Twitch has made millions of dollars off gambling content, which is an important piece of the business that it isn’t eager to give up. It succumbed to peer pressure when it announced the ban last year. But it isn’t willing to let go entirely.<\/p>\n
Streamer xQc, whose channel often published gambling streams, became a casualty of the ban. He’s now calling out the platform for maintaining double standards.<\/p>\n
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Trainwreck, another high-profile gambling content streamer, recently called out Twitch for allowing online slot and casino content. These are two areas that the company specifically said it wouldn’t allow. But he provided evidence that they’re alive and well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
In one of his broadcasts, Trainwreck showed another channel that was recording online slot play. It had about 20K concurrent views, and Trainwreck wanted to know how Twitch could allow it. The company never responded.<\/p>\n
xQc backs him up. He said Twitch has to evenly enforce the rules across the board, not pick and choose where it wants to apply them. However, without some sort of intervention, Twitch will continue to do what it needs to do to protect its bottom line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“Sliker” helped put gambling in a bad light last year when the popular Twitch streamer outed himself for scamming others to feed his habit. Twitch kicked him off the platform temporarily before the channel suddenly came to life last month. But that return was short-lived. It was made public in late September that the content […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":258495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[82205,82695,82852],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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