Twitch Star Signs $100 Million Deal With Rival Platform
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The deal signed by Félix Lengyel, known as xQc, matches traditional athletes’ contracts, and is another sign of Twitch’s tense relationship with its top streamers.

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

  • Ninth3891@kbin.social
    20·
    1 year ago

    @Kara A bit of history here :

    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.

    • towerful@beehaw.org
      6·
      1 year ago

      That is some excellent context, thanks.
      I know a few streamers that have been chatting about kick. The gambling origin/backing makes it seem sketchy AF.