Twitch and YouTube creators come under fire for profiting off of Depp v Heard trial
06.06.2022 - 20:53
/ msn.com
Twitch stars and it’s not gone unnoticed. Streamers and creators from both Amazon’s Twitch and Google’s YouTube have found themselves receiving flak for their weeks’ worth of content based around the Amber Heard and Johnny Depp trial. Twitch stars like Asmongold and xQc, alongside YouTubers such as Ludwig, streamed their live reactions to the defamation case.
The various creators who got themselves involved ended up with record-breaking watch times and donations during a grim case. Asmongold has now topped out the current list of most viewed on Twitch, with a whopping 12 million hours consumed in total by his viewership, since he began streaming the court case. However, with the viewership figures, Asmongold has gained an astronomical amount of subscribers and followers.
The following exploration into numbers doesn’t count the advertising revenue that Asmongold has received. Using Twitch Tracker, a website dedicated to cataloguing the entirety of Twitch users’ ins and outs, Asmongold earnt, through the first six days of June – with the case ending on June 1 – a staggering 10,261 subscribers. A majority tuned in specifically on June 1.
While around 5,319 of them were Amazon Prime subscriptions, which earns a streamer $2. 50 (Amazon gives every prime subscriber a ‘free’ subscription for Twitch) this means he earnt an estimated $13,297. 50 since June 1.
In June alone, Asmongold has seen 3,395 new viewers subscribe, paying at least $4. 99 each. This comes to an estimated $16,941 before taxes, with seven opting to pay $9.
99 and 10 paying $24. 99 for a higher tier subscription. During the height of the trial in May, Asmongold saw his subscriptions reach the highest they’ve been in one month since July 2021, with a total of
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