Twitch banned 2 of its most famous streamers in the last 3 years. Today, IShowSpeed and DrDisrespect are among the most successful streamers on YouTube.
With IShowSpeed and DrDisrespect, Twitch banned two of its biggest streamers from the platform in recent years:
- DrDisrespect was banned in 2022. To this day, the reasons behind it are unclear, the streamer even wanted to sue Twitch.
- IShowSpeed stumbles from scandal to scandal, drawing attention with misogynistic and racist comments and was banned from Twitch at the end of 2021.
Today, both streamers are active on YouTube. The ban hardly harmed their success, as they are now among the biggest streamers on the competing platform.
IShowSpeed and DrDisrespect dominated YouTube in 2022
What are the numbers for 2022? According to the website “Stream Hatchet”, IShowSpeed and DrDisprespect are among the largest streamers on YouTube. In first place is IShowSpeed with 38.5 million watched hours, followed by DrDisprespect in fourth place with 25.2 million hours. Here you can see the top 10 in overview (via twitter.com):
- IShowSpeed, 38.5 million
- Kuzuha Ch., 27.4 million
- TimTheTatman, 26.6 million
- DrDisprespect, 25.2 million
- Pekora Ch., 23.3 million
- Ludwig, 22.5 million
- Windah Basudara, 21.9 million
- VEGETTA777, 20.9 million
- Miko Ch. 20.7 million
- DjMaRiiO, 20.4 million
Among the top 10 are also other well-known and former faces from Twitch. Ludwig is now active on YouTube (6th place) and also the old accomplice of Dr Disrespect, TimTheTatman (3rd place), is successful here.
YouTube is pursuing an aggressive strategy and is actively trying to poach the best streamers from Twitch with a lot of money:
DrDisrespect unhappy with YouTube, IShowSpeed remains true to scandals
How is DrDisrespect feeling? His viewership numbers looked really good in 2022, but the mustachioed streamer is not completely satisfied. DrDisprespect feels abandoned by YouTube Gaming, as Twitch streamers are making a lot of money on YouTube – but he is getting none of it.
And how is IShowSpeed doing? He is also still very successful. However, scandals seem to continue to find him, or he finds them. Just during the World Cup in Qatar, he showed racist behavior towards a football fan. But this does not change his behavior or his viewership numbers.
Another streamer has become big on Twitch by now. Kai Cenat has broken a new subscriber record on Twitch, but he is not completely satisfied. You can read the whole story about the streamer on MeinMMO:
