Mixer should've been a hit, they were doing 4k60 streaming before any of the others and the picture quality was great!
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Twitch Star Signs $100 Million Deal With Rival Platform
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Pasta la Vista
Member
I wass never able to get a reliable connection to mixer, always some buffering issues.
Simply Sami
Member
Who watches these people? It’s the same with that ishowspeed and Kai cenat. Both are just shouting non stop.
SidViscous
Member
100m doesn't add up, the website is a twitch clone missing some really important features and the top streamer is lucky to get 1,000 viewers. it's probably equity of some sort. Kick was founded by those guys who created the CSGO gambling scam sites so any PR/announcement from them should be treated with skepticism, for all we know he's been paid in NFTs or some shit.
MrTroubleMaker
Member
so hes going to promote gambling now, good luck dumb dumbs, the guy is a joke.
Funny thing is he bought part of np gta rp, alot of the rp people left for another server when that happened.
Funny thing is he bought part of np gta rp, alot of the rp people left for another server when that happened.
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JimRyanGOAT
Member
Man just secured the BAG
And when the company flops he just goes back to Twitch
EZ Money
And when the company flops he just goes back to Twitch
EZ Money
Timberwolf25
Gold Member
Twitch just keeps on getting worse and worse.
Never heard of kick, but I'd like to see a real competitor enter the arena to knock them off.
I was hoping Mixer was it, but it never took off.
Never heard of kick, but I'd like to see a real competitor enter the arena to knock them off.
I was hoping Mixer was it, but it never took off.
Calling 911 Melts Beams
Banned
oh congrats now he can afford 1 gallon of milk
March Climber
Gold Member
If you knew who owned Kick you'd realize why both companies would want to stay far away from their business. Kick's parent company is not publicly squeaky clean.
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
Member
Kick actually has a viewership base, something Mixer never did.
Also it's not owned or ran by Microsoft, so it stands an actual chance of becoming big.
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Barakov
Gold Member
Yeah, Twitch is a bit like the US economy. Despite all the terrible decisions being made it's still going.
Schmendrick
Member
Who?
March Climber
Gold Member
(Which also means Kick will be fine, business wise, for a long time).
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
Member
(Which also means Kick will be fine, business wise, for a long time).
Oh. Yeah...that's gonna have some shady characters doing shady things.
Better hope nothing illegal's going on with the proceeds or the feds will be paying them some visits
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Quantum253
Gold Member
I guess Twitch had become the kicker and OnlyFans training grounds. I heard Kicker was pretty wild too
March Climber
Gold Member
They're teetering back and forth. They don't want to become too edgy, unmasked, and open-ended like Rumble, but they also don't want to put too much of a tight grip on creators and free speech like Twitch. It's kind of like GAF when you think about it.
Quantum253
Gold Member
I'm all for open platforms where people can openly talk and express opinions. So I'm glad there some alternatives that help other platforms push back to a moderate form of moderation
Icymanipulator
Member
I’m with you, never heard of him.
But then again I don’t really watch other people play video games.
TransTrender
Gold Member
I did a little bit of Googling and all of this is related to shady people operating in shady parts of the world with shady gambling backed by shady crypto.
Screams another FTX to me.
All funny money magic money box.
Good luck, lol,
en.m.wikipedia.org
en.m.wikipedia.org
wikitia.com
Screams another FTX to me.
All funny money magic money box.
Good luck, lol,
Stake (online casino) - Wikipedia
Trainwreckstv - Wikipedia
Kick Streaming - Wikitia
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Is Kick up and running yet? I checked the site and got a 502 Bad Gateway screen.
Starhowl
Member
No one can work so much as to earn 100 million in their whole lifetime! 
How can this be legal even?
On a side-note this dude’s channel seems to be dead - how can there still 90.000 people be watching this, when there’s basically no content provided?
From a human perspective, this all reeks like corruption..
How can this be legal even?
On a side-note this dude’s channel seems to be dead - how can there still 90.000 people be watching this, when there’s basically no content provided?
From a human perspective, this all reeks like corruption..
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
If you click the link in google search it doesn't work (502 bad gateway). But to get to the site, click one of the links related to it and it takes you there.No one can work so much as to earn 100 million in their whole lifetime!
How can this be legal even?
On a side-note this dude’s channel seems to be dead - how can there still 90.000 people be watching this, when there’s basically no content provided?
From a human perspective, this all reeks like corruption..
Every live streamer box I clicked said a 404 error.
Shit site so far.
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
Trogdor1123
Gold Member
Hope it is up front. If it’s over like 10 years he might not see it all
YuLY
Member
Kick doesnt care about gaining money from subs. They are backed by Gambling company/Stake, all they care is to have a popular platform they can have a few big streamers promote the gambling stuff. The subs they would get is nothing compared to their casino stuff. But they need to attract "normal streamers" so their platform is popular in order to get more people into the casino stuff. The Mixer situation was totally different.
chromhound
Gold Member
Never heard of him. Didn't know he was from Laval
Twitch Star Signs $100 Million Deal With Rival Platform
Twitch Star xQc Signs $100 Million Deal With Kick, a Rival Platform
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.www.nytimes.com
Edit: Since people are requesting the name of the platform in the OP, it's Kick. Also it's not an exclusive contract.
Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
The fools.
I would have done it for only 10 million.
I would have done it for only 10 million.
If you care enough to click on this thread you may want to check out Devin Nash's latest for an "insider" perspective. On the surface, it's just normal streaming business to outright buy top players to attract viewers. In Kick's case, they may get their money's worth even before a single viewer check their site out.
hyperbertha
Member
You don't know who xqc is? He's a streamer on the level of ninja, one of the few gaming superstars and also an ex pro overwatch player.
LazyParrot
Member
I dunno. This doesn't seem all that much crazier to me than, say, Howard Stern signing that utterly ridiculous contract with Sirius ~20 years ago. I think it was for over half a billion dollars. People getting paid big bucks to act like idiots on air isn't a recent thing.
Not sure if that's the best comparison. Isn't Ninja kind of a has-been these days? His channel is currently ranked 421st in terms of viewers while xQc's is 3rd.
![L*][*N*K](/data/avatars/m/842/842515.jpg?1696510303){kind=avatar}
Silver Wattle
Gold Member
Kick is a predatory platform, in many ways it's worse than twitch.
I'd suggest reporting kick to relevant government bodies for gambling, to make sure they are complying with the laws in your country(and any countries they stream into).
I'd suggest reporting kick to relevant government bodies for gambling, to make sure they are complying with the laws in your country(and any countries they stream into).
Lunarorbit
Gold Member
Not trying to be a dick but legit never heard of him. That's an insane amount of money
Sentenza
Gold Member
Anyway, I think I watched this guy once for few minutes almost by accident (a Youtube clip) and man, I don't think I could find that many streamers capable of making an IMMEDIATE terrible impression on a human level.
Then again, their success is not dependent on my appreciation, so why would this even matter.
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TheThreadsThatBindUs
Member
Somone who just earned more money than most of us will ever see in our lives. Even if we won the lottery.
dotnotbot
Member
TikTok made being loud and obnoxious funny.
Wildebeest
Member
I hope he got it all in cash. Kick seems like something that could be gone in six months, taking everyone's money.
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Ballthyrm
Member
There is always money for dumb shit like this.
I'll be very surprised if the investors ever make their money back.
I don't understand how any of the big tech platform are making any money.
Twitter has been Haemorrhaging cash for most of its life, and Twitch built its entire business model on the legal gray zone that is video game streaming.
The video game industry is still growing so all is well so far but they might reconsider if growth slows down.
I don't see a world where the greedy video game execs look at twitch as a leech on their business in the long term.
The only people money here are the streamers which make no sense as their "work" is derivative at best and scamming their own audience at worst.
feynoob
Banned
Kick actually has a viewership base, something Mixer never did.
Also it's not owned or ran by Microsoft, so it stands an actual chance of becoming big.
Who owns Kick.com? Fledgling Twitch streaming rival responds to Stake rumors
Is Kick owned by a crypto gambling site?
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SportsFan581
Member
Seems like you'd have to be insane to turn down that kind of deal, especially if it isn't even exclusive.
Its a 2 year deal.
ZoukGalaxy
Member
There is "star" on twitch ? 
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
It's probably structured so that only a fraction of that is likely to be paid out, but this way they make headlines and look like major players.