Every parent has to deal with their kid accidentally spending money they shouldn’t be at some point in their life, but this mom learned the hard way about the danger of giving her son her debit card after he spent $20,000 on Twitch donations!
The teenage son used a debit card linked to his parent’s bank account to pay for donations, subscriptions and bits, which are a kind of virtual currency Twitch users can buy to encourage other gamers during their streams.
Now we’re all for supporting people in their endeavors, but the mom had no idea what her son was buying until she checked her bank account at the end of the month and found he’d blown through $19,870.94 between June 14th and 30th.
The mom has reached out to the streamers her son sent donations to and is waiting to hear back from them, and she’s also trying to reach Twitch to see what they can do. We all know her son isn’t going to do anything for the next few years!
