Twitch Loses Its Former Fortnite God To YouTube – “Soon Running Out Of Streamers”
Ali “Myth” Kabbani has been streaming on Twitch since 2016, but after 6 years that era seems to be coming to an end. Myth decided to switch to YouTube and will start streaming there today, July 12th.
Who is Myth? The streamer was a well-known esports professional in Fortnite. Back then, his building skills shaped the style of play in shooters that many players imitated. Myth’s innovative playstyle and skills earned him the title of “Fortnite God,” though he himself said in 2020 that he was bad ass.
As early as 2018, Kabbani was one of the world’s largest on Twitch. He generated over 4 million followers with his content and thus secured third place in the ranking of all streamers in the world.
Nowadays, the 23-year-old no longer only gambles on Fortnite, but also on Valorant, Apex Legends and League of Legends. In addition, he has been running a YouTube channel with 4.55 million subscribers for a number of years – so Myth potentially already has a large reach there.
Fortnite is still being played actively, you can see the content of the latest season in our video:
“It’s my decision” – Epic video about the change
What did the streamer say about that? Not much yet. He promised to talk more about it when it goes live on YouTube. Otherwise, Myth released an action-packed video on Twitter and YouTube that includes the announcement of the move.
He wrote: “It’s my decision.”
Additionally, he mentioned in the video that he was made to produce content. In doing so, he held a college invitation in his hands, which he apparently declined to become a streamer.
What does the community say about this? The tweet and YouTube video garnered a lot of encouragement and congratulations for Myth. Most were happy for the content creator and wished him well.
- TnW_Rika writes: “End of an era, on to a new one. I am excited to see what you will do in the future. Much luck.”
- DepressedRage says, “I didn’t think this was going to happen to be honest, but I respect the decision and will be following your streams.”
- Yair jokes, “Twitch will soon run out of streamers.”
- Not Michael is surprised: “YouTube is taking over. I didn’t think this would happen so quickly. So many streamers are now changing. YouTube should definitely optimize its user interface for streams, because Twitch is still better. Having said that, it’s nice to see streamers heading to YouTube, I wish them all the best.”
Few voices gathered under the tweet, saying that Myth’s move doesn’t mean a loss for Twitch, they still have enough famous people. Others asked stars like Pokimane if she would like to join YouTube soon.
Also meant a Twitter userthat hardly anyone follows Myth and that he will no longer have any viewers on YouTube.
Is the deal worth it for YouTube?
That remains to be seen. After all, the streamer has still been watched by an average of between 2,500 and 4,000 people in the last few months. However, the numbers are small compared to his nuptials in 2018, when up to 37,000 viewers watched his live streams.
After that, the trend definitely went down and has leveled off at the average values mentioned since September 2021. In addition, the number of followers grew only very slightly and sometimes he even lost more than he gained.
His number of views on YouTube are now also rather “low”. There, some videos don’t even get 10,000 clicks and others a little more than 200,000 – so very fluctuating. At its peak, some videos are reaching or approaching 1-3 million views.
Still, his announcement garnered a fair amount of attention, with the video garnering 1.7 million views, 4,500 retweets and 110,000 likes. Myth may now find new opportunities, friendships and collaborations on YouTube that were denied to him on Twitch.
LilyPichu also recently switched from Twitch to YouTube:
Twitch hardly has any successful gaming streamers anyway – now YouTube is stealing one of the best from them
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