Dr Disrespect roasts Shroud over move to Mixer Twitch star \u2018Dr Disrespect\u2019 has poked fun at Michael \u2018shroud\u2019 Grzesiek for making the jump to Microsoft\u2019s streaming platform Mixer, roasting the service\u2019s low engagement rates even with a bevy of popular content creators on their platform. Shroud\u2019s move to Mixer came as a shock to most people in the community. He was sniped by the Microsoft-owned platform to stream exclusively for them in their continued attempts to monopolize big streamers in the space, including Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins. Bringing over these big streamers is a good way of getting people to come on their platform and explore some new rising stars. However, there\u2019s one streamer who seemingly won\u2019t budge, and is actively fighting in Twitch\u2019s corner. Dr Disrespect started off his Modern Warfare opening day stream with fighting words for Mixer executives, as well as roasting an old mate. On an October 24 live stream, the two-time was pestered by his chat about shroud\u2019s move to Mixer. However, while people were egging along with him, the Doc reveals that he actually turned down an offer from the streaming platform. Read more: Shroud announces move to Mixer – \u201cWho\u2019s going to follow Shroud now on Mixer,\u201d he asked, rhetorically. \u201cNobody. I\u2019m sick and tired of seeing the comments already \u2013 \u201cwho\u2019s next Doctor?\u201d I was the first one there in Washington, before this guy, before Shroud, they wanted the number one. I said \u201cwrong\u201d.\u201d The reason behind why the two-time never made the jump was because he doesn\u2019t believe the platform has longevity. It\u2019s bolstered on big numbers, but he says those have little weight. \u201cMixer wants to be relevant,\u201d he said. \u201cTheir expectation is to mix their little Xbox streams and a space for influencers to grow. They claim 30 million monthly active users, but that\u2019s because all of their Xbox users get default Mixer streams. Their engagement is extremely low, trust me.\u201d On the other hand though, Twitch has the metrics Microsoft can only dream of. It\u2019s built its reputation as the number one streaming platform with a decade of hard work, and the name is synonymous with the livestreaming community itself. Read more: Ninja reacts to Shroud\u2019s Mixer – \u201cIn comparison Twitch, the streaming platform, has extremely high engagement and sessions times that they monetize by millions of minutes of content watched,\u201d he said. Mixer\u2019s marketing strategy has polarised the community. They\u2019ve tried to artificially make their community by poaching big time streamers, while running on a platform most think is inferior to Twitch. This is what is holding Mixer back, according to Dr Disrespect. \u201cBy bringing in top influencers, (Mixer) want to grow but mostly want to increase engagement time,\u201d he said. \u201cI heard they also like investing in high-production content for similar reasons.\u201d \u201cXbox spends yearly $300 million on advertising Xbox and video games. They can save a bunch if they have a good live platform, but right now they advertise on what platform, ladies and gentlemen? Twitch. Millions of minutes watched is the number one metric, and it\u2019s right here on Twitch. Do your damn research before you mention me (going to Mixer next).\u201d The Twitch king wasn\u2019t all doom and gloom over shroud\u2019s departure from the platform. At the end of the day, the Doc wishes Shroud the best in his new venture, but he didn\u2019t miss the change to tack on one last cheeky comment. \u201cBut we love Shroud, and we wish him good luck. The man got paid. Did he get paid more than the Doctor? Did the guy with the blue hair, the little Dragonball Z anime guy, did he get paid more than the Doctor? No, both of them didn\u2019t.\u201d Given that the contracts Ninja and shroud were given are suspected to be in the millions, or even tens of millions, the Doc must be raking it in to make such a bold claim. There\u2019s one thing for sure though, Mixer would love to get their hands on his high quality stream production and his personality to really pull numbers over Twitch. However, it\u2019s unlikely the two-time will budge, with the Twitch legend pledging his allegiance to the platform for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dr Disrespect roasts Shroud over move to Mixer Twitch star \u2018Dr Disrespect\u2019 has poked fun at Michael \u2018shroud\u2019 Grzesiek for making the jump to Microsoft\u2019s streaming platform Mixer, roasting the service\u2019s low engagement rates even with a bevy of popular content creators on their platform. Shroud\u2019s move to Mixer came as a shock to most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}