New Twitch rival “Kick” turns out to be a project for a gambling site
In September this year Twitch tightened the rules on gambling on the live streaming site and banned crypto casinos like stakes, Rollbit, Duelbits and Roobet. Twitch’s biggest gambling streamer, Trainwrecks, then announced that it would set up its own streaming site that would allow gambling. His “Kick” platform, which is still under construction, attracts streamers with attractive subscription shares.
With Kick, streamers should get 95 percent of the subscription income, instead of 70 percent or something like YouTube at Twitch soon only 50 percent (for top earners). In addition, the site should not keep anything for itself when donating and 100 percent of the donation money goes to the streamer. Streamers should be able to pay out their money on the same day and not wait for their monthly payout, as is the case with Twitch, for example.
Trainwreck’s Kick streaming platform appears to be a Stake project
Exactly who is behind Kick.com is still a mystery. the Research by dexerto however, indicate that Stake co-founder Ed Craven behind it. Craven has been streaming on Kick.com for a while, broadcasting on the platform as early as November before officially promoting it by Trainwrecks on December 5, 2022. Eddie also did a test stream in early November.
User ‘Eddiee’ is an admin on Kick.com’s official Discord, and the Stake co-founder also left his mark on the Trainwrecks platform on Reddit. A post removed by moderators claims that users “CalebStake” and “CalebKick” were originally moderators of the sub-reddit but were deleted and replaced with brand new Reddit accounts created on December 6th. Dexerto has confirmed that both of these accounts previously moderated the sub-Reddit before being deleted.
the job postings on the site were from the Australian Start-up Easygo released. The job posting states: “Kick.com is a new company created by the founders of Easygo and Stake.com was formed with new studios in Australia and Europe. Kick Gaming’s vision is to become the leading content provider in the gaming industry thanks to its new approach of developing top-notch slots and table games available to online casinos worldwide via a single API to its Remote Game Server. “
Stake.com has been a sponsor of Trainwrecks since the crypto sites on Twitch were still legal. It is no coincidence that the slots streamer is now promoting Kick.com of all things.
Gambling blood money enables top conditions
The structure of the new streaming platform, which puts gambling in the foreground, has been criticized by many. Twitch’s former Director of Creator Development djWHEAT calls the platform a scambut other streamers like DrDisrespect see the gambling streaming platform as a real competitor.
In particular, the offer of a 95/5 split should tempt some streamers to switch compared to Twitch’s upcoming 50/50 split. Of course, these tasty conditions are made possible by the blood money of the crypto casino site behind it, on which players gamble away house and yard while you can watch streamers with a fat sponsorship contract apparently waste money themselves.
Ex-Twitch streamer and YouTuber Ludwig sums up the situation well in his latest video. As Ludwig concludes in his video, Trainwrecks’ plan is not simply a good deed to create a streaming platform for small and medium-sized streamers with a fair subscription split.
Attempting to address the “little man” of Twitch and YouTube
“He’s trying to do this in part to do sponsored gambling content again. That’s why he took the plunge to let people know about Kick without being the owner. Stake is likely paying him to gamble on the site, which is probably a better job than being a 30% shareholder in a site that has to be built from the ground up. He only gets his paycheck for gambling on the site,” concludes Ludwig.
The YouTuber rounded off his initial observations by saying that switching to Kick for some easy cash is definitely appealing to the “little man” on Twitch or YouTube. The ratios are by far the best on the market, and that’s enough to make anyone sit up and take notice Twitch’s negative numbers in November continue to decline as more gambling streamers and smaller streamers are attracted to the offering.
Source | dexterto
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