"It's the same company!" - xQc calls out Twitch after watching Neymar gamble on stream, says platform is biased

sportskeeda.com:

Felix "xQc" had quite the reaction after watching Brazilian football star Neymar Jr gamble on Twitch, and called out the Amazon-owned company for allowing it to happen after banning Stake and other foreign crypto gambling websites and games such as Slots. While most big streamers who want to gamble have shifted to other platforms, namely Kick, gambling is still a phenomenon on Twitch and is technically legal as long as the website is not on the ban list.

xQc was outraged after finding out Neymar Jr was gambling on stream using a website called Blaze, and reacted thusly:

He's also called out Twitch for favoritism, saying he and Trainwreckstv were victims of biased decision-making when Twitch banned Stake.

Gambling on stream has been a contentious topic in the community for quite a while now, with Twitch banning certain websites and games such as slots back in September of 2022. The move caused quite a lot of controversy after prevalent gambling streamers such as xQc and Trainwrecsktv derided the decision to ban slots and certain foreign crypto websites such as Stake, which were responsible for lucrative deals with these creators.

So when the former gambling streamer saw Neymar playing a gambling game on Twitch, he was shocked. The Canadian creator called it a "pick and choose bullsh*t" that the platform pulled last year to appease people asking for a ban without doing anything meaningful to address the problems of gambling addiction. He bemoaned:

This argument is not exactly new as Trainwreckstv has aired similar grievances in the past. xQc continued his criticism:

To hammer home his point about the purple platform picking favorites to appease the masses, the Best Variety Streamer at this year's Streamer Awards claimed that