After dealing with lots of bad PR from terrible decisions, Twitch now has to deal with one of its biggest streamers moving to another platform, Kick, with a deal larger than those of most athletes
It’s Kick, in case you didn’t want to click the link
Can’t say I’ve ever heard of it before but must be doing something to have $100m for this.
@Shadocvao Stake (a sketchy online casinos) made Kick after Twitch banned gambling using sketchy online casinos from the platform.
XQC was one of the streamer sponsored by Stake.
Xqc got mad when another streamer (Mizkif) were campaigning to get gambling banned from Twitch, so XQC try to weaponized a girl sexual allegation against Mizkif’s friend in order to cancelled Mizkif.
great that there’s a Twitch rival trying to get serious
Kick is not it though.
Their mothership Stake is crypto gambling casino and it’s shady as fuck
Ah, so just like any other F1 sponsor then. Honestly can’t wait to see them suddenly disappear without actually playing those sponsorship deals because it was a money laundering scheme 🤣
Good for him! Seriously, no small feat. Now…how do I go about making $70M?
Twitch definitely needs more rivals. Good on Xqc for taking the money.
Paywalled. Is this an exclusive contract?
Twitch needs to get its shit together.
Not exclusive, which makes this whole thing even crazier. He can even still stream on Twitch. 2 year contract worth $70m that can hit $100m with incentives. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/16/business/twitch-kick-xqc.html?unlocked_article_code=OKOJkouWdA3Cs1m3dbtzBxqq-AwIU7cHCqEDU-OEQRF7SxKaeUL39Ckuaa4QiCq23USe7vSMrmQ2Q-uXezLoIrsn0P-SWBJSVcUcZJvCEIbd8uOQDjp7_sQle11xNzjIpDwJGvsjlrUGsM53XcnAtVt4DEIvm8tI-1gDa12Uwh3-FHsNZjorEJELY2efj7Z_Bmm7bTdpB_Bp28sRnE4C9DT2sjD0-rvqTI9B5C4j8mv4D_F1ei4QyO6bJGvW7rhs9LSi9W9tngfyMugmXEFTjqUHbtNMN-t2uRmV8c1kiNLiWTXGQNTaoB3FeLPjZk3WnQzRTuxh4R0uSg&smid=url-share should let you read it.
He can’t stream on twitch anymore if he broadcasts on kick though. Twitch just changed their streamer eula to say you cannot stream to any other web based live streaming service while streaming to twitch.
Which in its own might be a reason for people swichtng to kick if they have a YouTube viewership as well.
Twitch also tightened down on sponsorship in streams last week with such strict rules that they backpedaled due to community response. Seeing the timing of this deal makes me wonder if both changes might have played a party in xqc’s decision.
