5 hours ago, joshnadin said:
Because they're not actually gambling.
The whole essence of gambling is risking
your own money. If it's completely sponsored funds and they're not putting a penny of their on money on the line, it's just the same as playing games in demo mode.
It's also not relatable for the average person. Multi-millionaires can not sustain the level of 'money' these guys put through, never mind the majority of normal people. I find it hilarious that people come into streams like
@LetsGiveItASpin and say that €5-€10 bets aren't high rolling because of the expected standard of what crypto streamers have now installed into people, like $25K bonus' buys and $1,000,000 bonus hunt's are normal.
You do realise that they don't keep what they
'cash out' though, right? They all have different sponsored deals, but if you think they're making millions from gambling, they're 100% not. Some get to keep a tiny, tiny fraction of what they 'cash out', some get the equivalent to a salary for streaming a particular casino, some get revenue based on the amount of affiliate sign ups they generate, and some, a combination of all three, or even different deals.
They're boring. The either dull reactions to winning because they're not actually interested as they don't get to keep any of it, or the clearly over the top acting and screaming is painful to watch. They don't engage with or care about their community.
But more than anything, they're just parasites. Praying on vulnerable people by promoting these unregulated crypto casinos and exposing people to potentially harmful, addictive behaviour, when they themselves aren't actually exposing themselves to the same risk as they're not playing with any of their own money.
These guys have been seen sitting in the land based casinos in real life playing Blackjack with $100 and not being able to reload. Not that there is anything wrong with that if that is what you can afford to lose comfortably, but what happened to the $1,000,000 bullets, bro?
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