a lot of streamers have a text-to-speech thing set up to read out donation messages and stuff, so his viewers were sending him messages.

"When the fire first starts the voice reads out a message saying "Ushiro! Ushiro!" (Behind! Behind!), so one of his viewers was trying to warn him of the burning bag behind him.

"Later on the messages are stuff like "How did this even happen?" and "Why aren't you calling 119?"