The Dark Side of Counter-Strike 2

they have made millions and millions of Euros I'm going to be delivering Justice to these mother I get told that they had posted Flyers everywhere in my city and I mean everywhere high schools malls they need to go in even if there's a security guard even if they're going to be taken away if somebody goes home walking they will be fired they sent 18 people outside my door having a quote unquote protest we are having war with other sides as well most of the Cs go gambling sites are scams I want to know who's really behind this thing who's really the victims and who's really the villain in our last video we got bribed but instead of taking it we exposed the people who offered it now it's time to expose the rest of the Counter-Strike gambling industry and the influencers who promote it for Millions a year let's start with the basics of what Counter-Strike gambling really is though Counter-Strike is a first-person shooter video game where you can buy C medic options for your guns called skins you can get these by paying $2.50 to open a loot box it spins like a slot machine and you get a random skin there's an entire economy that's grown out of their Rarity and you can sell these skins for pennies or up to tens of thousands of dollars depending on their Rarity you can then take those skins to Counterstrike casinos where they will be accepted as currency instead of cash they use their real world value to turn this video game into Vegas you can play slots roulette and more all with a video game skin think of it like their version of poker chips and when I first began to investigate this I thought why don't people just use a regular Casino you know why use Counterstrike skins for this well I decided to investigate by interviewing a bunch of people who do use Counter-Strike casinos and I found a disturbing Trend I've been in the gambling community in Counter Strike for about I'd say since 12 years old I started gambling on Counter Strike when I was probably 13 years old 13 years old 14 years old I think I was 14 started gambling on csgo at the age of 12 and 13 pretty much right around there my 13th birthday yeah most of the people I spoke to started gambling underage and it was while they were playing the game and this trend continues beyond the anecdotal this YouTuber named Jeff surveyed over 9,000 players and he found that around 70% of Counter-Strike gamblers start underage now themed casinos have always had an audience but with Counterstrike there is an underage gateway to all of this because all you need is $2.50 to get your first skin through valve and you don't even need to show ID which is a huge part of this even worse when you go from the game to the casinos which are hosted on third party websites most don't ID the players either or if they do it's only after you've already gambled thousands of dollars which is a bit like if a liquor store asked for ID after you drank 10 bottles of liquor it's obviously absurd but it's also very profitable because underage gamblers not only are new customers they're way more likely to become gambling addicts which is how casinos make most of their money these days most physical casinos have a strict ID policy at the door this isn't because they're good people it's because they're heavily regulated and would lose their Gambling License if they knowingly allowed underage players but Counter-Strike gambling is fundamentally different regulation for these casinos is almost non-existent because they're offshore in Malta kurau Cypress and most of them are using loopholes to pretend that this isn't even gambling at all look I'm not going to go into too much detail here because different casinos use different loopholes but suffice to say this has been going on a long time back in 2016 a very similar story broke in a big way about scam casinos and underage gambling problems in Counterstrike and everyone was understandably enraged valve even got involved had to send out cease and assist letters even the f DC went after influencers but when the dust settled there weren't that many Consequences part of the reason was because of these loopholes in fact the most infamous Casino csgo Lotto claimed not even to be a casino at all they said they were a sweep Stakes now this is obviously absurd it's not true but none of that matters because it got them out of trouble and so the same types of casinos have continued just with new owners and new names what you're left with then is an industry that is unregulated if anything self-regulated which I discovered creates its own race to the bottom problem because consumer protection in an unregulated Market will literally drive away your customers for example remember Monarch from the last video and his Casino csgo Empire one of the things they do that I actually think is good is they block certain IPS where gambling is illegal and they admit that what they're doing is gambling now you can easily get around these Geor restrictions with a VPN but it's sort of of an extra hurdle most Counter-Strike casinos don't even do this and listen to One Gambler explain why this tiny decision to just geoblock one region the US affected who he chose to gamble with so when I went onto Empire while it's still easy to bypass it you could just put a VPN just takes an extra 5 minutes CS roll I can just once again type it into my browser um deposits oh you're an American yes correct yes so no no no no um VPN restriction no GE blocking yes correct so unrolled zero VPN blocking zero any bypassing on Empire there is blocking but it it truthfully is very easy to bypass right that makes sense most people end up going with the casino who asks them less questions requires less from you even if you're not illegally trying to gamble you just don't want to have to put in personal information anything like that this all taught me that in the world of unregulated gambling it's more complicated than just saying okay casinos want toddlers gambling it's also market dynamics right you get a Competitive Edge by not regulating less work more customers more money which means you can't just solve the problem by wagging your finger at bad casinos the entire system is broken as long as these loopholes exist why would anyone change in fact some websites like adverti their lack of Regulation as a feature not a bug the CEO even bragged on Twitter quote Clash just paid out its biggest one-time Cash Out instantly with no verification couldn't be more happy with the product and reputation we are building this guy sees it as a badge of honor to do no checks and it is a positive reputation if you want to appeal to underage players money launderers or just people who want to avoid a hassle a VPN and putting in an ID and this is all a huge problem but how big of a problem is it you might wonder after all we're talking about video game skins how much money could this industry really be worth I wondered the same thing so I asked around for how much these casinos are making and got several estimates one owner claims he has an eight fig business and someone who worked for his partner claims that is true how much does he make on Clash his partner Boris right um also known as dogs playing poker friendly chemist he told me directly that it was making about 50 Mill million a month that's a lot of money and this roughly matches what the popular gambling Counter-Strike YouTuber told me as well saying he'd estimate these sites are making tens of millions monthly and there are so many of these sites that the YouTuber Jeff estimated it all in a different way looking at the total amount of website traffic compared to a popular online casino so when you bring them together those csgo websites bring almost double the traffic of the biggest online casino today and this online casino declared a gross revenue of 2.6 billions in 2022 now that doesn't mean the csgo websites are grossing more but it's a great element to put things in perspective so even though it's tough getting an exact number since these casinos might overestimate or underestimate for many reasons either way it's clear these businesses are making huge amounts of money and there's many of these casinos we've just focused on a few in our videos but there's so many more of these websites each potentially making millions a month and no one's going to change their behavior until they're incentivized to by regulation across the board until then less regulation will always mean a wider customer base even if some of those customers are underage the irony here being the biggest voice of change so far really has been Monarch from the last video you guys know I no fan of this guy's methods but I'll be honest there's large parts of his public arguments that are hard to argue with he claims to understand the underage problem because that's how he started as well how I got into gambling myself was when I was 13 and I was playing Roomscape and how the Dual Arena was like a Gateway druck for me that's how that's how gambling started for me and that's where it went in third party sites I'm just disgusted about this full loop I think that the the full case case system on on Steam is pretty horrible the way how there is no kyc there's uh it's such a powerful tool for getting children and even adults I think even adults they have a gambling problem it's not only like a it's not a age exclusive thing it's just a machine that makes people gamble imagine there's a kid who just plays CSO and they open one one box pretty innocent they get their mom's credit card they spent €2 to open a box okay then they open a second box third box fourth box and so on and soon they see their favorite influencer playing on some third party case opening site and this is where it's like it's like switching from from weed straight to I don't know amphetamine or something and they just go deeper and deeper into this Rabbid hole and soon they are addicted and the next thing you know when they want to stop gambling it's easy to easy to just shut like close post these websites but what happens when you go on social media you you go on YouTube Instagram twitch Tik Tok any platform what do you get you get gambling ads everywhere the algorithm starts feeding you it's like imagine you are addicted to heroine and then everywhere you go you just see like heroine heroin heroine here look your hero is staying heroine so we have to separate these two things out yes this guy's methods are terrible but I'll admit it's nice to see a casino owner talking honestly about their industry and admitting that what it is is gambling and not some kind of sweep Stak but even if Monarch says he wants to change without the actual power of a regulator he just ends up having to harass people threaten people which isn't going to get him anywhere not only that he's no saint either his own website doesn't ID people right away according to csgo's Empire's terms they only require you to verify your age if you want to withdraw more than 2,000 coins in crypto or deposit substantial amounts of money if you withdraw via skins there is no limit so even the guy who claims he started underage gambling he understands the gateway drug that skin Bing websites act as even he refuses to fully ID customers because he knows he'd go out of business I'm really committed to I want to make it strict or strictor like you can't jump to the deep end just like immediately on on one day that would make us go out of out of business but really my my end goal is I want to do full full clone kyc before anybody deposits I want to make it as clean as possible this more than anything shows the limit to the let's self-regulate idea right even the biggest critic of underage gambling can't bring himself to actually ID his customers up front because his competitors won't do it and he says it would ruin his business so maybe the solution isn't with the casinos at all maybe it's a good time to talk about the influencers who promoted instead because when I learned and asked about people who got into this type of gambling I wondered how did they get into it in the first place who did they hear about it from and one thing kept popping up one of the primary ways I actually learned was through YouTube popped up in my recommended page because I was a big fan of Counterstrike I'd play it you know in my free time some gambling videos popped up and I thought hey you know streamers um kind of exposed me to that to that space first I saw it online I saw a bunch of these YouTubers um playing it found out CSO gambling just pretty much through watching people on Twitch and YouTube juicy was one of them I actually remember very vividly he was this guy that would do all these case openings on different websites and such he was very much affiliated with them he had codes and all these things I've been surrounded by like syndicut and like FaZe Clan for example I watched uh my favorite YouTubers right YouTubers and streamers of course are going to be one of the main advertising vectors it's been that way since 2016 influencers are the main lifeblood of these casinos fast forward 8 years later it's just different influencers different casinos making the money than before but unlike casinos who we know intuitively are blood sucking leeches on society influencers by contrast are they're um uh well we expect more from them I we don't get it but we expect more so I wanted to confront three different influencers who do this gambling streaming stuff of different sizes and get their opinions on why they promote this stuff and how they can possibly justify it I I don't think people should gamble honestly on the sites it shouldn't gamble at all um but I enjoy doing it so it's what I do if that makes any sense I don't know no no no that part that part of it makes sense that the part where you want to do it so you continue to do it that makes sense but let's say I'm like I don't think smoking is good for you but I'm I like smoking it makes sense that I would smoke it doesn't make sense that I would get like go promote it to to get people smoke yeah no I no I definitely understand that perspective too um and I like yeah it's it's it's a very good argument and it's like you can't really argue against it right it's just it's not a good thing uh but it's something that I still enjoy doing and so I'm going to continue to do it is it just too much money that's an acceptable answer it's just too much money to turn down um I'd say in the beginning it probably was too much money at this point um like it's not about the money for me it's just I I really enjoy doing it well in the videos I I don't sugarcoat I don't uh try to convince people that winning or gambling is a way or a solid option to flip a quick Buck uh even in my wins I preface that this is not a this is not a sustainable thing so it's not something that I necessarily I I I don't know you can watch the videos and decide for yourself if it feels like promotion but that's how I reason it to myself I don't even you know use the rewards I don't advertise it at all so I don't you know the rewards thing it's more of like like I said I don't advertise it so I don't feel do adverti you get paid to advertise it right not the reward system no I I don't mention the rewards no no no I'm saying I'm saying C CSO rooll we're talking about the gambling side we both know it's not going to be good for people and then you're kind of saying why don't really promote it I don't really advertise it but in a way if you didn't promote or advertise it they wouldn't pay you Millions dollars yeah I I watched your train Rex video and you said the same thing you're like the less dirtier of the dirt bags so I guess I would call myself that and ultimately if you watch the video you can decide like how less dirty is he really but yeah that's my answer you know most people are going to unfortunately gamble with or without certain streamers right obviously it's intended to be like a McDonald's ad you see McDonald's ad you see a Big Mac you're going to go you know I'm craving a big Ma so it's the same concept you're saying like oh I'm just like kind of promoting McDonald's whatever no it's not so it's not like promoting McDonald's let's be honest gambling is a terrible addiction my closest friend has a very very bad gambling addiction he'll get paid on let's say a Tuesday and by Tuesday night or Wednesday morning his whole paycheck is gone for two weeks and then he has no money and no matter what I do to intervene to help that individual try to hold his money to help him sit there and self-exclude he finds ways because it's an addiction it's just as bad as any other drug of that dopamine Rush yeah the answers were part admissions part rationalizations they all knew gambling was bad but they'd stopped short of actually doing something about it because they were making money from it even when they knew people whose own lives were hurt by it so if you know the harm firsthand you've seen it in your own life how do you justify pedaling that drug as you call it it's a uh it's going to happen in my opinion right and like there is no justification can I say like I'm a drug dealer sure you could you know you're going to label certain streamers are going to be labeled as a drug dealer um in essence and that's okay I guess if you people are going to view it that way I mean I was how do you how do you I want to know how you view it up because because you said you said it was kind of like a drug so I want it is a drug I mean it hits the dopamine levels hell I I I I get hit dopamine levels if I hit big it's oh yeah you know and then that becomes a YouTube Trick I feel bad I do right I hate to hear when people say I've lost money I hate it dude I really it it crushes me because some people legit do it because they're bored and then they lose everything they have and it is a terrible feeling to hear that right not to question their sincerity but I've heard all of them say that they hate when people get addicted they don't want to see anyone hurt but they refuse to stop even though they know casinos are run on addicts fun fact clash.io at admitting he was proud of not iding players also admitted that the majority of their revenue comes from a tiny fraction of their most addicted players quote less than 1% of clash accounts make up 80% of our Revenue it's just an admission from their founder it's an Open Secret so these influencers can empathize about how horrible addiction is but they know that's where their paycheck comes from the CEO of clash has a profile on Twitter that says never gamble The House Always Wins but ironically his house is probably from people gambling Ling the fact of the matter is that these people say with their mouth I feel terrible I feel bad but when it comes to actually changing they never do even when they directly scam people they will still find a way to rationalize it and this next part is pretty dark but for a moment we're going to have to go back for a second to the pg major tournament and talk about the thing I was originally offered a bounty to investigate a specific casino that is owned by the same group as csgo R but this one is called hype drop it's owned by monarchs Arch Nemesis hype drop was a casino where instead of gambling Counter-Strike skins you could gamble real world items like real world loot boxes for example you could pay for a real loot box that would get you anything from like a $10 gift card to a Lamborghini for example it's just gambling with physical items but the real Secret Sauce of this website was a loyalty program called The Daily cases where the more you spent the higher level you got the more you'd get these daily cases which essentially were free money every single day you could go on their website and open these daily cases and theoretically you'd get free stuff free money which if that sounds unsustainable it is it was all part of a scheme it turns out to make the Danish government believe that hype drop was not actually gambling I received a letter hype drop gave to the Danish regulator arguing players could not lose money on their site because over time the daily cases paid back all the losses over roughly 3 years this is one of those loopholes we talked about where they're going to argue they're not actually gambling because you can't lose now of course I asked typ drop about this and initially they denied ever sending this letter eventually I showed them that I had their document and they finally confessed saying they did do it on one occasion but denied trying to pass it off as an investment they then quickly Scurry away saying this is our last comment I bet it is because they got caught making bad faith arguments to the Danish government this type of loophole is why in their promotional material hype drop said things like yes you'll always make at least your money back and quote we offer return on what you invest through our daily reward system and quote it's a win-win situation every time now it only takes a few moments to realize that offering jackpots and money back to losers isn't going to work it has to be a scam which is why many people like Monarch called this thing an unsustainable Ponzi scheme and I can't believe I'm saying this but he's right on March 27th 2024 Killian the owner announced that he was shutting down the site effectively rug pulling his customers who were all relying on these daily cases to make their losses back this is part of what monarchs paid goons were yelling about at the pgl majors by removing their daily cases hype drop in my opinion stole from their users and effectively revealed their legal loophole to be a lie now with that all understood let's Circle back to this guy juicy a gambling streamer who we heard from earlier he was easily one of the biggest promoters of hype drop and I wanted to know given that he has widely promoted a scam what was he going to do to make things right so let's talk about um hyp drop at this point this has been kind of what precipitated the pgl majors according to Monarch he says I had to protest HP drop it was a Ponzi scheme that collapsed and CS go rolls next now when I was looking up hype drop you were one of the people who was promoting it like one of the bigger YouTubers I saw maybe the biggest what's your take on promoting this stuff where's your ethical line for what you will take what you won't take on yeah so to my understanding I had never worked with the a gambling site that had rewards that function like a Ponzi scheme you know so when I was playing on it I'm not promoting the rewards you know I'm not like this is the most rewarding IRL gambling site so I was just playing with the product itself and you know making content around that um so with obviously it's it's really annoying and [ __ ] when the rewards get first off cut down and then second off now there is no reward offering in the sites going away like I'm obviously very upset not just for my own intent but also mainly for the people who especially if people put money into hyp drop thinking of it like a good monetary investment versus like I'm just gambling you know I'm pretty sure from my understanding that wasn't like a advertised thing at least they weren't advertising they weren't saying hey you got to tell them about this great investment option I think that was more of a a legal loophole that they were you know trying to operate he's just lying about some of this he says he didn't adver I his daily cases but I think he didn't think I'd watch his videos because he definitely did daily reminder claim your daily cases they free monies coach juicy will get you three free cases so might as well I mean my daily cases used to pay a filthy amount of money it was a full-time income just claiming them claim this every day dude we're making a full-time salary every month yeah he calls the daily cases basically a full-time salary but I thought surely after seeing that that hype drop scammed people he would cancel his sponsorship with the same company like it's the sister Casino csgo role right he has to stop that now that he's scammed his audience he did cancel it right so let me ask you does that mean you're no longer going to work with csgo rooll since they're run by the same people uh well I've already promoted the site and I already have fans who use the site and the I I don't think the reward offering there is going to change but yeah I mean it's unfortunate that I think you can see the logic of no one thought hype drop was going to rug people from these cases these daily rewards and if you are regretful wouldn't that turn into some kind of action on your part to like change who you're working with yeah I understand that completely but I feel like Counter-Strike sites aren't there to stay forever in the first place I don't think anyone's expecting them to stay forever and there really isn't many great options so yeah maybe it's up of me that I continue to do so absolutely but uh it really is one of the better options on the market right now and there's ton of dogit on the market so yeah and there it is absolutely he doesn't want to change absolutely he's not going to stop what he's doing at the end of the day past all the rationalizations that's what it comes down to it doesn't matter what you show them what you prove to them they're making too much money and that is the part that I was struggling to like really get from these people is they would always say Like I Do It For the Love of gambling man I would do it if nobody paid me of course they always do it getting paid um but this is the single biggest cope of gambling streamers in fact even Grim told me this who we spoke to earlier about getting harassed luckily for me though his tax records are public so I knew that he was actually making a few million dollars a year and at a few million reasons to lie about why he was doing what he did so I decided to ask him if maybe the the money did play a role somebody reached out to me they said hey I found Grim's business he made $5 million last year is that true and does that undermine what you said about that it's not about the money um uh yeah no that is true uh like what one of the I guess Downs with nor is everything's public if they know my company name even just my name they they Google around they find it so like everything that I make is uh is public and yeah you could say that the argument is obviously hypocritical because like I made a lot of money but like I don't do it because I make a lot of money I'd still do it if I didn't make a lot of money and like even if I wasn't paid I would still do it when I had excess money to do it cuz I like doing it and it might like sound like a lie but that's how I started it and that's how I was wanted to continue it sounds like the $5 million might have something to do with it it just just just but that's fine I mean yeah no I mean like I said I I 100% understand what people would think like oh no it's only because of the money but like I know myself that it isn't only because of the money but it's obviously great don't get me wrong how much did you make this year I'd rather not say but I could say it's a it's a lot come on juicy tell us tell us look I so I actually don't know the exact answer myself but I can tell you it's going to be right around Grim's number which I know he told you already Grims 5 million yeah and then I got to pay a stupid tax rate on that but it's probably around there both made about $5 million last year so it's kind of obvious why they're not going to stop based on just a moral argument and I began to wonder like how many of these influencers take these deals because they are so profitable well luckily thanks to the hard work of Jeff who we mentioned earlier whose documentary you should definitely go watch I found out it's almost everyone this is at to 300 csgo streamers since the beginning of this year ranked by watch time of 300 226 are currently sponsored by at least one of them some have up to five we are looking at 75% 75% it's insane Counterstrike gambling is basically funding over half of the scene with these ridiculous paychecks and I began to wonder not about the people who said yes but the people who said no they're the minority I wanted to know for the people who said no how much were they offered and why didn't they take it this is something I think about a lot cuz there have even been moments in time where I've been offered $300,000 for a month of gambling $55,000 an hour that could change my life that could retire my mom that could alter my family's lineage but I I keep turning it down that was when I was an even small smaller streamer than now that's crazy yeah one of the things I've been thinking a lot about is like how to change this you know if even if well look if what does even change look like right that's part of what I'm thinking about is like what does even change look like for this industry and one thing that I came to is like the incentives have to change because they're so out of whack the second you allow gambling sponsorships and streamers to like get sponsorship deals how are you going to stop someone from taking that amount of money you're a good person so you just don't want to do it that's your personal line but it's I think it's hard for just even somebody who's a good person to say no you know it's only because you know what it would do to people but that is such a crazy amount of money you know this interview almost ruined me on this story I began to wonder if change was even possible when money like this is in the field for play like the casinos aren't going to regulate themselves because they lose customers and there's so much money at stake most influencers aren't going to say no because there's so much money at stake and they could change their life and their family's lives by taking these deals the more I looked into it you can't expect all the people to be immune from this influence all at the same time which is the only way to make change it wasn't just the influencers or casinos either even Esports the most professional supposedly side of the game was flooded with gambling almost every professional team had a gambling sponsor for example FaZe has roll bit pgl major was sponsored by 1X bet G2 was sponsored by csgo roll and this creates the same problem that it created with the influencers if a sponsor is offering you buckets of money it becomes really hard not to take because if you don't take it your competitor will in fact one e Sports owner argued the entire ecosystem in Counterstrike especially in the lower leagues is basically funded by the gambling industry and gambling addicts so I called him to understand more of how this works can you walk me through how gambling functions in the Esports economy the issue is that or the issue I guess at hand that you're talking about is that this activity is a NE by more controversial sponsors in in gambling uh and skin rolling sites um if those spons weren't permitted then the tier 2 and Beyond scene NCS specifically would likely wither or die or or at the very least constrict to a very large degree so that's what I meant by my tweet uh when that you should thank your local betting crackhead in twitch chat uh if you're a fan of tier 2 Cs and Beyond then the reason you're watching that team play is probably because of that they're better um to note uh this is also true of a lot of ORS profitability so the value that traditional sponsors bring in for a tier 2 or even more you know with with G2 and roll bit for example the value that a traditional sponsor brings in versus a gamble sponsor is like 15 or 20% of the value so you don't really turn that down as an Old owner unless you've got very specific moral crims or disagree with gambling on a personal L but does this inflate the economy where if you're not taking a gambling sponsorship you're almost at a disadvantage because your economics and what you're able to play players and attract Talent is much less than somebody who for example has a gambling deal and is way making way more money than you yeah to would agree that's true I think um very very few organizations are able to do it without gamber largely if you don't have gamber you're almost certainly going to be untable you heard it there you almost can't compete at the highest level without a gambling sponsor because they pay so much more than everyone else and if everyone else is doing it they will have more money to spend on on a team than you and get better players and therefore likely beat you there's just no more profitable sponsor to turn to and so a lot of people actually take the money so even if that sponsor is a site that allows miners to play with no ID who cares just slap an 18 plus sticker in your ad for them and get plausible deniability that's what G2 did when announcing their csgo rooll sponsorship a depressing fact about this video is the star of it a guy named Mony turned 18 only days before they announced the sponsorship which means in the video it was filmed when he was 17 he was underage in their Casino supposedly 18 plus and no one cared a perfect metaphor for this entire industry it's all Optics I have to tell you by the way the exact day I announced I was investigating Counter-Strike gambling csgo roll did announce for the first time that they were going to be asking all users to prove that they're 18 before playing whether or not it's coincidence they announced it same day I don't know take it for what it is maybe it's a token gesture they'll roll back or maybe it's a sudden change of heart for the Youth I don't know either way the point I'm making is that for many people and professional teams the choice to take a gambling sponsorship is like the choice for peeds in the Olympics or steroids in the WWE you can say no but if everyone else is using them and getting ahead you choosing not to for ethical reasons will get you left behind and your peers will become more successful than you it's a depressing cycle that has me flashing back to the csgo wild days several years ago and realizing we're right where we started csgo wild in 2016 was a gambling website secretly owned slightly disputed by fazeclan and according to faze Banks his motivation to do that was pretty simple my motivation for doing it actually was at the at the time we weren't making enough money to buy a CS Go Team all in the uh the Venture was going to cost us like a million dollars and we definitely did not have anything close to that so my brain like I just we got to finesse it we got to figure out how to make the money to buy this team now because in the next six months year this is going to this team's going to be worth like four or5 million and we need we we're not going to be able to get into this game which we which in our heads we need it in this game yeah when you hear it it sounds crazy sounds like a cope but his plan actually worked FaZe Got Away With It FaZe Clan has a Counter-Strike team that won second place in the infamous pgl major all these years after csgo wild it's alive and well and still funded by the way by gambling just by a different gambling website now it's roll bit it's reportedly a multi-million dollar deal now look I know seeing this is all very depressing but we've actually learned some really valuable things firstly we can't fix this at the individual level of influencers Esports teams or even casinos doxing people harassing them doesn't fix it or the underlying problems it's a deep systemic problem of incentives of course acknowledging that also doesn't absolve individuals I wouldn't dare say it's okay for juicy to do what he does where people have been scammed and he continues to work with the same parent company that said if he stopped it wouldn't change things suddenly someone one would take his place so if we're serious about trying to solve this problem we have to look farther up the food chain than influencers even then casinos even then Esports leaks we have to zoom out and see the root cause valve definitely does have underage gambling problem they really don't have an incentive to stop it underage middle age overage however you want to slice it I think they have all the responsibility I mean you could pass me some of that if you want but ultimately they're the Kingpin reaping in all of the money or majority of the money and there's a reason why they haven't killed it yet they've possessed the power for all these years but they allow it to go and I feel like they do the bare minimum Crackdown to allow it to keep operating [Music] [Music] sh [Music]

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