For someone who is promised a regular hourly wage, one might expect an appropriate payment – or not? A streamer and musician returned to her old platform Twitch after switching to Kick. What she shares causes the great deal facade that Kick presents to crumble.
What does the streamer reveal? The streamer and musician Sabrina Solo, who refers to herself as a one-woman band, regularly streams on Twitch after leaving her contract with the streaming rival Kick. The platform is notorious for poaching content creators from Twitch with expensive offers. In addition, Kick promises smaller streamers to earn money through a guaranteed hourly wage.
In a clip from Sabrina Solo’s Twitch stream on April 2, 2025, the musician shared her experience at Kick and what exactly is behind the promising deals that Kick offers: “I had to go back to live gigs because just so you know, over at Kick – it was a total flop! It was wild!”
“I wasn’t allowed to say anything”
What does the streamer say about her experience at Kick? The musician explains that the promised hourly wage with which Kick aims to attract smaller content creators to its platform is absolutely ridiculous:
They “paid us hourly”, my god. It was 5 dollars an hour, folks. (…) I earn 100 dollars an hour for my live performances, that’s how much I make when I’m hired as a musician. So when they said they would pay me 5 dollars an hour, it was a total insult. I would laugh at a bar if they told me, ‘we’ll pay you 5 dollars an hour.’
Sabrina Solo via Twitch
However, she wasn’t allowed to speak about the salary, as she told her Twitch viewers: “We had to sign an NDA because we became partners after all. […] I wasn’t allowed to say anything. And I was supposed to give the impression that we were making real money, that was part of the agreement.”
What brought the musician back to Twitch? However, the payment was not the only thing that bothered Sabrina about Kick.
“It was really disgusting over there,” she adds in the clip, “The incel level is extremely high. Most of the staff is just damn strange, the people there are weird, and I missed the vibe here (on Twitch).”
The musician is not the only one making such statements about the employees of the streaming platform. A former employee publicly criticized an offer from the platform to a sick streamer, which the affected person had to decline for “moral reasons”. Kick has not yet commented on this.
What do other experiences at Kick look like? Many streamers express mixed feelings about Kick due to different offers and their own experiences. A streamer who was initially very excited about an offer from the Twitch rival ultimately feels as dissatisfied as Sabrina Solo and describes his time at Kick as “the worst time he has experienced while streaming”: Twitch: Streamer spent 1 year on Kick, knows the background – Explains how bad it is there
