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Yeah outdated reference though. Look at Ninja when he left Twitch for Microsoft’s platform Mixer... his views dropped to an embarrassing level.
This is where I got the idea for this thought process:
Damn, you're a machine gun of ignorance. So how does Ninja abandoning his exclusivity to Twitch to become exclusive on a competitor platform analogize to this?
You're using an example that actually contradicts your assertion that failure is inevitable to exclusivity to a single platform. Furthermore, the analogy wouldn't work even if he was on Twitch. Twitch has a virtual monopoly. Over 90% of viewer hours are on that platform. Apple podcasts doesn't even enjoy a majority stake of the podcast market. Ninja got paid $30m to go to Mixer for 10 measly months. He's already back on Twitch. His viewership has dropped on return, but one could argue it would have dropped anyway, since Fortnite is his main squeeze, and viewership for that game has declined sharply on the platform since its peak shortly before he signed that contract. There are no long-term models of streamers successful at his level. He would have been crazy not to take that money.