on Valve’s marketplace. Because the rarest skins can be worth thousands of dollars, third-party sites use them as “casino chips” for betting on the outcome of, the skin-betting market had an estimated worth of $7 billion. Sliker received money from fans and other streamers under the false pretense that his bank account was locked and that he needed to borrow money to prevent his credit score from taking a hit.
, “I thought he was in need, I thought he legit needed money.” But in Saturday’s video, Sliker admitted that telling people he was simply hard up for cash had been a ruse.skins, but eventually moved on to betting with real money. He initially used money from his first job and “all” of his Twitch income, but it wasn’t enough for him. He started borrowing money from other streamers, lying to them about why he needed the money and what the funds would be used for.
Popular streamers Pokimane, Mizkif, and Devin Nash have been discussing the responsibility of Twitch itself to take action against gambling streams, which some feel are manipulative to viewers and perhaps particularly harmful to young viewers. In a joint stream, they mentioned that some streamers made money from promoting gambling, and that gambling was one of Twitch’s most popular categories.
Oh no...then what... people gonna read a book?
like hunger strike?
Well Twitch is glorifying gambling to minors and then their streamers groom, scam their audience to fuel their gambling addiction.
Remember when big streamers refused to join in on the ADayOffTwitch, when smaller streamers were being hate raided? THIS is what they mobilize their platforms for.. gambling and not hate raids
But, if they ban gambling streams, then don't they gotta ban surprise mechanic streams as well? cause we all say that's gambling too.
I didn't know Twitch Streamers were Unionized
Who’s the target audience for this story?🤣🤣
I see NO talent here.
Who cares?
You mean sex abuser defender and Karen
Scam implies you were dumb enough to fall for it
Why is the author, Sisi Jiang, starting fights (and rumors) about prominent game developers of color? She deleted this, but YIKES. Bogboogie's sin? Being against Sisi's article that DEFENDED predatory Gacha gambling. Now this?
Who?
Jail waiting for him 👍 good night
I will never feel bad for rich people
Twitch would be better off for it
'self-entitled clown with cat-ear headphones demands his voice be heard'
Friendly reminder that Kotaku aren't real journalists.
Oh no the rich people got scammed Damm what a shame
😂
who cares, Mizkif literally turned down a gambling sponsorship because they didn’t offer him enough money lmfao, pokimane is just a virtual signalling clown.
what is mizkif doing at top streamer category ?
Ayo first
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