Twitch might be updating its insurance policies relating to playing on Oct. 18, in keeping with an announcement the corporate posted to its Twitter account, acknowledging the latest spike in debate and dialogue round playing on the platform.

“We’ll be making a policy update on October 18th to prohibit streaming of gambling sites that include slots, roulette, or dice games that aren’t licensed either in the U.S. or other jurisdictions that provide sufficient consumer protection,” the assertion reads. These websites will embrace Stake, Rollbit, Duelbits, and Roobet amongst others that Twitch “may identify” because the coverage is rolled out. The assertion notes that web sites specializing in sports activities betting, fantasy sports activities, and poker will nonetheless be allowed.

The assertion comes after common content material creators together with Pokimane, HasanAbi, and Asmongold referred to as on Twitch to ban slots content material on the platform; the hashtag #TwitchStopGambling started trending throughout Twitter earlier this week. While reside, Pokimane, Mizkif, and Devin Nash had additionally mentioned boycotting the platform if it didn’t ban playing, within the type of a one week content material strike in the course of the high-ad season over Christmas.

On Monday, information surfaced {that a} distinguished streamer, Sliker, scammed viewers and fellow streamers for over $200,000, as estimated by his friends, and reported by Kotaku, Waypoint, and The Verge. Sliker, who is thought for enjoying Valorant and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, admitted in a Twitch stream that he had misappropriated viewer donations and as a substitute used them to fund a playing habit. In the video, he defined how he started playing on skins in CS:GO.

Twitch already has some measures in place to handle playing; in 2021, Twitch up to date its insurance policies to try to stop streamers from sharing hyperlinks of referral codes to websites that embrace slots, roulette, or cube video games. However, this hasn’t stopped playing’s proliferation throughout the platform.

According to a report from Bloomberg, playing is flourishing on Twitch as playing websites sponsor streamers to gamble on-line. Streamers like xQc stream slots commonly to the tune of as many as 70,000 viewers and have had offers with crypto playing websites. At the time of publication, the Twitch class Slots is the tenth hottest class on Twitch and has greater than 86,000 reside viewers.