PopularTwitchstreamer 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 toTwitch announcing bans to gambling streamson 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. PopularTwitch personality xQcin 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, citingCS:GOcases andFIFApacks 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 popularTwitchpersonalities 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 leads to “backtracking,” where content creators will act as if they have a different attitude towards a topic. Following the news that Twitch was banning gambling, many otherpopular streamers such as Asmongoldand Pokimane spoke out about how toxic these streams were to the community. However, according to xQc’s recent comments, it seems that he believes these views aren’t genuine.
Prior to the stream on September 26,xQc had previously criticized Pokimanefor her views on gambling streams. During a livestream taking place on September 21, xQc was asked by a viewer whether Pokimane, who had posted a tweet criticizing gambling streams, and other streamers going after the content were doing so for the clout. It was then suggested by xQc that a lot of major streamers won’t speak out on a topic until it becomes a public sentiment. While he has been outspoken on gambling in Twitch, this doesn’t mark any new pattern for xQc, who has often been one willing to speak his mind.
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