[PeterStuer]

Twitch has been speedrunning their own demise. Maybe the people on charge have personally invested heavily in Kick?

[jeffwask]

When it stopped being about people playing games and became discount reality TV, it's death nell was rung.

[throwaway85825]

The trashiest moved to kick. Twitch is mostly soft porn now.

[duxup]

Even when it was about games there was an absurd amount of "games ... but the host has almost uncovered boobs pointed at the screen" content.

Felt like Twitch was always teetering on the edge and really nobody with any power cared to avoid the inevitable.

[impish9208]

*Its death knell was rung :)

[dogleash]

> Maybe the people on charge have personally invested heavily in Kick?

Twitch is owned by Amazon. AWS sells the streaming tech Twitch uses to Kick.

Amazon would probably rather sell IVS to Kick than try and figure out how to make Twitch profitable. Or the just don't care enough to notice the people at Twitch are just LARPing at business.

[Ekaros]

I think fundamental truth is that live streaming live content was never financially great business. Most popular creators could make it out, but platforms have heavy costs.

[quickthrowman]

It’s owned by Amazon, a publicly traded company. They squeeze as hard as they can, and then some to hit those quarterly numbers.