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

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Kara@kbin.social to c/technology@beehaw.org

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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

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[–] Psuhke@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

I believe they are have been heavily invested by the owners of Stake.com the gambling platform. Pretty sure when Twitch banned gambling streams that was their cue to start or invest heavily in Kick.