After moving to Facebook Gaming back in November 2019, DisguisedToast now feels that the decision was the right move, telling skeptical fans that he'll be sticking with the streaming platform going forward.
Since its launch in 2018, Facebook Gaming has trailed behind YouTube and Twitch in terms of success as a platform for streamers. Last year, Microsoft shut down the competing streaming service known as Mixer and then partnered with Facebook Gaming. At this time, Facebook attempted to bring on big names in the streaming sphere to gain some traction, such as Shroud and Ninja, who were both reportedly offered huge sums of money to partner with Facebook Gaming. Ultimately, they both turned the offers down, but DisguisedToast, who was previously signed on back in 2019, now feels that partnering with the social media site was the right decision over a year later.
Though not as big as Ninja, DisguisedToast is certainly up there in popularity among streamers. Toast saw his biggest influx of viewers when he gained more than 2 million subscribers between September 2020 and January of this year shortly after participating in the famous Among Us stream with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. He often streams with Pokimane as both are members of the OfflineTV house along with Scarra and LilyPichu. DisguisedToast also commonly streams with notable personalities Sykkuno and Jacksepticeye, but his friends are a big reason why Toast is happy to be working with Facebook Gaming over Twitch or YouTube.
In a recent livestream, after fans asked the streamer if he'd ever return to Twitch, DisguisedToast explains his Facebook partnership and how content he is with it. Toast is aware people make fun of Facebook Gaming as a streaming platform. However, he says that this helps him avoid being competitive with his friends over popularity and success while also getting paid quite well. "Why would I give that up?" Toast says happily.
DisguisedToast, who also runs a successful YouTube and appears in many Twitch streams from his neighboring streamers like Sykkuno and Pokimane, says he still gets around 10,000 views per stream on Facebook, adding, "it's not like 'oh I'm struggling, no one remembers who I am.'" So despite the viewers who, at the time he signed with Facebook, said that people would forget him after making the exclusive partnership, he's doing pretty well for himself.
In fact, Toast believes he's one of the streamers anchoring down Facebook Gaming's streaming platform, alongside Super Smash Bros. player ZeRo, who has since retired from professional gaming following allegations of sexual advances with minors back in 2014.
Though it took several months before the payoff pulled through, DisguisedToast says, "I know I made the right decision, one year later." He continues, "Just trust that I know what I'm doing."