MurciPete wrote:
i really dont give a damn what uk streamers are getting funded, its all BS. gets to the point where they are getting so much in affiliation payments where they cant be arsed to record any more. I mean why would you?
This is what I’m finding a lot of as well.
There’s constant debate out there on who’s legit and who’s not and a lot of us long time viewers can sniff it out pretty quickly, but there’s the affiliation side as well which doesn’t get discussed openly and honestly enough. Let’s not kid ourselves here, big names that have been around a long time and gotten many sign ups have a lot of casino players on the hook to earn $$ – and some of those $$ are pretty serious coin.
You can tell when a streamer is making enough on passive income streams like this when they don’t post regularly anymore or get very erratic with their content.
Bandit right now has a very valid reason to not post anything, but over the last 6 months his content has been VERY sporadic and erratic at best.
Bandit has been in this game a while and has had a lot of eyeballs on his content for years. He no doubt has a good amount of affiliation $$ coming in now and you can feel he’s just not as invested in producing new content anymore because he just doesn’t need to.
I watch Nick Slots a fair bit still, but he’s pretty arrogant and a prick a lot of the time. He has his own little viewer circle and gets pissy on stream pretty regularly. He’s a guy that’s made a lot of coin with Casino Grounds and has an air of arrogance around his conduct when streaming. He’s smart and plays the hustle well, but there’s a feeling like he’s above everyone else around him now and rather than engage his viewership, he tends to come across as a cocky prick. Some people go like that when they’ve ‘made it’. I like his content, I don’t like the person.
RocknRolla is still the real deal and his content is good. He’s still got the degen vibe like Bandit, but has scaled it back a fair bit in recent times. He’s still a good go to.
Chipmunk I didn’t mind when he started, but Jordon was always a bit meh. But looking to get more noticed and upping the bets, Chip kinda lost his way I think. He’s constant requesting for subs/follows got real tedious and I switched off.
Craigslots and Jimbo are just fucking painful. Their desperation to push the Gambler’s Den is painful to listen to constantly, and the banter they have with each other just comes across as an inside joke we’re pushing in on as viewers. They just come across as fake in their presentation. Some streamers just come across naturally, but these two do not.
Outside of that, I don’t generally watch streamers that much anymore. They’re either coming across as desperate / fake in their engagement, or streamers who have already ‘made it’ and come across as assholes who think their shit doesn’t stink.
Casino Streaming is a tough game for sure, but there’s very few that I look forward to watching anymore.
Bandit in his prime though is very entertaining and great to watch. Hopefully we’ll see him hit back soon after getting over this Covid shit.
