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 Originally Posted by Jack Sawyer
Np.
These are the shenanigans I'm against. You know, now you add kids to the mix, because CSGO (and it's lootboxes) is PG13 of course. I didn't check that rating, but I'm willing to bet money on it being PG13.
They took the gambling not-gambling aspect of this particular game's lootboxes and built an entire empire on it. Which is what the "reaction videos" are all about. Granted, it was a house of cards, but those were their actions
On that particular case of the videos pretending to be winners on their own site, I'm pretty sure the FTC already has advertising laws in place that make that practice illegal in the United States. I know a half dozen or so people who have been popped on the same sort of thing with regards to not disclosing their ties with a company they were promoting, etc.
Edit: Literally less than five minutes after making this post, I read the following on Wikipedia:
In September 2017, in what the FTC called its first settlement with "social media influencers", the FTC arranged an agreement with Martin and Cassell, requiring them to disclose any business ties with their videos in the future or face more drastic action; this agreement was finalized in December 2017.
Doh.
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