Asmongold vows to never \u201csell out\u201d and get paid to gamble on Twitch Twitch: AsmongoldAsmongold has been outspoken about his issue with sponsored gambling streams on Twitch, and he doubled down on his stance by vowing to never \u201csell out\u201d and get paid to do it. Twitch\u2019s acceptable of streamers to host sponsored gambling streams on their platform has been the hottest topic for some time now. It returned to the spotlight once again after xQc hosted one for the first time in a year. Not everyone is against them, especially those like Adin Ross who get paid lucrative amounts of money to do them. However, a chorus of streamers have spoken against it, including Pokimane, Sykkuno, and Asmongold. Asmon has been particularly outspoken about it. However, rather than blaming individual streamers like xQc, he believes the solution is to tackle the root of the problem by making sponsored gambling streams illegal. During a stream on May 18, he also vowed to never \u201csell out\u201d by hosting a sponsored gambling stream himself, explaining he has no reason to do it because he has plenty of money and it would ruin his reputation. \u201cThe reason why I\u2019m not going to take a gambling sponsorship, or I really wouldn\u2019t want to, is that I have no plans on doing that,\u201d he said.\u201cIf [a gambling sponsor] offered me $20 million a month, I wouldn\u2019t do it.\u201d Asmon explained that he has \u201cno reason\u201d to do it: \u201cI already have a lot of money, and the real reason why, here\u2019s the truth, and it\u2019s kind of an ego reason, is because I plan to make content for the rest of my life. \u201cI\u2019m not planning on retiring next year. I\u2019m planning on continuing with my company (OTK) and being successful with this for the rest of my life, so why would I sell out [to gambling sponsors] and damage my reputation?\u201d Asmon doesn\u2019t subscribe to the idea that gambling streams are bad content because they\u2019re boring. \u201cGambling is not bad content. If it were bad content, it wouldn\u2019t be some people\u2019s most popular streams,\u201d he said. However, he does believe that if Twitch continues to let them run rampant on the platform, it will inevitably \u201churt\u201d the website and have a negative effect on revenue, support, funding, and in turn, popularity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Asmongold vows to never \u201csell out\u201d and get paid to gamble on Twitch Twitch: AsmongoldAsmongold has been outspoken about his issue with sponsored gambling streams on Twitch, and he doubled down on his stance by vowing to never \u201csell out\u201d and get paid to do it. Twitch\u2019s acceptable of streamers to host sponsored gambling streams […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}