Understood: Deepfake Porn Empire
Sep 28, 2026 · 3 min · 5 segments
Once associated with bookies, organized crime, and backroom bets, sports betting is now one of the fastest-growing industries in North America. This is the story of how it went mainstream — and who’s…
Danny FuntHost
For most of the history of professional sports, there was this almost sacred wall between the game and gambling.
For so long, there was this air of degeneracy to it and this air of, you know, oh, this is taboo, this is verboten.
The owners in particular, they saw the revenue opportunities from gambling as something that they just simply couldn't pass up.
And when that changed, it was literally overnight.
Mobile sports betting launched over the weekend in New York.
You could win a shipload of money.
Shipload of money.
As soon as legalization came, I saw it as an opportunity.
It was like, how can we make money out of this?
Once it gets legalized, I kind of start saying, OK, well, they're thinking we should gamble and they think it's OK.
Well, then why don't we all gamble like we should all be gambling?
They don't want to give up on a loss.
They will always
For most of the history of professional sports, there was this almost sacred wall between the game and gambling.
For so long, there was this air of degeneracy to it and this air of, you know, oh, this is taboo, this is verboten.
The owners in particular, they saw the revenue opportunities from gambling as something that they just simply couldn't pass up.
And when that changed, it was literally overnight.
Mobile sports betting launched over the weekend in New York.
You could win a shipload of money.
Shipload of money.
As soon as legalization came, I saw it as an opportunity.
It was like, how can we make money out of this?
Once it gets legalized, I kind of start saying, OK, well, they're thinking we should gamble and they think it's OK.
Well, then why don't we all gamble like we should all be gambling?
They don't want to give up on a loss.
They will always
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