The German Twitch streamer Max “Trymacs” Stemmler (29) seems to be developing fatherly feelings for younger colleagues. After dealing with the fate of a failed YouTuber in Fortnite, he threatens young colleagues like LetsHugo (20) that he would freak out if they also make the mistake of forgetting that they have to pay taxes on their income.
This is the situation:
- A German YouTuber, Simex, is notorious: He made a lot of money and gained reach with YouTube videos during the hype of Fortnite.
- After the Fortnite hype and some scandals, his reach went down, along with the ability to earn money.
- Now, Simex says he is heavily in debt due to tax debts. YouTube doesn’t work anymore. With “This is my last video” calls, he asks his community for support.
Streamers earn a lot of money and blow it. But when the money stream suddenly dries up, they have problems:
Young people earn a lot of money for 3 years, squander it, and then face debt
This is what Trymacs says: The successful Twitch streamer has watched a video that deals with the drop in views and the career of Simex. But Trymacs feels no sympathy, rather anger and incomprehension.
From Trymacs’ perspective, it should be clear by now that one must set aside half of the money one earns as a freelancer to pay taxes:
They earn hundreds of thousands of euros and you have to set aside half. People earn a lot of money at a young age for one, two, three years, then not anymore. And then they have to pay half of everything they earned in taxes. But these taxes are not set aside, but instead a sports car is bought, the coolest place is rented, then all friends are invited, expensive vacations are taken, and then you end up with €250,000 in debt.
Trymacs
Trymacs is outraged by this behavior and says: If a new streamer comes along, earns a lot of money, and later has tax debts, he will “hit him,” he will freak out.
He particularly has the new generation of streamers like LetsHugo in his sights, as they brought him so much joy at events like Craft Attack:
If they ever have €300,000 in tax debts, I’ll hit them in the face. I’m fed up with young people who earn a lot of money and have €200,000 in tax debts two years later.
Such a blow from Trymacs should not be underestimated; the man has boxed and survived in the Canadian wilderness, so young streamers better keep their money together. But the blows
he threatens LetsHugo with are probably meant metaphorically.
In any case, one can only hope for LetsHugo when seeing Trymacs carrying logs in 7vsWild: Ogre does ogre things
, as his colleague Rumathra noted.
In April 2022, Trymacs organized a boxing match:
2 Twitch streamers box against each other – Looks like David against Goliath and blood flows
