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If my kid told me they wanted to be a twitch streamer I would advise them against investing a significant amount of time and effort building a business with a single gatekeeper.

If they wanted to be a famous personality, I would insist they start building a profile on every platform.

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This isn't well known, but to monetize on Twitch (i.e. be able to receive subscriptions and bits), you have to sign an affiliate agreement[1], which includes a clause prohibiting you from multi-streaming, or putting your VODs up anywhere else for a full day after their conclusion. This severely limits your ability to cross platforms.

[1]: https://www.twitch.tv/p/en/legal/affiliate-agreement/

Which kind of demonstrates exactly my point. I would never build a business that needs somebodies permission to exist.

Every single business needs permission to exist, not only because you need approval from the government to open one.

The USA built a system of "checks and balances" so that there would not be a "single gatekeeper" to government permissions.

You can't be comparing Twitch to the government. Those are not even remotely the same thing

One is taken for granted, but I think it is a valid point. I share your opinion (bad to depend on platforms), but that never might have triggered the comment.

For some people never means usually not, and for some never means never :)

I'd advise them to dominate a new platform as an early adopter and then spread out from there. Or put out content very consistently on 2-3 platforms. But even spreading yourself between two accounts let alone multiple platforms is time consuming.

excel girl[1] did that right. i have a tremendous amount of admiration for her.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/22807858/tiktok-influencer-microsof...

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