He says that this is actually nothing different from gambling. He sees parallels here.
Overall, xQc feels once again unfairly persecuted: He is doing nothing different than many other streamers. He is very open and transparent about the streams. He feels he is getting an unjustifiable amount of hate. It is said that he makes “shameless deals”, even though everyone around xQc in Texas is making exactly such “shameless deals” and operates sponsored streams.
He feels he is being criticized for things that others do constantly and get away with. He finds that unfair.
In the stream, when he had to listen to fans say he had led them to gamble away their money, xQc said, “I want to censor that, but I won’t. You guys are overreacting,” followed by “Gambling is bad, gambling is shit” and ultimately turned off the auto-read messages, as bigwinboard reports.
What’s behind it: Gambling streams have been around on Twitch for a long time. Normally, this is done by small, specialized streamers.
The problem here is that the most popular streamer on Twitch is indulging in gambling, exposing many young people to these mechanisms. The same phenomenon occurred in Germany when MontanaBlack, the largest German streamer, turned to casino streams.
The field of “casino streams” is apparently highly profitable for streamers:
- On one hand, they receive money from the casinos and sponsorship offers: MontanaBlack was even promised shares in a casino
- On the other hand, the content is well received by viewers. It’s somewhat addictive.
xQc is apparently currently seeking new content. In recent weeks, he has been highly successful with streams of GTA 5. He has played on the server “No Pixel 3.0”, but has since been banned four times:
Streamer loses rank 1 on Twitch because he is too toxic even for GTA 5
He feels he is being criticized for things that others do constantly and get away with. He finds that unfair.
In the stream, when he had to listen to fans say he had led them to gamble away their money, xQc said, “I want to censor that, but I won’t. You guys are overreacting,” followed by “Gambling is bad, gambling is shit” and ultimately turned off the auto-read messages, as bigwinboard reports.
What’s behind it: Gambling streams have been around on Twitch for a long time. Normally, this is done by small, specialized streamers.
The problem here is that the most popular streamer on Twitch is indulging in gambling, exposing many young people to these mechanisms. The same phenomenon occurred in Germany when MontanaBlack, the largest German streamer, turned to casino streams.
The field of “casino streams” is apparently highly profitable for streamers:
- On one hand, they receive money from the casinos and sponsorship offers: MontanaBlack was even promised shares in a casino
- On the other hand, the content is well received by viewers. It’s somewhat addictive.
xQc is apparently currently seeking new content. In recent weeks, he has been highly successful with streams of GTA 5. He has played on the server “No Pixel 3.0”, but has since been banned four times:
Streamer loses rank 1 on Twitch because he is too toxic even for GTA 5
He says that this is actually nothing different from gambling. He sees parallels here.
Overall, xQc feels once again unfairly persecuted: He is doing nothing different than many other streamers. He is very open and transparent about the streams. He feels he is getting an unjustifiable amount of hate. It is said that he makes “shameless deals”, even though everyone around xQc in Texas is making exactly such “shameless deals” and operates sponsored streams.
He feels he is being criticized for things that others do constantly and get away with. He finds that unfair.
In the stream, when he had to listen to fans say he had led them to gamble away their money, xQc said, “I want to censor that, but I won’t. You guys are overreacting,” followed by “Gambling is bad, gambling is shit” and ultimately turned off the auto-read messages, as bigwinboard reports.
What’s behind it: Gambling streams have been around on Twitch for a long time. Normally, this is done by small, specialized streamers.
The problem here is that the most popular streamer on Twitch is indulging in gambling, exposing many young people to these mechanisms. The same phenomenon occurred in Germany when MontanaBlack, the largest German streamer, turned to casino streams.
The field of “casino streams” is apparently highly profitable for streamers:
- On one hand, they receive money from the casinos and sponsorship offers: MontanaBlack was even promised shares in a casino
- On the other hand, the content is well received by viewers. It’s somewhat addictive.
xQc is apparently currently seeking new content. In recent weeks, he has been highly successful with streams of GTA 5. He has played on the server “No Pixel 3.0”, but has since been banned four times:
Streamer loses rank 1 on Twitch because he is too toxic even for GTA 5
The currently largest streamer on Twitch is Félix “xQc” Lengyel (25). He has now accepted a sponsored stream and played blackjack live on Twitch in the casino. This “gambling stream” is harshly criticized by viewers and colleagues. The streamer entices young viewers to gamble. But xQc does not understand all the fuss. He is very transparent and open. Furthermore, “Pokémon” openings are hardly anything different.
What has xQc done now? During a normal stream on April 22, the controversial streamer xQc landed in a crypto casino, on a gambling website.
He told the viewers with a grin beforehand: He had promised them long ago never to engage in gambling and had never done so. Then he mumbled something incomprehensible along the lines of “Let’s just leave it at that” and got started.
He wanted to clarify that his trip to the casino was not sponsored. Overall, he admonished his viewers:
Gambling is bad. Don’t do it. I shouldn’t do it either.
xQc
Afterwards, he then gambled for an hour on Twitch and “won and lost $70,000,” as he himself writes.
4 Hours Sponsored Stream from the Crypto Casino
On April 24, xQc streamed for about 4 hours again from the casino as part of his regular 10-hour program in the categories “Slots” and “Blackjack”. This time, however, the stream was sponsored by the crypto casino he was in:
- xQc played a few hands at a blackjack table with a real dealer
- He played at various virtual slot machines
The casino is described as “unlicensed”. On reddit, a user points out that one is actually not allowed to play in the casino if one is based in the USA (via reddit).
The stream was hugely successful, at one point almost 120,000 viewers watched xQc while he was playing slots.
In doing so, xQc made it clear over and over again how bad it actually was what he was doing. His stream on April 22 was titled “RARE GAMBA STREAM (PLEASE DONT GAMBLE EVER) (DONT USE ANY OF THESE SITES) (GAMBA = BAD FOR LIFE) STARTING AT 30K).
This is the criticism from fans: Even while he was streaming, xQc received quite a bit of feedback in the chat. People wrote their messages and the automatic program read them out loud:
- “I watched you play slots and tried it myself. I lost all my money. I can’t pay my rent. Will you give me my money back?”
- “I could have used my money to pay off my loan, now I’ve lost everything.”
- “30% of your viewers are under 18 and use mommy’s credit card: We are watching Félix lose 100k.”
Asmongold: Casino is 1000 times worse than girls in bikinis
This was the criticism from colleagues: The big WoW streamer Asmongold said he hates gambling. Twitch should ban it. “Gambling is a thousand times worse than bikini girls”. (via twitter).
xQc had previously complained about the streamers in bikinis. “The Hot Tub Meta is the most pathetic thing that has ever happened on Twitch.”
The streamer Moist Ciritical also criticized xQc: Gambling is growing bigger on Twitch and that is dangerous. He actually has no problem with it, but when he notices that many young people are watching it, he finds it concerning. If your favorite streamer has a big payday and you are an easily impressed teenager, that could become a problem.
This is how xQc reacts to the criticism: xQc dismisses Moist Critical’s criticism. He has also streamed “openings” of Pokémon cards. In this scenario, streamers open old, valuable packs of the trading card game Pokémon in hopes of finding particularly rare and thus expensive cards.
He feels he is being criticized for things that others do constantly and get away with. He finds that unfair.
In the stream, when he had to listen to fans say he had led them to gamble away their money, xQc said, “I want to censor that, but I won’t. You guys are overreacting,” followed by “Gambling is bad, gambling is shit” and ultimately turned off the auto-read messages, as bigwinboard reports.
What’s behind it: Gambling streams have been around on Twitch for a long time. Normally, this is done by small, specialized streamers.
The problem here is that the most popular streamer on Twitch is indulging in gambling, exposing many young people to these mechanisms. The same phenomenon occurred in Germany when MontanaBlack, the largest German streamer, turned to casino streams.
The field of “casino streams” is apparently highly profitable for streamers:
- On one hand, they receive money from the casinos and sponsorship offers: MontanaBlack was even promised shares in a casino
- On the other hand, the content is well received by viewers. It’s somewhat addictive.
xQc is apparently currently seeking new content. In recent weeks, he has been highly successful with streams of GTA 5. He has played on the server “No Pixel 3.0”, but has since been banned four times:
Streamer loses rank 1 on Twitch because he is too toxic even for GTA 5
He feels he is being criticized for things that others do constantly and get away with. He finds that unfair.
In the stream, when he had to listen to fans say he had led them to gamble away their money, xQc said, “I want to censor that, but I won’t. You guys are overreacting,” followed by “Gambling is bad, gambling is shit” and ultimately turned off the auto-read messages, as bigwinboard reports.
What’s behind it: Gambling streams have been around on Twitch for a long time. Normally, this is done by small, specialized streamers.
The problem here is that the most popular streamer on Twitch is indulging in gambling, exposing many young people to these mechanisms. The same phenomenon occurred in Germany when MontanaBlack, the largest German streamer, turned to casino streams.
The field of “casino streams” is apparently highly profitable for streamers:
- On one hand, they receive money from the casinos and sponsorship offers: MontanaBlack was even promised shares in a casino
- On the other hand, the content is well received by viewers. It’s somewhat addictive.
xQc is apparently currently seeking new content. In recent weeks, he has been highly successful with streams of GTA 5. He has played on the server “No Pixel 3.0”, but has since been banned four times:
Streamer loses rank 1 on Twitch because he is too toxic even for GTA 5
He says that this is actually nothing different from gambling. He sees parallels here.
Overall, xQc feels once again unfairly persecuted: He is doing nothing different than many other streamers. He is very open and transparent about the streams. He feels he is getting an unjustifiable amount of hate. It is said that he makes “shameless deals”, even though everyone around xQc in Texas is making exactly such “shameless deals” and operates sponsored streams.
He feels he is being criticized for things that others do constantly and get away with. He finds that unfair.
In the stream, when he had to listen to fans say he had led them to gamble away their money, xQc said, “I want to censor that, but I won’t. You guys are overreacting,” followed by “Gambling is bad, gambling is shit” and ultimately turned off the auto-read messages, as bigwinboard reports.
What’s behind it: Gambling streams have been around on Twitch for a long time. Normally, this is done by small, specialized streamers.
The problem here is that the most popular streamer on Twitch is indulging in gambling, exposing many young people to these mechanisms. The same phenomenon occurred in Germany when MontanaBlack, the largest German streamer, turned to casino streams.
The field of “casino streams” is apparently highly profitable for streamers:
- On one hand, they receive money from the casinos and sponsorship offers: MontanaBlack was even promised shares in a casino
- On the other hand, the content is well received by viewers. It’s somewhat addictive.
xQc is apparently currently seeking new content. In recent weeks, he has been highly successful with streams of GTA 5. He has played on the server “No Pixel 3.0”, but has since been banned four times:
Streamer loses rank 1 on Twitch because he is too toxic even for GTA 5
