In two days I have heard or seen the "Scatter" word a lot of times. Twice on Facebook, one from the status of a friend, and the other a meme.
Today, I went to the e-bicycle shop for it to be fixed and the mechanic there is also talking about the "Scatter". The first time I heard it, I was curious what it was but because I am also playing slots, I had the idea.
Then, I was invited by those mechanics to join a group where they play the slots game and they said registration is free because they think I knew something about it. I didn't join them.
Now, thinking all about it, I am kind of worried. What if kids do this too? They said all I needed was the cash application and kids can have that now.
The other thing that I am worried about is they don't even keep it a secret anymore. They play on their smartphones and they let the volume up like they don't care if kids will hear it.
The growth of the gambling industry is definitely fast but is it going the right way?
I take it that you're in the Philippines or something along those lines, cause I only ever encountered this term being tied with the gambling industry within the country, and remotely only because there's this one game that got too popular amongst facebook streamers called Scatter which is essentially a slot machine game with other mechanics tied to the "scattering" of certain logos and icons on the machine/game itself.
This is why a lot of legislators in the Philippines are pushing for the banning of online casino advertisements, some even push for the outright banning of online casinos cause they are not regulated by PAGCOR (Philippines Gambling Committee) and they are so well known and spread out across Facebook that people of all ages become subjected to them, kids included.
Now what I would highly suggest you do is perhaps install some adblocker on your kids' device as I find that most effective, soon as I downloaded Ublock origin on my PC it automatically kicked all the gambling ads away, might not work on mobile devices though, but I'm pretty sure there are some good alternatives.
The internet is for adults and it is our sole duty to make it safer for our kids, while it is definitely pesky having to deal with these motherdfucks it's still way better if we take matters into our own hands instead.