THE VIDEO SHELF · counter-strike skin gambling
Deception, Lies, and Valve
Coffeezilla investigates Counter-Strike skin gambling, the role of Valve and the legal and PR response, including effects on minors.
Why HN readers recommended it
Pointed to in threads on CS skin economy and Valve as an investigation arguing Valve is complicit in underage gambling.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Coffeezilla
- Topic
- counter-strike skin gambling
- Format
- commentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 6
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2025–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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The above commenter was probably inspired by the recent investigative(!) video series by Coffeezilla (and decided not to mention it?). It was either in part 2 or 3, where C-z alleged/suspected Valve's legal actions to have been mostly about good PR and to send a …
PinkSheep on Hacker News · 2025-01
In Reverse engineering Call of Duty anti-cheatCoffeezilla makes an interesting series of videos about casinos in the csgo community and also makes a video against Valve themselves. Worth a watch imo [VIDEO]
BargirPezza on Hacker News · 2025-10
In Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall
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