Pokimane reveals why she accepted \u201cless money\u201d to stay with Twitch Twitter: PokimaneStreaming star Imane \u2018Pokimane\u2019 Anys has officially committed to Twitch with a multi-year exclusivity deal, and revealed why she made the big choice to stay despite accepting \u201cless money\u201d to stick with the Amazon-owned platform. In the latest move in the ongoing streaming wars between heavy-hitter platforms like Twitch, Mixer, and YouTube, Pokimane has made the call to stay put, despite rumors she could have been lured away from Amazon\u2019s site. After the ink had dried on the exclusive deal, the 23-year-old OfflineTV content creator took to YouTube to explain why she had made the big decision. In particular, she revealed she had taken \u201cless money\u201d in her current deal. Pokimane also revealed there had indeed been other suitors in the race for her signature, and although it was \u201ctempting\u201d to forge a new path on another platform, she decided she \u201cdidn\u2019t want to go to the highest bidder.\u201d Despite the \u201clife-changing money\u201d on the line, however, Anys said no to the other deals set out in front of her. There were just too many upsides to staying with Twitch she said \u2014 not least of all keeping Twitch chat itself. \u201cI won\u2019t lie, these livestreaming exclusivity deals are big money. They\u2019re life-changing money for any of us streamers. I got deals from many different platforms, but it really came down to just two,\u201d she said in her March 5 video. \u201cUltimately, I decided to take less money to stay on Twitch. I did a lot of research \u2014 on all of it: infrastructure, servers, delay. I hate streaming with a delay, chat interactions are really bad for me. I really hate long delays. \u201cOther platforms are going to have a much longer delay [than Twitch], which sucks. You\u2019re moving your community around to a whole other website, so interaction is that much more important to keep them around.\u201d Pokimane also listed the streamer community, a simple lack of recognition for the big-time broadcasters on other platformers, and Twitch\u2019s infamous live chat as reasons why she was happy taking the lower offer for stability. \u201cAll these platforms are buying the streamers when they should be buying chat. It\u2019s iconic,\u201d the streamer said, whispering her praises for her community. \u201cI can\u2019t imagine streaming without it, I think it would be a lot more boring. I\u2019d rather take less money to have more fun, to be happier, to stay with my community, and still feel like I\u2019m where everything started, and where I feel like I belong. For mobile readers, the related segment begins at 2:21 in the video below. \u201cAs well, there\u2019s just not much other recognition on other platforms,\u201d Pokimane added as another reason she eventually decided to forego a split from Twitch. \u201cYou could be on another site and have 10k, 20k, 30k viewers, but people won\u2019t see you as a \u2018top streamer\u2019 because when people think of streaming they think of and exclusively look at the Twitch space. You just don\u2019t hear about [them].\u201d Finally, the 23-year-old simply added she was \u201chappy.\u201d Avoiding the \u201cbig hassle\u201d of jumping ship, even if it meant missing out on a \u201chuge payday,\u201d was fine by her. \u201cI\u2019m just more than happy on Twitch,\u201d she added with a smile. No end in sight for exclusivity streaming wars? While Pokimane has made the choice to stick with Twitch for the foreseeable future \u2014 as have other stars like Benjamin \u2018DrLupo\u2019 Lupo and Tim \u2018TimTheTatman\u2019 Betar \u2014 many more big-name streamers have chosen to defect. Chief among them are Mixer duo Tyler Ninja\u2019 Blevins and Michael \u2018shroud\u2019 Grzesiek, both of whom ruled Twitch before they were lured away from the site by the ever-growing Microsoft platform in late 2019. 100 Thieves stars Jack \u2018Courage\u2019 Dunlop and Rachell \u2018Valkyrae\u2019 Hofstetter also left Twitch, though they both departed to the red halls of YouTube. They were joined by Aussie duo Lannon \u2018Lazarbeam\u2019 Eacott and Elliot \u2018Muselk\u2019 Watkins. Finally, Facebook has weighed in on the ongoing battle for the biggest stars with their own acquisitions, including Pokimane\u2019s OfflineTV compatriot Jeremy \u2018DisguisedToast\u2019 Wang and Smash legend Gonzalo \u2018ZeRo\u2019 Barrios. As every streaming platform continues to headhunt the biggest names in the business, it\u2019s only a matter of time before the next streamer announces a big move \u2014 the only question now is: who will be next?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pokimane reveals why she accepted \u201cless money\u201d to stay with Twitch Twitter: PokimaneStreaming star Imane \u2018Pokimane\u2019 Anys has officially committed to Twitch with a multi-year exclusivity deal, and revealed why she made the big choice to stay despite accepting \u201cless money\u201d to stick with the Amazon-owned platform. In the latest move in the ongoing streaming […]<\/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-58006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58006","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=58006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}