Laid-off Twitch staff could jump to Kick as Trainwreck namedrops \u2018Kick Rivals\u2019 Twitch \/ KickKick could be eyeing Twitch\u2019s recently laid-off employees after co-owner Trainwreck appeared to tease a competitor to the site in \u2018Kick Rivals.\u2019 Kick launched in 2023 as a competitor to Twitch, famously signing prominent streamers like Amouranth and xQc with extremely lucrative, non-exclusive deals. Since then, the site has only grown in popularity thanks to its comparatively lax guidelines and better payouts for broadcasters \u2014 and now, it looks like Kick might be taking yet another step in one-upping its rival. On January 10, it was confirmed by Twitch CEO Dan Clancy that the Amazon-owned company had made the \u201cdifficult decision\u201d to lay off over 500 employees, which made up about 35% of its staff, in a major blow to the streaming service. In response to this major swath of layoffs, Kick co-founder and streamer Trainwreck has teased a possible venture to rival one of Twitch\u2019s biggest initiatives. Trainwreck teases \u2018Kick Rivals\u2019 as Twitch lays off 500 workers A former Twitch employee posted to Twitter\/X saying that they had been laid off from the company after eight years of working on projects like Twitch Rivals, Twitch\u2019s competitive gaming initiative that hosts a series of live events across multiple esports alongside top streamers and former pro players. \u201cNot sure what comes next,\u201d they wrote. \u201cHoping for the best!\u201d It seems that Trainwreck took notice of this employee\u2019s situation and posed an idea that\u2019s sparking a fair bit of speculation online, replying: \u201cKick Rivals?\u201d It would certainly be interesting to see Kick create its own version of a competitive esport event in the same vein as Twitch Rivals as the company continues to grow and attract broadcasters fed up with Twitch\u2019s recent issues, such as its confusing guidelines on explicit content. This isn\u2019t the first time a big name at Kick has teased a major blow to Twitch. Recently, Kick co-founder Bijan Tehrani claimed that the company would \u201ceventually buy Twitch\u201d as the streaming wars continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Laid-off Twitch staff could jump to Kick as Trainwreck namedrops \u2018Kick Rivals\u2019 Twitch \/ KickKick could be eyeing Twitch\u2019s recently laid-off employees after co-owner Trainwreck appeared to tease a competitor to the site in \u2018Kick Rivals.\u2019 Kick launched in 2023 as a competitor to Twitch, famously signing prominent streamers like Amouranth and xQc with extremely […]<\/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-53483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53483","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=53483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}