“I can’t continue what I’m doing,” ItsSliker said on a September livestream to around 7,000 viewers on Twitch. “I don’t want to continue with the gambling, I want to stop it.”
The streamer with over 400,000 followers on Twitch had just admitted to taking tens of thousands of dollars from others to fund his gambling addiction. Claiming that he had bills to pay or needed to purchase flight tickets, he would message content creators and fans, all under the guise that he would eventually pay them back. Though ItsSilker never gambled on camera, the platform he streamed on supported a culture that could have fed into his behavior.
