The streamer Rubius has been offered a €20,000 knife from a streaming platform to leave Twitch.
Who is it about?
- Rubén “El Rubius” Doblas Gundersen is one of the largest Spanish-speaking content creators.
- Rubius has over 40 million subscribers on YouTube. His videos regularly reach over 3 million views.
- On Twitch, Rubius has 14 million followers and streams to an average of over 20,000 viewers.
- In addition to the “Just Chatting” category, Rubius also streams various games on Twitch. These include Valve’s tactical shooter CS:GO, the new The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and Fortnite.
What kind of offer is that? The streaming platform Kick reached out to Rubius on Twitter. The Spanish account of the Twitch competitor posted a picture implying that they intend to buy a rare knife in CS:GO for the equivalent of over €20,000.
In the post, they also tagged Rubius’s Twitter account and asked where they should send the knife (via Twitter).
What does the streamer say? In a stream, Rubius addressed Kick’s post. The streamer said: “They are trying to buy me with a knife.”.
Rubius then explained what Kick would need to do for him to switch to the platform: “If you want me, you need to send me one of those knives, okay? Every day for two years (via Twitch).”.
If Kick wanted to send the streamer a €20,000 knife every day for two years, the platform would have to spend over €14.5 million to fulfill the streamer’s request.
Kick is a new streaming platform founded by the online casino Stake and has since managed to secure some controversial gambling streamers. This happened after Twitch significantly restricted gambling streaming in 2022.
Recently, the CEO of Twitch commented on the topic in an interview with streamer filia, explaining why he finds sites like Stake problematic:
Twitch CEO explains the gambling ban: “Who checks if the odds of winning are not manipulated?”
