Twitch Mega Streamer xQc signed by Gambling Company for $100 million

The biggest streamer on Twitch, Felix “xQc” is Polish, is signing on with the company’s newest rival, Kick, a streaming platform that offers better revenue splits and also appears to be focused on online gambling. The non-exclusive deal is valued at up to $100 million over two years, and is the latest and biggest blow to Twitch as creator discontent continues to escalate.

as first reported by The New York Times, the deal will pay out $35 million per year, with $30 million in additional incentives available if xQc hits certain benchmarks. As deserted pointsthis would make it the 12th largest annual payout in all of sports, putting xQc just ahead of Kevin Durant.

Kick is a streaming platform startup funded by online gambling companies including Easygo Gaming and Stake.com. After the Twitch crackdown In promoting gambling last fall, the platform lured big names like Adin Ross, BruceDropEmOff and Trainwreckstv with its lax rules and a 5/95 revenue split for creators. It’s still unclear if Kick is profitable or how it plans to be, but it has managed to benefit from some backlash against Twitch as the Amazon-owned platform has tried to monetize more aggressively the people who create content for it.

TO “twitch sonRaised in his many times toxic chat, xQc started in the world of League of Legends before moving on to Supervisionbriefly competing in Blizzard’s Overwatch League before finally being released from the Dallas Fuel after a series of suspensions for offensive comments. He transitioned into a full-time content creator in 2018, with this combination of high-level gameplay, unfiltered commentary, and a never-ending penchant for controversy making him Twitch’s most-watched streamer for 2021.

By 2022, the leaks revealed that xQc had won $8 million of subscriptions on the platform. That same year, she lost $1.8 million in a single month of online gambling. While his contract with Kick doesn’t prevent him from streaming on Twitch, the latter has a rule against simulcasting, so it’s unclear how much, if any, time xQc will continue to devote to the platform that helped him become a star in the first place.

“It’s about time,” xQc tweeted on June 16, when his new partnership with Kick was announced. The post included a video promising that its content would remain unchanged on the new platform. Directly below that was a retweet showing support for streamer Nickmercs, who had recently come under fire for making anti-LGBTQ+ comments.