The Ramsey Showis a broadcast all about financial advice, where viewers call in asking for help from experts to get them back on track.
One caller is going viral across theTwitchspace for the unique reason he found himself $50K in the hole — gifted subs.
“I got so into the hype that when you drop that $500, 100 subs, everybody goes crazy,” he said. “I got so into it. I don’t know, it just kept happening and I wasn’t keeping track, I wasn’t paying attention. As soon as one credit card maxed, I went straight to another one.”
In the call, Alex told host Dr. John Deloney that his life was being “torn apart” by the debt, explaining that he started watching Twitch and gaming during his military service as a way to pass the time.
He said the debt racked up over the course of a year — something that the hosts said they were “having a hard time” believing.
A clip from the conversation is sparking quite the debate online, even getting attention from popular Twitch streamerAsmongold,who berated the caller for putting his family’s finances at risk in this way.
“‘Couldn’t really control it?’ That’s your problem right there, you lazy b*tch,” Asmongold said. “You a grown-ass man. You couldn’t control it? You mean you didn’t control it.”
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“It’s so stupid that you would think it’s fake,” he continued. “…you wanna stop something from happening? Stop doing it.”
“My wife’s been bugging me about this holiday I promised her like eight months ago, but the squad comes first,” he wrote — a comment that baffled YouTube starPewDiePie,who reacted to the post in much the same way that Asmongold responded to the caller on the Ramsey Show.
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