Kick faces backlash again for removing username to give to bigger streamer KickStreaming platform Kick is facing criticism after forcefully removing another streamer\u2019s name to give it to a bigger content creator. The platform has responded to the backlash. Kick has exploded in popularity since its launch in late 2021. The broadcasting platform, co-founded Trainwrecks, and connected with crypto-gambling site Stake.com, has quickly become one of Twitch\u2019s top competitors. With lucrative contracts, and an impressive 95% subscriber revenue share \u2014 compared to Twitch\u2019s 50% split with its broadcasters \u2014 some creators have been enticed to jump ship from the Amazon-owned platform. However, issues have cropped up, including users having their names on the platform stripped away, in order to make room for bigger streamers. Kick under fire again for removing another streamer\u2019s name In an April 6 tweet, Kick streamer Angelina accusing Kick of giving her handle to a bigger content creator. \u201cThis is not cool @KickStreaming,\u201d she wrote. \u201cI had this account in January before you guys were starting to get known and u guys gave my username away to someone who has \u2018more followers\u2019 and when I email you say it\u2019s because I\u2019m inactive when I streamed yesterday and is almost affiliate.\u201d The streamer also shared the email she received from the platform, and their response to the situation was no help. \u201cUnfortunately, we have a certain policy with usernames and we are giving them away due to inactivity,\u201d the email read. \u201cBy active, we are referring to active users that are actually streaming on our platform, and that actually \u2018own\u2019 this username as their trademark. We are hoping that you understand, and we are hoping that you can use your current or any other available username and give our platform a chance.\u201d Furthermore, the situation caught the attention of Kick and Stake co-founder Ed Craven, who promised to help \u201cwork something out\u201d for Angelina. \u201cThis is always a tough situation. We have a large issue with all known streamers having their names taken already, so we\u2019re doing our best to return them in the fairest way possible,\u201d he wrote. \u201cWith this said, it seems your situation is definitely a tricky one. If you could DM me I\u2019ll work something out for you.\u201d This isn\u2019t the first time the platform has come under scrutiny for the same situation. Similarly, in March, streamer Sunlihyt claimed that Kick made her change her name because it was \u201creserved\u201d for someone else despite it being actively used. The challenge for Kick is that in some cases, trolls are deliberately signing up using the names of big streamers, either to impersonate them or to attempt to sell the account to the streamer. The same situation occurred when Microsoft\u2019s Mixer launched too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kick faces backlash again for removing username to give to bigger streamer KickStreaming platform Kick is facing criticism after forcefully removing another streamer\u2019s name to give it to a bigger content creator. The platform has responded to the backlash. Kick has exploded in popularity since its launch in late 2021. The broadcasting platform, co-founded Trainwrecks, […]<\/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-52788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52788","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=52788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}