• ClarkZuckerberg@lemmy.world
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        I think that might be more of a coincidence. He had a look, and he had a persona, and he was great at Fortnite. But as Fortnite has waned in popularity, it was sure that Ninja would as well.

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        why would you keep doing your job once you get that much money lol, fuck that I’m retiring after the contract is over

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      The main point that always is brought up is allowing gambling/slot streaming, but yeah what you said is more or less on point (gambling gets brought up because of it direct ties to the owners/sponsors/investors with such sites).

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    Wow, I thought the days of streamers receiving huge contracts to join a platform were over. I’m sure having xQc streaming on Kick will be beneficial, but is it really $70 million beneficial? Facebook and Youtube have both paid a ton of money to get big streamers from twitch, but I don’t feel like that moved the needle much.

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      Kick seems to be getting more attention from streamers moving of their own accord than Facebook or Mixer did, at least. I doubt it’ll go a lot better than Mixer in the long run, but it’s at least better for everyone on Twitch if they have competition to worry about.

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      They are run by a gambling company, basically one of the infinite money glitches irl. They just want to be able to advertise their gambling service and twitch hit them hard.

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    I’m still hesitant to sign up on Kick from what happened with Mixer and Facebook. Not to mention, nobody is going to Kick without a Kick-specific contract. No streamer is just gonna wake up and be like, “Lemme jump to Kick and rebuild my audience from scratch just for funsies.”