Twitch’s Greatest Streamers Are Asking the Platform to Get Rid of Playing

Among the largest stars on Twitch, together with Pokimane and Hasan Piker, are rallying behind the hashtag #TwitchStopGambling to ask the corporate to ban playing from its platform after one in all their fellow streamers revealed that he has a playing dependancy.

Abraham Jehad “Sliker” Mohammed, a streamer on Twitch who performs video games like Valorant and Counter-Strike World Offensive however extra generally chats together with his followers, was referred to as out yesterday by some his followers, in addition to his fellow streamers for taking cash from them with out paying it again as a way to gasoline his playing dependancy. Streamers like Hasan Piker, Matthew “Mizkif” Rinaudo, and Félix “xQc” Lengyel joined collectively on a Discord call on stream to confront him about his actions. On the decision, Sliker advised them that he acquired into playing by gambling on skins in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in 2017. As soon as he realized he might gamble with cash, he began borrowing from his managers and household. He was in a position to cease for a time, however as soon as he began streaming, Sliker says that his playing drawback acquired worse.

“There’s no such factor as stopping in playing. For me, there was no such factor,” he advised Mizkif and Piker on stream. 

In a stream, Sliker apologized to his fanbase and particularly the folks he has “accomplished soiled.” He stated that he’s going to rehab for his dependancy.

“I don’t want to elucidate how large of a factor it’s. It’s made me an unwell particular person. It’s made me into an evil particular person,” he stated. “Mainly the end result is, you lose the whole lot in life for those who do that. It turns into worse and worse and worse and worse except you get the assistance that you just want.”

Playing, and in particular crypto playing, has not too long ago change into very talked-about on Twitch. According to Bloomberg, streamers are sponsored by casinos for playing streams, and have made “slots” the seventh most popular category on the platform. Presently, nearly 60 thousand individuals are viewing the slots class on Twitch.

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Over not less than a yr, Sliker had reached out to fellow streamers in addition to his personal fanbase to ask for cash, Sliker confirmed on the decision with Mizkif and Piker. Piker stated that Sliker requested him for cash, which he gave, and in his personal video on the topic, Twitch streamer Ludwig Ahgren says that he was additionally approached for cash from Sliker and that he gave it to him. In accordance with Sliker, these funds had been then used to pay his playing money owed and to gamble much more. These streamers estimated that Sliker took round $300,000 from his colleagues and followers.

“Twitch ought to eliminate fucking playing,” Ahgren stated on a video on the subject. “I really feel like that solves it, as a result of playing is clearly right here to remain in society, not less than in America. It’s going to be laborious to go in opposition to that. But it surely doesn’t need to be sponsored this overtly, folks can’t gamble this frivolously, this usually.”

After Mizkif’s stream with Sliker, Mizkif, together with Ahgren, Piker, and Imane “Pokimane” Anys, have referred to as for Twitch to ban playing. 

Within the hashtag #TwitchStopGambling, followers of streamers are sharing their experiences of playing and Twitch. Some say that they had been launched to slots and sports activities betting from Twitch streamers.

Twitch and Silker didn’t reply to a request for remark.