Mizkif calls on Twitch to ban gambling in aftermath of Slicker drama

sportskeeda.com:

The Slicker controversy has taken over the streaming community with every major streamer, including OTK co-founder Matthew "Mizkif," reacting to his videos. While some may only limit themselves to criticizing Slicker for his gambling debt, Mizkif took the opportunity to call on Twitch to ban gambling streams on the platform.

The debate about the gambling meta has been going on for a long time, and Slicker's story as a gambling addict who lied to friends and audiences to fuel his addiction has reignited the debate.

The drama started when multiple people, including big streamers such as Lacari, and Mendo, tweeted about Slicker asking them for money under false pretenses but never paying it back.

With a growing number of people accusing him of basically scamming them out of their money, the streamer did a confession stream on Twitch to talk about what he had done and to apologize.

Over the last couple of years, gambling has become a mainstay on Twitch. Slots, a category dedicated to gambling streams, has entered the list of the top ten most watched games on the platform since May.

With big content creators such as Roshtein, TrainwrecksTV, and xQc leading the charge, gambling was officially more popular than Fortnite or Call of Duty Warzone in the last week on Twitch.

Many people on Twitch have been raising issues against allowing gambling on a website mainly used by children to watch video games.

With Slicker going viral for scamming people out of their money so that he could keep on gambling, streamers such as Mizkif had another reason to talk about the bad effects it can have on people.

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While listening to Slicker's story, he muted the stream to call out Twitch about the issue.

Mizkif then pointed out that it