How Ludwig Overcame Gambling Addiction

As the Twitch meta takes hold, Ludwig ‘Ludwig’ Ahgren uses Mogul Mail, his second channel vlog, to let his audience know about his personal gambling problems.

With Felix ‘xQc’ Lengyel at the top of the Twitch stream charts, it was only a matter of time before his return to sponsored gambling streams caused a stir in the community. Seeing content creators like Asmongold defend a Canadian streamer while his community criticizes him has sparked a lot of debate about the morality of gambling onstream. 

Ludwig discussed his personal troubles with gambling, his reluctance to accept sponsorship, and Twitch’s duty of care in allowing the problem to grow in a Mogul Mail video titled “Twitch Needs to Stop Gambling Streamers.” 

Beginning with the admission that Ludwig had previously struggled with gambling issues, going so far as to label himself a “gambling addict,” Ahgren provided a detailed assessment of Ludwig’s predicament at its worst. He said; “Five years ago, it got so bad. I had one hundred dollars left in my bank account. You know what I did with that hundred? I gambled it.”

In a round of Mario Party, he was playing against his longtime pal Slime. Despite the lighthearted tone of the situation, Ludwig highlighted that it was a dark period in his life. Ludwig continued, using this specific example to amplify his message; “Honestly there was no greater rush in my life than the opportunity to lose every last penny I had.”

Ludwig replied that the burden of having 15 employees stops him from returning to gambling today, when asked how times have changed for the millionaire mega streamer. Knowing that if he lost everything, he’d have to use his staff’s “children’s college funds.” 

As the debate between content creators and their audiences reaches new heights, Ahgren argues that we shouldn’t hold individuals to moral norms when the platforms that host them are just as much, if not more, to fault for the proliferation of gambling content. 

Pointing the finger directly back at Twitch, Ludwig finished his statement saying; “I have a new rule, a simple guideline that would solve gambling online and gambling on Twitch. No sponsored gambling streams. It’s a simple rule. Do not allow sponsored gambling streams. Twitch, if you’re watching this, maybe consider it. No sponsored gambling streams. That would stop everything. We don’t have to look at streamers as the beacons of morality when a platform can deal with all of that.”