commercial casinos have been shut down temporarily, that hasn’t stopped Christopher and others from posting content, at least for the time being. He had roughly 245,000 subscribers as of February, and business had been successful enough for him to sell merchandise - including lanyards, rubber wristbands and autographed headshots - and hire five employees. “I did not expect those videos to explode the way they did,” said Christopher, a Canadian actor who had been driving for Lyft in Los Angeles before his channel took off. Instead, the video garnered Christopher thousands of views and roughly 1,000 subscribers in only one week and propelled his career as a full-time YouTuber. When YouTuber Brian Christopher uploaded his first slot video four years ago - a shaky video titled “’Lightning Strikes’ - HUGE WIN on Vegas Slots! $3,75/Bet” filmed inside Paris Las Vegas and Planet Hollywood casinos on the Las Vegas Strip - he expected a couple of views from friends. “Our income is down about two-thirds from where it was a year ago.”Ī growing community of slot-focused content creators have started to make a living off YouTube, posting videos of them risking - and sometimes winning - large sums of money in casinos across the U.S. “We can empathize with those furloughed and waiting to return to work,” said Heidi Clemons, half of the husband-wife duo behind The Slot Cats channel.

New uploads have dropped dramatically since the YouTubers lost the ability to create more content inside casinos, resulting in a major drop in views and pay for some. O’Connell used to watch an average of four videos every day, but his viewing time has been cut in half in recent weeks. “I watch because I get to learn what’s new (with slots) … and the personalities coming through make the channels.

“You get that authentic moment of the win (in these videos),” O’Connell said. The Connecticut resident sets aside time every day to watch his favorite slot machine YouTubers, a growing niche of the internet where creators film their slot play. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal) across the country have been shut down for weeks, but that hasn’t stopped Joshua O’Connell and others from experiencing the rush of a slot machine jackpot. Evoni runs Dianaevoni Vegas Slot Machine Videos youtube channel. Diana Evoni at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, Sunday, Jan.

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