Popular YouTube streamer Dr Disrespect criticizes the recently confirmed Twitch revenue split changes with a candid tweet that suggests the Amazon livestreaming platform had this coming to it. This week has been a turbulent one for Twitch and various streamers on the platform, but among the problems that content creators are facing is a big change to earnings through ads, subscriptions, and more.
Guy "Dr Disrespect" Beahm was permanently banned from Twitch back in 2020, and since then, he has been creating content and streaming on YouTube, which provides a more balanced revenue split between the company and video makers. Since he departed from Twitch, Dr Disrespect has remained critical of the company and some creators on the platform, and that's no different with a tweet that compared what Amazon's livestreaming website has become to excrement. His harsh words for Twitch may give Dr Disrespect fans a better idea of how the two-time champion feels about the brand as he continues to stream regularly on YouTube with an audience of thousands.
Dr Disrespect is known to criticize YouTube Gaming since his move to the Google livestreaming service, but he also has plenty of negative sentiments towards Twitch as he anticipates a new website like Netflix could step in and clean up. Though he laments the lack of features on YouTube Gaming like gifted subscriptions or raids, Dr Disrespect seems confident in the decline of Twitch, and he stated, "what goes around comes around." Because he hasn't added more context, it's currently unclear what Dr Disrespect is referring to, but he may be hinting that he expected things to turn south in a matter of time.
Twitch recently stated that its revenue split will be adjusted to give livestreamers half of the money they bring in, while the Amazon website retains the other half for providing the services and features. Worse than the revenue split offered by top-tier Twitch contracts, but similar to the 50/50 one coming to the platform in the near future, YouTube only takes 45% of the money earned by livestreamers and 30% of Super Chat donations. This difference in how much livestreamers can earn in a given stream was reaffirmed when Dr Disrespect made his statement, and it may be the primary reason the popular YouTube streamer is so critical of Twitch.
Although many Dr Disrespect YouTube viewers have celebrated his candid tweet about Twitch, others have speculated that YouTube Gaming has some catching up to do in order to be at the same level as the purple platform.