Another data leak.
Affected is the streaming portal "Twitch", which confirmed this on Thursday and where people can be seen doing things.
They play, react, comment, scold (about people who scold them) and earn a lot of money in the process.
This can be checked using a list that comes from a more than one hundred gigabyte “first” data package that hackers published on the “4Chan” message board after visiting the servers of the Amazon video portal.
The list includes more than 10,000 "Twitch" streamers, their usernames, IDs and earnings between August 2019 and October 2021. On "4Chan" - not even known for its moderate audience - one of the hackers explained the "Twitch" community is a "cesspool" and you want to promote competition in the streaming market. Now, in addition to a lot of malice, envy is pouring into the social media portals. About the fact that you can make so much “cash” with “a hobby”.
The impulse is obvious: There are streamers in the top thirty places who have earned more than 2 million dollars, although their creative contribution lies in promoting their clothes, copying more successful colleagues, filming themselves while laughing and doing gags, where even eight-year-olds would turn away, mute and ashamed. Are you right about success? One could think so.
However, if you look at what is hidden behind the cryptic name "Critical Role", which tops the list of "Twitch" top earners, you will be pleasantly surprised. No trace of Kesse-Lippe baseball cap bangs. Instead, a bunch of people filming themselves playing dice. The streaming category is called “Actual Play” and has been booming since the Netflix series “Stranger Things” bowed to the classic role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) in 2016.
The success and his payment in this case could perhaps also be justified by the fact that the members of this collective are professionals outside of the Twitch bubble, namely voice actors, led by Matthew Mercer. They have been on the air since 2015, but not only inspire their audiences by experiencing eight epic D&D adventures, often told by Mercer as the “dungeon master” and embellished by the participants with plenty of show talent. Formats like the “Narrative Telephone” are also hits. The format works like silent mail, only that a detailed story is told that has to be retold by other participants in just as much detail. "Critical Role" now has its own comic series and a series on Amazon Prime. So it's not all manure on Twitch. But see for yourself.