H3H3 Outs Adin Ross and Other Twitch Streamers Gambling – PokerTube

08:2126 Jul

H3H3 Productions has broken a story that a group of Twitch streamers are being paid outrageous sums to gamble on air. Possibly under less than transparent circumstances. The popular podcast hosts discussed the accidental unveiling of one particular streamers negotiations and delved deeper into an area they think should be reviewed by Twitch management.

Back in June streamer Adin Ross unwittingly brought a Discord conversation up while he was live. The 20-year-old who has 4.3 million followers was chatting with an account called DuelBets who claims they offered Ross $2 million per month to stream their slots. Ross countered by correcting them and saying it was, in fact, only $1.4 million because they didnt want to cover expenses.

In a later podcast, Klein invited Adin Ross to appear and discuss what the real situation was. Klein took issue with the fact Rosss fanbase is particularly young, with no doubt the majority being under-age for gambling purposes.

Ross is also involved with Faze Bank, an e-sports organisation that previously caused controversy over a shady online gambling skin, as well as, more recently, being accused of running a pump-and-dump crypto scam.

As a proponent of responsible gambling, we can see why Ethan Klein thinks that Twitch needs to act on this. Bombarding children with gambling content is not positive in any way, and yet little appears to be about to change.

There was a warning shot recently when a streamer of Slovakian nationality played some online poker leading to one Slovak ISP quickly acting to ban the entire Twitch website. This shows how quickly things could sour when governments get involved to protect minors.

Twitch told Wired:

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