On: Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff

[hipadev23]

I feel like you’ve never actually used twitch. What you’re describing in terms of how it works and “subscription costs” is very incorrect.

[kenhwang → hipadev23]

No, I've just worked with Twitch and had friends in executive positions at Twitch. Many of their top streamers that pay the bills for Twitch are recruited and have employment/partnership contracts. They're very much paying for content during the time I had connections with them (pre-Amazon and a while after).

The nobodies that no one watches doesn't cost or earn Twitch very much.

[itsdrewmiller → kenhwang]

Your explanation of twitch monetization (or costs?) was hard to understand:

>People choose what they want to watch on Twitch, which they have to pay as a portion of subscription costs to the channel.

Who is "they" here? Twitch paying the streamer (cost for twitch) or viewers (aka subscribers) paying the streamer (revenue for twitch)?