Twitch Streamer xQc Says He Knew Gambling Streams Were 'Wrong'

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Popular Twitch streamer xQc admits that his gambling streams were «wrong,» but that he won't be backtracking on the subject. Twitch has been a home of gambling streams for years, with its Poker and Casino categories, but increasingly viewers and streamers have seen gambling content as problematic. Recently, this has led to Twitch announcing bans to gambling streams on its Twitter account, outlining policy changes that would result in the removal of slots, roulettes, and other games that did not provide sufficient consumer protection.

Plenty of streamers had made hours of content based around gambling. Popular Twitch personality xQc in particular was a big proponent of gambling content, having wagered over half a billion dollars through making the content. During a livestream on August 8, xQc even explained that Twitch was highly unlikely to remove gambling from its platform entirely, as so many games featured on it involve money being risked, citing CS:GO cases and FIFA packs to back up his points.

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Now, in the fallout of Twitch banning a good deal of its gambling content, xQc has been speaking out on the attitudes of other streamers. He admitted in a stream taking place on September 26 that his own gambling content and the streams in general were «wrong,» but that he won't backtrack on it unlike other streamers. According to xQc, a lot of other popular Twitch personalities also understood that gambling streams involving slots, roulettes, and other games were wrong, but that they don't want to be «called out for doing something wrong.»

Once other Twitch streamers are called out too much by their fans or other viewers, according to xQc this