Since 2016, Ali “Myth” Kabbani has been streaming on Twitch, but after 6 years, this era seems to be coming to an end. Myth has decided to switch to YouTube and will start there today, on July 12th, as a streamer.
Who is Myth? The streamer was a well-known e-sports professional in Fortnite. Back then, he influenced the gameplay style in the shooter with his building skills, which many players emulated. Through his innovative gameplay and skills, Myth earned the title “Fortnite God,” although he stated in 2020 that he was really bad.
As early as 2018, Kabbani was among the biggest on Twitch worldwide. He generated over 4 million followers with his content, securing 3rd place on the ranking of all streamers in the world.
Nowadays, the 23-year-old doesn’t only play Fortnite, but also Valorant, Apex Legends, or League of Legends. Additionally, he has been running a YouTube channel for several years with 4.55 million subscribers – so Myth already has significant reach there.
Fortnite is still actively played; you can see the content of the latest season in our video:
“This is my decision” – Epic video about the switch
What did the streamer say about it? Not much so far. He promised to talk about it more closely when he goes live on YouTube. Otherwise, Myth released an action-packed video on Twitter and YouTube, which includes the announcement of the switch.
He wrote: “This is my decision.”
He also mentioned in the video that he is made to produce content. While doing so, he held a college invitation in his hands, which he obviously declined to become a streamer.
What does the community say about it? Under the tweet and the YouTube video, there was a lot of support and congratulations for Myth. Most were happy for the content creator and wished him all the best.
- TnW_Rika writes: “End of an era, onto a new one. I’m excited to see what you will do in the future. Good luck.”
- DepressedRage says: “I didn’t think this would happen, to be honest, but I respect the decision and will follow your streams.”
- Yair jokes: “Twitch will soon have no streamers left.”
- Not Michael is surprised: “YouTube is taking over. I didn’t think this would happen so quickly. So many streamers are switching now. YouTube should definitely optimize its user interface for streams, as Twitch is still better. Still, it’s nice to see streamers going to YouTube; I wish them all the best.”
A few voices gathered under the tweet saying that Myth’s switch is not a loss for Twitch; they still have enough famous people. Others asked stars like Pokimane if they also wanted to switch to YouTube soon.
One Twitter user claimed that hardly anyone follows Myth anymore, and on YouTube, he won’t have any viewers at all.
Is the deal worth it for YouTube?
That remains to be seen. After all, the streamer averaged between 2,500 to 4,000 viewers in recent months. However, these numbers are low compared to his peak in 2018, where up to 37,000 viewers attended his live streams.
After that, the trend definitely declined and settled at the mentioned average values since September 2021. Furthermore, the follower numbers also grew very slowly, and sometimes he even lost more than he gained.
On YouTube, his view counts are now also rather “low.” Some videos do not even reach 10,000 views, while others exceed 200,000 – quite fluctuating. At his peak, some videos garnered over 1-3 million views or approached that mark.
Nevertheless, his announcement gained significant attention, achieving 1.7 million views, receiving 4,500 retweets, and being liked 110,000 times. Perhaps new opportunities, friendships, and collaborations on YouTube will arise for Myth that were denied to him on Twitch.
LilyPichu also recently switched from Twitch to YouTube:
