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FaZe subathon takes over half of the top 10 subscribers list on Twitch
Khizar Mundia
Esports and entertainment organization FaZe Clan is hosting its second big subathon event, and multiple members of the collective have now broken into the top 10 subscribers list on Twitch with approximately half a month still remaining in the event. Streamer subathons are becoming increasingly popular among streamers for the money they generate and the attention they can bring, and the FaZe subathon is no exception. The group of streamers …
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Here’s what happened to Emiru at TwitchCon, and why fans are upset
Khizar Mundia
Emily “Emiru” Beth Schunk faced an unfortunate incident at TwitchCon that has fans riled up and claiming that security at the event isn’t doing enough to protect its streamers. TwitchCon has been an event that has faced significant negativity over the years, with many streamers even backing out from attending in 2025. Emiru was one of the more popular content creators who was scheduled to appeared at the event, but …
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xQc shows off exactly how much money he used to earn on Twitch
Khizar Mundia
Félix “xQc” Lengyel took a moment to share with his viewers exactly how much money he would earn on Twitch when his stream was based there, and his fans were left impressed despite the popular streamer claiming the shared figure was “below average.” xQc is a renowned name in the streaming industry, with followers spanning multiple millions across a number of platforms. The Canadian content creator streams consistently, which is …
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Hasan controversy leads Pokimane & LilyPichu to shelve podcast
Khizar Mundia
Content creator Hasan “HasanAbi” Parker is currently embroiled in a fresh wave of allegations, and the situation has seemingly led Imane “Pokimane” Anys and Lily “LilyPichu” Ki to decide not to air an already-shot podcast episode featuring Hasan. Hasan is one of the most controversial figures in the streaming world, seemingly embroiled in new drama every week. The streamer is currently facing significant outrage from viewers and some other content …
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Cinna joins FaZe Clan as its first female streamer
Khizar Mundia
FaZe Clan is currently conducting its second subathon, and the organisation has proved the speculation of viewers correct by announcing its first female member: Brittany “Cinna” Lynn Watts. Cinna is a massively popular Twitch streamer, with close to a million followers on the platform. The content creator is famous for her Just Chatting streams, IRL content, and frequent collaborations with other popular streamers. She most notably streams with FaZe Clan …
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Popular Deadlock streamer Metro gets Twitch ban, here’s why
Khizar Mundia
Twitch streamer Alex “Metro” has been banned from the livestreaming platform, and he’s taken to tweeting and calling out the streaming giant for unfairly suspending his channel. Metro is a significantly popular Twitch streamer, with a loyal viewership and a following on Twitch of over 100,000. The content creator is known primarily for streaming Overwatch and Deadlock on his channel. While many of his fans enjoy his streams, some think …
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Adding up how much Kai Cenat made in just one month with Mafiathon 3
Khizar Mundia
Mafiathon 3 has proven to be Kai Cenat’s most successful subathon event to date, with the streamer breaking multiple records while earning a significant amount of money along the way. Kai Cenat’s Maftiathon 3 has become a massive success, with the popular Twitch streamer going above and beyond most fans’ expectations. Multiple celebrities and other influential personalities made appearances, and Kai continued to garner significant viewership and pile up channel …
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StableRonaldo leaks career Twitch earnings, here’s how much money he’s made
Khizar Mundia
Popular streamer Rani “StableRonaldo” Netz accidentally leaked his Twitch revenue during the FaZe subathon, and viewers now know his all-time earnings on the streaming platform. FaZe Clan streamer StableRonaldo is one of the more popular content creators in the organization, and he’s particularly famous for his Fortnite streams. He boasts more than 4 million followers on Twitch and over 1 million subscribers on YouTube. The content creator has tried his …
iShowSpeed surprises bus driver with Rolex after cross-country tour
Khizar Mundia
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Popular streamer and content creator Darren Jason “iShowSpeed” Watkins Jr. gifted his bus driver a Rolex after driving him for 35 days straight during his latest cross-country tour. iShowSpeed is one of the most popular streamers in the world, famous for his traveling streams where he shows off the world and his unique interactions with fans. The streamer has visited multiple countries, including China, Croatia, France, Italy, and more. He …
Kai Cenat sets a massive new viewership record on Twitch
Khizar Mundia
Twitch
Twitch streamer Kai Cenat has added another record to his growing list of accomplishments before the end of Mafiathon 3, this time establishing a new record for viewership for a live Twitch stream. Kai Cenat’s Mafiathon 3 is going spectacularly well, with the streamer bringing in celebrities and breaking records like it’s all routine. He has collaborated with everyone from influencer Kim Kardashian to comedian Kevin Hart and basketball legend …
Kai Cenat breaks another record, becomes most followed Twitch streamer
Khizar Mundia
Twitch
Popular content creator Kai Cenat’s spree of breaking records continues, with him now becoming the most followed streamer on Twitch on the last day of his month-long Mafiathon 3 event. Kai Cenat’s Mafiathon events have become a staple of Twitch streaming, with the streamer bringing in popular celebrities and setting new records along the way. The content creator apparently didn’t even want to do Mafiathon 3 at one point, but …
Kai Cenat breaks Twitch subs record for third time with Mafiathon 3, pushes for million
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The third of Kai Cenat’s Mafiathon events is nearing its end, and the streamer has already hit a significant subscriber milestone while breaking the Twitch subs world record once again. Kai Cenat has been the number-one most-subscribed streamer for almost a full year. Vtuber Ironmouse briefly dethroned the famed streamer, but he was able to reclaim the title during Mafiathon 2 with a star-studded roster of guests that included Snoop …
Asmongold announces his return to streaming, what to expect
Khizar Mundia
Twitch
Twitch streamer Zack “Asmongold” Hoyt has revealed in a new video that he’ll be returning to streaming soon after having taken a break to spend time with his ailing father. Asmongold went on an indefinite hiatus earlier this month because of his father’s medical condition. The streamer had said that his return would depend on his father’s progress and possible recovery. Unfortunately, he later informed fans that his father had …
FaZe Lacy says he’s retiring from streaming, here’s why and what’s next
Khizar Mundia
Twitch
Prominent streamer Nick “FaZe Lacy” Fosco has announced that he is retiring from streaming because he wants to focus on other avenues and make a drastic career change, leaving fans to wonder what’s next for him and if the announcement is in fact legitimate. FaZe Lacy is one of the younger content creators associated with FaZe Clan, best known for his Just Chatting and IRL streams. The streamer primarily streams …
As controversial Twitch age verification rule goes into effect, who has to comply?
M Alzamora
Twitch
For users in some regions, an official age verification process is now coming to Twitch that could affect the content those users are allowed to see. Boasting an extremely wide variety of content, there’s something for everyone on streaming platform Twitch. Its users can watch their favorite streamers play games like League of Legends or Fortnite, listen to them talk during Just Chatting streams, follow them as they explore the …
Twitch bans Apex Legends streamer Mande, here’s why
Khizar Mundia
Twitch
Mikkel “Mande” Halle Hestbek received an unexpected ban Twitch, and his fans now know exactly why and when the streamer will return. Mande is a former professional Apex Legends player who has become a significantly popular streamer with a following exceeding 670,000 on Twitch. The streamer is primarily known for his Apex Legends streams, but he also creates content for other games. Mande has been accused of cheating in Apex …
League streamer Drututt banned from Twitch for the seventh time, here’s why
Khizar Mundia
Twitch
Maks “Drututt” Przychodzień has been banned from Twitch, and the streamer has revealed both the reason for the suspension and how long it will last for. Drututt is a popular streamer and League of Legends player who has attained a loyal fan following that supports his content and constant grinding of the game. The streamer is quite outspoken and doesn’t mince words, which has led to Twitch taking disciplinary actions …
Asmongold announces indefinite break from streaming, here’s why
Khizar Mundia
Twitch
Popular streamer Zack “Asmongold” Hoyt has announced that he would be taking a break from streaming after not releasing any new content for almost a week, before going on to explain exactly why. Asmongold is a significantly popular streamer who primarily streams on Twitch but has recently started to multistream his content on other platforms, most notably Kick. The content creator livestreams various content, including gaming and reaction streams. He …
Explaining the Hasan, Dylan Burns, Hutch doxxing drama
Khizar Mundia
Twitch
Controversial steamer Hasan “Hasanabi” Piker is involved in drama once again for apparently doxxing multiple people in a livestream, including Dylan Burns, Hutch, and others. Here’s what you need to know. Hasan Piker is one of Twitch’s more popular streamers, though he is frequently in the news for butting heads with other content creators or for sharing blunt takes on sensitive topics. The streamer has also been banned from Twitch …
US streamers may soon be making more money after tax changes
Khizar Mundia
Twitch
New tax changes coming into the effect in the United States are being noted primarily for their effect on restaurant staff and related workers, but US streamers may also be making more money thanks to new tax write-offs included in a “no tax for tips” bill. The streaming industry has boomed and become a massively successful business opportunity for many. New content creators join each day in the pursuit of …
Twitch is the largest of all the major livestreaming platforms in and around the gaming world, but it wasn’t always that way. Th platform’s history dates back over many years and to a form of the service that had little to do with gaming. So how did it arrive to the top of the gaming marketplace from those humble beginnings?
Twitch transcends justin.tv, is acquired by Amazon
Twitch was originally born out of justin.tv, an early livestreaming website that focus more on general lifestyle streaming than on any one particular niche, gaming included. justin.tv, named after co-founder Justin Kan, was launched in 2007 and went on to feature multiple categories of streaming options. Among these was gaming, a category which quickly outpaced the growth of platform’s other categories.
Responding to this growth, justin.tv spun out its gaming section in 2011 into a new service called Twitch.tv, and that is the true starting point of Twitch as it exists today.
It would still be some time before Twitch would resemble its modern-day operation. The biggest move towards that progression came in 2014, when the streaming platform was purchased for just shy of $1 billion in cash by services and technology giant Amazon. That move transitioned the company being a private operation largely funded by private investment and internal revenues to one of many arms of one of the world’s largest and richest companies.
Twitch dominates gaming livestreaming
The growth of Twitch largely coincided with the growth of livestreaming the world over, and gaming was a key driver of that growth as audiences flocked in droves to watch charismatic personalities play through their favorite games both new and old. Some of those personalities would become so popular that they would rival mainstream celebrities in notoriety with younger audiences, from Tyler “Ninja” Blevins to Imane “Pokimane” Anys.
Some of those personalities would be poached by rival streaming platforms that cropped up in response to the runaway popularity of Twitch. Microsoft’s Mixer and YouTube’s YouTube Gaming both signed streamers with massive audiences to exclusive streaming deals via big-money contracts. But Twitch proved resilient; no matter how popular the streamers were when they were signed away, someone else seemed prime to fill their spot. Twitch had become more than just a vehicle through which popular personalities could stream. It was itself a destination for its audience.
Twitch does still continue to compete with rival platforms. Kick is perhaps its biggest competition today, offering generous
subscription revenue splits
in an effort to sway streamers away from Twitch. But Amazon’s platform remains the most popular.
Twitch finds controversy over moderation, censorship
Given the nature of the Twitch platform, one that is entirely reliant on user-generated content, it should come as no surprise that moderation and censorship have long been hot topics of conversation. Consistency, or lack thereof, is often cited as Twitch’s biggest issue as its moderation team struggles to pass judgments across a litany of streamers producing a great variety of content.
Those content types have only grown over time. While Twitch found massive popularity by moving away from the greater variety of justin.tv and focusing specifically on gaming, the platform has ironically pushed back into other categories in more recent years, attempting to find additional growth by emphasizing the streaming of art, music, and its popular “just chatting” content that sees streamers talking directly to their audience without any particular activity driving their engagement.
But while Twitch is now a lightning rod for controversy and discussion given its great size and breadth, that controversy has shown no real risk to lessening its grip on the livestreaming industry. Twitch has become the dominant name in its category, and with its biggest streamers continuing to
set new records, all signs point to that dominance continuing for the foreseeable future.
