Twitch Star Signs $100 Million Deal With Rival Platform
www.nytimes.com
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

  • pirategoddess@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Maybe it’s just me, but something always seemed sketchy about Kick. Their ability to throw around hundreds of millions of dollars without any clear ownership smells fishy. I personally wouldn’t be surprised if in 5 years there was an in depth Coffeezilla video exposing the platform.