The deal signed by Félix Lengyel, known as xQc, matches traditional athletes’ contracts, and is another sign of Twitch’s tense relationship with its top streamers.
After dealing with lots of bad PR from terrible decisions, Twitch now has to deal with one of its biggest streamers moving to another platform, Kick, with a deal larger than those of most athletes
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This is actually good. Twitch has become just as anti-consumer as Reddit ever since Mixer shut down.
Except Kick is run by crypto gambling site Stake