Twitch leak: Top gamer earns 10x more than the top music artist
Game-streaming platform Twitch has been the victim of a leak, with leaked documents appearing to show Twitch's top streamers each made millions of dollars from the Amazon-owned company in the past two years, Eurogamer reports. However, as music and technology analyst Cherie Hu points out, the top gamer on Twitch earns ~10x more per year from direct tips and subs than the top music artist on the platform. xQcOW made $752,467 in September 2021, whereas the top paid musician Kenny Beats has made $677,00 in the two-year period from Aug 2019 to Oct 2021.
anyone interested in the economics of music on Twitch should scroll through this leaked list of earnings info for top streamers.
— cheriehu.eth (@cheriehu42) October 6, 2021
the top gamer on Twitch earns ~10x more per year from direct tips and subs than the top music artist on the platform. https://t.co/GwyCG6tkwL
