A massive data leak spilled out of Twitch, providing insight on the top-performing video game streamers in 2021. Since the leak, the estimated income of some of the most popular streamers on the platform has circulated across social media and the video games community.
The leak occurred on October 6th, 2021, and over120GBof data was reportedly stolen. It first appeared as a catalog on 4chan. This Twitch leak contained a lot of information from streamers' payouts, internal AWS services used by the site, a Steam competitor called “Vapor” reportedly crafted by Amazon Game Studios, and other internal files.
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We do not know the exact numbers of every person that has an account on Twitch but thanks to the community effort combined with leaks, we could get these images of 100 Twitch streamer payouts.
From the screenshots, we can see that in the time period fromAugust 2019toOctober 2021, some streamers' payout exceeds the 9 million dollar mark which is well.. a lot of gravy.
There is quite a gap of almost 3 million dollars between the second spot and the third one. Considering this data,xQcearns a lot more money than any other individual streamer.
A standard amount earned from subscriptions on Twitch is 50% per $5 subscription, which means that every streamer gets $2.50 per subscription. Some streamers might earn more than the other while having fewer overall subscriptions, which can indicate that they earn more money per subscription than the usual 50%.
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