The Twitch streamer Kevin “Papaplatte” Teller has faced criticism and allegations from his former editor in recent days. After both shared their perspectives, it seems they have now talked things over.
Here was the situation: On Sunday, August 10, 2025, the editor Paul “Pamabu” released a video, in which he talked about his collaboration with the Twitch streamer Papaplatte. Pamabu created a reaction channel for Papaplatte about 2 years ago, where he edited and uploaded the Twitch streamer’s reactions.
Eventually, the two worked together and agreed on a payment by profit sharing: Papaplatte received 75% of the monthly earnings, Pamabu 25%. Papaplatte had no extra work since Pamabu handled the channel completely on his own.
However, as the channel began to generate more income, Papaplatte reduced the editor’s salary by about 50%. From then on, Pamabu received a fixed salary of approximately 3,500 euros and an additional bonus of 1.5% profit share.
These issues and the lack of communication from Papaplatte were the main criticisms from Pamabu. Papaplatte addressed the allegations in his livestream and narrated the situation from his perspective: A reaction editor cannot earn over 10,000 euros a month with 12 hours of work per week.
“Now it gets talked about?”
Papaplatte and Pamabu are communicating: The Twitch streamer and his former editor seem to have talked things over. In a post on X, Pamabu states that Papaplatte contacted him on WhatsApp and apologized. They are currently working together to find a solution. What this will look like is still undecided.
In a response below, Papaplatte writes (Source: X): “Was a good conversation, should have obviously happened earlier on my part”
How is the community reacting? The comments under the post on X advise the editor to be cautious. He should not let himself be taken advantage of and seek advice from a lawyer.
In a Reddit post about the topic, the community remains skeptical despite Papaplatte’s apology:
- peer202 remains distrustful of Papaplatte’s intentions (Source: Reddit): “Ah now it’s being talked about, after Kevin often mentioned in the reaction how easily Pamabu could be replaced?”
- Competitive_Kale5340 writes on Reddit: “Now that the shitstorm has heated up, suddenly no more ghosting?”
- OfficerMacSwag finds another point in Papaplatte’s behavior worse (Source: Reddit): “Hey, the matter is already so unimportant to me. But how Kevin commented about his employees in the stream and what kind of perspective he has on people, that really got to me.”
Other comments speculate that Papaplatte watched the YouTube video of the lawyer Christian Solmecke and now has concerns about facing legal consequences.
The Twitch streamers Max Schradin and Trymacs also dealt with the same topic. Their opinions on the remuneration of editors were similar to those of Papaplatte. Trymacs also had to apologize eventually due to high public pressure: Twitch streamer retracts statements that sounded greedy, but the apology sounds hollow
