In the USA, a controversy over gambling on Twitch has now led to an announcement by the streaming platform: From mid-October 2022, Twitch plans to tighten the rules on gambling. The 3 largest German Twitch streamers in the “Slots” category are reacting to the alleged gambling ban. For Scurrows, orangemorange, and gTasty, it seems that GTA 5 is exciting again for now. Meanwhile, Scurrows is insisting on his rights.
This has now led to the anger:
- In Germany and the USA, there has been a debate for a while about whether gambling on Twitch is acceptable: Streamers are entering deals with crypto casinos and can offset losses. However, their viewers cannot. The accusation circulating is: Streamers would lead their viewers into addiction and bankruptcy.
- Twitch had stated: They were investigating the issue but did nothing for months. Now, a case has come to light where Twitch streamer Sliker became addicted and embezzled money from viewers and friends to gamble on horse racing. Large streamers put pressure on Twitch.
- Subsequently, Twitch stated: On October 18, they will tighten the rules for gambling and ban sites like “Stake.com” – this is the crypto casino that the largest German slot streamers are also connected with.
Scurrows criticizes the ban – as sports betting, loot boxes, and poker are excluded
This is what Scurrows says about it: Scurrows is the largest German-speaking casino streamer with over 4.1 million viewed hours in the last six months. Scurrows had filed a lawsuit after a ban on Twitch and has since insisted on his rights.
Already after the gamescom controversy, he announced that he would take legal action to return to the platform if necessary. He also aggressively countered criticism from a colleague: When he saw his existence threatened, he had a React video removed for copyright reasons, which resulted in a Twitch ban for streamer AlphaKevin.
Scurrows is now mocking the schadenfreude: Because some apparently rubbed it in Scurrows’ face that gambling is soon to be banned. Scurrows writes: ‘I just applied at McDonald’s: Wish me luck.’
He criticizes the actual ban as hypocritical: Because sports betting, loot boxes and poker can also lead to addiction and seduce children – but these are not banned.
He explains that people like Trymacs predict his downfall. They say he is ‘just bankrupt’ – and because people say so, it must be true, Scurrows apparently says ironically.
Overall, Scurrows is taking it easy:
- On the one hand, YouTube is an alternative
- Then Scurrows explains that one must wait for the exact rules. Twitch wants to ban ‘Stake.com’, but whether that is legally okay, Scurrows doubts
- Overall, it is still too early to say that gambling is banned on Twitch – that would only be a PR text, not yet a guideline
But Scurrows now wants to show more GTA 5 on Twitch. But only because he enjoys it, not because he has to.
‘Into the slots (as long as it lasts)’
This is how orangemorange reacts: orangemorange has 2.38 million viewed hours in slots in the last 180 days.
The 29-year-old is also initially mocking the schadenfreude of others. He says he will return to Germany, but only to get money from social services.
Meanwhile, he posts a picture referencing the ‘gamescom’ brawl in which he participated as an ambushing cup thrower.
More important to him than the gambling ban is the news from Twitch that they will keep a maximum of 50% of the revenue – no longer 70%, as some previously top streamers were able to negotiate.
He apparently wants to continue with slots and posts: ‘Into the slots (as long as it lasts)’.
On Twitch, moments are often captured forever through clips:
This is how gTasty reacts: The streamer has 888,685 viewed hours in the last 180 days.
But gTasty is out: He had already announced before Twitch’s announcement that he would stop casino streams and return to playing GTA 5. He is looking forward to that.
Tanzverbot is happy about the ban: “We did it”
How does the opponent react? The opponent of the three at gamescom 2022 was Twitch streamer Tanzverbot. He is pleased with Twitch’s announcement and reports: “We did it.”
The “self-satisfied two German casino streamers” had boasted of having secured better casino deals. Now, however, Twitch has “simply banned gambling.”
Tanzverbot seems to view this as a triumph:
- A user says: The casino streamers have ruined their careers – they will “never get sponsorships again.” He speaks of “karma.”
- Tanzverbot sees it the same way – they have effectively destroyed their careers.
How this will proceed and whether “gambling” on Twitch is really finished, we will see in a few weeks. Streamers like HandOfBlood see little change in the current situation:
In the German Twitch, orangemorange currently has the fifth largest channel: with slots.
With the current gambling streams, the “father of casino streams” in German Twitch has been focused on:
MontanaBlack explains why his gambling on Twitch was okay – but Scurrows and orangemorange’s is not
