OKAY SABA WE GET IT
JEEZ WE'RE NOT ALL THAT DUMB OKAY
Wonder what's up with the weird blurring at around 0:45.
Okay, as a triple-streamer to YT, Twitter, and Kick, I'll give my Kick take this time.
Kick is operated by the same parent company as the Stake online casino (the same assholes who keep spamming social media with stolen pictures and videos with their watermark pasted over them, Ebaumsworld-style) and was started as a place to host streamers, some that they sponsor, using their product (though it was never exclusive to gambling streams), at a time when Twitch didn't allow gambling streams (Twitch has since allowed them). That said as the parent company is operating it as a sort of advertising/loss leader and not trying to make serious money for investors or themselves, they offer a 95/5 split on subs and donos, which blows YouTube (70/30) and Twitch (starts at 50/50 and then there's this weird flowchart under which some streamers can get 70/30) clean out of the water. If you're able to build a generous audience on Kick or steer enough of your audience from other platforms over to donoing via Kick instead, you'll be making a lot more takehome pay than at other platforms. Also, despite the casino connections, if you have an exception to gambling streams, or tiddy streams for that matter, there are options to hide both in Kick's user settings, which people with moral objections or addiction problems should appreciate (though paradoxically you may still see thumbnails of these streams in the process of registering so that you have access to the setting to hide them).
Of course, the nuisance streamers making it their home definitely knocked their reputation recently, and as for vtubers, we're expected to use a vtuber category, which is a bit of a handicap - it means if you're playing the latest game as a vtuber, you can't put your stream in the category for that game, which would increase its visibility to those looking for streams for that game. (I'm not sure how strictly they enforce this, though - if I ever get new hardware and am able to play Hot New Game again, maybe I'll try wandering out of the vtuber category and seeing if I get bonked.) Also, they haven't figured out how to keep spambots out of chats - something like 9 out of every 10 chat messages I get are for follow/viewbot services (keeping in mind I'm basically a 0view there).
While it still has some problems, I think it's quite usable for streamers, and viewers without ad blockers will appreciate that there's no ads unlike Twitch or YouTube. I'd really like Kick to shake its reputation and come out as a solid alternative to Team Red and Team Purple. I'd say they've already got a head start above Twitter in almost all respects.
looks like someone needs to get cucked
on twitter, I think there's also a chance it's an attempt to curb there being too many zealous gooners? Nsfw talents like Menace get hounded by a lot of unsocialized or lonely dudes going hhhhi in their dms all the time so it wouldn't surprise me. Then again, in my case I avoid watching anyone who's super into LGBT shit, identifies strongly with some facet of it, or is openly progressive (to which there is unfortunately massive overlap with non-straight sexuality whilst being a public-facing netizen). I don't even like "allyship". For example Bon harmlessly saying she's they/them is all it took for me to fuck off. It's probably a good ward against edgelords, but also for those who just think it's cringe or concerning. Is what it shall be: community curating is a talents right and fault.
