Before i saw who wrote this I thought, “it’s all happening..”😂😂 Maybe I watch a little too much of my Culture United thought dealers 😅 Happy New Year, Justin!
Professor, this is so important. I am Brazilian and the gamble craze has completely destroyed families and individual lives around me. Football stars like Neymar Jr., Ronaldo Fenômeno, Bruno Henrique, all praised my youth, have million dollar deals with gambling companies. Influencers, young as 13 are advertising on Instagram for thousands to see. It is an epidemic that is advancing so fast and spreading that plague like wild fire around the most poor. I am not kidding when I say, my cousin's baby father bet his bicycle and lost it. Thank you for the insightful video. I am sure going to share this with anyone I know that also speaks English because, this is beyond important.
Falou muito e falou bem. A crise das bets e dos casinos online aqui tá ESTRAÇALHANDO as economias das pessoas, arruinando famílias. E tudo literalmente legalizado. Sancionado pelo governo. Incentivado pela sua celebridade favorita, seja ela o Drizzy ou o R9. Na minha cidade tem propaganda de bet nos ônibus que o povo pega pra ir e voltar do trabalho, mano. Anunciada quase que como se fosse uma forma de ter renda extra. É abominável.
As bets estão ARRUINANDO nosso país, e infelizmente a tendência é piorar, especialmente com tantos ídolos e pessoas culturalmente importantes endossando isso.
Whatcha know about that Demi? Yeah the pipeline is real. I trace it from incel (gamergate, anti-SJW, or now anti-woke/MGTOW-red pill manosphere- then to alt-right for the committed or MAGA/Trump for the more lazy.
@@demitasse22 the earlier one was erased, maybe i used a bad word or something. It was kind of long so i will try to retype it later today. Happy New Year.
20 year Toronto resident here. Was disgusted by the entire city getting plastered with gambling ads when Ontario finally sold it's soul. To see the " ambassador of Toronto " Aubrey, take it to the extreme has been far worse. I wasn't a fan of Drakes music but thought it was important that we had a presumably good guy being our ambassador, after the stories about high school basketball girls and spending all of his free time latching onto people half his age to promote gambling, he can fucking stay in Australia. #THE6ISOVERDRAKE
Gambling in Australia is as widespread and as destructive as alcoholism. It's everywhere, and has been for decades, with slot machines in bars and horse-race betting being so normalized that the Australian Stock Exchange suspends trading every year during the Melbourne Cup (which is also a school holiday. For watching a horse race. Seriously.) There's a song called "Blow Up the Pokies" by Aussie band The Whitlams about the problem that sums up the whole thing, and it was written 25 years ago. Thank you for railing against the scourge of online gambling, Professor. I am right there with you on it being arguably the most destructive addiction of our time. After all, isn't a lot of the stockmarket really just gambling..?
@@demitasse22 You can LEARN without playing. Only those who already have vast amounts of money can play and win. Regular people can loose it all after investing their entire lives. It is gambling and class-est.
yeah i’m 20 and from dubbo kinda area ( not giving exact) gambling has become another one of those things you just do when you turn 18. it’s such a huge problem
The earliest depiction of vampires actually came from the Bible with Cain and Abel. This is far deeper than class systems issue. The spirit of Cain runs rampant thru today. I don’t want to bore you with the long ins and outs of this.
I agree there is a useage of vampires and the like in fiction to talk about social issues like that… HOWEVER vampires are real folklore monsters that originate in many eastern european cultures well before the time of christ so there was a lot more to it earlier
@@vinsanity3510 not sure if that's actually true or just 5000 years of misinterpretations. Like demons aren't actual things, mammon isn't a guy telling you to keep gambling. It's a misunderstanding caused by people back then being ignorant, they believed that their thoughts were the voices of ancestors demons or gods and listened to them. So a gambling addiction was a demon taking control over someone not them just making poor choices over and over. All mental malady was seen as demonic possession. If by "the spirit of Cain" you mean the human behavior that the story represents, then yes. If you mean the actual spirit of Cain then no, people are just making similar mistakes because we aren't God and are ruled by sin. sin's original meaning was a mistake, it was an archery term. We allow mistakes to pile up to the point where the cycles of thought run our lives and that is what is referred to as a demon.
We also need to talk about how video games have been gamble-ified. It's all about buying lootboxes, with random chances of dropping the one item you want. These are literally gambling mechanics, down to the free lootboxes that they offer you here and there to hook you in. We're literally programming kids to be addicted to gambling!
For real. And even in countries where gambling is illegal, they just share the odds of each drop. And then there's the whole gray / black market for closet loot boxes and all, people trying to prey on those gambling kids
As a Marxist I’d also add that the idea that class warfare is only bottom-up is a myth designed to obscure than class war is happening every day directed at the working class (this includes people who self-identify as middle class; you still work)
AVAA professor Coffezilla just did 2 30 minute specials on this topic. I was saying to my wife last week that gambling commercials have replaced drug company commercials on RUclips and it’s insane. I never knew this was an issue. 3 years ago I was on medical leave from work and did Uber abs Lyft in the Harrisburg PA area. I would pick people up from the Hollywood casino and it was always young men especially Asian men. I thought they all either there till one day I started asking them how they did. Professor I talked to 10 different guys in a week and all of them together had lost a total of $15,000. One kid told me he lost $3800 he was 21 years old. I was shocked. So again thank you for speaking on this issue.
The number of people who didn’t see Drizzmas as one large gambling infomercial is stunning. People spoke about the good that was being done, not understanding that the prizes given away was equivalent to the cost of a gambling commercial. And I imagine that most of the viewership was comprised of young males.
It’s like the professor said, our current culture is so filled with greed that it’s just plastered everywhere now. Maybe you can say America deserves what it’s getting but that means good people who don’t subscribe to all this blatant billionaire worship are going to be hurt. It sucks but that’s just reality now, build community and keep your loved ones close, it’s going to be a long 4 years.
Not to mention it’s all a huge tax write off~they gave away nothing~once again, the people payed for these “blessings” privatized gains, socialized losses…
Incidentally, I never round my total to the nearest dollar to donate in stores, or give to the Ronald MacDonald home, or any kind of donation that is offered by a corporation~these corporations take our donated change and write them off of their corporate ledgers. So many little scams. Not to mention that they don’t need our change lol
Ive had a friend (20yr old) who’s struggled with alcohol addiction develop a gambling addiction this year. I live in a big student residence so We’ve been watching it get progressively worse and worse. We’ve tried all we can to help him out but to no avail. Thanks for speaking up about this
IMO classifying the term "class warfare" as the lower classes acting against the upper classes is itself a form of class warfare. I'm not well read on theory, but I know what they've been doing to us, and it seems ridiculous not to call that class warfare.
If I were to be frank, I almost never see the working class use the words "class warfare", it's almost always deployed by well off people who clutch their pearls at a tax increase
Class warfare works both ways, that's quite obvious. I can't think of any classical Marxist theorists who would dispute that. In America, most of the class warfare is top-down, always has been, except for the Labor movement era. I'm pretty sure his wife is an immigrant from Europe, likely she has a more old school, USSR influenced, understanding of the term. Could also be a language barrier thing. But yeah, she's pretty wrong about its technical meaning.
It’s kinda sad that my morals won’t allow me to listen to Drake how I used to. His whole Thank Me Later album was my childhood. Stories About My Brother hits different at night. But I can’t do it. He has a lot of apologizing to do and clearing his name.
The exasperated tone is so relatable. If you spent any time looking at Drake's fan subreddit, it's clear that Drake's status as a "winner" is the CORE appeal of his brand, at least to his dedicated male fans. I think that looking at Drake as a class warrior goes beyond the gambling though, especially once you start looking at his connections to the reactionary manosphere. There's an entire industry essentially dedicated to suppressing any sort of real class consciousness, and Drake is part of it and lends the likes of Ross immense credibility and status by virtue of his wealth, fame and power. The valorization of greed and consumption, the constant talk of comparing numbers (dollars and listeners and viewers), etc - it's all part of the same cultural trend. I think your comments on the transactional nature of Drake's relationship to Ross is spot on, but i also think that its the only sorts of relationships they're able to have, specifically because they come from this SoMe/manosphere culture where status and appearance is everything, and can be "objectively" measured in dollars and dimes (the dimes being women). Of course all of this is part of capitalism, but it's heightened to an absurd degree in this culture of spiritual poverty.
95% of the drake stans i have interacted with usually are those who align with the manosphere and the whole red pill bs. That can't be mere coincidence
"you make music that pacify 'em" Drake is emblematic of the mix of distraction and dopamine that keep people entertained but unfulfilled. A little bit of fun is healthy, but hedonism and excess don't bring contentedness.
I volunteer at a summer camp and seeing teens pull up roobet and stake gambling montages after fortnite compilations was when I knew this generation was cooked.
AVAA! In a sea of reactionary closeminded negativity, I've always appreciated your steely commitment to positive videos. It's an ethos I wish more shared, you're truly doing substantive, thoughtful work. That being said, I hope you aren't censoring yourself from making more videos about pressing, important topics like these. I feel like these sorts of videos are still a thoughtful reflection of how to usher in a positive future. Truly positive mindsets aren't fostered from bubbled naivete, but instead through resilient willpower in the face of overwhelming awareness. Videos like these are a protective measure, and still connected to your 'positivity first' thesis. Art is only allowed to be profitable so it can be used to breed complacency into the oppressed classes, so their conditions can become easier to swallow. Art being a good & bad propaganda tool is an important element of these conversations, even if the interpretations it invokes are of course still worth talking about. Those are the one thing that can't be entirely shaped by 'the other.' Class warfare goes both ways, it'd be criminal to call it anything else. Thank you for taking the time to address this. I just hope you don't censor yourself from speaking up for positivity's sake going forward. Regardless of how you choose to proceed, fantastic fantastic fantastic work as always. Your passion is contagious.
Thank you for talking about this, this is such a profound and important topic that I see affecting people around me in realtime. AVAA Also, speaking of the opioid epidemic, wasn't Drake supposed to release a track with Lil Durk called "Discontinuing Wockhardt"? There is a revealing Lil Wayne interview where he talks about drinking lean because he was young and impressionable watching Pimp C glorify it, and I wonder how Drake, as a father, (and also his buddy Lil Yachty) is okay promoting these things to what is clearly a young audience. "Misusing your influence" as one would say.
On behalf of Kermit the Frog, I must take issue with your impression of Jordan Peterson - while Peterson does present as a fabricated mouthpiece with something up his butt, we owe it to Jim Henson not to confuse the two 😊
As an Australian growing up in a culture that celebrates and promotes gambling the way it does, sports have been poisoned by it for as long as I can remember, but casino gambling has been seen as something different (even thought it isn’t), so seeing the explosion of online casinos is a unique horror even to me. There’s little in my mind that Drake deciding to tour here after 8 years is entirely the doing of his paymasters at Stake. I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before we can access Stake here too unfortunately. AVAA, love your work Skye.
Considering the proportion of major sporting teams and leagues that are funded primarily through gambling-linked revenue, and the government recently delaying action on anti-gambling ads 18 months after a parliamentary report's recommendations (roughly a year and a half ago), we are already absolutely cooked even without Stake.
Professor, I am glad to have found this channel due to Kdot vs Soft-serve's rap beef. Thank you for speaking about the predatory nature of bringing addictive gambling to the fingertips of common people and making it fake attractive. Thank you for supporting smaller channels like Derapy, which I very much enjoy just like this channel. Thanks for the rap analysis and opinions you share. Apart from entertaining/engaging, its educational.
To the people outside US wondering why this a problem, think about why Govts everywhere crack down heavily on 'illegal' drugs. Now think what would happen if a private company with 'maximize-profit' mindset could legally give money to your politicians to make it so that its legalized and not well regulated so that they can sell stuff like cocaine, heroin or meth on a smartphone app. Its not about the gambling itself, which - like drug use - is debatable as to the extent of harm vs choice, but about accessibility and strict regulation and leaving the best interests of your citizens in the hands of private organisations with vested interests.
New viewer here. I'm only about 15 minutes into the video and I feel like this is exactly the dissection on this topic I've been hoping to see. I really appreciate you breaking down the illusion that this is normal or good, and that you call out the names of the hacks that push this plague on their supporters. Thank you for providing clear education on the matter.
LOVE that you're addressing the pipeline of gambling, streaming, Kick, addiction and how all of it is related. Very important conversations to continue to have. 🗣
25 year old Australian teacher here. Have had my own ‘issues’ with gambling in my late teens and early twenties and it’s true about just how many people bet and gamble, especially on sports over here. Recently I’ve started to see it with my students that I teach. Kids aged 15 ‘gambling’ on apps with fake money, putting bets and multis (parlays for the Americans) on games and discussing with one another about their wins and getting upset at losses. Such a hard age group to try and convince or have a genuine convocation about the risks and harm of gambling. They’ve spoken many times about watching these influencer gambling streams (Drake and Aden Ross). It seems like they’ve been so exposed to it that it’ll be hard to pump the breaks on it, especially with peer pressure and it becoming so normalised. Great video, Skye, and thanks for the unique point of view.
Thank you for bringing this up. Its always felt extremely odd the way they push online gambling especially with the popular streamers. Thank you for saying and putting these feelings and thoughts ive had into actual words and delivered into a proper cohesive message.
I haven't even finished the video -- but I just wanted to immediately say THANK YOU. I have been trying to speak to my friends about how odd it is that gambling is becoming normalized for a few years now. Most people seem to "shrug it off" as though it's just this thing people can do. It is a HORRIBLE economic sign in my opinion. The main reason people turn to gambling and why it has always disproportionately affected the working class is that it is the most attractive when economic opportunity and stability for said classes is the lowest. To me, it is the bellwether towards the tipping point of where inequality becomes very very bad and things like -- I don't know, violence against CEOS -- begin happening. The fact that it is now entirely normalized for NETWORK anchors of sports games to be talking about the "spread" instead of how great of a defensive play that last clip was is absurdly comical and so twisted that I can't believe it's happening. As a kid growing up in the 90s, I recall gambling being quite taboo in general -- and for good reason!
Avaa Your channel has been my YT discovery of the year and this might be your best and most important video yet. A perfect end of the year. Good luck in 25 to all of you!
i've recently changed jobs and the amount of young lads at my workplace who either vape or bet on football games is insane, until Skye said it out loud i hadn't really thought about how damaging and rampant these addictions are
Professor Skye, long time subscriber here. I love your work it has inspired me to write essays for the first time since college. On a non-precedent forming basis, a one off. Would you be willing to read my essay. Then inform me if I should never attempt to intellectually contribute again? (I understand if this feels too much like work in which case, forgive me for being callous.)
Thanks for making this video. My family has personally been affected by gambling and we have taken in family members who have lost their homes and retirement to gambling. Its insidious.
Skye, this is why I have fallen in love with your channel. Thank you. AVAA. - also, I’m not an audio expert by any means, but maybe try lowering the gain on your microphone a little. It seems a little peaky at times? Wish I could be more helpful. Love to see you investing in improving the production quality!
Thanks for talking about what most won’t. I’ve learned so much about what is going on right before our eyes. I don’t watch these streamers (no my type of info) so I would have never known.
"The worst thing that can happen is not losing a bet, it's winning." Thank you for this Skye. My Dad has a gambling habit that goes back as far as I can remember. Only ever remembers the times he won big. Not realizing he would be up tens of thousands of dollars had he simply never participated. I'm lucky though because he's never blown a catastrophic amount of money. But the age of the average gambler is getting younger and younger, I don't imagine that ends well.
One shinning light that happened to me in 2024 was finding your channel. This segment was the most interesting one for me. I want to thank you for it. Gambling addiction is a scourge on the world. I'm in the Caribbean and almost every bar or corner has slot machines, lotto booths etc. It's quite sad. I hope people wake up one day...soon.
holy.. this is easily my favorite video from you. I don't usually comment on your channel much but i felt the need to tell you that you are doing a massive service with your vide, MORE people need to be talking about this with such vitrol and passionate distain for this predatory system. God bless you Professor Skye🙏
@@FrancoisDressler yes Depends on your perspective. If you are working class/poor and are aware of what's happening, the oppression very much feels like war. To Drake, it's just another dollar, but he's just another capitalist pig. The term class warfare was coined from the perspective of the oppressed and they get to chose what words they use. Otherwise you're just muddying the waters and serving the capitalist class, thanks.
Dang, not even 5 minutes in and you're absolutely giving me goose bumps with your direct speech and if I hear you utter a battle cry later in the stream... I will not be surprised. 🔥 🔥🔥
AVAA, Professor Skye! Found you through the beef and I'm very grateful to be here! This was an important and informative video, I really appreciate you taking the time to make this! Happy New Year🤞
Love that you are taking promotion of gambling appropriately seriously; worth noting that a lot of the addiction pipeline is started with kids playing live service video games as well, which adds the Ice Cube generation of celebs to the list of people who promote gambling addiction.
Incredible video. Thank you for eloquently wrapping a lot of this stuff together up into one video. It really does make it hard to have hope in the world when you see some of this stuff happening so blatantly, with nothing done to stop it.
Foriegn Friday did an essay on Adin Ross and Kai Cenat! I know you were on his essay a while ago. It was so eye opening because I just came back to internet and these streaming personality where people stayed online with them for 8 hours were insane and didn't understand this sector of internet culture and I like to be informed.
Prof. your point at 4:25 is such a great point. I feel like we would love a video on your analysis of tech distruptions and its impacts on the working class. Love it, thank you a million for these long form videos. Happy New Years to you & yours!
I started following you and a few other content creators during the Drake/Kendrick beef and admittedly have not watched much of your or their stuff since, as I kind of realized this was just me using the plight and ego of two men I’ll never meet for my own entertainment. But this video.. wow. Thank you for shining light on the larger context. I don’t gamble so that aspect doesn’t tempt me but the commentary on the larger class warfare, including the new online gambling industry, is extremely pertinent and the ease of access is so insidious. I’ll make sure to keep an eye on your upcoming uploads, and thank you for sharing your very passionate and concerned insight.
AVAA professor, you make lots of amazing points that I can only hope dont fall on deaf ears, kids watch this for years and get paid by the government to try it out the moment they have access to something their idols have been doing 24/7 to their faces, it is a scary part of the future Will do my best to make this heard
I think its good that u had to pause the recording bc u were getting angry (rightfully so) Thank u for 2 months of intresting and engaging content Happy new year🎉🎉🎉
Hey professor new watcher, I know i'm late for this video but it hit home on many levels for me. I'm a gambling addict currently free from gambling for about a year now, there are a lot of different reasons I fell into the trap of gambling; depression, escapism, ADHD and another i'll explain on the Australia connection but one of the major things that helped me stop (hopefully for good) was viewing gambling through the lens of class politics. Even though I always knew what I was doing was destructive for myself, the fact I still gave over to the corp scum that run these institutions really burns me these days. I hate that my government does literally nothing to stop profiteering off societies most vunerable (those most prone to gambling are often those with other under lying issues) and that now it is targeted at literal children whose brains aren't even formed yet and don't know better, god help them if they don't have strong figures in their lives or that they idolize someone like Drake. As for Australia well... gambling is everywhere here... it's the culture. Every pub has a pokie room (slot room), most of those pubs would not exist without the pokie room. They are often run down front bars, serve bad food and have nobody in them, but they have slot rooms with 40+ machines... all full round the clock. National sports teams own rooms, hotel groups, even the freaking major supermarkets here own them. During live broadcasts of sport or just TV in general, gambling companies run ads around the clock, no timeslot restrictions, barely audible or readable age warnings during every match on every sport, all exposed to all the kids just trying to watch their favorite team. All these companies have apps with laughable security set ups. Nearly every person I work with has a sportsbet account for instance. I could go on and on but as an Aussie, you or someone you know gambles, without fail. It does not suprise me that the goblin that started stake comes from our backyard. Anyway just wanted to write something out, thanks, subbed!
Out of all the videos discussing Drake and/or online gambling that I've seen, this is the most thorough. Most people stop at "they're encouraging addiction" or "Drake isn't real hop hop" without looking at the broader context of who Drake serves and who buys the services of people like him and Adin Ross. Also, I have no idea how you stay positive after watching 30 minutes of unfiltered Adin Ross let alone several hours. I'm literally cleansing my palette with the new Kavari album right now to hear something real and raw.
Another huge factor in gambling addiction is modern video games. So many are filled to the brim with lootboxes, which are just disguised slot machines. And tons of kids play games like FIFA or Madden which are vritual sports cards sims. Not to mention all the shitty mobile gacha games. Coffeezilla recently made an exposé on Counter-Strike gambling.
Oh and the European game regulator thinks all the lootboxes and shit are okay for little kids but Balatro, which has no micro transactions at all, had to be 18+ because it's vaguely pokerthemed.
this whole thing is an infomercial!! thank you for this. The advertisements have gotten intense and slipped into everything. great class analysis. I do think it is class warfare. Direct attack on low income/working class people. Gives the impression that rich people are inherently better/luckier, which is why they have money and you don't. It's usually the opposite, they have money and that gives an essence of luck, and puts them in better positions. They're not gambling their own money either!!! No good billionaires
6:46 professor Skye, I love your videos so much! I never skip a video. This is soooooo important to talk about, thank you so much. This is a global problem, and it’s being marketed to young men who think being rich makes them a somebody. These children and teens and young men will have nothing when they grow up. It’s so so so sad. Drake is ruining these children’s lives. Thank you for talking about this. Xx
31:06 - Something I’d like to add here is that, yes, the money they are gambling with does not belong to them, but the winnings do. Most gambling sponsors operate by not only paying streamers for sponsorships but also giving them money to spend at the casino. In return, the streamer often take a percentage, if not all, of the winning money. This strategy is used to generate authentic reactions to winning and, potentially, to get the streamers addicted. This happened with XQC, who has admitted multiple times that he is addicted to slots and uses them to relax. In a regular casino, this would be illegal. If a customer admits to being addicted to gambling, casinos are legally obligated to ban them from participating. However, since this is unregulated gambling that exploits legal loopholes, they get away with a lot.
"Drake just called himself Karl Malone" Yeezus! AVAA, Skye. So many dark forces with their talons in society. So many dark forces with their talons in hip hop. Great breakdown. 🫡
I really appreciate and respect you for doing this video. The normalizing of gambling has really been sad to see. Because it is extremely predatory. Then to see people like LeBron James, Drake, and a myriad of other celebs/athletes selfishly pushing it is gross. I can understand someone who isn't wealthy, picking up a gambling sponsorship. I still don't agree with it, but it makes much more sense. The amount of greed you have to instill to push gambling on your fans is astronomical. Not only do these people not at all need that money, but most of them are gambling with money they were given to gamble from these companies. They're not even using their actual money. And they do this, knowing damn well that many of their fans will wreck their lives by picking up gambling. It just shows their priorities, along with them not at all caring for their fans. It's going to be sad when in a decade we look back to see the destruction this new gambling wave has created. And as usual, only the most vulnerable will suffer from it, while these rich touch people are laughing at the bank, sleeping just fine. I could endlessly rant about this, but you present it better than I ever could. lol So thank you for that. I hope you and anyone reading this have a wonderful, positive, and safe day/night!
01:30 "So perhaps we deserve to have such an odious person promote such an odious product" 90 seconds in and already 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Before i saw who wrote this I thought, “it’s all happening..”😂😂 Maybe I watch a little too much of my Culture United thought dealers 😅 Happy New Year, Justin!
love how supportive the community is of each other, love both yall videos!
TCM always supports other good creators
@ yep!
Great vid
Professor, this is so important. I am Brazilian and the gamble craze has completely destroyed families and individual lives around me. Football stars like Neymar Jr., Ronaldo Fenômeno, Bruno Henrique, all praised my youth, have million dollar deals with gambling companies. Influencers, young as 13 are advertising on Instagram for thousands to see.
It is an epidemic that is advancing so fast and spreading that plague like wild fire around the most poor. I am not kidding when I say, my cousin's baby father bet his bicycle and lost it.
Thank you for the insightful video. I am sure going to share this with anyone I know that also speaks English because, this is beyond important.
Tem brasileiro em todo lugar mesmo né
Falou muito e falou bem.
A crise das bets e dos casinos online aqui tá ESTRAÇALHANDO as economias das pessoas, arruinando famílias. E tudo literalmente legalizado. Sancionado pelo governo. Incentivado pela sua celebridade favorita, seja ela o Drizzy ou o R9. Na minha cidade tem propaganda de bet nos ônibus que o povo pega pra ir e voltar do trabalho, mano. Anunciada quase que como se fosse uma forma de ter renda extra. É abominável.
I am so, so, sorry.....
It is so concerning how unserious people have taken this all.. :'(
🙏 I hope a change starts..soon... 😭🩵
@@superStarshines I guess shit don't change until we do. The more we talk about it to the people around us, the bettsr
As bets estão ARRUINANDO nosso país, e infelizmente a tendência é piorar, especialmente com tantos ídolos e pessoas culturalmente importantes endossando isso.
Thank you for bringing up the Stake > streamer > podcast space > red pill > trump pipeline
Whatcha know about that Demi? Yeah the pipeline is real. I trace it from incel (gamergate, anti-SJW, or now anti-woke/MGTOW-red pill manosphere- then to alt-right for the committed or MAGA/Trump for the more lazy.
@@demitasse22Demi i want to respond so bad but i think it keeps getting blocked because your comment is in the members section.
@ I can read this fine
@@demitasse22 the earlier one was erased, maybe i used a bad word or something. It was kind of long so i will try to retype it later today. Happy New Year.
@@andinetrbruce1213 happy new year!
I think this is Professor Skye’s euphoria
AVAA!
Did you call me? My name is Ava 🤭
Ha! Good catch😂😅
20 year Toronto resident here. Was disgusted by the entire city getting plastered with gambling ads when Ontario finally sold it's soul. To see the " ambassador of Toronto " Aubrey, take it to the extreme has been far worse.
I wasn't a fan of Drakes music but thought it was important that we had a presumably good guy being our ambassador, after the stories about high school basketball girls and spending all of his free time latching onto people half his age to promote gambling, he can fucking stay in Australia.
#THE6ISOVERDRAKE
I don't know if this is statistically consistent, but every Toronto citizen I encounter hates Drake.
@@kaedatiger born toronto resident here, but i know a lot of people that mess with him because "hes all we have"
@@adlwas8176 that's kind of sad
@@janitor1165tell me about it. Im on the side of id rather have nobody...
Hey, we don't want him!
Professor skye had a worldwide steppers moment with the go to hell statements
he started talking like that one RDC world skit
His own control verse
He said “F everybody… that’s on my body”
@@sk8anddestroy515 yesterday somebody wacced out my culture
Gambling in Australia is as widespread and as destructive as alcoholism. It's everywhere, and has been for decades, with slot machines in bars and horse-race betting being so normalized that the Australian Stock Exchange suspends trading every year during the Melbourne Cup (which is also a school holiday. For watching a horse race. Seriously.)
There's a song called "Blow Up the Pokies" by Aussie band The Whitlams about the problem that sums up the whole thing, and it was written 25 years ago. Thank you for railing against the scourge of online gambling, Professor. I am right there with you on it being arguably the most destructive addiction of our time. After all, isn't a lot of the stockmarket really just gambling..?
Yes! It is! But at least with the stock market you gain some economic knowledge if you pay attention.
@@demitasse22 You can LEARN without playing. Only those who already have vast amounts of money can play and win. Regular people can loose it all after investing their entire lives. It is gambling and class-est.
@ you can, absolutely
yeah i’m 20 and from dubbo kinda area ( not giving exact) gambling has become another one of those things you just do when you turn 18. it’s such a huge problem
They say gambling to Australians is like guns to Americans
Early vampire novels were about traditional wealthy class societies feeding on the poor and creative, and not much has changed since then.
The earliest depiction of vampires actually came from the Bible with Cain and Abel. This is far deeper than class systems issue. The spirit of Cain runs rampant thru today. I don’t want to bore you with the long ins and outs of this.
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I agree there is a useage of vampires and the like in fiction to talk about social issues like that… HOWEVER vampires are real folklore monsters that originate in many eastern european cultures well before the time of christ so there was a lot more to it earlier
@@vinsanity3510 That is not the earliest depiction of a vampire. Look up Lamashtu if you want to see the root of vampiric myth.
@@vinsanity3510 not sure if that's actually true or just 5000 years of misinterpretations. Like demons aren't actual things, mammon isn't a guy telling you to keep gambling. It's a misunderstanding caused by people back then being ignorant, they believed that their thoughts were the voices of ancestors demons or gods and listened to them. So a gambling addiction was a demon taking control over someone not them just making poor choices over and over. All mental malady was seen as demonic possession. If by "the spirit of Cain" you mean the human behavior that the story represents, then yes. If you mean the actual spirit of Cain then no, people are just making similar mistakes because we aren't God and are ruled by sin. sin's original meaning was a mistake, it was an archery term. We allow mistakes to pile up to the point where the cycles of thought run our lives and that is what is referred to as a demon.
Class is in session. Thank you, professor. AVAA
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He called us “Class”
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Drake isn’t advertising to children. He’s advertising to A MINORRRRRRRRRRR 🔥
this is so corny
@@rolaskatox2828but it’s delectable
We also need to talk about how video games have been gamble-ified. It's all about buying lootboxes, with random chances of dropping the one item you want. These are literally gambling mechanics, down to the free lootboxes that they offer you here and there to hook you in. We're literally programming kids to be addicted to gambling!
For real. And even in countries where gambling is illegal, they just share the odds of each drop.
And then there's the whole gray / black market for closet loot boxes and all, people trying to prey on those gambling kids
Coffeezilla recently dropped some videos regarding the CS lootboxes and stuff. Might be of interest to you if you havent already checked it out!
yes. gd this is depressing... ( ._.)
People have no idea how bad this really is. We'll soon see the damage Roblox has done/is doing
these video games also often deliberately dont have any type of age verification for the purchases.. so kids dont need to ask their parents..
As a marxist, I absolutely agree that online gambling is a form of class warfare. Your explanation is on point, Prof. AVAA
As a Marxist I’d also add that the idea that class warfare is only bottom-up is a myth designed to obscure than class war is happening every day directed at the working class (this includes people who self-identify as middle class; you still work)
AVAA
Maybe your best video so far?
This is absolutely brutal but these absolute ghouls deserve it
agreed, felt like so many of the country's overlooked issues were demonstrated and nailed to a point in this vid
AVAA professor Coffezilla just did 2 30 minute specials on this topic. I was saying to my wife last week that gambling commercials have replaced drug company commercials on RUclips and it’s insane. I never knew this was an issue. 3 years ago I was on medical leave from work and did Uber abs Lyft in the Harrisburg PA area. I would pick people up from the Hollywood casino and it was always young men especially Asian men. I thought they all either there till one day I started asking them how they did. Professor I talked to 10 different guys in a week and all of them together had lost a total of $15,000. One kid told me he lost $3800 he was 21 years old. I was shocked. So again thank you for speaking on this issue.
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The number of people who didn’t see Drizzmas as one large gambling infomercial is stunning. People spoke about the good that was being done, not understanding that the prizes given away was equivalent to the cost of a gambling commercial. And I imagine that most of the viewership was comprised of young males.
It’s like the professor said, our current culture is so filled with greed that it’s just plastered everywhere now. Maybe you can say America deserves what it’s getting but that means good people who don’t subscribe to all this blatant billionaire worship are going to be hurt. It sucks but that’s just reality now, build community and keep your loved ones close, it’s going to be a long 4 years.
Not to mention it’s all a huge tax write off~they gave away nothing~once again, the people payed for these “blessings” privatized gains, socialized losses…
Incidentally, I never round my total to the nearest dollar to donate in stores, or give to the Ronald MacDonald home, or any kind of donation that is offered by a corporation~these corporations take our donated change and write them off of their corporate ledgers. So many little scams. Not to mention that they don’t need our change lol
Baby Skye turnt all the way up when Drake mentioned Anthony Bourdain 🤣
We need more of this. I like crash out Skye
W Crash Out Skye
Ive had a friend (20yr old) who’s struggled with alcohol addiction develop a gambling addiction this year. I live in a big student residence so We’ve been watching it get progressively worse and worse. We’ve tried all we can to help him out but to no avail. Thanks for speaking up about this
IMO classifying the term "class warfare" as the lower classes acting against the upper classes is itself a form of class warfare. I'm not well read on theory, but I know what they've been doing to us, and it seems ridiculous not to call that class warfare.
I interpreted it as him saying the upper class has waged war on lower classes to keep them poor.
Yes class warfare is a daily thing practiced by the upper class against the lower
If I were to be frank, I almost never see the working class use the words "class warfare", it's almost always deployed by well off people who clutch their pearls at a tax increase
Class warfare works both ways, that's quite obvious. I can't think of any classical Marxist theorists who would dispute that. In America, most of the class warfare is top-down, always has been, except for the Labor movement era.
I'm pretty sure his wife is an immigrant from Europe, likely she has a more old school, USSR influenced, understanding of the term. Could also be a language barrier thing. But yeah, she's pretty wrong about its technical meaning.
@@AaraliRam I second that
Don’t Drake and drive, kids.
It’s kinda sad that my morals won’t allow me to listen to Drake how I used to. His whole Thank Me Later album was my childhood. Stories About My Brother hits different at night. But I can’t do it. He has a lot of apologizing to do and clearing his name.
Just don’t do Drake!
you'll end up at your ex's house
@@TURBOMIKEIFYapologize for what ,for saving hip hop ?
The exasperated tone is so relatable. If you spent any time looking at Drake's fan subreddit, it's clear that Drake's status as a "winner" is the CORE appeal of his brand, at least to his dedicated male fans.
I think that looking at Drake as a class warrior goes beyond the gambling though, especially once you start looking at his connections to the reactionary manosphere. There's an entire industry essentially dedicated to suppressing any sort of real class consciousness, and Drake is part of it and lends the likes of Ross immense credibility and status by virtue of his wealth, fame and power. The valorization of greed and consumption, the constant talk of comparing numbers (dollars and listeners and viewers), etc - it's all part of the same cultural trend.
I think your comments on the transactional nature of Drake's relationship to Ross is spot on, but i also think that its the only sorts of relationships they're able to have, specifically because they come from this SoMe/manosphere culture where status and appearance is everything, and can be "objectively" measured in dollars and dimes (the dimes being women).
Of course all of this is part of capitalism, but it's heightened to an absurd degree in this culture of spiritual poverty.
95% of the drake stans i have interacted with usually are those who align with the manosphere and the whole red pill bs. That can't be mere coincidence
"you make music that pacify 'em"
Drake is emblematic of the mix of distraction and dopamine that keep people entertained but unfulfilled. A little bit of fun is healthy, but hedonism and excess don't bring contentedness.
I volunteer at a summer camp and seeing teens pull up roobet and stake gambling montages after fortnite compilations was when I knew this generation was cooked.
Yikes
Wtactual F. Seriously?!?! My goodness
The generation that allowed it to happen is the cooked one IMO
AVAA! In a sea of reactionary closeminded negativity, I've always appreciated your steely commitment to positive videos. It's an ethos I wish more shared, you're truly doing substantive, thoughtful work.
That being said, I hope you aren't censoring yourself from making more videos about pressing, important topics like these. I feel like these sorts of videos are still a thoughtful reflection of how to usher in a positive future. Truly positive mindsets aren't fostered from bubbled naivete, but instead through resilient willpower in the face of overwhelming awareness. Videos like these are a protective measure, and still connected to your 'positivity first' thesis.
Art is only allowed to be profitable so it can be used to breed complacency into the oppressed classes, so their conditions can become easier to swallow. Art being a good & bad propaganda tool is an important element of these conversations, even if the interpretations it invokes are of course still worth talking about. Those are the one thing that can't be entirely shaped by 'the other.' Class warfare goes both ways, it'd be criminal to call it anything else. Thank you for taking the time to address this. I just hope you don't censor yourself from speaking up for positivity's sake going forward.
Regardless of how you choose to proceed, fantastic fantastic fantastic work as always. Your passion is contagious.
I’ll make more videos like this
Thank you for talking about this, this is such a profound and important topic that I see affecting people around me in realtime. AVAA
Also, speaking of the opioid epidemic, wasn't Drake supposed to release a track with Lil Durk called "Discontinuing Wockhardt"? There is a revealing Lil Wayne interview where he talks about drinking lean because he was young and impressionable watching Pimp C glorify it, and I wonder how Drake, as a father, (and also his buddy Lil Yachty) is okay promoting these things to what is clearly a young audience. "Misusing your influence" as one would say.
Professor Skye turning to Professor Crashout was not on the 2024 bingo card, but im still edutained! AVAA
On behalf of Kermit the Frog, I must take issue with your impression of Jordan Peterson - while Peterson does present as a fabricated mouthpiece with something up his butt, we owe it to Jim Henson not to confuse the two 😊
Ha!
@@professorskye Henson is/was/will aways be the goat of leading a group of creatives to is maximum potential
AVAA I heard this voice as comedian emo Phillips too funny
Preach it Skye! Avaa. This might be my favorite you've done since i subscribed. We need more of this in society
As an Australian growing up in a culture that celebrates and promotes gambling the way it does, sports have been poisoned by it for as long as I can remember, but casino gambling has been seen as something different (even thought it isn’t), so seeing the explosion of online casinos is a unique horror even to me. There’s little in my mind that Drake deciding to tour here after 8 years is entirely the doing of his paymasters at Stake. I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before we can access Stake here too unfortunately. AVAA, love your work Skye.
Considering the proportion of major sporting teams and leagues that are funded primarily through gambling-linked revenue, and the government recently delaying action on anti-gambling ads 18 months after a parliamentary report's recommendations (roughly a year and a half ago), we are already absolutely cooked even without Stake.
Professor, I am glad to have found this channel due to Kdot vs Soft-serve's rap beef. Thank you for speaking about the predatory nature of bringing addictive gambling to the fingertips of common people and making it fake attractive. Thank you for supporting smaller channels like Derapy, which I very much enjoy just like this channel. Thanks for the rap analysis and opinions you share. Apart from entertaining/engaging, its educational.
To the people outside US wondering why this a problem, think about why Govts everywhere crack down heavily on 'illegal' drugs. Now think what would happen if a private company with 'maximize-profit' mindset could legally give money to your politicians to make it so that its legalized and not well regulated so that they can sell stuff like cocaine, heroin or meth on a smartphone app. Its not about the gambling itself, which - like drug use - is debatable as to the extent of harm vs choice, but about accessibility and strict regulation and leaving the best interests of your citizens in the hands of private organisations with vested interests.
New viewer here. I'm only about 15 minutes into the video and I feel like this is exactly the dissection on this topic I've been hoping to see. I really appreciate you breaking down the illusion that this is normal or good, and that you call out the names of the hacks that push this plague on their supporters. Thank you for providing clear education on the matter.
LOVE that you're addressing the pipeline of gambling, streaming, Kick, addiction and how all of it is related. Very important conversations to continue to have. 🗣
This may be my favorite video of yours and possibly one of, if not, your most important lesson we could get from you at this time. Love it! AVAA
25 year old Australian teacher here. Have had my own ‘issues’ with gambling in my late teens and early twenties and it’s true about just how many people bet and gamble, especially on sports over here. Recently I’ve started to see it with my students that I teach. Kids aged 15 ‘gambling’ on apps with fake money, putting bets and multis (parlays for the Americans) on games and discussing with one another about their wins and getting upset at losses. Such a hard age group to try and convince or have a genuine convocation about the risks and harm of gambling. They’ve spoken many times about watching these influencer gambling streams (Drake and Aden Ross).
It seems like they’ve been so exposed to it that it’ll be hard to pump the breaks on it, especially with peer pressure and it becoming so normalised.
Great video, Skye, and thanks for the unique point of view.
I am just 2 minutes in, but everything the Professor is talking about is a problem I hardly see people talk about. Excited to hear what is going 😂
Because they sponsoring a lot of yt videos..
Thank you for shedding light on this topic!
If Drake was doing the Halftime show there would definitely be a Stake Super Bowl commercial with him in it
Thank you for bringing this up. Its always felt extremely odd the way they push online gambling especially with the popular streamers.
Thank you for saying and putting these feelings and thoughts ive had into actual words and delivered into a proper cohesive message.
I haven't even finished the video -- but I just wanted to immediately say THANK YOU.
I have been trying to speak to my friends about how odd it is that gambling is becoming normalized for a few years now. Most people seem to "shrug it off" as though it's just this thing people can do.
It is a HORRIBLE economic sign in my opinion.
The main reason people turn to gambling and why it has always disproportionately affected the working class is that it is the most attractive when economic opportunity and stability for said classes is the lowest.
To me, it is the bellwether towards the tipping point of where inequality becomes very very bad and things like -- I don't know, violence against CEOS -- begin happening.
The fact that it is now entirely normalized for NETWORK anchors of sports games to be talking about the "spread" instead of how great of a defensive play that last clip was is absurdly comical and so twisted that I can't believe it's happening.
As a kid growing up in the 90s, I recall gambling being quite taboo in general -- and for good reason!
Avaa
Your channel has been my YT discovery of the year and this might be your best and most important video yet. A perfect end of the year. Good luck in 25 to all of you!
Professor spittin facts in crystal clear HD couldn't ask for a better new years gift
i've recently changed jobs and the amount of young lads at my workplace who either vape or bet on football games is insane, until Skye said it out loud i hadn't really thought about how damaging and rampant these addictions are
Professor Skye, long time subscriber here. I love your work it has inspired me to write essays for the first time since college. On a non-precedent forming basis, a one off. Would you be willing to read my essay. Then inform me if I should never attempt to intellectually contribute again? (I understand if this feels too much like work in which case, forgive me for being callous.)
Keep pushing that pen, brother 💯
ill read your essay if youd like
#AVAA
drop the google doc link bro!!!
@VladimirrLopez Put the link in your channel description.
Professor Skye, your Jordan peterson impersonation sounds like he solves mysteries with a great dance and is always hungry.
Thanks for making this video. My family has personally been affected by gambling and we have taken in family members who have lost their homes and retirement to gambling. Its insidious.
Skye, this is why I have fallen in love with your channel. Thank you. AVAA.
- also, I’m not an audio expert by any means, but maybe try lowering the gain on your microphone a little. It seems a little peaky at times? Wish I could be more helpful. Love to see you investing in improving the production quality!
Thanks for talking about what most won’t. I’ve learned so much about what is going on right before our eyes. I don’t watch these streamers (no my type of info) so I would have never known.
"The worst thing that can happen is not losing a bet, it's winning." Thank you for this Skye. My Dad has a gambling habit that goes back as far as I can remember. Only ever remembers the times he won big. Not realizing he would be up tens of thousands of dollars had he simply never participated. I'm lucky though because he's never blown a catastrophic amount of money. But the age of the average gambler is getting younger and younger, I don't imagine that ends well.
AAVA - The image of you sitting through that stream made my day.
One shinning light that happened to me in 2024 was finding your channel. This segment was the most interesting one for me. I want to thank you for it. Gambling addiction is a scourge on the world. I'm in the Caribbean and almost every bar or corner has slot machines, lotto booths etc. It's quite sad. I hope people wake up one day...soon.
Thank you for dropping knowledge, professor 🫡💯
holy..
this is easily my favorite video from you. I don't usually comment on your channel much but i felt the need to tell you that you are doing a massive service with your vide, MORE people need to be talking about this with such vitrol and passionate distain for this predatory system. God bless you Professor Skye🙏
Fellow gambling hater here.
How about "class oppression"? as a substitute for class warfare?
🎯💯 Absolutely... gambling is quite possibly the worst addiction ever. Glad I've never been drawn to it whatsoever.
Same thing.
I think class warfare is useful in making as realize that we are already at war with the upper class because they are already at war with us
In warfare, you are actively trying to oppress the opposition if not outright trying to destroy them.
@@FrancoisDressler yes
Depends on your perspective. If you are working class/poor and are aware of what's happening, the oppression very much feels like war. To Drake, it's just another dollar, but he's just another capitalist pig. The term class warfare was coined from the perspective of the oppressed and they get to chose what words they use. Otherwise you're just muddying the waters and serving the capitalist class, thanks.
Dang, not even 5 minutes in and you're absolutely giving me goose bumps with your direct speech and if I hear you utter a battle cry later in the stream... I will not be surprised. 🔥 🔥🔥
Hi Professor, your definition of being an adult stuck with me. Thank you.
Super AVAA. Happy new year professor. My favorite youtuber by far.
I'm glad someone is finally talking about this. Kick is literally just a massive gateway to stake. It's horribly damaging.
AVAA, Professor Skye! Found you through the beef and I'm very grateful to be here! This was an important and informative video, I really appreciate you taking the time to make this! Happy New Year🤞
Love that you are taking promotion of gambling appropriately seriously; worth noting that a lot of the addiction pipeline is started with kids playing live service video games as well, which adds the Ice Cube generation of celebs to the list of people who promote gambling addiction.
Incredible video. Thank you for eloquently wrapping a lot of this stuff together up into one video. It really does make it hard to have hope in the world when you see some of this stuff happening so blatantly, with nothing done to stop it.
Foriegn Friday did an essay on Adin Ross and Kai Cenat! I know you were on his essay a while ago. It was so eye opening because I just came back to internet and these streaming personality where people stayed online with them for 8 hours were insane and didn't understand this sector of internet culture and I like to be informed.
avaa, this has got to be among the very best of your videos, and the most important subject to speak on
Prof. your point at 4:25 is such a great point. I feel like we would love a video on your analysis of tech distruptions and its impacts on the working class. Love it, thank you a million for these long form videos. Happy New Years to you & yours!
“Brain full of packing peanuts” is my new go-to. 😂 Thank you Prof! #AVAA
You’re spot on with the class warfare point. It’s a tale as old as class distinctions, and can’t disappear as long as capitalism still exists. AVAA
One of THE BEST videos you've ever made Professor Skye. Brilliantly done. (Insert mic drop)
Lets not forget major league sports in this country are non profit organizations. Which is insane
All the way here for this shit. Go off Professor. Fuck turnt, get em learnt.
Im literally a communist and online gambling as a war against the working class is a complete on point take its even affecting my coworkers
Thank you so much for creating this video. This is so important and personally I don’t see anyone talking about this. Enjoy the holidays!
I never knew you were from Boston makes me love this channel even more lol.
I started following you and a few other content creators during the Drake/Kendrick beef and admittedly have not watched much of your or their stuff since, as I kind of realized this was just me using the plight and ego of two men I’ll never meet for my own entertainment. But this video.. wow. Thank you for shining light on the larger context. I don’t gamble so that aspect doesn’t tempt me but the commentary on the larger class warfare, including the new online gambling industry, is extremely pertinent and the ease of access is so insidious. I’ll make sure to keep an eye on your upcoming uploads, and thank you for sharing your very passionate and concerned insight.
AVAA professor, you make lots of amazing points that I can only hope dont fall on deaf ears, kids watch this for years and get paid by the government to try it out the moment they have access to something their idols have been doing 24/7 to their faces, it is a scary part of the future
Will do my best to make this heard
Thank you , Prof. A proper breakdown, and awareness building! Have a good year.
I think its good that u had to pause the recording bc u were getting angry (rightfully so)
Thank u for 2 months of intresting and engaging content
Happy new year🎉🎉🎉
F.D Signifier calls it hyper capitalism, and his Sean combs documentary breaks it down eloquently.
when you started talking about the etymology of the word blessing my mouth fell open, you did not hold back, AVAA
Hey professor new watcher, I know i'm late for this video but it hit home on many levels for me. I'm a gambling addict currently free from gambling for about a year now, there are a lot of different reasons I fell into the trap of gambling; depression, escapism, ADHD and another i'll explain on the Australia connection but one of the major things that helped me stop (hopefully for good) was viewing gambling through the lens of class politics. Even though I always knew what I was doing was destructive for myself, the fact I still gave over to the corp scum that run these institutions really burns me these days. I hate that my government does literally nothing to stop profiteering off societies most vunerable (those most prone to gambling are often those with other under lying issues) and that now it is targeted at literal children whose brains aren't even formed yet and don't know better, god help them if they don't have strong figures in their lives or that they idolize someone like Drake.
As for Australia well... gambling is everywhere here... it's the culture. Every pub has a pokie room (slot room), most of those pubs would not exist without the pokie room. They are often run down front bars, serve bad food and have nobody in them, but they have slot rooms with 40+ machines... all full round the clock. National sports teams own rooms, hotel groups, even the freaking major supermarkets here own them.
During live broadcasts of sport or just TV in general, gambling companies run ads around the clock, no timeslot restrictions, barely audible or readable age warnings during every match on every sport, all exposed to all the kids just trying to watch their favorite team. All these companies have apps with laughable security set ups. Nearly every person I work with has a sportsbet account for instance. I could go on and on but as an Aussie, you or someone you know gambles, without fail. It does not suprise me that the goblin that started stake comes from our backyard.
Anyway just wanted to write something out, thanks, subbed!
Thank you so much for this analysis, Prof. Skye. It was really needed. AVAA BLESSSSSS 🙏❤
Out of all the videos discussing Drake and/or online gambling that I've seen, this is the most thorough. Most people stop at "they're encouraging addiction" or "Drake isn't real hop hop" without looking at the broader context of who Drake serves and who buys the services of people like him and Adin Ross.
Also, I have no idea how you stay positive after watching 30 minutes of unfiltered Adin Ross let alone several hours. I'm literally cleansing my palette with the new Kavari album right now to hear something real and raw.
Another huge factor in gambling addiction is modern video games. So many are filled to the brim with lootboxes, which are just disguised slot machines. And tons of kids play games like FIFA or Madden which are vritual sports cards sims. Not to mention all the shitty mobile gacha games.
Coffeezilla recently made an exposé on Counter-Strike gambling.
Oh and the European game regulator thinks all the lootboxes and shit are okay for little kids but Balatro, which has no micro transactions at all, had to be 18+ because it's vaguely pokerthemed.
this whole thing is an infomercial!! thank you for this. The advertisements have gotten intense and slipped into everything. great class analysis. I do think it is class warfare. Direct attack on low income/working class people. Gives the impression that rich people are inherently better/luckier, which is why they have money and you don't. It's usually the opposite, they have money and that gives an essence of luck, and puts them in better positions. They're not gambling their own money either!!! No good billionaires
6:46 professor Skye, I love your videos so much! I never skip a video. This is soooooo important to talk about, thank you so much. This is a global problem, and it’s being marketed to young men who think being rich makes them a somebody. These children and teens and young men will have nothing when they grow up. It’s so so so sad. Drake is ruining these children’s lives. Thank you for talking about this. Xx
31:06 - Something I’d like to add here is that, yes, the money they are gambling with does not belong to them, but the winnings do. Most gambling sponsors operate by not only paying streamers for sponsorships but also giving them money to spend at the casino. In return, the streamer often take a percentage, if not all, of the winning money. This strategy is used to generate authentic reactions to winning and, potentially, to get the streamers addicted. This happened with XQC, who has admitted multiple times that he is addicted to slots and uses them to relax. In a regular casino, this would be illegal. If a customer admits to being addicted to gambling, casinos are legally obligated to ban them from participating. However, since this is unregulated gambling that exploits legal loopholes, they get away with a lot.
Love the new camera quality.
Amazing job as always, Professor. 👏
"Drake just called himself Karl Malone" Yeezus! AVAA, Skye. So many dark forces with their talons in society. So many dark forces with their talons in hip hop. Great breakdown. 🫡
Happy New Year Professor!
This is such a great take and thank you so much for making it. Keep up the good work.
This video is amazing. Thank you so much for what you do
Your Jordan Peterson impression is literally Kermit the frog 😂
Also
"So white that I get sunburn in a thunderstorm"
Bars
"Whole Lotta Horse Hockey" is a phenomenal album title.
I bet Led Zeppelin wishes they could go back and change Whole Lotta Love to that album title.
bro is cooking with this one 🔥
Class consciousness comes in so many forms, this being just one! THANK YOU PROF SKY!
this is such a great video. great analysis on a problem so few people are willing to speak on.
Amen Rev. Skye. Preach!!
AVAA. Greetings from Uganda. Happy new year and I can't wait for the RAP Ferreira video.
Prof on Punisher time. Loved this video.
AVAA, glad to see you speak out against drake like this prof. Happy new years and very excited for that upcoming rap ferreira review
yea, I just thought my youtube was extra crisp today until you said new camera, nice!
I really appreciate and respect you for doing this video. The normalizing of gambling has really been sad to see. Because it is extremely predatory. Then to see people like LeBron James, Drake, and a myriad of other celebs/athletes selfishly pushing it is gross. I can understand someone who isn't wealthy, picking up a gambling sponsorship. I still don't agree with it, but it makes much more sense. The amount of greed you have to instill to push gambling on your fans is astronomical. Not only do these people not at all need that money, but most of them are gambling with money they were given to gamble from these companies. They're not even using their actual money. And they do this, knowing damn well that many of their fans will wreck their lives by picking up gambling. It just shows their priorities, along with them not at all caring for their fans. It's going to be sad when in a decade we look back to see the destruction this new gambling wave has created. And as usual, only the most vulnerable will suffer from it, while these rich touch people are laughing at the bank, sleeping just fine. I could endlessly rant about this, but you present it better than I ever could. lol So thank you for that. I hope you and anyone reading this have a wonderful, positive, and safe day/night!
Sorry you had to watch all of those streams. However, I appreciate you doing so and breaking it down for others. Thznk you. Happy New Year.