now I'm starting to think Doc took a super massive deal from facebook gaming, which would make sense since Ninja and Shroud rejected them to the tune of $50-60million
this is the first time ive watched twitch in months. clearly its just a marketing ploy thats working.
It's still there, reddit videos are failing to load on TMB, if you click through it's just Tim saying he messaged Doc who said he didn't know what was going on.
if Twitch beat everyone to the punch then someone brought either actual evidence or enough credible evidence to remove the face of their platform before anything else came out. this makes me think Doc might be looking at charges or something. Multi-billion dollar companies don't just jettison their #1 star on a whim, whatever this is has Twitch terrified.
doc is probably the most mainstream famous twitch streamer, i guess formerly i mean he has a sitcom deal, has more commercials than anyone, etc
#1 by subs or something probably not but I'm speaking more as how he's viewed by the GP, who may not know more than two streamers or something and yes, once Ninja bounced Doc absolutely became the face of Twitch. exclusive contract, an actual Hollywood project was greenlit, appearing on mass media platforms. Doc is enormously popular.
He is an entertainer, not the president or a member of the clergy- we don't expect the same of him. A ban for cheating would seem out of place, I'm assuming its far worse (abuse/etc) than something lewd or lascivious.
who knows with those metric sites. I trust the views for those and not much else. People like summit, xqc, tim, etc. are obviously going to be at the top for sub #s regardless but who knows. look at the list, there's a guy I know there called Bruce Greene (formerly of Funhaus) who #14 in all of Twitch with 18k subs except he's like a 1k Andy at best. His peak viewership in the last month is 1900 people, nobody with those sub #s would be a 1k Andy because he probably doesn't even have 18k unique viewers, it'd mean his whole fanbase is subbed.
this could also be related to money in some way. taxes, charities, Doc might have got caught with his hand in the wrong cookie jar. imagine the optics for Twitch if Doc is caught in charities fraud or something. total speculation on my part, of course, but I think only a handful of things could get a streamer like Doc perma'd so it seems damn serious.
I will bet Ninja goes to YouTube with a big $ deal. Shroud probably back to twitch if I had to guess. Also, just checked twitter subs tracker, holy shit, critical role went from #3 to 60 something during their shutdown.
re: the ban, someone i know who is pretty high up at twitch said fewer than five people know the reason within the corporate offices and it's being kept a secret.
i dont understand why they didnt do random one shots online instead of shutting down completely. thank science theyre back next week.
YouTube would kill for Ninja imo. He has massive influence over there and his videos are always highly watched. Getting him on their platform would be huge. I personally can’t see him going back to Twitch after he dogged them out for the porn being played on his channel after he switched to Mixer.
With all of the shit going on I’ll just have to assume he was grooming underage girls and sexually assaulting people Didn’t doc do a live stream of some convention and they brought the camera into the bathrooms?
happens to any streamer with high subs. this is why bans are a bigger deal than people think. if you've got 20k bans sure you're not starving but that means on any given week of that ban you're down an average of 5k subs, or $25000 (of which a 20k sub streamer probably collects 70-80%). long bans are like a heavy fine, not to mention all the lost dono money. some of it is recouped upon being unbanned but sometimes those subs go elsewhere, if you're the Prime sub recipient then that person will just go sub to someone else. fortunately CR is immensely popular so they'll climb back for the most part but still, bans or long breaks can hurt streamers bad, even big ones. this is exactly why so many streamers don't take vacations and eventually burn out hard.
Emote removal is pretty instant these days. BlessRNG got some allegations recently and his very popular global emote vanished as well (BlessRNG) basically as soon as the ban came. that was forever ago and he got banned. what he did was actually illegal in CA (filming inside public restrooms) but if he was going to catch charges they'd have happened ages ago.
Ok so he’s a bathroom sicko confirmed. Gonna assume he’s banned for similar reasons until I hear otherwise.
in all fairness, that wasn't really on him as much as his idiot cameraman that followed him in. Doc didn't do much to get the guy to leave but it's not like Doc was pulling a Chuck Berry and planting cameras to watch people use the bathroom. what happened there was more of a lapse in judgement than anything approaching actual perversion.
Regarding CR - the *only* positive for them is because of their incredible time commitment, a lot of their viewers could catch up to live episodes and boost live viewership.