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Twitch Star Is Hawking A New Livestreaming Platform Owned By Banned Gambling Site
A few months ago, the growing presence and influence of gambling sites on Twitch motivated the platform’s top personalities to threaten to strike. Pressure from top streaming celebrities like Pokimane pushed the Amazon-owned site to ban crypto gambling site Stake.com and others that “aren’t licensed in either the U.S. or other jurisdictions that provide sufficient…
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Streamer Kai Cenat Calls Out Twitch After Overtaking xQc For Most Subs
Kai Cenat provided a bright spot at the end of what was a very bad week for Twitch. The 20-year-old streamer managed to crack 80,000 paid subs, overtaking Félix ‘xQc’ Lengyel to become the most subscribed English-speaking channel on Twitch. A tearful mid-stream call with his mum summed up everything the moment meant to him…
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Top Twitch Streamers Like Pokimane, Mizkif Threaten Strike After $AU297,200 Gambling Scam
On Saturday, a Twitch streamer named Abraham Mohammed, better known to viewers as Sliker, admitted that he had scammed fans and other content creators out of at least $US200,000 ($AU297,194) to fund his Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gambling addiction. In response, big-name streamers such as Imane “Pokimane” Anys, Matthew “Mizkif” Rinaudo, and Devin Nash have been…
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Hate Forum Kiwi Farms Flees To Russian Servers After Cloudflare Takes Site Offline
Kiwi Farms, an internet cesspit that has birthed countless hate campaigns over the last decade, has finally had concrete action taken against it after internet security provider Cloudflare essentially took the site offline.