Corinna Kopf is one of the larger female streamers on the Twitch platform. She has built a community with Fortnite , but she is even bigger on YouTube and Instagram. After a temporary ban on Twitch in early December that upset her, Kopf is now transitioning to Facebook Gaming.
Who is Corinna Kopf? With 412,290 followers, Corinna Kopf (24) is a major streamer on Twitch. Kopf is an even bigger name on Instagram, where she has 3.5 million followers.
She only turned to streaming on Twitch in April 2018, and her channel grew rapidly there. In terms of follower growth, she was in the top 100 of all Twitch channels in 2019.
In the last year, her stream was viewed for 868,341 hours, making her one of the largest streamers on Twitch worldwide.
Kopf has spent most of her time on Twitch playing Fortnite: She has broadcast the game for 300 hours. Fortnite players might recognize Corinna Kopf from her association with No. 1 on Twitch, Turner “Tfue” Tenney.
Kopf believes she was banned for a year-old clip
Why was she banned from Twitch? Kopf received a temporary ban on Twitch in early December, which she publicly expressed outrage over. Initially, she thought she had been banned because she wore a Chanel top in her birthday stream.
Later, however, Kopf stated that she was banned for a Twitch clip that was over a year old: In this stream, her bra was visible. This violates Twitch’s rules.
The ban upset her because she felt that other streamers like Alinity Divine do much worse things and get away with it. Yet she is banned for such an old story: Corinna Kopf felt this was unfair. Twitch would measure with two different standards.
After the ban, she announced on December 3 that she would now look at her options for which “evolving streaming platform” she could switch to.
This is now the switch: Kopf announced that she has signed an exclusive contract with Facebook Gaming:
“As a female streamer, it is so important for me to find a home that not only supports me but also my community, so we can have a positive impact on the gaming world.”
Corinna Kopf
Kopf is now the first major female streamer to sign an exclusive contract with Facebook Gaming, as Business Insider reports. Her first stream on Facebook is set to start on December 30.
What’s behind this: It is surely again about a lot of money – this is never mentioned. After Ninja’s switch on August 1, 2019, a battle between the four streaming platforms for the biggest streamers began. Facebook apparently sees great potential in Corinna Kopf and has offered her an exclusive contract.
Corinna Kopf is now the second major name to leave Twitch following a ban. Previously, Overwatch pro Dellor was poached by YouTube Gaming, after Twitch banned him for self-harm.
Twitch is increasingly criticized for strange banning behavior – now, in this new era, bans of streamers can lead to them switching platforms if they do not feel comfortable and valued on Twitch.
Some streamers, like the German MontanaBlack, accuse Twitch of being difficult for even large streamers to contact in such situations when it comes to resolving issues with the streaming platform.
Why Facebook of all places? Although Facebook is a huge social media platform: streaming is still a niche there. Streamers like Disguised Toast have specifically switched to Facebook because they hope to gain advantages there: They hope to reach a new audience.
Facebook will certainly be willing to pay quite a bit for this switch.
