Funny how its only ever 'won't someone please think of the children!' when its some flippant nonsensical issue. The one time this would be applicable and its met with deafening silence.
@@JellyLancelot unless you want LGBT kids to feel better and not grow up abused, then it's "grooming" or "forcing kids to be trans" all of a sudden, if I knew that gender euphoria was a better indicator for being trans I would have transitioned 10 years ago instead of starting now, maybe would have went on puberty blockers and save me tons of pain now, but nooooo, that's fucking grooming
When did they ban alcohol adverts? As someone who doesn't drink, I have them rammed down throat daily, portraying drinkers as exotic successful people, so I notice them quite well.
@@simonatford1 you think swarms of drunk people are social? Gamblers walk among us too, they don't hide in the shadows. Drunk people are the literal definition of antisocial, more than 140,000 people die from excessive alcohol use in the U.S. each year, yet around 13,000 die of heroin overdose. You can make all excuses you like but I bet gamblers aren't topping themselves in the hundreds of thousands because they placed a bet. Let's also talk about how many drunks have wasted all their money on the shite, why do ignore this? Kids that grow up with a drunk parent and have to go hungry because their parent wants to get drunk. Alcohol is the biggest problem society has and we're all such a bunch of drunks, we make excuses for it constantly. First rule of addiction is admitting where there's a problem, society made that rule too.
@@simonatford1 Almost half of all drug poisonings continue to involve an opiate. For deaths registered in 2021, a total of 2,219 drug poisoning deaths involved opiates; this was 1.9% lower than in 2020 (2,263 deaths). According to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), deaths from alcohol-specific causes in the UK have increased from 11·8 per 100 000 people in 2019 to 14·0 per 100 000 people in 2020. It's funny how it was harder to find alcohol related deaths in the UK over the US, I thought you would bitch about so I went and found it...
As a recovering addict I am glad you are putting this message out there, and as an amateur film-maker myself I respect the time and work it takes to isolate and chop up all these words…🙂👍👏
As an ex alcoholic I can only imagine having a gambling machine (smartphone) in your pocket is like if my taps at home dispensed cold water from one and vodka from the other.
I agree but why would you let pictures on a screen influence you. Turn sound of and look away if you find it appealing to you but your core beliefs are against it
I mean it kind of tells me that Google isn't doing all that good. A job at spying on me because if they were and if they did know more about me than I knew about myself. Like the experts claim Then they will know I have been strictly against alcohol since the age of 7. I do not drink nor do I want to ever yet I keep getting alcohol advertisements. I also keep getting gambling advertisements But that makes more sense since I do have a problem with gambling when I get really into it.
@@jopasc8998 an addict is more easily influenced by adverts than a non-addict. It's easy for us to tell them to look away, but with "£10 free bet" and "win big!" screamed at them from every form of media every 5 or less minutes, it's very difficult. I know a gambling addict and he told me that the ads make it more difficult to ignore the cravings.
@@jopasc8998 You do realize that those pictures are specifically designed to target your psychology, right? They are literally an assualt on your mind.
Yes! Also we should address video game lootboxes (basically gambling) and their similar tiny percentage of players who make up the majority of their profits by spending thousands each.
Absolutely! My husband got addicted to these badly. Spent thousands of pounds we didn't have on them, and we're still dealing with the mountain of debt he racked up. Alot of the mobile titles he was pouring money into were made by the gambling industry. It was just a new unregulated area for them to move into.
@@jopasc8998 A lot of games publishers, especially in mobile gaming, have embraced aggressive manipulation. They hire psychologists now, and use a lot of subtle and quite effective tricks to coax people into parting with as much money as possible. Yes, it's the individuals choice to spend - but the game design can do a lot to influence that choice. For an example, look at Diablo Immortal: It's technically free-to-play, which is great to attract players. But once they've played a bit, got invested, they might notice that the game gives a decisive advantage to those who spend money in-game - so unless you are willing to part with cash, you will forever be a fourth-rate player. Even more sleezy, the way loot drops works penalises paying players for playing with a non-payer - so there is social pressure to pay up as well. If you don't, then no-one will play with you. It also uses a common trick of pay-gating story. With this, a game will start off without any pressure to pay. Usually advertising driven. This gets the players to enjoy it, see the story, get emotionally invested. But as the game advances... oh, it won't demand money. But the pressure will grow. There will be levels which are designed to be near-impossible to complete without paying for some items, or intentionally boring drawn-out grinding sections which no-one likes but can be skipped for a fee. So if you want to see the end of the story, pay up.
I'm seeing ads on youtube for 'life hack' home heating with candles that will only heat your home by burning it down, products that defy the laws of physics, hentai games and gambling. You think reporting does anything?
The introduction of the National Lottery made it very hard for the government to be against gambling - replacing government funding with money extracted from the vulnerable. Official lotto scratch cards have only made matters worse.
@@jopasc8998 there you go again simping for the gambling companies. You'll literally in every comment section being a huge simp for companies that most likely see you as nothing more than just another paycheck.
Sad but true. The number of betting shops, check cashing shops and poundlands tells me everything I need to know about a town when I go to their high street.
Ive bet a handful of times in my life. I opened up an account once and put a £250 bet on the boxing (I was so sure!😫) For the next four months I had personalised calls from the same very polite staff member offering me free bets and all sorts of incentives. I refused to majority of them and explained that I wasn’t really a gambler. If I was however, they would have milked me dry. All the while chatting to me like we were the dearest of friends.
Same as all cold call scammers really, if you've ever seen a script they hand out in insurance call centres, it's literally movie villain level evil, the way they act like taking what little money you have is doing you a favour. It should all be outlawed.
@@fraac I’m not into gambling. I don’t get any kind of kick out of it and have seen quite a few people get into pretty bad positions because of it. Plus I don’t really care for money beyond being comfortable. But, when it came to calling fights I found that the couple of times I bet on them I made a decision with my high and chasing the long odds rather than basing it on analysis.
@@fraac if that's true then please write your predictions ahead of the fight so we can all check if you were correct or not. Ok? You can use RU-vid or Twitter or whatever public timestamp platform you choose. But just make it public so we can see your losses and wins because I studied maths to a high level and the gambling industry make sure you have a much lower than 100% chance of getting your money back. Have you got a public list already posted which you made your predictions ahead of the fights so we can go back and see that you were correct and that you're actually up? If you're travelling the world then you've probably already done your list and you've probably already made it public ahead of each fight. Right? So just show us where your public list is so we can all go and check it? You do have a public list before each flight took place where you made your prediction, don't you?
Had a uncle lose his family home to gambling, pretty horrific really always chasing loses to the point his wife and two kids had one day to pack up and leave home when he finally confessed to his addiction.
I have an uncle who committed murder therefore we should really ban all ppl from being able to have any physical contact with each other lest it happen again
@@jopasc8998 Oh my brother or sister in Christ, please stop simping for the gambling companies. They don't care about you. Unless of course you're a paid shill and if that's the case, demand more money to sell your dignity.
@@jopasc8998 is crime regulated YES you turd, thats all they are asking for. is it the fault of the wife and kids who are often the ones that suffer most, no they are blameless. Brainless twat.
It's okay you can set your own limits now. Because as we all know addicts are renowned for limiting their own access to their addiction Remember, "always gamble" ... (responsibly)
"If I could have ever have drunk alcohol responsibly I would have done." - Kevin O'Hara. I've met recovering compulsive gamblers… they say much the same thing about gambling. ❤️
@@kristianTV1974 "Peruvian marching powder, the Devil's Dandruff. You know what I'm talking about? Mmmm Cocaine, what a wonderful drug. Anything that makes you paranoid and impotent… mmmm, gimme more o' that!" - Robin Williams.
Thank you for this. Gambling is among the scummiest industries in the world, and it's managed to worm its way into almost all other forms of entertainment out there, and legislators seem happy to let this happen. It's disgusting. Can't believe 2005 was the last serious review of regulation. Smartphone have put slot machines in everyone's pockets, and there's never been a review. It's shameful.
Capitalism at its core is gambling. As in all facets of life not maintaining a modicum of self control will inevitably lead to destruction if you allow risks to escalate
@@jopasc8998 why do politicians enforce speed limits? Drink driving? Smoking? Seat belts? Some of these things don't affect the health outcome of others, some do. But this is a politician's imperative to protect the population from harm. To regulate these if not make illegal. It's legal, but it's unregulated. They get way too much money from it, and have no thought of the harm it does.
@@pastorofmuppets8834 this is such a mess of a response its hard to understand. The point you make, I think, is the organisations that run countries prioritise monetary gain over the lives(human I assume) they govern?
@@jopasc8998 most of the time. The seat belt example: no lobby groups, only loss of life and limb resulting from car accidents when seat belts are not worn, costing the govt a lot in health care and loss of income. That's a good thing. Despite people having the responsibility to use it or not, they are given no choice by law. In a car crash it doesn't hurt anyone else except the individual. Gambling gives the Govt lots of money, the politicians are probably given lots in "lobby" money, but it costs the country billions, as well as breaking down families, ruining lives, suicides etc. Yet it's not only legal but unregulated. Online gambling is huge and it preys on the vulnerable and there is such a thing as addiction, which is exacerbated by the designs of Poker machines, apps etc.
I used to work for William Hill - awful company. Those FOBTs do so much damage to people. I would frequently tell the customers to stop betting and go home to try to help them break away (didn't ever work sadly)
Fixed Odds Betting Terminal or video roulette to most people. These machines are to gambling what Special Brew is to drinking. You can pretty much guarantee that anyone sitting at one of those machines is a problem gambler.
Thank you so much, Cassette Boy, for highlighting these issues. They are not much in the news, but should not be overlooked. The failure of the Government and Opposition parties to tackle gambling is a mark of national shame.
A friend's brother decided to take the opportunity to blacklist himself in betting shops back in 2019, but that didn't remedy the problem at all given that you no longer need a physical establishment due to online gambling. Long story short; he's dead now.
I've worked in an arcade and the regulars basically paid the bills and showed all the warning signs of addictions, but nothing was really done about it. :(
As a former gambling auditor, it is still absolutely disgusting to me how lax the gambling laws in the UK are. I left the industry pretty quick after finding out how bad it was. I just didn't feel clean taking money that was ultimately derived from such greed and dishonesty.
Not that I don't love you making fun of politicians in general, but this is something different, and it's honestly great to hear. You're totally right. Like the tobacco and alcohol industries, they make almost all their profits on people who, by any sane standard, wreck their lives on what they sell. And because there's no way they don't know that, you get complete gangsters running the industry. Even though it's legal. Only someone psychopathic can keep doing that for long. Being a slumlord, being a corporate lawyer, being an adman, you can find people who sort of sincerely think they're doing something good, even though they aren't. For gambling barons though? No chance in hell. They know.
that advert with a gambling addict watching people on the CCTV in a casino makes/ made me sick every time i saw it. ( the one where he is lamenting his addiction and ultimately succumbs to the urge all in the form of a little song) then at the end for half a second or it says please gamble responsibly,
Good on you Cassetteboy for bringing some oxygen to this topic - it's a disgusting industry. I don't know how James O' Brien, Andrew Marr, Emily Maitliss etc. can stand to have their voices heard between the relentless slime of betting adverts on LBC. That's just one example of this industry's advertising being tolerated by people who should know better and could do something about it but choose not to. Come on LBC, come on James O' Brien - I call on you to strike against Betvictor and the rest of these vile exploitative brands.
Their platforms for advertising should absolutely be taken away, and I'd probably extend that to booze advertising as well, but I think it would be a mistake to attempt to ban gambling altogether. We only need to look at the enormous, extremely profitable black market drug industries to know that there's no point trying to crack down on supply without also addressing demand, and I fear there will always be a demand for gambling, just like with drugs, tobacco, alcohol, junk food or whatever other potentially dangerous pursuit you can think of in life. It just needs to be regulated far better. It's one thing for something to be legal, quite another for it to effectively be incentivised and culturally reinforced. tl;dr good video as always
I'm kinda ashamed to admit I worked in the casino industry around 20 years ago, the good thing though is it opened up my eyes to how much damage it can cause
No need to be ashamed. All business is conducted as ruthlessly as legally possible to be "successful" All adults need to exercise personal discipline in all areas of life, this is no different
Gaming industry is pure evil at present, even slot machines with ridiculous stakes that are all or nothing when they were only really allowed because they were AWP's, amusements with prizes. No amusement nowadays, all about hardcore gambling for ever more enticing Jackpots.
Once again it boils down to allowing profits to leave the country untaxed as with every other industry. Gambling is as old and ingrained as prostitution and will remain so ...
One quick form to GamStop and it`ll shut your online gambling down instantly, for free, hopefully long enough to break the addiction cycle. Worked for me. The industry is regulated, but clearly not going to help people not do business with them unless they are forced to.
@@FriendlyNeighbourhoodSpidey "And most billionaires do pay their fair share of tax." I've seen your posts about matched betting but don't know enough about it to ascertain whether you're shilling for the industry, but now I know...😒🥸
I used to work in the gaming industry when it first started online. Parents were using moderators like damn babysitter service 🤣 Then they wondered why are their kids fecked up? I quit when they got greedy and started selling the games to ea for them to kill. They monopolise and control with zero rules!
Ain't that the truth. My dad have attempted suicide twice. One of which after he stopped gambling and he just felt despair about his economic situation.
Why can't we disable gambling transactions across all our accounts in a click? While we're there, let me temporarily block payments to food delivery and any other business I decide isn't working in my interest.
I don’t bet often, but when I do I tend to bet on politics, which I find is relatively predictable. After I won a few times, they refused to take any more bets from me! The game is rigged!
An incredible protest song, all about protecting people with gambling addictions, being sung by two MPs that seem to benefit most from it. Like I need to take a step back to appreciate this
There needs to be more noise made about this, especially as both the Tories and Labour are in the pockets of the gambling industry, so there's not likely to be any regulation. It's almost as bad as investing in the stock market, with hedge funds and bankers making massive profits by deliberately shorting the UK economy. It's time we took action against ANYONE who is profiting from betting against the UK and it's citizens for their own gain...
The UK government is pretty relaxed about the stupendously wealthy running off with billions of taxpayer’s money when it’s illegal. How concerned do you think they are about it happening legally?
Gambling ads don’t affect me. I’ve never had any luck with it. In fact, the one time I actually won a bet was at a greyhound track, and thanks to the way the tote works, I got back less money than I put on, so I was still down!
Not to mention all these TV adverts constantly trying to get people to gamble , Then all the TV shows with their phone in competitions. with the tiny text on screen "gamble responsibly" TV shows dont even add that bit of text on their phone in screen but they will add a timer thats ticking down and saying "You got X amount of time to enter come on win win win" to trigger a feeling of urgency to enter.Its out of control like many other things because they failed to act at the first sign of trouble.
Have you noticed the stupidly-easy question? It's a legal dodge. Running a simple lottery would be illegal, but running a contest of skill which happens to give a cash prize to a random successful contestant is fine. So they put the question in place to pretend that it's a quiz, not a lottery. The question is made intentionally so easy that any five-year-old could figure it out.
