Anyone who's active in virtual worlds knows people love to buy content and tip creators and performers.
>Why didn’t micropayments ever take off? No one ever tried.
Except virtual worlds, which have whole economies based on micropayments.
Apparently $10-20K tips happen quite often:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/231p6e/sum...
So yeah, if you're entertaining enough, people will throw money at you.
Which was a well known fact since the beginning of strip clubs... Twitch and co are no different from sexcams.
Once you get past the fact that they are both livestreams the similarity ends. Twitch explicitly forbids sexual content [0]. There are some streamers that dress suggestively, but they're in the minority.
Your statement is not much different from calling YouTube no different from PornHub.