Kai Cenat has officially joined team Kick after Twitch has announced they will not be giving him his “$50M contract”

Kai Cenat has officially joined team kick after Twitch has announced they will not be giving him his “$50M contract”. (Read More Here).

For years, Twitch has stood alone at the top of the mountain when it comes to being the go-to platform for the world’s biggest streamers, and has seen off a number of challengers to the throne.

Mixer and Facebook Gaming have contended for the throne by signing big streamers away from Twitch, but they’ve fallen away. YouTube Gaming has made steady progress over the last few years, but even that lacks the functionality that makes Twitch what it is for streamers.

Interestingly enough, Adin himself said recently that he isn’t being offered enough money at the moment. “I need more money. You guys are not offering me enough money to go full-time,” he said in response to the platform’s attempt to bring him on board. He went so far as to say he’s “not 100% going to Kick.”

So while he himself is unsure about his future with the new Twitch competitor, he does seem quite sure that his colleagues are more than willing to accept their offers of equity and bags full of money.

A few streamers, including Adin Ross, have suggested that it could be their permanent home as eye up a potential break away from Twitch. And while xQc isn’t planning to make a switch any time soon, he won’t completely shut the door on the idea. 

“No. I mean, not now anyway. What?,” xQc said when Kai Cenat answered him about the idea during their joint IRL stream. Though, when Kai asked him again, he was a little coyer. Kai Cenat has over 4.4 million followers on Twitch alone while IShowSpeed approaches 16 million subscribers on YouTube, YourRAGE has 1.3 million followers on Twitch, and BruceDropEmOff has 1.2 million followers on Twitch. These are only the numbers on their main platforms and when adding in their audience across all social media platforms, these numbers go up by quite a lot for each creator.

“Think about it – the platform cannot fail if everyone goes,” he said. There’s no doubt these creators would cause a shift towards kick for some of their community given their networks tend to overlap.