I'm sure there will be a good talk about it on stream tonight
#REFLECTOR 3 TO TWITCH PLUS#
On the plus side, I have always wanted to talk about and disclose in-detail of my own payout info but contract barred me from such – The info is out there now~ Hellyer posted on Twitter after the leak that he has always wanted to talk more about his pay on Twitch, but his Partner contract prevented him from doing so. Twitch declined to comment on the claim that some Partners have better contractual terms than others. Jess Bolden, who streams as JessGOAT, told Input, “If I compare the amount of LGBTQIA+ and women streamers who have a 50-50 split with Twitch compared to the men, who probably have a 75-25 split with ad agreements - which I don’t have - we’re about to have a big fucking issue.” Some popular streamers like CouRage, DrLupo, and Valkyrae have even left Twitch to take exclusive deals with YouTube. But multiple streamers TechCrunch spoke to consider it an open secret that not all Twitch Partners have the same pay structure - in 2017, Insider reported that “Partners receive a 20/80 to 60/40 split on subscription revenues depending on how popular they are.” Though it’s standard for Twitch Partners to split their subscription earnings 50/50 with Twitch, some streamers claim that nowadays, big-name creators have managed to negotiate more beneficial 60/40 or 70/30 payouts, which matches up-and-coming YouTube Gaming’s default payout. When a streamer gets popular enough, they might apply to join the Twitch Partner program, which offers creators more tools and monetization options. In the meantime, it’s on Twitch to protect these users from the potential for targeted attacks, which so far, it has done by adding phone-verified chat features.īut even once a streamer builds an audience, it’s a challenge to make substantial income on Twitch, despite what the top earners might receive. Some users worry that these tags helped bad actors find targets for hate raids, but Everblack said that she’s seen huge growth from the tags. Twitch added these tags in May, and before that, Everblack founded Peer2Peer.live, an opt-in discoverability tool for marginalized streamers and viewers to find each other. Everblack and other marginalized streamers pushed for Twitch to add identity-based tags to streams so that users could seek out diverse creators to support. But more discoverability features could help Twitch amplify more diverse creators. Per the leak, the majority of the top streamers are white men, reflecting a larger lack of diversity in the gaming industry - the highest paid woman streamer on the list, Pokimane, is only 39th. Scott Hellyer, a Twitch Partner who has streamed as tehMorag for over nine years, also feels that Twitch prioritizes its top-earning users. “It’s just such a huge deterrent for anyone else, especially those who are BIPOC, LGBTQI+ or disabled.” “They’re basing all of their features solely on that, but the rest of the platform can’t really grow,” she told TechCrunch. About 2,000 streamers made over $100,000 on Twitch in that period. According to a Reddit post analyzing the leaked streamer data from 2019 to the present, 10% of the top 10,000 streamers comprise 49% of total streamer earnings on Twitch.
#REFLECTOR 3 TO TWITCH SOFTWARE#
But Everblack, a software engineer by day, thinks that the leak of creator payout data only affirms her feeling that Twitch’s priority is to cater to the streamers that bring in the most money. The leak included data like source code, proprietary software development kits (SDKs) and an unreleased Steam competitor from Amazon Game Studios. “It’s been kind of apparent that safety and security was never at the forefront of what Twitch was doing to begin with.”
“I think it was only a matter of time that something like this would happen,” said Lucia Everblack, a transgender streamer who was one of the organizers of the #ADayOffTwitch boycott. Though Twitch has added new safety features since, tensions remain high in the community. After marginalized creators were repeatedly targeted by hateful bot attacks, some streamers rallied the community to boycott the platform on September 1 for #ADayOffTwitch, which caused the platform’s peak concurrent viewership to drop 1 million viewers below average. These leaks follow a rocky few months for the Amazon-owned platform, which - as of earlier this year - represented 72.3% of live video game streaming viewership, remaining dominant over platforms like Facebook Gaming and YouTube Gaming.
For many streamers, this leak exacerbates existing tensions over pay transparency in streaming and safety on Twitch. The streaming platform said in a blog post that the leak was caused by an error in a Twitch server configuration change, which was then accessed by a malicious third party. Twitch confirmed yesterday that a massive cache of internal data, including creator payouts, was published online after a breach.
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