The streaming platform Twitch is experiencing a boom thanks to the new shooter Valorant , with viewer numbers exploding. The former superstars of Twitch, Michael “shroud” Grzesiek and Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, who are active on the competitor platform Mixer, are currently nowhere near these numbers.
This is the state of Twitch: The streaming platform Twitch is currently extremely strong. The reason for this might be the lockdown due to the coronavirus and Valorant, the new shooter from Riot. Anyone who wants to participate in the Valorant beta must watch streamers on Twitch. Only this way might they get lucky with a beta access.
In the last 7 days alone, Valorant was watched for nearly 147 million hours. Twitch has gained almost 100 million viewer hours during this period. A total of 467 million hours were spent on Twitch in the last 7 days.
Streamers like Jaryd “summit1g” Lazar or Timothy “TimTheTatman” Betar have hundreds of thousands of viewers in their stream. Everyone wants to watch Valorant and grab the beta keys. In the last 14 days alone, summit1g saw a growth of 665% (via sullygnome).
Here, faces are long: The entire Twitch numbers cast a shadow over another streaming platform: Mixer. There are no beta keys for Valorant there.
Streamers like Ninja and shroud, who switched platforms a few months ago, are currently only dreaming of these huge numbers. Their streams are relatively little watched: There are no beta keys for Valorant here.
shroud and Ninja are not where the viewers are
These are the numbers on Mixer: The numbers on Mixer for Valorant are catastrophic compared to Twitch.
- In the last 7 days, an average of 7,182 people watched Valorant on Mixer (via mixerstats).
- Twitch, on the other hand, has an average of 873,354 simultaneous viewers for Valorant (via sullygnome). At its peak, over 1.5 million people were watching simultaneously.
- Ninja had an average of 4,343 viewers in the last 7 days. (He had an average of 77,719 viewers on Twitch in 2018)
- Shroud has an average of 11,653 simultaneous viewers (he had 33,473 viewers on Twitch in 2018)
“You feel like you’re in prison,” says Nadeshot
This is what experts say about it: Streamers Jack “Courage” Dunlop and Matthew “Nadeshot” Haag talked in their YouTube show about whether Ninja and shroud made a mistake by switching to Mixer. Together with Dr. Lupo, who was a guest on this show, a heated discussion ensued.
Nadeshot addresses a point that sheds a whole new light on the viewer numbers. He says:
There’s nothing worse than being on the other side of the fence when everyone is having so much fun, with 100,000 viewers and the same attention you once had.
What I can tell [them] is: The money is worth it. The money they are making now is generational wealth. They will be able to take care of their children and their children’s children, just because they made this sacrifice.”
Nadeshot in his YouTube show
He further states that while it may feel like sitting in a prison, the decision to switch was ultimately the right one.
What does Nadeshot mean by that? Here he talks about the money that Ninja and shroud earned when they switched to Mixer.
There are no official figures, but experts estimate an annual salary of around 10 million dollars. Money that Ninja earned on Twitch back in 2018. But at that time he referred to himself as a “slave of the stream“.
His workload at Mixer is likely to be a bit more relaxed now.
Therefore, it is quite understandable that Nadeshot encourages the Mixer streamers. Although they do not have the huge viewer numbers like they did on Twitch, they still earn a lot of money from it.
Even if they are now outside and can only look in when the party is going on, they do it with full pockets.
