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TBT-TheBigToe
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Brikker
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I'm at work and only hopped off the wifi briefly!
They're saggy looking and she seems to keep the mask on so probably fucked up face
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uniqueuser
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Aaron
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How long until Twitch goes under? Or will they redo their business model?
Get Woke, Go Broke: Twitch Streaming Service To Sack 36% Of Employees | ZeroHedge
Get Woke, Go Broke: Twitch Streaming Service To Sack 36% Of Employees | ZeroHedge
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Szlia
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This headline makes it sound like Twitch is suddenly losing money because of its policies, while it never made money. Also, Twitch is part of Amazon who just laid off 18k people with 9k more on the way, so it stands to reason that the brand new CEO of Twitch has to find a way to make a buck and was asked to work toward that by cutting staff. Now, for Twitch's sake, let's hope they are not cutting the few people that actually understand what Twitch is, because we know for sure the new CEO doesn't and some of the new features and ad policies make it sound he is far from the only one who doesn't.
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The "Twitch is part of Amazon and so they had to layoff people!!" commentary is nothing but a coping mechanism from people who know absolutely nothing about running a business. If you can cut over a third of your employees and nothing gets broken then you never needed those employees to begin with. They're worthless bloat that can write long-winded diatribes with fancy buzzwords about why they're important but at the end of the day everyone knows that if they were that critical to operations or a revenue stream then they wouldn't be part of a RIF.
This then gets to the "Twitch has never been profitable!!" mantra because if you can cut that much of your workforce then maybe that's a large reason you aren't profitable. Don't keep dead weight that doesn't add value to an organization.
This then gets to the "Twitch has never been profitable!!" mantra because if you can cut that much of your workforce then maybe that's a large reason you aren't profitable. Don't keep dead weight that doesn't add value to an organization.
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Xevy
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It's insane they don't make a profit. Their overhead cost for servers or whatever has to be fucking ginormous because they're already 50/50 any money made by streamers outside of donations and the last 6 months or so they've been pushing for 8 minutes of adds every hour. 8 fucking minutes is a lot. It used to be 3. I doubt it's profitable this year, but I'm guessing they're less in the red than usual.
Not to mention I don't know what manager cut they get for things like bounties which can be up to like 10,000 an hour and shit for the highest tier streamer.
Not to mention I don't know what manager cut they get for things like bounties which can be up to like 10,000 an hour and shit for the highest tier streamer.
TBT-TheBigToe
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Amazon should take all the movies they have the proper rights to, offload them on to a twitch channel or four, and follow the mst3k/rifftrax model of twitch streaming. I would watch that shit, watching shit movies with chat is kind of fun.
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Anyone with less than 1000 viewers doesn't matter to the overall, collectively it makes of less than 10% of viewership. Over 1000 viewers is likely a full time streamer 5+ days a week for longer sessions. Although they have more subs they also require more bandwidth and server usage per month. But it's a flat monthly price for a sub while the more they stream increases costs.
To corporate they see ads as generating revenue that scales with viewership and usage. But viewership has already plateaued overall and is now declining. At the same time they are forcing people (or attempting to) watch more ads which will hasten the decline. There will be a brief apogee where they reach above the clouds, because ad money + declining numbers dips costs will push them into profit territory. Then the trajectory will dive as their plan falls apart and that would be the time for other platforms to snatch away the talent.
To corporate they see ads as generating revenue that scales with viewership and usage. But viewership has already plateaued overall and is now declining. At the same time they are forcing people (or attempting to) watch more ads which will hasten the decline. There will be a brief apogee where they reach above the clouds, because ad money + declining numbers dips costs will push them into profit territory. Then the trajectory will dive as their plan falls apart and that would be the time for other platforms to snatch away the talent.
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Linus is retarded.
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42 seconds · Clipped by Weeb boi · Original video "The Bank of Silicon Valley Just Collapsed - WAN Show March 10, 2023" by Linus Tech Tipswww.youtube.com
You're just now realizing that? Fuck, I knew that back when he tried to install Steam to Linux and it borked his system, even though there was a warning there that said, "DON'T DO THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT THE FUCK YOU ARE DOING" and then blamed Linux.
Heh. Tried uninstalling a FortiGate VPN client from my Windows machine (work) the other day, two of my monitors stopped working. What one has to do with the other? No idea.