“They’re looking for me and the community we’ve built to help define gaming on the platform, and I’m excited to make an immediate impact. “I cannot wait to start streaming on Kick,” he says. It’s part of his larger strategy to establish a strong community that will mobilize around his entrepreneurial efforts. In addition to his monthly payouts, Kick has agreed to help fund live events hosted and produced by Nickmercs, as well as the prize pools for digital gaming tournaments broadcast on Kick. “The goalpost always moves,” Nickmercs told Forbes in January. It places him among the highest-paid gamers in the world, and last month he was named to Forbes’ annual list of the internet’s Top Creators.īut he describes his ambition as insatiable. Over the trailing 12 months, Nickmercs has earned an estimated $11.5 million from his content and sponsorships with Under Armour, UFC and Beats by Dre. Today, Nickmercs has almost seven million followers on the platform, and at his peak, he had more than 80,000 monthly subscribers.īut last September, Twitch announced it was lowering the amount of subscription revenue share kept by top creators from 70% down to 50% starting in June 2023, signaling a strategy shift away from big payouts for its biggest stars. The 28-year-old became one of the faces of Twitch during a pandemic-era gaming boom that eventually landed him an eight-figure platform-exclusivity contract with the Amazon-backed live streaming giant in 2020. In 2019, he joined FaZe Clan as a co-owner, although his shares have lost nearly all of their value with the publicly traded company now trading around 20 cents. At this point, these are just allegations.Nickmercs began streaming on Twitch predecessor in 2010 and built a rapid fanbase around his bombastic personality and aggressive gaming style on titles like Fortnite and Call of Duty: Warzone. At the time of writing, the only information about this topic is from one Keemstar tweet. It remains to be seen if EightThoughts will actually be implicated in these offences if the video gets released. Read more: EightThoughts vs Drift0r and NICKMERCS: COD Youtuber feud reaches boiling point.Things might escalate even further if the video interview gets released, and can be seen as a clear confession from Blu. Eight Thoughts got away scot-free even though he streamed everything and encouraged it."įollowing Keemstar's statement on Twitter, Drift0r replied: "I don't think the police have even heard about this yet!" I believe that EightThoughts requested that Blu do a great number of horrible things to me in order to avoid legal responsibility for himself and it worked too. In case you haven't caught up with the whole ordeal, Drift0r claims: "All of this came from the EightThoughts community and primarily his close friend & discord admin Blu. If this latest claim is true, there could be some serious consequences. However, nothing really happened to EightThoughts. 8Thoughts channels have been banned on YouTube.- KEEM □ ApKEEM □ Twitterĭrift0r's litigation against EightThoughts and Blu led to the latter being arrested. 8thoughts would stream Blu going to Drift0r house on twitch & Blu would keep stream donations. Just said in interview 8Thoughts & him had a deal. KEEM □ on Twitter Eight Thoughts ‘discord mod “Blu” who showed up to Drift0r’s house with a gun. Further, EightThoughts denies these allegations noting he told Blu not to do it, and this shouldn't be taken as fact unless otherwise proven. Keep in mind the interview video has not been released. In return, the alleged deal would mean EightThoughts streaming this ordeal, and Blu receiving the stream donations as a reward. However, on Twitter, Keemstar claims that Blu confessed in an interview (which has not been released) how he had a deal to show up at Drift0r’s house with a gun. EightThoughts & Blu alleged deal: A gun to Drift0r's house?Īt the time of writing, EightThoughts have not admitted to this alleged deal. No proof of the alleged deal has been unveiled. Please note: At the time of writing, these are just allegations. Now, according to Drama Alert's Keemstar, Blu allegedly confessed that EightThoughts had a deal with him to bring a gun to Drift0r's home. Blu apparently got charged with criminal offences. One of these allegations involved Blu, who was reportedly a Discord mod for EightThoughts. Things reached a boiling point, with very serious allegations surfacing. On 7th April 2021, we reported about the Call of Duty YouTuber feud going on between EightThoughts and Drift0r, as well as NICKMERCS.
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