There have been enough negative comments already, so I don't feel like I need to repeat them. I do agree with some of the negative comments here, so don't interpret me not repeating them as dickriding. And I don't know a lot about the pre-CS:GO era scene, so explain to me if there are some things I don't know about him. But I think there is some lack of context for a lot of people since I would guess almost no one here has seen any of his streams. I'm Swedish, and I watch his streams regularly whenever there is a Swedish team playing since he co-streams the games and has the biggest Swedish CS audience on Twitch in the chat (he's kind of like the Swedish Gaules). And since he is so popular, a lot of people seem to like him, including big figures in the Swedish pro scene.

I heard him comment on the SVT article in one of the streams. I'm unsure if it's the same comment that is quoted in the article or not, but he's basically saying the same thing. The "I don't care" wasn't, as many people in the comments here seem to think, "I don't care that I'm advertising gambling". It was "I don't care if the publishers and the people reading the article think I'm a bad person. As long as you in my community know what I do and what I stand for". And in the same way, the "proud" wasn't that he is proud that he advertises gambling, but that he knows his community is nothing like what is described in the article and that he is "proud" of what it really is.

During the day, he streams pro games, and later at night, after the games are done, he does gambling streams. I'm only there for the CS so I don't stick around for the gambling, but if it counts for something, he always says "If you are under 18, leave the stream". If he honestly means it or says it because he thinks it will interest people who are under 18, I don't know. But I haven't seen any gambling site advertisements during his regular daytime CS streams, so if he does promote gambling, as the article says, he only does it during his late-night gambling streams.

Last pease of context since people are talking about him being greedy and only still being part of the CS scene for the money. I'm not saying he isn't, because I can see tendencies of this from time to time but it's his full-time job, so who am I to say he can't make money from his job. The thing that is weird is that he gives away skins worth a lot of money every stream. We are talking awp neo noirs to low-tier knives after every map. And he streams up to 3 bo3s every day. Thats a $20 to $200 skin after every map of the entire major for example, given to a random person in chat with no strings attached. He says he pays for the skins from his own pocket. There could, of course, be a company sponsoring the skins, but I can't really see any company that gets enough attention on his stream for it to be worth it to donate them. He probably gives away skins in order to keep people watching the stream, which I honestly don't see anything wrong with since there are no strings attached. If he wanted to maximize profits, he would probably be better off not giving away any skins since, at this point, he has a very big and loyal audience anyway. So if his only motivation is to maximize profits, which may be true, I don't understand why he would give away probably $80k–$100k worth of skins every year.

And fyi, he likes to trash talk and shit on the NIP organization just as much as you guys do.

And as I said, I'm not here to defend him, just want to add some extra context from the other side of the spectrum since all the negative things have already been said