It’s official, the streaming platform has announced that it will crack down on certain practices after streamers have pressed on the issue.
The streaming platform Twitch has therefore announced that it will ban the broadcast of certain games of chance from October 2022. This follows mobilization and pressure from several popular streamers. on the subject. To recontextualize it a bit, gambling and especially crypto gambling have become very popular on the platform. To BloombergStreamers are even sponsored by casinos making slots the seventh most popular category on the Twitch platform.
An official statement from Twitch
Specifically, Twitch states:
We will update our policy on October 18th to ban streaming from gambling sites that show slots, roulette games or craps games that are not legal in the United States or other countries where consumer protections are not adequate.
At the moment, the list in question includes big sites like Roobet.com, Rollbit.com or Stake.com. However, betting as a whole is not prohibited as the press release states:
NWe will continue to allow sites focused on sports betting, fantasy sports and poker.
It must be said that it was difficult to overlook the posts from major streamers like Pokimane and its 315,000 likes. And it is not the only one who is outraged by this type of practice, as we find the hashtag #TwitchStopGambling in social networks. Twitch had to communicate fairly quickly under these conditions.
Given that it’s a big source of income for some streamers, there’s a good chance Twitch will alienate many of them. In short, wait and see but the situation seems very delicate. Especially since streamer ItsSliker was recently accused of embezzling more than $300,000 from its community through this type of process.
