Twitch Star XQC Signs $100 Million Deal With Rival Platform
FIST_FILLET, 
competition is good when a single company has practical monopoly on an industry (twitch, streaming), but Kick is an awfully unethical company founded by people looking to cash in on getting people addicted to gambling. out of the frying pan, and straight into the fire!
Jagermo, Like when Microsoft "bought" Ninja for their streaming platform Mixer that closed soon after? Good for them.
ppp,
dystop, 
thanks!
ClassyHatter, 
XQC is doing their first stream on Kick, and the site has been down more or less the whole time.
sznio, Holy fuck that site is a 1:1 copy of Twitch's frontend.
Makes me wonder if that's even legal.
FIST_FILLET, i've heard that they literally pay twitch for this exact clone privilege, so i think they're in the clear
UsernameLost, I watched about 30 seconds of this guy for a Rust twitch drop before muting it. How can anyone stand him?
Kecessa, Kids, it's kids that love him.
P1r4nha, Who's giving these kids all that money that their interests are so valuable?
Teali0, 
More eyes = more ad views.
Kecessa, It's the number that counts. All these kids subscribing for 5$ a month that their parents don't mind giving them (5$ is pocket change these days) add up to millions.
jmcgready,
maddison, inb4 kick gets bought up by Microsoft and then dies.
Wumbologist, I’m happy with any form of competition against Twitch’s dominance.
Azzu, The rival platform is "Kick" in case anyone wants to not open the article but still wants to know which it is.
treadful, 
Surprised Kick has that kind of walking around money.
RedWizard, 
I mean it's probably easy when you get your money by fleecing your fan base with a crypto gambling scheme.
FIST_FILLET, Kick is run by gambling companies and online casinos. the initial reason for Kick even existing was that Twitch banned gambling streams
cowvin, 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.
Gorillan, They also earn a lot from Stake, their gambling platform. $100 million probably isn't that much for them.
dystop, Ah, i personally don't use Twitch much so I didn't even know what the rival was either.
Velkas, Deja vu....
He will be back when his contract is up, like they all do.
dystop, For $100M i would stream my naked ass all day long lol
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