If you are a type of influencer or someone who does have some followers then of course it is really just that right that you should really be mindful on what are the things that you would really be preferring or

recommending which it would really be reflecting out on what kind of influencer or a leader or something like that.If you do go aim for money solely without minding others situation and get scammed
or end up on a shady place and lose up money then for sure they would definitely be not going back on looking on you but rather be switching it up to other places.
Its true that once value is lost then you wouldnt be able to get it back.

This is the way it should be but in a great deal of the cases this is not what happens, influencers deep down know that they cannot keep doing this for a long time, since even if they are popular now there is no guarantee they will still be popular a few years down the line, so they are always thinking on how to maximize the profits they can obtain, and if this means promoting less than stellar casinos so be it, as they know sooner or later they will have to change their career path anyway.

Having a whale sign up under your referral link of a casino that you've spread around is totally a game of luck and there is literally nothing you can do to make that happen. All you do is just send your link all around and post it wherever you can with the hope that a few users might use it and sign up so that you can get some referral bonus out of it.

Now, if you are too lucky, maybe a whale finds out the casino by clicking on your referral link and if they like it, they might create their account and start playing there under you. That happens only to the luckiest people, and they earn a lot when that happens only from referral bonuses.

Exactly mate and it is more better we invest our time in developing our personal gambling strategies to comb in more profits rather than waiting on making good more through referral bonuses and I always tell people that it is very rare to get a neutral persons who make any tangible or perhaps reasonable amount of money from referral bonuses or just any gambling bonuses  and I've also noticed that most of the bonuses in gambling have some very strict wagering requirements that makes claiming these referral bonuses more difficult to claim and most times, you ate required to gamble upto 10 times your deposit and bonus amount to be able to make withdrawals and I think that is just crazy.
Referral bonuses aren't just worth the time and stress it comes with especially for the common man who doesn't have any community of persons(a niche)

I guess that’s how social media works in gambling, particularly in attracting whales that will actively play in the gambling site. Yes, if you have good number of followers, this will be possible but they should also be active gamblers, otherwise you will only get a small amount of referral bonus. And make sure that what you are promoting is legit and reputable site, otherwise you will be blamed by these people once they got scam in the end. That’s the reason why some gamblers just don’t give it a damn referring or convincing.

Yep, is a good deal for all, it's a good deal for the casinos because it's a way to bring more users, and is a good deal for the users because the ones who are good at their public relations can get some nice profit from it. If we see some streamers like Train betting millions is because they wins just too much form their affiliates. Just imagine to be the man with more casino affiliates in the world, is like a money-printing machine.

You are right, there must always be some kind of associated effort/work, not everything is free, I know that at least those who are invited as referrals, in order for the player to be paid, the referral has to make a deposit, play, and be active, I think That this would be enough for a casino to give recognition to the person who takes it, because first they deposit and play second, so that is already a profit for the casino, obviously they need to have their bonus, otherwise, I think it would not make sense if they did not comply with these requirements, because otherwise, it would not be a good business for you players who are looking for people.

I quite agree with you on this, referral program is different from affiliate marketing but in practices both at inseparable since the primary aim of both programs in to attract players to the casino and those involved getting paid to do so.

But I will also love it if you can take out time to explain in detail what both referral and affiliate means in your own understanding. I will love to read your comment on this because I believe you have a better understanding of these terms more than many of us here.

Thanks for sharing that link More read up on the terms,  and just like I said earlier, I was not familiar with both words and I was confused both meant that the individuals involved must be a customer of the casino and have to share some links for that purpose if they must link those he introduced to his profile for Payment.

But from the last paragraph can see that the affiliate marketer must not necessarily be a player in the casino to end their income since they are being paid a fixed fee for their services.

Making a living out of referrals is not something which can be easily accomplished since the conversion rate is very low, on average you could get 10k viewers and only one may follow through your link, and with such a low conversion rate you will need millions of viewers to make a decent amount of money, and if they do not gamble regularly then all your efforts could be for nothing, giving some validity to the statements of the OP about referrals being a waste of time for most people.