Why top streamers are leaving Twitch

According to multiple former Twitch employees familiar with the company’s strategy, Twitch has started to offer big streamers less money for similar amounts of work or, in some cases, to not offer the sorts of contracts it used to at all. Several former Twitch staff and members of the streaming industry with knowledge of Twitch’s contract offers say that Lupo, in particular, got “lowballed” by Twitch, which made YouTube’s offer more tantalizing. The industry members and former Twitch staffers spoke to The Post under the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about these deals publicly. Lupo, Twitch and YouTube declined to comment on contract specifics.