Following the Twitch announcement on September 20, the Amazon-owned streaming platform’s terms of service has now been updated to reflect the latest policies prohibiting certain gambling sites as of October 18.
The decision from Twitch came after massive backlash from the streaming community, which reached its peak when it was uncovered that streamer personality ‘ItsSliker’ scammed his viewers and fellow streamers out of over $200k to feed his gambling addiction.
Trainwreckstv, one of the most prominent of all gambling streamers on Twitch, has been raging against new policy updates, even slamming the platform as “corrupt”. Having gambled and promoted the offshore crypto casino site Stake, widely known in the industry for its low player protection and lack of KYC checks, for roughly 16 months, he’s finally revealed the total sum earned for sponsoring the site during his streams.
On October 19, whilst streaming Overwatch 2 with some of his friends, Trainwreck ultimately made the decision to reveal how much he was actually paid to stream his gambling sponsor Stake, saying: “I’ll release what I got paid since the beginning of my contract. I’ve been paid $360 million for 16 months of gambling“. He then continued: “It’s released, it’s done, there you go you dumb f**ks. I could buy Hasan, Poki and Ludwig all together and sell them and buy them again, f**king pussies.”
The Twitch streamer further revealed that out of the $360m earned, over $70m of his earnings were shared with his community: “You wanna know what’s crazy? Of that $360 million, I’ve given away off-stream and on-stream like close to $70 million. Like $75 million. Think about that.” The clip was later removed by Trainwreck himself, without further comment, but we did manage to save this audio clip:
Stake, along with other crypto casinos such as Gamdom, Rollbit and Roobet, have been suspected of giving their affiliates fake money player accounts, thus enabling them to aggressively promote the brands on Twitch and Youtube.
Having done some calculations, one community member came to the conclusion that not even extremely wealthy people (using football legend Ronaldo as an example) would be able to afford to gamble on the level as many of the crypto streamers, who on several occasions have been seen doing $75k spins on Hacksaw Gaming slots.
