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Large Youtubers Hide Ownership of CSGO Lottery Site
- Thread starter Darryl M R
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Im just a tad skeptical, youtubers and twich people have been getting away with shady shit for years, public and private.
This is why I only follow DSP. He's been an a-hole since day 0
UnforgivenTwin
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"Whatever" "I love you!"
Aztechnology
Member
Out of curiosity do Gamblers on the site have a potential class action here? Time to use some of that H3H3 lawyer money.
I sense a businees oportunity, Quick, respond to them on twitter.
Andronicus
Banned
wow this is some ridiculous shit
Lol, I keep my twitter private for a reason!!
Got a link for that I'm interested.
Darryl M R
Member
I wonder if this will pop up on Kotaku and IGN
Funny this comes up today.
Just yesterday after someone made a thread about CrowbCat's Battleborn video, I found myself checking out his other videos, including the one he did on the evolution (or deterioration) of TF2's design to what we currently have in both that game and CSGO especially.
I think it's interesting to watch this and consider cards and badges and hats and the whole economy of nothing that Valve has cultivated inside of Steam (when you exclude the games, of course.)
People think cosmetics in Overwatch are something, but it's this shit that actually disturbs me.
Just yesterday after someone made a thread about CrowbCat's Battleborn video, I found myself checking out his other videos, including the one he did on the evolution (or deterioration) of TF2's design to what we currently have in both that game and CSGO especially.
I think it's interesting to watch this and consider cards and badges and hats and the whole economy of nothing that Valve has cultivated inside of Steam (when you exclude the games, of course.)
People think cosmetics in Overwatch are something, but it's this shit that actually disturbs me.
SolidSnakex
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He knows both of those things which is why he's quickly tried to relabel old videos and his Twitter account to notify people that he is the co-owner of the site. Of course that's not really going to help him much given that he also posted a video where he says that "we found this new site called CSGO Lotto, i'll link it down in the description if you guys want to check it out".
Quadraphonic
Member
If you were lured to the site and spent money under false pretenses that you had similar odds of winning, yes. No question.
The OWNER and CREATOR of the site makes videos of him winning. There's literally zero demonstration of risk going on. Even if he 'lost' any 'money', it's all a business expense.
Imagine if there were commercials for Las Vegas with Sheldon Adelson saying how much money he won at his own casinos.
Glass Shark
Banned
Wow, I had no idea. I hope the FTC nukes them from orbit.
I hope Press Sneak Fuck is monitoring this thread. IMO Jason is the best at this stuff.
I have high expectations of a Jimquisition soon my self
legacyzero
Banned
Oh my God, and he went back and amended his video descriptions? DAMN.
Darryl M R
Member
It might take TotalBiscuiit a month to make a video but he is going to tear them apart as well
Yeezus
Member
m0E (a popular csgo personality) recently got exposed for colluding with a gambling site called csgodiamonds. Basically, as I understand it, the site's admin would tell m0E about his rolls ahead of time, meaning he knew when to bet big and make a spectacle out of everything for his twitch audience. Thorin has a really good video about it in which he drudges through all the facts and events if anyone is interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO22YayYqYE (skip to 1:01:58 for the tldr)
Shady things be happenin' in the scene!
Shady things be happenin' in the scene!
frickin' NA
Nights Owl
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That's the thing though. If I were a content creator, which I'd love to be, I wouldn't do it for the money. I'd just do it because I want to play a video game, and let people watch if they want.
The money would be a nice benefit, but I don't think I'd want to change how I think about playing games, or what I play, just because it may give me more money from ad revenue.
Even if I were to get famous, and lets say dropped from, I dunno, 250K subs to like 3,000, I'd still want to keep doing what I was doing. The passion for sharing opinions of games and allowing others to watch me playing games and enjoying my content would fuel my videos and encouragement.
Maybe I'm just weird. Lol
Time for some game journalists to do some actual journalism.
How much shady shit is out there in the gaming world? It is up to you to tell us.
Mechanized
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This motherfucker. No wonder he lives in a goddamn mansion from making blind box opening videos. Wonder what Drift0r will have to say about this.
Some people use their hands a lot when they speak, but I haven't seen anyone do it with their eyebrows until now. I'm hypnotized by how animated he is when speaking.
I can't believe how shady all this shit is though, and I really hope something is done about this. I have no sympathy for a youtuber who is undoubtedly trying to exploit his young audience by driving traffic to another operation he owns without explicitly stating the conflict of interest. It's really gross watching him try to act like the bigger person in his responses, when he knows damn well what he was doing all along.
Nights Owl
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He has tourettes. Lol. It's his "tick" (I think that's what it's called?).
Don't expect you to know that, since it seems to be your first video, just informing.
Quadraphonic
Member
The human brain doesn't work like that.
Once you have a million followers, you can find any group of people to support any decision you want. Anybody that would traditionally say "I don't think that's a good idea" is drowned out by hundreds of thousands of blind followers who support it.
Power corrupts people.
Simply Sami
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One small YouTube who tried to expose them called eight_thoughts and made a video. Guess what these two cretins did?
@THoG_Empire they tried to take my channel down, and got me strikes on videos leaving me off youtube with a 2 weeks ban.
I guess they love to pick on small youtubers.
@THoG_Empire they tried to take my channel down, and got me strikes on videos leaving me off youtube with a 2 weeks ban.
I guess they love to pick on small youtubers.
Darryl M R
Member
Lol yea as an earlier poster said he has a tick. He is chill about people noticing it but I agree. I just can't help but stare at his eyebrows.
Any more information on this? I will add this to the OP.
UnforgivenTwin
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I love eight thoughts.
For anyone wondering Ethan does the eyebrow thing because he has a mild case of turrets and can't control it, it makes for some funny jokes by him, comes off as animated when he's doing videos.
"Edit Beaten.
I had to Google it myself but - http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1238650
Valve need to lose this and sort this mess out themselves since they're the ones that created it.
Oh, damn, now I feel like an ass! Yeah, I've never watched him before; really interesting to watch that though, makes him seem way more expressive.He has tourettes. Lol. It's his "tick" (I think that's what it's called?).
Don't expect you to know that, since it seems to be your first video, just informing.
The only way it's not gambling is if the skins have no monetary value.
These folks are on record claiming they won money in videos (or at least something with monetary value).
They incorporated their business in the US.
I'm not a lawyer, but it'd be pretty hard to convince me (if I was on a jury) that this isn't gambling.
Ethan actually made a video about his eyebrows not too long back, lol!
He has a mild case of tourette's syndrome that cause his eyebrows to go nuts sometimes.
Edit: ha, very late.
Nights Owl
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Haha, nah, don't feel bad. He's made a video about it and he takes it in good stride and is fine with it, even making fun of it himself. Lol.
ScientificPizza
Banned
Huh?
Darryl M R
Member
What's the irony? I know there was a thread earlier in the week about Valve but I think it would be ignorant to say that the previous thread represents GAF and other members are not allowed to share their opinion on this situation.
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