It is more about the hypocrisy and shadiness than the actual gambling, as lame as that is. Apologizes in past for gambling to garner good will. Admits he has a gambling problem. Always trying to be the guy with good takes. Then goes to canada so he can do this, tries to hide it is an ad, slyly tries to start it like it was organic.

If he said he didn’t give a shit from the start no one would care this much. If he wasn’t the guy constantly morally high roading takes on everything people probably wouldn’t care this much.

You are right about gambling ads being everywhere, definitely has become normalized. He has tried to have it both ways, morally grand standing about it, then doing it anyway. Also makes any other apology or take he has made seem like horse shit, which his ‘takes’ are a big reason his audience likes him. Now he is a hypocrite and liar, so nothing seems genuine anymore.

Agree with you about the people acting like gambling ads aren’t normal now, every celebrity seems to be involved now. I think it is the facade around him being a genuine guy that is irking the majority of his viewers. Looks money hungry, addicted, and untrustworthy. As dumb as it is, his viewers saw him as a genuine and relatable guy before