![]() AdvertisementĪt the time, the UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled that it "pays to be honest," before banning the campaign. Meanwhile, a number of YouTubers have faced criticism after it was discovered that the company Mondelēz had paid them to promote Oreo biscuits in "Oreo Lick Race" videos. Last year Cassell was found to have been promoting multiplayer horror game Dead Realm on his channel without declaring his financial ties to the game's publisher 3BlackDot, which was founded with the help of Cassell and other video-makers a year earlier. This isn't the first time that YouTubers-and Cassell in particular-have been in trouble over a lack of disclosure. However, Valve has since removed the warning. He then acted as if they were random wins.įor a brief period, users clicking through to the CSGO Lotto from Steam were shown a warning that the site may engage in phishing, scamming, spamming, or delivering malware. He claims that he was approached by the site, which provided him with valuable weapon skins to "randomly" unbox. PSI CYNDICATE SKINAnother YouTuber, PsiSyndicate, admitted that several of his own CS:GO weapon skin videos were rigged and created in association with another CS:GO betting site called SteamLoto. ![]() Josh "JoshOG" Beaver has admitted to owning equity in CSGO Lotto, while also failing to disclose his "sponsorship." He has now begun removing videos that reference CSGO Lotto. Other prominent YouTubers have since been dragged into the controversy. H3h3Productions dug into the relationship between CSGO Lotto and Martin and Cassell. The day it becomes illegal is the day we cease activity." Advertisement ![]() That being said, everything we've done up until this point has been legal, that has been a #1 priority of ours. I've never been perfect and I 100% own up to that mistake. Obviously that was misleading to viewers and something I very much regret. My idea was to keep business business, while the focus of YouTube was simply making entertaining content. "It was always public info but I was never very outspoken about it. "I've admitted to wishing I was more upfront about owning the site," reads a now deleted post. In the meantime, he has taken to Twitter and YouTube in an attempt address some of the issues. Martin has promised to issue an official statement about the controversy later today. ![]() Despite serving as owners and vice-presidents of CSGO Lotto since December 2015, at no point in any video did the pair disclose those connections, instead claiming that CSGO Lotto simply sponsored their videos. Martin and Cassell have promoted numerous CSGO Lotto giveaways and made videos showing how players could win cash on the site. The pair have since made their CSGO Lotto videos private, but the damage has already been done. It turns out the owners of the CSGO Lotto website are none other than Martin and Cassell. And now this audience has been turning out in droves to launch allegations of unethical behaviour and lack of disclosure against the two YouTubers. But, with millions of subscribers, both Martin and Cassell have a captive audience to watch their videos. Ordinarily, such a video might be regarded as the soft of clickbait you'd see on a banner ad while browsing unscrupulous websites. They often won big, resulting in videos with titles like "HOW TO WIN $13,000 IN 5 MINUTES." These videos showed the pair gambling weapon skins on the site, which allows anyone over 13 years of age to trade their hard-earned weapon skins for actual money. ![]() Until yesterday, if you were to browse the video pages of popular gaming YouTubers Trevor "TmarTn" Martin and Tom "Syndicate" Cassell, you'd have found a string of videos about the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gambling site CSGO Lotto. ![]()
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