Ludwig recently revealed his thoughts about the ongoing migration from Twitch to YouTube. The streamer explained that certain aspects of the platform allowed content creators to make a much better living for themselves on YouTube. Twitch on the other hand provides them with very little support.
The news comes from an interview by Colin and Samir. The pair sat down with Ludwig to hear about his opinions on the two platforms in particular and the business of streaming more broadly. The content creator had some surprising things to say about his transition from Twitch to YouTube. Ludwig specifically mentioned the intense workload that he was under at Twitch.
The content creator mentioned how the long hours which he spent streaming took a toll when it came to the necessities of daily life. “Twitch streamers are like an underbelly,” Ludwig said. “They’re barely able to survive as humans. Half of them Uber Eats every single meal. They never pay any of their bills. Taxes are just something they forget about.”
Ludwig explained that while he was expected to be constantly streaming during his time at Twitch, the content creator was able to let himself go a little bit after he made the migration to YouTube. “As opposed to YouTubers who are well put together like basically Silicon Valley people to some extent, Twitch streamers will push themselves to go 150, 200, 250, or even 300 hours in a month,” Ludwig said. He called this approach to streaming “absurd.”
Ludwig said that working for Twitch was like putting in several shifts back to back. “It’s like double a work week just streaming,” he said. “It’s like ‘when are you doing your laundry, man?’ The answer is they’re not.”
This comes in the wake of several hundred employees leaving Twitch over concerns that current executives are failing to understand its community. "The customer was the content creator,” said a former employee. "If you're not passionate about the product, you're not really looking at it from the customer's lens. And so you don't have the same level of empathy."