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What's up with the gambling streams lately on Twitch? (I've read these sponsors pay streamers $1-2 million a month)
- Thread starter hwarang
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They pay well, $35,000 per hour for a streamer like Mizkif.
35K per hour lol
This seems to start happening even in countries where gambling laws are very strict.
I wonder if we'll ever see a streamer go to jail for illegal gambling or illegal advertisement of gambling.
... At least they can pay the best lawyers I guess. What a world.
I wonder if we'll ever see a streamer go to jail for illegal gambling or illegal advertisement of gambling.
... At least they can pay the best lawyers I guess. What a world.
Twitch having a dedicated "Slots" channel that is always near the top of views has always been the most fucking bizarre thing to me.
It makes it feel like Twitch is one big primetime news story away from losing a bunch of advertisers and getting in trouble with the EU if they don't clean up.
It seems the obvious play is for Twitch to make a second 18+ only site for gambling and adult-only streams that separates the advertiser pool and prevents streaming to certain countries, but what do I know.
It seems the obvious play is for Twitch to make a second 18+ only site for gambling and adult-only streams that separates the advertiser pool and prevents streaming to certain countries, but what do I know.
Lol. My friendd has been showing me these AdinRoss streams where he basically wstes 500k$ in under 30 mins playing slots or those stupid mine games. Guess thats how hes getting his cash, this shit is fucking stupid. And people on twitrch actually believe hes wasting his own money or something, when clearly its the website just giving him funds to promote them
Its an awful influence too
Its an awful influence too
I've been waiting for it for years but yeah everything in this post is what's been in my mind too.
Twitch needs to crack down hard on this shit. It's enough for it to blow up in media and they will get themselves in a bunch of trouble both legally and financially with advertisers pulling out. This would affect any streamer that is not associated with any type of gambling.
what's even worse is I decided to watch a stream a couple days in a row and then I realized the entire stream was fake. The chat? all bots. the gameplay on screen? all repeating. Had tons of viewers.
I reported to Twitch what was happening... they didn't do a damn thing about it.
I get some serious organized crime vibes from the slots category.
It'll be so stupid when it happens too because they' had to do was take the time to actually for good what shouldn't be allowed on their platform and issue actual punishments for violators.
Does Twitch want to be the softcore porn and gambling site, or not? This shouldn't be a difficult question to answer.
And that will be the case as long as they keep getting away with it. I literally couldn't care less about what happens to them as a corporation but I do feel for the streamers not taking part in any of this, if their bottom lines end up getting affected.
It's disgusting and I look forward to the day mainstream outlets catch on and start publishing stories about this, especially in countires with strict gambling laws.
Twitch is on the same trajectory Youtube was pre "adpocalypse"
They are. Then they'll over correct so hard people that say fuck will have a hard time finding advertisers.
Twitch is on the same trajectory Youtube was pre "adpocalypse"
In most cases is completely illegal too. The hot site streamers are pushing lately literally says when you load the Website that it is not allowed by law to be used by Americans living in the United States. So they VPN it up and make their money selling fake odds etc.
Theres an Aussie Gambler streamer who plays dumb and is like for some reason this site wont load for me at home. So I use and then they hawk their sponsored VPN as well. The reality being the site is blocked in Australia
Theres an Aussie Gambler streamer who plays dumb and is like for some reason this site wont load for me at home. So I use and then they hawk their sponsored VPN as well. The reality being the site is blocked in Australia
Shame on those athletes for promoting Gatorade to minors. That's a dangerous, sugary habit to get addicted to /s
Well, as with everything it depends
I watch a fair amount of poker streams, hand exposure and watching how others handle hands and betting can improve your knowledge of the game.
However, they have always been a poker streamer. I do know of another that has switched from gaming to poker streaming as well.
But the slot streamers, race betting streamers, the other sports better streamers.
I'm not sure if there is a line or if it isn't already crossed.
However, if this is allowed why isn't hot tub streaming and the like? You can't say yes to gambling, violence and profanity and no to sexuality.
I watch a fair amount of poker streams, hand exposure and watching how others handle hands and betting can improve your knowledge of the game.
However, they have always been a poker streamer. I do know of another that has switched from gaming to poker streaming as well.
But the slot streamers, race betting streamers, the other sports better streamers.
I'm not sure if there is a line or if it isn't already crossed.
However, if this is allowed why isn't hot tub streaming and the like? You can't say yes to gambling, violence and profanity and no to sexuality.
I wasn't making an analogy comparing Gatorade to gambling habits lol. It was in response to posts surprised at how much money twitch streamers actually see by doing shit.
It's only a requirement if the FTC cares, which in Twitch's case they haven't really cared yet. Youtube had to get serious about it because the FTC went after them, albeit very moderately, for their blatant COPPA non-compliance but Twitch has seemingly completely gone under the radar. Eventually Amazon will get hit with some pretty hefty fines over it. Their guidelines for streamers about sponsorship are completely useless, it's consists of exactly 6 sentences and 3 videos none of which lay out in clear language what you are required to do by law, and they clearly don't give a shit about ensuring their users are in compliance.
That makes more sense.
I'm assuming they're being paid by the hour but also being "paid" the money to gamble that they can't actually do anything with? They also probably can't take away any of their winnings if it's "borrowed" money right?
This is a mess to think about.
Rumblings are the deals usually let them keep around 25% of the winnings. So they get their hourly sponsorship money and 25% of winnings. Which is why you'll see someone like XQC somehow magically get 2 400k jackpots in a short span of time. Something no slot machine is doing on the legit regular. Because it creates massive hype and they only have to give him the 200k meanwhile people are like that could be me getting 800k.
All again while being illegal as a US Resident Gambling Online on a website that warns is not allowed to be used by Americans due to laws
The rig is even more obvious for the full time slot streamers - streamers are given big bonus wagers from the casino site when their balances get too low, so they always have enough to "beat" RTP over the long run and can afford getting huge wins even when the wins eventually dwindle down to losses. The catch, of course, is that they can't ever actually withdraw these earnings - so it's basically play money. Viewers don't really absorb the constant losses that happen the vast majority of the time, but big occasional wins are obviously turned into widely shared hype clips, and the casino gets to make it look like anyone can get a big win.
Since the streamers can't truly withdraw winnings, the casino pays these streamers separate sponsorship amounts to continue streaming.
Now when it comes to xQc and other non-full time slot streamers, they aren't given big bonus wagers (as far as I know), so they are playing with what is their own money and they can withdraw at any time - but, as the OP in this thread points out, they are given absolutely huge bonus payments by the casinos to do this since RTP will otherwise statistically cause them to gamble themselves into a loss otherwise.
They pay well, $35,000 per hour for a streamer like Mizkif.
If he accepts and does it for 8 hours everyday, for a year, it gets him $8.4M a month and $101M a year...
I know and that's the point…. Everything is permitted to desensitize children/young adults but never let them see a mother breastfeeding, know where babies come from, or even say the words penis and vagina.