Ludwig & xQc promise to repay Twitch fans \u201cscammed\u201d by Sliker over gambling Twitch: ItsSliker \/ Twitch: xQcAfter Twitch streamer \u2018Sliker\u2019 came forward with his gambling addiction \u2014 and his hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt \u201cscammed\u201d from viewers \u2014 stars Ludwig Ahgren and Felix \u2018xQc\u2019 Lengyel have promised to repay fans who lost money. The estimated debt total is around $300,000. Sliker shocked the streaming community on September 18 when he came forward and admitted to \u201cscamming\u201d viewers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars to facilitate his gambling addiction. While the star claimed he \u201cnever intended in scamming anyone\u201d and would eventually pay back his debts, it has started new discourse on gambling\u2019s place in streaming. Before all that though, some of the internet\u2019s biggest stars want to make sure fans get their money back one way or another. That\u2019s what caused Twitch\u2019s biggest name in xQc to pair with YouTube star Ludwig Ahgren to try and repay the debts. The French-Canadian Twitch star \u2014 who has gambled himself on stream multiple times, and was approached by Sliker to loan some money \u2014 called the situation \u201cheartbreaking\u201d and pledged to help repay the $300,000 lost alongside Ludwig. \u201cWe are aware about this Sliker situation and the victis who were scammed out of their hard earned money,\u201d xQc tweeted on September 18. \u201cMe and Ludwig will be trying our best to get money back to those people. This is about the victims, only them.\u201d Ludwig echoed xQc\u2019s sentiment while also adding onto calls for the Amazon-owned platform to ban gambling streams on their platform: \u201cIt\u2019s time Twitch does something.\u201d In the aftermath of Sliker coming forward about his gambling addiction, thousands have told their stories on social media. The hashtag #TwitchStopGambling has been trending as viewers recount the thousands of dollars they\u2019ve lost after being influenced by the platform\u2019s stars. Other Twitch stars like Imane \u2018Pokimane\u2019 Anys have also spoken out to try and force change. xQc added while the majority of the community\u2019s focus was on Sliker\u2019s actions, there needs to be attention drawn to the \u201cvictims\u201d of the incident. \u201cStop making this about [Sliker]. Some of these people were wronged and need those funds to survive. We only have the victims in mind. Those people are part of our tight communities and we won\u2019t fail them. \u201cSome of the stories are terrible. There\u2019s no way we were going to sit there and watch.\u201d xQc and Ludwig estimate repaying all the debts will \u201ctake some time\u201d, but the duo vow to make right by all. As for Sliker, he admits he will \u201cget help\u201d for his gambling addiction from here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ludwig & xQc promise to repay Twitch fans \u201cscammed\u201d by Sliker over gambling Twitch: ItsSliker \/ Twitch: xQcAfter Twitch streamer \u2018Sliker\u2019 came forward with his gambling addiction \u2014 and his hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt \u201cscammed\u201d from viewers \u2014 stars Ludwig Ahgren and Felix \u2018xQc\u2019 Lengyel have promised to repay fans who lost […]<\/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-54690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54690","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=54690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}