I Got Bribed By Casinos, So I Exposed Them Instead
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Summary
In Coffeezilla's latest exposé, he dives into the murky world of influencer-backed casinos and gambling scandals associated with the popular video game Counter-Strike. The episode portrays Coffeezilla's battle against corruption after receiving a $20,000 bribe from a rival casino to discredit their competition. Rather than succumb, he unmasks the shady dealings, exposes the ongoing influence of gambling on underage audiences, and highlights the retaliatory nature within this high-stakes industry. Using firsthand interviews and revelations, Coffeezilla aims to shed light on the ominous figures and dealings in this hidden world while examining how these schemes affect unsuspecting players and viewers alike.
Highlights
Coffeezilla shares his experience of being bribed to slander casino rivals. 💸
A deep dive into Counter-Strike gambling reveals a profitable underage gambling epidemic. 🎲
Key players in the controversy include casino owners Monarch and Killian, formerly business partners. 🤝
Monarch notoriously harasses his competitors, believing it a justified act of vigilante justice. 🦸♂️
Stakes rise as influencers find themselves in dangerous crossfire between feuding casinos. ⚔️
Key Takeaways
Coffeezilla was offered a bribe by casinos but decided to expose them instead. 🎥
The video explores the ongoing issue of gambling in the Counter-Strike community. 🎮
Two casino rivals, CSO Empire and CSO Roll, are embroiled in a feud that includes harassment and intimidation tactics. 💥
Coffeezilla encourages awareness about the hidden dangers of online gambling and its impact on teenagers. 🧠
An unprecedented look into the murky influencer-backed gambling world reveals shocking truths. 🚨
Overview
Coffeezilla, a known figure for his investigative work on internet scams, uncovers another layer of deceit within the gaming world. This time targeting the gambling schemes tied to Counter-Strike, a popular video game, by exposing a shady proposal from a casino that hoped to exploit his credibility. Instead of taking the money and running, Coffeezilla exposes the casino's attempt to embroil him in their underhanded tactics.
The video paints a gritty picture of how casinos have entrenched themselves within the gaming ecosystem, using influencers as pawns to attract young, impressionable audiences. Coffeezilla uses his platform to uncover the influence these firms attempt to exert, not only on the gaming community but the lengths they'd go to keep their operations under wraps. Through interviews and documented evidence, the hostile environment of casino rivalries is laid bare.
Highlighting a series of brash intimidation tactics, Coffeezilla's investigation leads to the revelation of 'Monarch', a casino mogul with a vendetta against his former partner Killian. Monarch's attempts at public harassment of influencers reveal a darker side to the so-called justice crusaders; fueling controversy around illegal gambling activities. The exposé leaves viewers questioning the ethical boundaries crossed in the name of profit and emphasizes a need for awareness about these predatory practices.
I Got Bribed By Casinos, So I Exposed Them Instead Transcription
00:00 - 00:30 I got bribed to make this video twice actually to expose a casino's business rivals here's a screenshot calling it a bounty and a sponsorship in exchange for a video now I didn't take the money in fact I'm quite angry about it not just because these people thought I was for sale but because they offered me a dollar amount that was way too low now everyone has seen those headlines of casinos paying Millions a year for influencers to sell their soul so when they approached me I was expecting a lot instead they offered $20,000
00:30 - 01:00 to the guy in the $10 million Studio ladies and gentlemen that doesn't even cover the electricity bill now to be clear we would never take a bribe of any size this show is funded by $5 a month on patreon that's where the real money is but either way I had a dilemma clearly these people thought I could be bought if I ignored their bribe new viewers might be confused I needed to send a message and I needed to send it fast so I decided on this rather than expose just their competitors in the gambling scene what if we exposed
01:00 - 01:30 everyone starting first with the people who offered me money welcome to the Counter-Strike gambling investigation a multiart series where we're going to be talking about a video game that has created an underage gambling epidemic that makes hundreds of millions even billions a year now some people thought it stopped in 2016 but they couldn't be more wrong the world of Counter-Strike gambling is still massive and nobody wants to talk about it because most of them are making too much money those who do speak out have faced con consequences
01:30 - 02:00 so we've got to be careful either way let's get started has been planted I've got to say coffee I'm really proud you're taking on the bad guys he's diffusing he's diffusing you know I've been playing Counterstrike for years and honestly the Bots are really out of control the Bots but you know we're doing a gambling thing besides you're a bot not according to
02:00 - 02:30 themist woo another race I I don't have time for this you begged me to be my sidekicker you going to help or not hey I can multitask what do you need I need to find the bad guy I've interviewed like 40 people for this story they all claim to be the victim they're all pointing fingers sounds pretty human to Me Maybe all you really need is a more objective you go ahead lay it on me well everything comes back to one moment when
02:30 - 03:00 protesters raided the tournament wait protesters at a tournament yeah protesters at the pgl majors in Copenhagen it was one of the biggest Esports tournaments ever for Counterstrike 1.8 million watching over
03:00 - 03:30 a million in the prize poll it was hosted at Royal Arena it was a big deal and everything was going smoothly until suddenly people rushed the stage the crowd was panicked no one knew what was going on someone broke the trophy on stage and turns out there were people handcuffing themselves outside nobody knew what was going on they were upset about csgo roll a gambling website that sponsored one of the teams called G2 huh some kind of overzealous Advocate maybe no not like you'd think I found out that the protesters had been paid to
03:30 - 04:00 be there by a rival Casino called csgo Empire a casino protesting a casino how'd you find that one funny you should ask let me introduce you to our first character the owner of CSO Empire he calls himself Monarch he live streamed himself doing the whole thing oh an exhibitionist you have no idea if if Chu is going to be playing on the stage I was planning if somebody's going to
04:00 - 04:30 Germany or if you have any friends in Germany I can pay you a good amount of money just come to my DMs and I can pay you a good amount of money if you run on the stage in the middle of the game and glue yourself on the stage or even better if you if you put like handcuffs if you can handcuff yourself on one of the computers or one of the tables I will pay you decent money they need to go in even if there's a security guard even if they're going to be taken away if somebody goes home walking they will
04:30 - 05:00 be fired and I'm I'm so I'm so dedicated to this like if I'm in a war I'm going to be fighting to the end wow this guy is just Shameless yeah but it gets much worse someone from Monarch's team at this point decides to text me he offered me a bounty to cover the story I'd already gotten a similar email offering me 20 grand to expose the scam Casino in that group obviously you said yes
05:00 - 05:30 no right right of course I said no I can't take their money but I did want to speak with Monarch I texted them back saying I'll take the info but I also wanted to text CSO rolls owner and ask them the same thing I want their side of the story too and well CSO RS owner is named Killian he said it's a one-sided harassment campaign Monarch on the other hand says something much different he's admits to attacking csgo role
05:30 - 06:00 but basically says he's attacking all the influencers they work for him they're on this wall of shame that he's going after they have made millions and millions of Euros from illegal casinos and what I am going to do is I'm going to be delivering Justice to these mother tax investigations are coming people are going to be going to jail YouTube channels twit channels G channels twitters they're going to be banned and I will deliver Justice to these mother
06:00 - 06:30 Wall of Shame what is up with this guy like I told you Monarch sees himself as like a scam Buster or something a a he thinks he's you no he said something else actually I identify myself as some sort of a hero in this in this story it's it's very important to note actually that kilan is not kilan is not the only target like we we are having war with other sides as well and I have
06:30 - 07:00 a track record like before this CS goal drama I've been doing this thing for many years actually that's really his main defense he does this to everyone maybe it's true maybe he's just got to screw loose no the attacks here are more personal and I found out Killian and Monarch aren't just competitors they used to be business partners I made a company 10 years ago with Killian who stole my company the second company I made he tried people to have
07:00 - 07:30 my company shut down the third company which is my current big company which I made all my money both my castles and he's been trying to do gilan has been trying to do everything to take me down get me arrested get me killed gilan is a psychopath and these [ __ ] are Gillian's minions and I'm going to be taking down every single one of these [ __ ] so kiling and betrayed Monarch depends on who you believe the
07:30 - 08:00 point is this isn't so much about Justice it's kind of about revenge the the beautiful thing about revenge is that there is no deadlines you know you can do it whenever you know life is long and you can do it whenever by the way don't mind the guns and stuff it's like a just fun games what is coming for you is something different there will be people going to prison there will be
08:00 - 08:30 severe consequences there will be there will be interesting stuff coming coffee I'm starting to worry this is a better help segue into coup's counseling no I wouldn't scam you look I'm just trying to show who this guy is and what he wants look I'm not trying to ruin your mind Hunter episode but sometimes it really is as simple as an unhinged internet tough guy yeah that's kind of what I thought too but it's how people talked about this guy when I
08:30 - 09:00 interviewed them they would just freeze when I mentioned his name honestly it was bizarre the thing that honestly upsets me about the whole Monarch thing and this is what's been so hard about this story people will not give their real opinion because everyone says they're scared you and I were having a nice chat can't talk about the mon why
09:00 - 09:30 um [Music] uh I'm uh um but the weather was like really nice today outside dude come on tell me
09:30 - 10:00 what's going on everybody everybody talks behind the scenes everyone talks behind the scenes everyone talks nobody talks in front of the camera why he intimidates you guys he well no no no not you guys he's intimidating someone else and everyone doesn't want that to happen to them is that it I think it's just no I'm not going to say anything that is crazy it's like a real life Voldemort I know most people were scared to even talk except for one of the names
10:00 - 10:30 on Monarch's Wall of Shame yeah uh I'm Grim I've been doing uh CCO gambling for about a decade and I have been doing it as a content creator for probably like almost 8 years now can you take us from the beginning of your relationship with Monarch and just tell the story as you see it right so it's been like almost a year now so it's a little bit hard to like get the timeline like completely right on top of my head but it started around May last year uh is when the the
10:30 - 11:00 I guess incl beef uh initially started uh it was mostly just on Twitter essentially started like threatening me and uh told me that I needed to drop C G or else right I then responded uh by posting a tweet myself with a screenshot of what he said calling him out for it and telling him to come at me with everything he's got which you know in retrospect massive mistake I've known him for a while a few years before this he's never done anything like this that
11:00 - 11:30 I have seen before he might have done it like privately without like you said you told other people that similar stories right but that just haven't spoken about it and I think maybe that's what uh has happened before but that's initially how it went down yeah is you DM me I made my tweet and uh you went after me ever since so you say come after me with everything you got yeah I think I used I used to word full thrust cuz he keeps telling me every time he does something is this was this full thrust enough like it's like stuck in his head that I use
11:30 - 12:00 the term full thrust go all in full thrust if everybody goes full thrust that's again when we go we go full thrust again I started getting uh screenshots from people that are inside um one of his Discord he's got multiple ones uh that he uses for his quote unquote cult the jofa cult he calls it where they were talking about uh spraying some flyers around my city this and that uh a lot of crazy ones that he luckily didn't do but then nothing really happened for a few months cuz this was back in May and in around September I sudden wake up to a bunch of misals
12:00 - 12:30 from family friends everything right I get told that they had posted Flyers everywhere in my city and I mean everywhere high schools malls people's cars in their mailboxes Mor himself said they get around 30,000 flyers and there's about 30,000 people in my city so they basically spread it everywhere that I like a picture of coll me my house my cars saying that like I'm scamming people in my city that's essentially how it started with the
12:30 - 13:00 Flyers what the coffee this is like a personalized harassment campaign I know but what freaked me out is that Monarch doesn't deny any of it he thinks it's Justified yeah there is this one case this YouTuber called Grim who who lives in Norway yeah um we we wor times about like various things so he's a he's one of Killian's main advertisers he's made at least six million dollars from
13:00 - 13:30 blatantly promoting discount he's basically for many years he's been streaming like every day playing on CSO at all and making making YouTube videos there just blatantly scamming his audience and making tons of money and he has this like uh kind of like has this mansion in in Norway where he has like his Lamborghinis parked outside we basically we gave these flyers to like the full town the full Town got these flyers that has a Grim's face on it and it explains
13:30 - 14:00 like how he's made his money by by scamming scamming people he just admits to it oh he takes credit for a lot more than that to what happened just uh a month ago now when um they sent 18 people to show up at my city outside my door having a quote unquote protest wait 18 people to your house yeah there was 18 people and this is to be clear a competitor casino to the one you're
14:00 - 14:30 working for yeah is harassing is the only word that comes to mind here um well I don't even know if it's I mean what what was it what do you think it was was it intimidation what was it oh it was definitely intimidation as well as harassing um because like obviously when they show up in my house they make it incredible difficult for me to be here cuz they're going to be right at some El uh and uh like again I live in Norway and our
14:30 - 15:00 rules are way too nice coffee I'll admit it it's a little bit more than an internet tough guy these are Mafia tactics it's insane I mean Monarch is still trying to say this is all fair game yeah so we did this funny protest one day we sent the cute little cult we sent there was maybe like 15 people outside of his house uh with the infamous sticky hand who claims to have lost his house to see a squirtle scam it's sticky hand I'm a c because rolls
15:00 - 15:30 got my house Grim I'm coming for you I'm coming for you they were they they parked with their like tents like outside of the house and they had like microphones and they had the pitch forks and stuff and they were just like marching in the neighborhood and sticky hand did also he went to he went to knock he went to knock on his door to speak with him I
15:30 - 16:00 say this is an insane level of harassment I mean I like like I I get that you believe he scammed people and and let's say he did scam people that that should be left to law enforcement not to like you know y'all are basically like vigil video Vigilantes you know going to his house I saw Warren also posted something about like he'd pay money for someone to break into his house in Minecraft that was a joke or that OB obvious joke yeah that that
16:00 - 16:30 would be that would be crossing crossing a line yeah I can I can agree somebody could say that this is like it's it it might be pretty insane but um but that's how much you you believe Killion has scammed people I think it goes to what you're you know you're you detest this company so much you think basically it's worth the price to like for this war no so we so we have we have the numbers we have the facts we know we pretty much
16:30 - 17:00 know exactly how much he has made from from CSCO all we've had extensive conversations with grim himself we know that he understands exactly what he's doing he's consciously scamming people and uh we have consulted lawyers about this and we are actually planning to take legal action but the unfortunate thing is that there there are ways how they can evade this kind of like legal justice and probably there's not going to be real like legal consequences for him and if there are
17:00 - 17:30 it's going to be kind of you know years down the line after CS has exit scammed that's sort of my problem this is clearly harassment but Monarch's not wrong that the people in this industry usually get away with it but he's in the same industry well exactly and that's what kills his argument either way this whole thing is so heated that both sides now think they're in Danger let's talk
17:30 - 18:00 about security obviously um probably is shaking You Up made you rethink how much you need to protect yourself have you taken any steps to try to obviously you said you did go to the police they did nothing what else did you do uh right now I have 247 security sitting outside um so that's the precaution I have uh currently that's expensive yeah no it is expensive uh it is like
18:00 - 18:30 I'm not paying for it but yes it is expensive I've heard fig is for is paying for it so so you got your rival casinos and one is paying for 247 security for the influencer because an opponent opponent casino is going to go go to their house and harass them and and possibly do more yeah oh also like I'm I'm genuinely I'm genuinely scared for my life I'm genuinely scared for my family like
18:30 - 19:00 because of this whole thing like I I am with like huge ass security guards and uh I I I need to be like super careful I I don't really like I need to be careful where I where I move and I need to be super careful about like my my location being doxed um cuz I I I think he has he has all the reasons to kill me so
19:00 - 19:30 do you think he would he would cross that line as you said you would never do that do you think he would no knowing him knowing him as a person he he's pure evil has no has no morals it would be it would be literally plus EV to get me killed so now I'm just I'm doing my best to first of all not have my location leaked but also I have like significant security because of that that has to be a serious expense I mean it's like 247 security is expensive right I mean it's it's not Cheap plus
19:30 - 20:00 also like have to take a bunch of like precautions for my for my family as well I think I may be dying of what humans call irony they're both scared yeah everyone's terrified of Revenge and it explains why people not involved wouldn't want to be involved even just recently I heard another YouTuber has been getting the Monarch treatment Flyers house visits confrontations who would want that you apparently wants to stop Monarch from coming after you
20:00 - 20:30 nothing I mean I would say the harassment is usually limited to influencers in the gambling sector but recently an Esports journalist got threatened as well these people are dangerous and these people are clearly willing to do anything for money let's get them out of Esports once and for all we are looking into it we we might we might actually do some legal action toward ours him like some defamation lawsuit or whatever I think it would be
20:30 - 21:00 fun to do just just for the lore just for the memes and it could be like a this could be a fun marketing campaign and for this reason the cult is coming for a short I tried to confront Monarch on it I also tried to confront him on this bounty thing I'm going to do this story and obviously I'm going to try to tell it how I tell all my stories which is as neutral and like to the facts as possible but I don't want anyone going after me either I don't want anyone showing up in my house to be very transparent with you
21:00 - 21:30 yeah yeah I'll I'll be transparent and I I'm not intending to send any any sticky hands so oh I also have to say did you know Warren offered me a bounty to do this [Music] story I did not y'all shouldn't tell journalists that that's not a good that's not good y'all shouldn't pay people to do stories no yeah because I it just makes
21:30 - 22:00 it hard to you know cuz I can't um I can't I can't obviously can't accept that that would completely compromise everything I stand for to be like it'd be bias it' bias me towards your your side if I was to accept that okay yeah good I just wanted to address it and I I I really I I respect your your approach see that you're you're you're a great journalist oh how reassuring that someone you're making a video on likes you before the story yeah
22:00 - 22:30 I guess we'll see if he keeps his promise on that but I also wanted to confront the guy who offered me $22,000 to do the story too let me guess he dodged the question sort of he said that he didn't know that I was a journalist and that I wasn't someone to offer money to he also claimed that this industry has cooked him and that everything is money oriented I mean that part might be true oh for sure I mean for all the talk about Justice and scams it's about money
22:30 - 23:00 too just recently Grim says he got this message Monarch would stop the house harassment if he dropped csgo roll and took a match deal at csgo Empire so that's that then you've had the villain the whole time not quite I mean we had to address the bribe we have to address the harassment but our story is not about gambling influencers being the victims who are also millionaires by the way remember we're investigating everyone and
23:00 - 23:30 Monarch's just kind of the tip of the iceberg of the problem I want to know who's really behind this thing who's really the victims and who's really the villain I started gambling on Counterstrike when I was probably 13 years old 13 years old 14 years old I think I was 14 I saw it online I saw a bunch of these YouTubers playing it yes they see their favorite influencer playing on
23:30 - 24:00 some third party case opening site and they just go deeper and deeper into this Rabbit Hole until they are addicted maybe the solution isn't with the casinos at all maybe it's a good time to talk about the influencers who promote it instead [Music]