ABSTRACT Live streaming has become an increasingly popular phenomenon in recent years and has turned private weddings and funerals into ‘public rituals’ online. This article examines how transition services reinforce collective identity and negotiate meanings via livestreaming-mediated communication. Based on ethnographic data from the French Hmong community, this article illustrates how does the diasporic and marginalized community translate transition moments to solidarity through this mediatization of rituals. This article suggests that exploring the emotionality of livestreaming in diasporic groups can illuminate the mechanism of identity-making in the mediatization era.