 A big reason why I was able to go full time as a streamer was the 70-30 deal. Like, I remember I was living at home, I was working on my teaching certificate. At first, when I first started streaming, I was literally, I accidentally became a streamer. Proposed changes to monetization approaches that reported the thing to discuss at Twitch, with a big change to partner revenue cuts being proposed. In a report by Bloomberg, several sources state that Amazon, Twitch's parent company, is continuing to look for long-term answers to financial stability for the streaming platform, sometimes at the expense of its users. One of the largest changes that could be introduced in the coming months will cut revenue from channel subscriptions, which can range from $5 to $25, from 70% to just 50% for Twitch partners, which consists of Twitch's biggest streamers. Well, so not every partner has this to begin with. Another proposed change is introducing new tiers to its partner program while loosening restrictions on where creators are allowed to stream, whether they're being partnered with Twitch, by allowing created streamers on YouTube and Facebook. Twitch seemingly hopes that the cut in revenue to its customers are going to be struggling now, so make sure to invest this wisely. Got to think about your future pay cut. Thank you so much. Take it with 27 months, dude. Ads are also being spotlighted more on potential changes, with more revenue opportunities for creators to choose to run Twitch ads more frequently and for longer. There's always been a challenging balance for Twitch and its streamers to strike, given the random nature of when ads run and negatively influences live streams by broadcasting at important times. That is why I run my ads whenever I'm taking a break from whatever, like I'm going to the bathroom or I'm loading something or whatever. That's why I run my ads then. Frustrating viewers in the process. That's why my viewers aren't frustrated. As Bloomberg points out, some streamers have just accepted this is where Twitch is headed, which makes new revenue sharing plans for ads plausible in the future. The report stresses that none of the changes have been formally agreed upon, which can see many if not all of them change entirely before being introduced, so many of its competitors struggling to attract creators in the same way Twitch certainly has to pull, has the pull to make large changes like this in pursuit to make ads with nearly a billion dollar purchase worth it. So, okay, I mean, that's pretty much what I read. Well, this is just a leak, right? And what I think happened, I think internally, probably they've just like brainstormed some ideas. Realistically, I think they've probably brainstormed some ideas of like, what about this? What about this? This is this, this is that. And somebody probably just leaked it that Twitch is thinking about this. First off, most partners have a 50-50 deal. Most people don't have a 70-50, 70-30 deal. I don't know what percent of people, but I definitely know it's not the majority of streamers, the majority of partners, streamers have the 70-30 deal. I got the 70-30 deal in 2018. I think I was at like 3,000 subs-ish, I think. I don't remember exactly when I got it. I mean, I'll be honest, I hope they don't do this, right? Just the honest truth about this. This 70-30 deal, or sorry, if they were to get rid of the 70-30 deal for people, it actually doesn't affect big streamers as much. Because I feel like if you've noticed this, sometimes really big streamers don't even have that many subs for their viewership. And there's a number of reasons for that. But I feel like the scaling, like the amount of your revenue that comes from subs scales down as you grow as a streamer. We're just trying to do the best that we can to put together the best content and entertain the most amount of people that we can. And what percent of big streamers on Twitch? That's the thing, that's another good question. It's not really a lot of people on Twitch that are not affected by this. So just for example, somebody like Asmin, Asmin does not have a lot of subs for how many viewers he has. There's a number of reasons for that. He doesn't really thank his subs and resubs. Because he does it in breaks and stuff like that. And I do this too sometimes. And people will then feel like their submeasures got missed. But I'll hit it five minutes later. Some people never shout it out at all. Shroud doesn't shout out his subs at all. So he doesn't have very many subs. But then other people, different people have different sub counts. For example, Summit still has a ton of subs. Summit still has like, usually every time I look, he's got like 20, 30,000 subs, right? The point of what I'm saying here is, the people that this affects the most, I would say are mid-range streamers and mid-range streamers who have the deal. And I don't think there's a lot of smaller streamers that have the deal. But just kind of recalling from my own personal experience, a big reason why I was able to go full time as a streamer was the 70-30 deal. Like I remember I was living at home. I was working on my teaching certificate. At first, when I first started streaming, I was literally, I accidentally became a streamer, right? Like I kind of accidentally became a streamer. I made YouTube videos talking about how to play Rep Paladin and vanilla because there wasn't a lot of good content on it. And me and Dracova knew like everything about vanilla Rep Paladin. So we wanted to make videos kind of talking about this stuff. And we did. Eventually we started streaming because I wanted to stream my raids literally because I wanted to record my raids and I didn't have enough space on my hard drive to record them and then post them on YouTube. So I just streamed them on YouTube. So I ended up doing that. We kind of made it, we made it a thing. Ended up growing to be the biggest private server streamer on YouTube. Ended up getting banned, moved to Twitch. I had to wait until Classic Wild came out to stream Classic Wild again. In the meantime, what did I do? I talked about Classic. I played retail and talked about Classic. I did some variety. I did IRL. Me and Ms. Kiff became friends shortly after I got on Twitch. Eventually, Ms. started streaming. Me and Ms. started doing IRL and a bunch of stuff together. Ms. moves to Austin. E-Rob is here. We had like the U-Trip, everything, all that stuff, right? Like that's a whole long story. That's a lot of, I can go into a lot of lore, right? But specifically with this, whenever I was able to move from down list to Austin, I don't think it would have happened had it not been for that 70-30 deal, right? Because basically what the 70-30 deal is, is you get one more dollar per sub than what you get with a 50-50 deal, right? You get three and a half instead of two and a half. So that much revenue, that much more income, was basically like the difference of being able to like get a place in Austin instead of living with my parents, right? I missed the stadium. The stadium days were good. I did, I did, I basically lived in a stadium. I literally, I snuck an air mattress into the football stadium and I would sleep in the stadium some nights because I would end so late that I would be like starting to fall asleep while driving and it was really dangerous. So I started, I started sleeping in the stadium a lot of nights while I was working for the football team. So yeah, why'd you get banned on YouTube? I got a, I got a three-month DMCA from Blizzard because I was streaming private servers. Red Punk, thank you for the tier one. And now like me and Blizzard, I worked like very closely with Blizzard. Classic. I was, I was like on, I was literally, I was told, I was on the shit list. That was, I was like on the list of like, like public enemy number one, but then, but then they started watching my content. They started watching my streams and were like, dude, this guy's actually good. And then they, they started working with me on classic. You're the first Tyler one. No, no. Basically it's similar to what happened with Tyler, except Tyler's thing happened before. Yeah, I'm pretty sure Tyler, I'm pretty sure Tyler's thing happened before mine. This whole thing, I think this, long story short, right? We're talking about a lot of lore and this and that. The problem with this, if they do this, I mean, sure, it would, it would be like a, a sucky thing for anybody with a lot of subs, right? That's a, that's a bigger streamer. Cause let's say, let's say you're a 10K, you got 10K subs, right? What am I at right now? I'm at 6787. I have 6787 subs right now. So if this were to happen, I would lose like almost seven K a month, right? $6,700 a month, I would lose. Which is that, that sucks, right? That sucks. But you can make, you can make up for that with, like if I were to take on another sponsor or something like that in the grants, giving things you get, you can take, you can make that up if you wanted to, right? Run more ads. No, I don't even think I wouldn't run any more ads than what I currently run. Who this really affects is somebody who's like on the, on the fringe of being a full-time streamer and not being a full-time streamer. And if they've only got like, only got like two, two, 3,000 subs, right? Because the, the two to 3,000 subs, let's say you have two to 3,000 subs, and now you've got a 70-30 deal. Now you have two to 3,000 more dollars of income a month and that $3,000 of income can be enough for, you know, moving somewhere, getting, paying for food, all your living expenses, right? Like that, that could be like that difference for the month, depending on where you live, right? Depending on where you live. They don't really give small partners 730s, that's apparently something to keep your time about how they want to negotiate it. No, it's, it's very difficult to get the 70-30 deal now. A lot of the 70-30 deal stuff comes from being involved in eSports. Like if you, if you're on an eSports team, if you're on, if you're on an org that has like that, like a negotiation, they've negotiated that, oh, we have this deal for our partners. This is like old, like legacy org contracts. Cause, cause org deals have, have changed. Like from back whenever we're talking like TSM originally, Liquid and CLG method even, everybody has all these different deals, right? Every, every org and every team has all these different deals. And as time gone, has gone on, they've been willing to do different things for different orgs, right? Or really, they mostly like tighten up more and more and they give less to, to new orgs. The issue is, like I said, it's not really for big streamers. As much as it would suck, I mean, hey, I'll be honest. I think, I think if, I think if anybody looks at this who has a 70-30 deal and says like, oh, this is not that big of a deal or like, sorry. They say they don't care about it. Well, I think they're just lying, right? Cause it's like, well, that sucks. Right? Anytime it's like minus, minus however much money that sucks. But at the end of the day, it really affects like the mid-tier streamers a lot more. Yeah. The mid-tier streamers would get really, really screwed by this. Anybody who has like a 70-30 deal. Or like, I mean, for example, you know, who else is a good example? Cause like, like Grayson. Grayson actually has a 70-30 deal because he's, he has like a legacy e-sports contract. Grayson gets a 70-30 deal. My roommate, my arena partner, right? And he's not like a huge streamer, but that 70-30 deal basically allows him to be a full-time streamer. E-Rubb just got 70-30. E-Rubb just got 70-30 and I'm immediately going.