As inflation tightens and income collapses, betting has stopped being entertainment and started resembling work. This piece examines why young people are betting to survive, how “one last ticket” thinking reflects economic anxiety, and what this shift reveals about youth risk tolerance in a broken system.

The TikTok LIVE ban in Nigeria wasn’t a government shutdown or a secret crackdown — but it exposed how fragile creator livelihoods can be when platform rules change overnight. Here’s what really happened, why TikTok acted, and what Nigerian creators should learn from it.