Do any of you remember PhantomL0rd?
Well, way back in the day, PhantomL0rd, or James Varga, was a relatively popular CS:GO streamer. And then, he got banned. Allegedly because he was running a rigged skin gambling site.
And then, years later, he sued Twitch.
Now, that’s all pretty standard knowledge at this point, but last week, a judge ruled that PhantomL0rd’s contract with Twitch was “unconscionable” and that he’s entitled to sue for a lot more than we thought.
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35 comments
Nice combover
But lootboxes are basically gambling
Greedy- Ya make over 5k a month, but you gotta run shady gambling shit?
Some people can never have enuff
PhantomL0rd is a crook, the law just hasn't caught up with video game gambling but IMO he should be locked up.
“Not the hero we needed but the hero we wanted”
-someone 2019
Cut the hair bro
I hope Twitch Tv lose the case, i hate them to the guts
This douche and his ethot
I remember winning a 1000$ skin bet on bubble which I still have till today a few hours before Valve installed the trade update, good times
Tattoo of his first million dollors? Holy shit, can i work there?!
I hope that douchebag burns. He was in the wrong and now his lawsuit is getting some life on a technicality. Shouldn't happen.
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PhantomL0rd was the biggest idiot on the Twitch platform, this guy should be banned from the internet all together!
i still remember scammerlord, we all made a concerted effort to make sure he could never upload anything online again without hate, it's what he deserves, and now you're telling he's going to be making more money using the money he stole from thousands of children? like he scams thousands out of their money, gets away with it, and gets to just bounce and live a wealthy lifestyle, then use that money to hire a good lawyer team to make him even more money from the company who rightfully banned him….. shouldn't it be against the law to use stolen money to defend yourself? also you guys really undersold how much of a douche this guy was, ik it's 3 years old but still, you can't just be out here agreeing with actual scumbags.
wtf is wrong with ur left eye?
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Can we raid Twitch HQ and ban Alinity?
one word, handcuffs
He's an idiot. This will never hold up in a real court. Whatever lawyer he's allegedly talking to is scamming him. About the intelligence I would expect from someone who ran a gambling scam on a video game.
Why is this guy lying to himself he’s balding
If I remeber PhantomL0rd? I was there when history was written young grasshopper.
The hair was better at the start of video bro
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The name of the video should be This Banned Scamer is Suing Twitch.
imagine being rewarded for conning a game.
"cs go streamer" AHAHAHAHAHAH
DUDE ur combover is repulsive*
What people aren't understanding about this is when PhantomSn0re was banned, the CSGO gambling scene was dying off. Speaking subjectively, but the only reason he was making 5-10k on Twitch was because people were watching him gamble. I've never met anyone in my life that said they liked watch PhantomSn0re… They only talk about how he ripped people off with his gambling site.
Look at a streamer like m0e… He was big into the skin gambling, and would stream it. Once the skin gambling died off, streamers like this lost A LOT of viewers. When you lose viewers on Twitch, you lose potential subs, donos, and skin donos. You go from having a 5k view count, down to a 500 view count (and that's being generous considering how unwatchable PL was).
Not to mention, with streamers like this, they would have contests on their stream to give away skins. When you lose viewers due to skin gambling dying off, you lose income. When you lose income, you're less generous, as you have less to give. He may, or may not have been trade banned for breaking ToS being one of the larger individuals involved with this. I can't recall having ever checked.
What Twitch should be sued for are the immoral and double-standard practices, as well as the dumb baseless shit they impose,/pursue towards their streamers and communities.
lol old news
Miss the times he played Karthus or yelled at Nunu and stuff like this..
Enough with the grandfather comb over, accept you are bald.
Equating banning a large streamer on twitch to writing a doctors note for an absence is inadequate. Try writing a notice for suspension/expulsion.
Title is like people dont know who phantomlord is
Cut your hair, please. The swoop is embarrassingly bad at this point. Great content as always.