Dr Disrespect claims Twitch streamers have it easy: \u201cThey don\u2019t even have to try\u201d YouTube: Dr DisrespectDr Disrespect has claimed Twitch streamers \u201chave it easy\u201d compared to YouTubers, especially when it comes to ready-made audiences, and suggested if he was allowed back on the Amazon-owned platform he would be cracking at least 100k viewers a day. There\u2019s absolutely no question Dr Disrespect is one of the biggest streamers on the planet, and up until last year, he ruled Twitch alongside Shroud and Ninja. The Twitch hierarchy has shuffled rapidly in the past 18 months, in part due to the rise in Just Chatting broadcasts, and the fall of Mixer. The biggest change, however, has been the Doc\u2019s shock shift to YouTube; in mid-June last year, the two-time was permanently barred from streaming on the website. It was a huge blow for the enigmatic streamer, who had just penned a rich new exclusivity deal with Twitch, and was \u2014 at the time \u2014 averaging around 40k viewers in each of his Call of Duty, Apex Legends, and PUBG streams. The biggest hit though, he says, was how \u201ceasy\u201d Twitch was. For the most part, Dr Disrespect has dodged conversations about Twitch, and avoided comparisons with YouTube\u2019s platforms and his old streaming home. On July 26 though, his frustrations bubbled to the surface. \u201cIt blows my mind\u2026 you don\u2019t even have to try on Twitch,\u201d the Doc said, and pointed at long-time friend and \u2018frenemy\u2019 streamer TimtheTatman as one example. \u201cLiterally, he\u2019s got 50,000 people watching him watching other people\u2019s solo games, and they suck. He\u2019s got like 50k viewers! \u201cReally, you don\u2019t have to try. They have it easy. \u201cI\u2019m telling you, right now, I\u2019m telling you if we were still on Twitch, we would have 100,000 people,\u201d he added, before claiming the \u201cmaths\u201d of his Arena \u2014 the Doc\u2019s name for his gaming palace \u2014 meant \u201c100 million\u201d would be watching. The YouTube superstar shook his head, before doubling down on his Twitch vs YouTube claims: \u201cI\u2019m telling you, Twitch streamers don\u2019t even have to try!\u201d The problem, Dr Disrespect explained, is YouTube\u2019s support \u2014 or lack thereof \u2014 when it comes to many of their livestream stars. Games like Minecraft and Roblox, that have built a bastion of support on the platform, often spike in the website\u2019s promotion algorithms, while other streamers struggle to keep up. He continued: \u201cOn YouTube, when I\u2019m streaming, releasing videos, I\u2019ve got to reach out to my team, I gotta make a whole bunch of calls; [figure out] what\u2019s the algorithm today? \u201cOn top of that, I\u2019ve gotta make sure I\u2019m setting up thumbnails, keywords, YouTube hashtags, and then after all that we still get buried behind games like Minecraft and Roblox. It feels like we\u2019re pushed to the side. \u201cWe\u2019re pushed all the way down, deep down into this wannabe community infrastructure, allegedly livestream-focused infrastructure that YouTube has.\u201d Dr Disrespect isn\u2019t the first big streaming name to raise similar concerns either. The two-time may have had little choice in his platform switch, but superstar streamer Pokimane actually turned down \u201cbig money\u201d to stay on Twitch. Her reason, Pokimane revealed after inking a bumper Twitch deal in 2020, was the \u201cunmatched\u201d support Twitch gives its top streaming personalities. On top of that, the platform\u2019s top female streamer saw question marks over stardom and popularity on other sites: \u201cThere\u2019s just less recognition outside Twitch,\u201d she explained. \u201cYou could have 30k viewers, but people won\u2019t see you as a top streamer because with streaming people think of Twitch.\u201d Unfortunately for Dr Disrespect, his lifetime Twitch ban means he\u2019s stuck on YouTube for the foreseeable future. He currently averages 249,000 views a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dr Disrespect claims Twitch streamers have it easy: \u201cThey don\u2019t even have to try\u201d YouTube: Dr DisrespectDr Disrespect has claimed Twitch streamers \u201chave it easy\u201d compared to YouTubers, especially when it comes to ready-made audiences, and suggested if he was allowed back on the Amazon-owned platform he would be cracking at least 100k viewers a […]<\/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-47689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47689","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=47689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}