Sliker reveals true depth of gambling addiction: \u201cI couldn\u2019t control myself\u201d | BeckaTV interview Instagram: sliker0161Kick star BeckaTV sat down with banned Twitch streamer Sliker to speak with him about the true depth and meteoric aftermath of his gambling addiction almost a year after it was exposed to fans. In September 2022, prominent Twitch streamer \u2018Sliker\u2019 was accused of scamming his fans out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Numerous viewers and even fellow streamers came out with claims that they had been approached by Sliker with requests for money \u2014 each hearing a different story from him as to why he supposedly needed the funds. Sliker went live with an emotional apology shortly thereafter, tearfully admitting that he\u2019d scammed many of his fans and fellow creators out of money due to a crippling gambling addiction. The incident sparked backlash against Twitch for allowing gambling on its platform, with the site facing pressure from massive creators like Pokimane to change its guidelines. While Twitch eventually did tweak its rules regarding gambling, the outrage against Sliker remained. It wasn\u2019t long before Sliker\u2019s partnership with Twitch was revoked, and the \u2018subscribe\u2019 button was removed from his channel. Eventually, he was banned altogether after the streamer claimed he\u2019d been allegedly \u201chacked\u201d in January 2023. Sliker appeared to lay low for some time after his channel got the boot, but since then, he\u2019s been quietly streaming on Kick. Now, nearly a year after the gambling drama took over social media, Kick star BeckaTV got the chance to sit down with the streamer to discuss the aftermath of his gambling addiction and his plans for the future. Sliker claims he was constantly gambling \u2014 even at funerals During their conversation, Sliker revealed the true depth of his gambling addiction. He claimed that he approached everyone from high-profile streamers, to viewers, and even his own family, lying to them about why he needed money and where the funds were going. \u201cI was a gambling addict,\u201d he admitted. \u201cI scammed a lot of people to fuel up my addiction, because I would gamble a lot of money every day. I had no money to gamble with \u2014 my own money, because I\u2019d already wasted it. I\u2019d go to streamers, every streamer I ever knew. I\u2019d even ask xQc, Mizkif, anyone. My viewers. I\u2019d ask my friends, my family.\u201d \u201cThere were times when I even scammed my parents. My dad \u2026would find out that the money was gone, but I\u2019d lie to him and be like, \u2018Oh, I paid taxes, and I\u2019ll pay you back later.’\u201d Sliker said he was gambling constantly \u2014 when he was at the hospital, when he was streaming, and even when he was attending funerals. \u201cIt was weird. What it will do to you is weird,\u201d he explained. \u201cI\u2019d have Bet 365 on the right side and I\u2019d m*******te watching p**n. \u2026weirdly, it would get me h***y, as well.\u201d \u201cI would go to funerals, hospitals, always on. 24\/7. Sh*tting, hospital, showering. \u2026wherever you can think of. Name one place, I\u2019m on it. On the plane to America, there was Wi-Fi 3G, I\u2019m on it, betting on it.\u201d Sliker reveals effects of gambling addiction on his mental health Sliker said that his addiction had devastating effects on his mental health. According to the streamer, he\u2019d smack his head against the wall when he lost bets and even had thoughts of self-harm due to his constant need to gamble. \u201cI couldn\u2019t control myself. I couldn\u2019t stop myself. I know I\u2019m an adult, I\u2019m 28 \u2026I know it sounds ridiculous and stupid or whatever, but I couldn\u2019t control myself. I couldn\u2019t. I wanted to do it. I had to do it, you know?\u201d \u201cOnce I would take [out] the money, I would cry, but once I\u2019d jump on and play, the tears would be gone, and I\u2019m on it and I\u2019m excited, because my mind is more of, \u2018I\u2019m gonna win. I\u2019m gonna bet, and I\u2019m gonna sit down, and I\u2019m gonna entertain myself.’\u201d \u201cWhen reality hits and I lose, I go in my bed and I\u2019m like clenching my fist, and I smack the pillow, smack my head against the wall. At the start, it wasn\u2019t like that. Eventually, I\u2019d go outside and be like, \u2018I want to disappear.\u2019 I\u2019d have suicidal thoughts. A lot of suicidal thoughts.\u201d Sliker says his family doesn\u2019t trust him anymore as a result of his gambling addiction. In fact, he says that his name has been taken off of his home, and claims his family even controls his bank card. \u201cHe lost all his trust [in me],\u201d Sliker said of his father. \u201cThe house was going to be under my name. He removed that. When he went abroad, I could hear him on a phone call upstairs, I could hear my dad speaking to my mother like, \u2018Make sure you hide the jewelry.\u2019 \u2026ever since then, my sister took control of my bank card.\u201d Sliker wants to \u201cfix his wrongs\u201d After his gambling addiction came to light, prominent streamers xQc and Ludwig offered to repay victims of Sliker\u2019s scam \u2014 an amount allegedly totaling around $300,000. However, Sliker says that some of his victims wouldn\u2019t accept that money, and wanted Sliker to pay them himself. He also claims that the amount he scammed was \u201cdefinitely more\u201d than the $300k figure tweeted by xQc. Although Sliker admitted that he thought of ending his life as a \u201cway out,\u201d he realized that this wouldn\u2019t be fair to his victims \u2014 some of whom had \u201csold their stuff\u201d to get money for him \u2014 and that he needed to make things right. \u201cWhen I started doing a normal job, and I started sitting down and realized like, damn, I could kill myself,\u201d he told us. \u201cBut that\u2019s not what should have mattered. Because the people I took from \u2014 people would sell their stuff to give me money. And they could have went through suicide. \u2026they could have went through triple, quadruple, or 100 times more pain than what I did.\u201d Sliker says that he still owes a few people money, although much of his debt has been cleared thanks to his own efforts and the help of other streamers. In fact, Sliker says he has a document with a list of everyone he still owes on his PC at home, of which he keeps close track. Kick gives Sliker more \u201cfreedom\u201d than Twitch after permaban After seeking therapy and working to clear his debt, the streamer is now broadcasting on Kick, where he feels he has \u201cmore freedom\u201d than Twitch. \u201cWhen I was a Twitch streamer, [it was like], \u2018I didn\u2019t mean that, I didn\u2019t mean that, I\u2019m so sorry,’\u201d he said, referring to Twitch\u2019s comparatively stricter guidelines as opposed to those on Kick. \u201cWhen you\u2019re on Kick, you don\u2019t need to be worried, because communities are a big thing on Kick.\u201d Despite his issues with Twitch and claiming the platform exhibits \u201cfavoritism,\u201d Sliker says he can\u2019t \u201csh*t on Twitch,\u201d as the website helped launch his career. Now, Sliker is looking forward to the future and wants to make things right with the people he wronged before focusing on becoming a full-time IRL streamer. \u201cObviously, with my life now, I want to fix my wrongs,\u201d he said. \u201cI know I can do that, because all I think about is negativity toward gambling. When I think of gambling I\u2019m just like, this is what it\u2019s done to me.\u201d \u201cWhen I was streaming on Twitch, I didn\u2019t do the things that I could do. And of course, that falls down to me not having money, because [I was] spending it all on gambling and stuff. I wanted to commit myself as an IRL streamer. \u2026eventually, that\u2019s what I want to see myself as.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sliker reveals true depth of gambling addiction: \u201cI couldn\u2019t control myself\u201d | BeckaTV interview Instagram: sliker0161Kick star BeckaTV sat down with banned Twitch streamer Sliker to speak with him about the true depth and meteoric aftermath of his gambling addiction almost a year after it was exposed to fans. In September 2022, prominent Twitch streamer […]<\/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-59035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59035","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=59035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}