After ditching for YouTube, Sykkuno has explained that it’s not the platform that makes streaming fun but his community of fans.
Sykkuno quickly made waves when he began streaming on Twitch in 2020. After only two years, however, he dropped it in favour of .
While he currently has just under 3 million subscribers (less than the 4+ million he had at Twitch), he appears to have no regrets leaving Twitch, since the one thing he really liked about the platform wasn’t exclusive to it: his community of fans.
During his most recent livestream, Sykkuno was asked if he liked YouTube more than Twitch, to which he explained that he never had any personal attachment to the site.
It wasn’t Twitch itself that made streaming fun, but rather his community, something that he feels he can just as easily do on YouTube.
‘The thing I liked more about Twitch wasn’t even Twitch. It was just the community there, which is kind of weird to say because I guess that’s part of it,’ he said.
‘Giving Twitch credit is just wrong because it’s not Twitch that makes it fun. It’s the community.
‘It’s not like their website magically made it fun. It was the people that were there.’
The fact that he was offered what he describes as a ‘ridiculous’ amount of money to stream only for YouTube no doubt helped his decision.
Sykkuno is not the only Twitch star to jump over to YouTube. Several other high-profile streamers have done the exact same thing, including Valkyrae and .
Around the time of Sykkuno’s departure, Twitch streamer DisguisedToast claimed that at least five more people were planning to leave Twitch for YouTube as well, although he didn’t share names.
Part of this could be down to the revisions Twitch is planning for , which would result in top streamers earning less money.
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