The Youtube slot community has many shady creators who prey on a demographic that views slot machines as "Easy Money" and have a weird parasocial relationship that treats the audience as a piggy bank. A surprising amount of personalities that are "professional slot youtubers" are incredibly unethical and would of been shunned in any other avenue for their antics. This thread was inspired by Cheetos Bacarrat doing a rather lazy attempt on exposing youtube slot vloggers as scammers. I'm not here to clown on the guy, but his videos managed to get deluded acolytes of these channels berserk for stating obvious facts(no one wins all the time, they're getting paid by the casino, ). This inspired me to detail some of the shadier stuff that happened that I found. Please chime in if you know more:
The Big Fish
Brian Christopher - Brian Mifsud
Brian Christopher is a former struggling actor that hit it big filming himself play slots. He's a narcissistic charismatic individual who films himself playing slots. He's managed to accumulate 290,000 youtube subs making him the self-titled "#1 slot youtuber". He's managed to monetize recording slots enough to make this his fulltime job. This thread was not made to detail this man's achievements but to note some of his behavior. Back in March 2020, Brian Christopher told his fans that he managed to get some hand sanitizer with a BC slots logo at "cost" for 2 ounces at $2.99 plus shipping. This was during the Hand Sanitizer shortage, so you would think this was altruistic for his loyal "rudies" - that's his term of endearment for his fanbase, but you could find cheaper santizer in bulk on the internet for about $1 according to this video.
Brian Christopher was using a global pandemic and the shortage associated with it to pretend to be altruistic while charging triple the price that you could get them online.
Thankfully to his deluded fanbase, the hand sanitizer was not able to be procured, but he posted about his gambling cruise in March that was slated for October for his Rudies to go on. The same cruise where he gets a kickback from all the gambling going on by the company hosting the cruise. Presumably the cruise won't happen, but it shows that Brian Christopher views his loyal audience as suckers to extract money from.
Another shady thing that Brian did was during early May, he flew from LA to Spokane Washington, and drove to a Native American casino without quarantining at all to film content for his youtube channel. This was during the time that the Cali/Nevada casinos were closed and he was running out of slot content. He broke multiple laws to enrich himself and even said that this was "business", so it was ok for him to do that.
This isn't the complete list of Brian's shadiness, but I will update this thread when I find more.
Another person that's a big fish in the youtube slot creator community is Sarah - Slotlady:
She's an above-average woman in both intellect and looks who realized that she could subsidize her real life vice by making youtube her genuine career. I'm not knocking her for that... as she actually seems enthused when playing unlike BC who does an excited schtick 90% of the time. My issue with Slotlady is the fact that she will say one thing, and do another completely. Cheeto's Baccarat in his long-winded video noted that she's most likely being paid or getting compensation from casino's.
Slotlady denies that vehemently, but if you go to her OWN website, she has online casino promo codes with her name on it. I don't think online casino's give those out for charity. Here is proof:
Her patreon talks about getting a promotional offer from El Cortez that sounds like she's getting something from the back-end:
patreon.com/slotlady
She tries to act cool and calm, but she wasn't too happy about Cheeto's video. So she instructed people to report it to youtube, even if the video is incredibly mild.
My other issue with both Chris and Slotlady is the fact that their youtube tags are incredibly deceptive and manipulative. Quite frankly, if this industry on youtube was regulated, they would be in a ton of trouble. No respectable person would put these terms in a tag but Slotlady did. Some of the terms include, "Fast Money", "Law of Attraction"(bullshit belief that if you WISH for something, it will come), "Quick Money", "Easy Money" , "Rich Youtuber", "Richest Youtuber", "Gambling system", "increase luck" and those are on RECENT videos. She started her career off with even WORSE tags like " Winning Fast Money", " How to win at the casino"(on a BRANDED licensed slot machine)," Making Money Quickly".
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Brian's tags aren't as awful but he still has stuff like "How to beat slots", and "free slots" in many of his tags. Right click and view image to see whole screencap.
Both Slotlady and Brian's tags with their video's are dangerous because they rarely show losing sessions(maybe 15% of the time AT MOST). Cementing into the head of impressionable people that, "Hey I can play professionally too", not realizing that these videos are heavily curated produced advertisements. The average viewer not realizing the vicarious dopamine hit they're getting from joining this weird para-social relationship is not of a genuine enthusiast, but as a way to earn a living and extract funds from lonely/desperate/deluded people. These "slot youtubers" are both not as nice and affable when the camera's are off from MULTIPLE sources, ESPECIALLY if your the average joe who is just a hobbyist filming their play. They view you as competition and anybody outside their circle as suckers. I was TOLD from multiple sources that the El Cortez won't even give hobbyists permission to film their slots and implied that Slotlady was the only one allowed to film slots for youtube or even for personal use. Let it sit in that even the WYNN which is a BIG step up from Cortez lets you record your own play.
I'm not saying anything, but it's awfully odd that a Woman who can film TABLE games at El Cortez, has a PATREON benefit that sounds like a back-end deal can film, but some dude who wants to film 2 minutes for posterity can't.
The videos either start off with a soft opening of an alleged win or the person introducing themselves. Produced introduction is next and the video starts off for at LEAST 10+ minutes, because these people NEED their ad revenue. Content ends and they have an ending for shilling their brand and recapping the day. It's all curated and templated to a TEE.
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