Scam Jam
Over the last few years, “itsSlicker” has been asking views, mods, and fellow streamers for loans. He has never paid back these people and over time collected a huge sum. But nobody really knew this, like at all. On September 17, a random fan would release a video that Slicker uses to gain loans from these people. At the same time, folks on r/Livestreamfails released a list of receipts showcasing how he asks for a loan from his fans and the amount given. That list only accounts for a few people as since that reddit post was made, dozens of people have come forward with claims that Slicker owns them a collective several hundred thousand.
Among the people who gave money were plenty of fans (one of which who gave 7k USD), Justaminx, Botez, LukeAFK (GAVE 27 THOUSAND DOLLARS), and even goddamn Ludwig. Now Ludwig is a very generous man as he never expects money back to whoever he gives (he said this), and so he only gave a loan of maybe under 1000$ derived from crypto. Ludwig sees this as a personal fault of his own because he only fed the problem.
Watching the loan demo video (which was sent to most if not every fan) Ludwig recognized three powerful tactics that made Slicker broken af when put together. First, it was the urgency in his voice, and then was building up an impossible situation (like his bank shutting his account) which would beg sympathy, and lastly was a vow of secrecy. The secrecy was the most important part as if no one else knew from anyone else that Slicker was already borrowing money, then his credit score looked perfect. He had the momentum to ask the next fan for some money and then the next fan until all of Twitch paid him.
But this became a sliding slope. Let’s start at the top, let’s say Slicker is now in debt. He’s missing just 100. So he asks blipbloop for 150 and then he takes that money to gamble. He loses the gamble. Well he can’t ask blip for cash again. So he goes to Ludwig for 1k. Loses again! He goes to Lukeafk for 27k because surely he could win gold and then pay everyone back but still be in green. But if he never wins, he accrues the largest debt.
So yeah, it was gambling, that’s why he was asking for money. Charlie even says, “A streamer of Slicker’s size is never gonna have money trouble unless quite literally they have an absolutely debilitating gambling addiction and they sold every dime” which turns out to be true. As people have come forward asking for money, Slicker released a video breaking down his gambit addiction. It started with CSGO loot boxes where he would bet on skins. Then he learned he could bet on money. Now he bets on tennis matches but still can’t break even. He feels incredible weight from it and is extremely remorseful as he does not know the solution to his problem.
Trainwrecktv, another Twitch gambler, would gift him 100k to pay back several people. This was Train’s parting gift as he did not want to be friends anymore with Slicker. I am unaware where this money went if not for more tennis matches. He may not have paid anyone back as people were coming forward saying he never paid them back (although who is lying). A stream of Asmongold’s was calculating, the day of, the total debt to be around 200k while Charlie initially guessed it to be from 125k to 150k. That was before Charlie learned about big loaners like Train and Lukeafk.
Slicker would go trending on twitter as streamers, mods, and fans would report how Slicker asked them for money. In a crazy rant, Rich Campbell revealed that Slicker took 6 Mia Malkova anal flesh lights. “He used every single one and he took all of them!!!” The authorities are still trying to figure out the relevance of that statement. But as Slicker gained more attention on twitter, so did another trend: #bangambling.
As we learned from the American Civil War, you can’t just remove resources people use to make money without those people having a fuss about it. Now those people are usually in the wrong but you can see it repeated in the British-Qing Wars, Reagan’s War on Drugs, and this Gambling War.
The war was a movement to stop the streaming of gamblers like Slicker, xQc, and Train on Twitch because it was harmful to everyone. Especially in a case like Slicker where he was becoming suicidal from his losses. Slot gambling is not even a niche thing on twitch which people have decried before but now it was a real problem. This movement would be spearheaded by Mizkif and Pokimane while Train made a separate move.
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