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The rival platform is “Kick” in case anyone wants to not open the article but still wants to know which it is.

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Ah, i personally don’t use Twitch much so I didn’t even know what the rival was either.

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Surprised Kick has that kind of walking around money.

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It’s a new platform so they must be burning investor money to promote the platform by doing this. It’s working. They just need to have a plan to earn it back.

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They also earn a lot from Stake, their gambling platform. $100 million probably isn’t that much for them.

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Kick is run by gambling companies and online casinos. the initial reason for Kick even existing was that Twitch banned gambling streams

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I mean it’s probably easy when you get your money by fleecing your fan base with a crypto gambling scheme.

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Deja vu…

He will be back when his contract is up, like they all do.

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For $100M i would stream my naked ass all day long lol

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thanks!

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I watched about 30 seconds of this guy for a Rust twitch drop before muting it. How can anyone stand him?

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Kids, it’s kids that love him.

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Who’s giving these kids all that money that their interests are so valuable?

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It’s the number that counts. All these kids subscribing for 5$ a month that their parents don’t mind giving them (5$ is pocket change these days) add up to millions.

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More eyes = more ad views.

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Like when Microsoft “bought” Ninja for their streaming platform Mixer that closed soon after? Good for them.

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