Twitch streamer DNP3 reveals how gambling streams left him \u201ccompletely broke\u201d Twitch streamer DNP3, known for his PC and console giveaways, revealed that he had lost everything to a severe gambling addiction formed over the course of the last year, and it started with a sponsored stream. Online gambling was a glaring point of contention within the Twitch community in 2022. Top streamers like xQc and Trainwrecks popularized dumping large amounts of money into online casinos like Stake with the goal of winning millions of dollars via virtual slots. Streamers would spend hours a day gambling thousands of dollars a click in pursuit of a \u201cbig win,\u201d but this type of gambling is only sustainable if you\u2019re a big enough content creator to keep those expandable funds rolling in. Even when Trainwrecks would win big, hitting a multi-million dollar jackpot, he always expressed that he was still in the red. Eventually, Twitch realized the risk of allowing this content on their platform and banned streams from showing online gambling in unregulated casinos. But while streamers were concerned with viewers becoming addicted to gambling, they hadn\u2019t noticed one of their own was \u201closing everything.\u201d DNP3 \u201closes everything\u201d to gambling addiction On January 3, Twitch streaming DNP3 posted a Twitlonger with the caption, \u201cI\u2019m sorry.\u201d that delved into how he had \u201clost everything\u201d to a gambling addiction he formed in 2022. \u201cOver the last year I got incredibly addicted to gambling. Every dollar I could find I would put into Stake in hopes of winning big. Even when the big wins did happen it wasn\u2019t enough. Eventually I lost everything,\u201d he wrote. DNP3 expressed how when his life saving had run out, he turned to using funds from project investors to \u201cget his money back\u201d from the casino. He explained how he is \u201ccompletely broke\u201d financially and spiritually and has lost trust in himself. DNP3 is working with a help group to start the road to recovery and mentioned how he wants to \u201cbreak free\u201d from the dark world of gambling. In reply to a concerned viewer, DNP3 noted that the addiction began with a sponsored stream that \u201cunleashed an addiction I never knew I had.\u201d DNP3 is the founder of CLU Coin, Gridcraft, and Goobers NFTs, projects he took investor money from to fund his gambling addiction. He stated that he would address the next steps for these projects in a separate tweet. He ended his twitlonger with an apology to his family, friends, and investors, admitting he betrayed their trust, let them down, and did not live up to his values of integrity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch streamer DNP3 reveals how gambling streams left him \u201ccompletely broke\u201d Twitch streamer DNP3, known for his PC and console giveaways, revealed that he had lost everything to a severe gambling addiction formed over the course of the last year, and it started with a sponsored stream. Online gambling was a glaring point of contention […]<\/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-62591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62591","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=62591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}