Pokimane, Asmongold Snub xQc, Refuse Gambling Sponsorships
Pokimane and Asmongold recently weighed in on the growing controversy around gambling sponsorships. The popular streamers and content creators both said they would refuse such sponsorships regardless of how much money could be made from them.
The contention all began when xQc started accepting gambling sponsorships and handing out promotional codes. The content creator claimed that he would stop accepting them last year before admitting that he had a problem with gambling. “I’m just easily addicted, so I just shouldn’t gamble,” xQc said at the time. “I still do it. Is that good? No, that’s terrible. That’s an illness. That’s ill. I’m ill. But you know what? I can afford to be ill. I’m lucky.” The streamer later said he lost over $2 million to online casinos.
The controversy reached a fever pitch earlier this year when xQc announced that he would be partnering with an online casino called Stake. The news later broke that his followers gambled away $119 million after claiming his promotional codes. “It’s not that bad,” xQc tried to explain. “$119 million. It’s not crazy. That’s rookie numbers compared to some of these nutjobs.” When he was criticized by a few of his followers, the streamer described how the money “always comes back somehow.”
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While the content creator has always been outspoken about gambling sponsorship, Pokimane recently snubbed xQc, saying that “we should say fuck gambling and fuck somebody’s microtransactions that take advantage of people.” Pokimane added that “I’ve had a lot of friends tell me that they have a number, right? Is it three million a month? Five?” The streamer went on to say that “I don’t have a price" because the "guilt
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