Before continuing let me say that I highly despise gambling in just about all forms; I mean in my opinion it's a waste of time and money, quite literally. Sure you might get lucky but that's about it, just sheer luck in a game that's about doing random s--t that might make you lose. If you like gambling, fine, I don't and I have better things to do than do stuff like casino gambling and scratching lottery tickets.
With that said, I'm going to get down to the recent scandal that's taking the gaming community by storm and no it's not Gamergate (given that it's still ongoing as of this post it might as well be the internet equivalent of the Soviet Afghan war but I digress). Rather it deals with Counter-Strike, a game that I once played for a while but lost interest (on the original Xbox no less) and how some d-----bags did a dirty scheme to promote gambling relating to the game in particular.
Long story short, two guys called Tmartin and ProSyndicate, made a bunch of promotions on their youtube channels to a gambling site that deals with betting on a bunch of stuff for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. It might not sound concerning given that youtubers often shill out stuff for things that people may or may not care (I wish they didn't if you ask me) however what made the news was when it was discovered that both of those guys own the site and haven't even disclosed that at all on their videos. Oh and they promoted it to people under 18, even though they were aware that the site is for those 18 and older, broke a state law forbidding gambling of some kind, and even rigging gambling sessions on their videos, really nice of those losers to do so in the process of...(Lickboot-style) money. You can have a good of the whole affair in a few articles I'll link here. And if you ask me, I really think it's very scummy of them to do such a thing and should be ashamed of themselves, promoting underage gambling or not (it's just that the under aged aspect just added to the s--t antics like a cherry on top of a s--t sundae).
Frankly with all the backlash those guys rightly deserve (and after watching EventStatus's take on it), it makes me wonder why we tolerate folks who similarly push stuff they shill on their channels? I think we might need to have a purge of some kinds (not a violent one mind you) in order to cleanup the image of the gaming community; perhaps the CSGO Lotto affair might be that spark or not.
At least in the meantime, PBS Gameshow's youtube channel is ending it's run; good riddance, given that hipster didn't provide anything meaningful to gaming culture for as far as I'm concered. But at least I'm wrapping up with good news on this post.
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