Twitch’s Biggest Streamer, Félix “xQc” is Polish, signs with the company’s newest competitor, Kick, a streaming platform that offers better revenue sharing and also appears to be focusing on online gambling. Valued at up to $100 million over two years, the non-exclusive deal is the latest and biggest blow to Twitch as creator dissatisfaction continues to mount.
First reported by The New York TimesThe agreement pays out $35 million per year, with $30 million in additional incentives available if xQc meets certain benchmarks. As Dexerto
Kick is a streaming platform startup funded by Online Gambling Company including Easygo Gaming and Stake.com. Following Twitch’s approach In last fall’s gaming promotion, the platform attracted big names like Adin Ross, BruceDropEmOff and Trainwreckstv with its lax rules and 5/95 revenue split for developers. It’s not yet clear if Kick is profitable or how it intends to become so, but it has managed to capitalize on a backlash against Twitch like the Amazon-owned platform has been trying to do monetize more aggressively the people who create content for it.
A”child of twitchRaised in its often toxic chat, xQc started out in the world of League of Legends before continuing over watchbriefly competed in Blizzard’s Overwatch League before finally being released from the Dallas Fuel after a year Series of suspensions for offensive comments. In 2018 he switched to full-time content creation. With that mix of high-quality play, unfiltered remarks, and an endless penchant for controversy, he became Twitch’s most-watched streamer of 2021.
By 2022, leaks revealed that xQc had earned 8 million dollars
“It’s time”, xQc tweeted on June 16 when his new partnership with Kick was announced. The post included a video promising that its content would remain unchanged on the new platform. Just below that was a retweet shows support for the streamer Nickmercs, who was recently criticized for anti-LGBTQ+ statements.