Pokimane demands Twitch gambling ban following ItsSliker scam accusations Twitch star Imane \u2018Pokimane\u2019 Anys is calling for Twitch to ban gambling streams from the platform. Gambling streams and concerns about advertising gambling have been a hot topic on Twitch for quite some time now. With Twitch\u2019s audience being primarily younger viewers, the Amazon-owned platform is keen to find some sort of solution, stating that they take \u201cany potential harm to our community extremely seriously.\u201d Now, even Twitch\u2019s top creators are calling for a crackdown on gambling content on the platform. Pokimane calls for Twitch ban gambling streams On September 18, popular Twitch streamer Pokimane \u2014 one of the platform\u2019s biggest creators, with over 9M followers \u2014 put out a tweet calling for gambling streams to be banned. \u201cLike if twitch should ban gambling,\u201d the Twitch star wrote, which so far has over 125k likes at the time of writing. In other replies, she said: \u201cOnline gambling (and Twitch platforming it) allows for more people to become addicted and start at younger ages. Following on from a message from a user that said the industry makes too much money to be stopped, Pokimane added: \u201cPublic pressure is needed imo. Obviously they won\u2019t do anything as long as it\u2019s free money for them, but that\u2019s not an outcome I want or am OK with.\u201d The tweets from the female entertainer comes just after drama emerged in the community, as Twitch partner \u2018ItsSliker\u2019 was accused of scamming\u2019 fans and fellow streamers for thousands of dollars. He later confessed to the accusations on stream and admitted it was due to his crippling gambling addiction. Many have sided with Pokimane, agreeing that Twitch needs to crack down on gambling streams in some way or another. On the other hand, others have disagreed, and noted content such as hot tub streams are just as bad. Either way, it shouldn\u2019t be too long until we see a response from Twitch, with such a large part of the community demanding for action to be taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pokimane demands Twitch gambling ban following ItsSliker scam accusations Twitch star Imane \u2018Pokimane\u2019 Anys is calling for Twitch to ban gambling streams from the platform. Gambling streams and concerns about advertising gambling have been a hot topic on Twitch for quite some time now. With Twitch\u2019s audience being primarily younger viewers, the Amazon-owned platform is […]<\/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-57729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57729","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=57729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}