The Twitch streamer Carsten “ELoTRiX” reacted to a video from a YouTuber and was able to earn more money than the original creator of the video.
What is the Money Cheat? On Twitch and YouTube, there are numerous ways to earn money, whether through view counts or sponsorships. Another method often utilized because it requires little effort and offers high profitability is reactions.
In the Twitch stream, a video is watched together with the community, reacting to what the other streamer is doing. Afterwards, it is edited and uploaded as a video to a specially designated YouTube channel.
Many Twitch streamers, both in Germany and in the international scene, like streamer Ludwig, can earn quite a bit of money this way. MontanaBlack mentioned in a stream that about 100,000 euros of his monthly earnings come from his reaction channels.
“What the F***”
How much did ELoTRiX earn with the video? In a stream, Twitch streamer ELoTRiX showcases the video that brings him the most earnings on his reaction channel: a reaction to the video from Jules about the developer Blizzard. The video is about two hours long, while the original is around 1.5 hours long, and with over 1.8 million views, it has earned the Twitch streamer a total of 27,063.13 euros.
On X, Jules appeared visibly surprised at the discrepancy between his earnings and those of the Twitch streamer. Because although Jules garnered more views, namely 2.9 million, and a longer watch time on YouTube with his video, he only earned “just” 23,979.46 euros, about 4,000 euros less than ELoTRiX.
Why is this special? The situation is particularly noteworthy against the background that Jules once claimed that his YouTube earnings are low for the effort he puts into his videos. In one of his YouTube videos, he calculated that he only receives an hourly wage of 5.29 euros from the monetization on YouTube.
When comparing the effort and the limited earnings Jules has with the earnings and effort of ELoTRiX, the calculation does not really add up and seems unfair.
Fair Solutions for Reactions
What potential solutions are there? YouTuber Robin “RobBubble” Blase also discussed reactions in one of his videos, as he faces the same problem: people reacting to his content earn significantly more than he does.
In his video on YouTube, he proposed a solution: YouTube could introduce a revenue split where reactors can indicate the video they are watching, so that half of the earnings can be redirected to the creator of the original video.
The situation regarding reactions is consistently controversial. For reasons not exactly known, some creators have forbidden influencer Fritz Meinecke from reacting to their content. Read more about it here on MeinMMO: “I make many enemies this way” – Fritz Meinecke receives a ban for the money cheat on Twitch
