The Twitch Gambling Meta: Report suggests viewers have already lost thousands following in their favorite streamers’ footsteps
The Twitch Gambling Meta has been a major point of contention for many in the streaming community. With many popular streamers playing slots and other crypto gambling games on the platform, gambling on Twitch has been gaining prominence.
Fortnite, once synonymous with gaming and streaming, was below Slots in the most-watched category on Twitch last week. According to Twitch Tracker, Slots had an average viewership of 61,881 in the last month. This presents a notable rise, compared to 55,504 average viewers for Fornite and 55,601 for Valve's DOTA 2.
With Twitch gambling streamers pulling thousands of viewers to their often sponsored streams, many have condemned the unfiltered access to gambling provided by the platform. Although most make the argument for the latter rather than the former.
A recent Bloomberg report detailing how some Twitch users were influenced by their favorite streamers to start gambling has been making the rounds on the internet.
Cecilia D'Anastasio, a reporter for Bloomberg covering the gaming business, recently authored a germane news article. Through her report, she emphasized how Twitch viewers are developing cryptocurrency gambling addictions after watching their favorite streamers "play" slots on livestreams.
The piece puts a spotlight on the Twitch gambling problem and depicts the story of various viewers who succumbed to gambling addictions after watching it on livestreams. The first story is of a Canadian hospital accountant who got into gambling after watching his favorite streamer Felix "xQc" play it on stream.
After watching the streamer play crypto-slots on sponsored streams for the gambling giant Stake.com, he ended up using xQc's promotional link to make his own luck. However, it got bad
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